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Anastasia reigns as city's 143rd Queen
May will be a merry month indeed for New Westminster's 2013 May Queen.
23 district employees make more than $100,000 a year
The New Westminster school district may be more than $2 million in the hole, but its top administrators are still making a pretty penny.
Down memory lane and back again
Recently, I was invited to talk to students in a Grade 5 class at Herbert Spencer Elementary.
It's a small world - just ask the Bakers
Two New Westminster couples recently discovered that it's indeed a small world after all.
Bonds hold fast for 65 years
A group of young women made a vow 65 years ago to always be friends - and they've been true to their word. When the young women graduated
A year of milestones
A s we move into the latter third of the year, it is worthwhile checking the list of 2012 anniversaries marking noteworthy dates.
Summer, soccer and Switzerland
In the 32 years the New Westminster Police soccer camp has been held, this may be the first time that two of the participants have come from as far as Alex and Olivia Shepherd have come.
Reunion was a special occasion
This letter commends Tracy Fulton, principal, the reunion committee and staff on the outstanding 100th reunion of Herbert Spencer staff and student alumni on Saturday, June 9.
Spencer won't get second immersion class
There won't be another French immersion class at Herbert Spencer Elementary school this fall, despite a staff recommendation to add the class.
Parents aren't helping kids by being overprotective
Re: Herbert's 100: If these halls could talk, The Record, May 9.
Parents' group drops plans to take a new vote on teacher/board ban
The New Westminster District Parent Advisory Council will not re-vote on a resolution to ban teachers from running as school trustees, despite recently voting to do so.
Students show artistry for Heritage Week
New Westminster students demonstrated their artistic flair in the city's annual Heritage Week contests.
Parent group reconsiders new vote
New Westminster parents who were upset with the handling of a controversial vote on banning acting teachers from running as trustees left the parent group's last meeting believing there would be a chance to re-vote on the issue, but they might be wrong.
Calendar of Events
Art in the Library, with photographs and paintings on display in two exhibits at the New Westminster Public Library. in the reference department, Nina Shenton presents Explorations, a show of landscapes and portraits in watercolour, oil and acrylic; and On the Ramp, Philip Lanyon is displaying a series of photographs of Vancouver and B.C. that expresses the convergence of the technical photograph with living organic space and time. The art can be viewed at any time during library hours at 716 Sixth Ave.
Calendar of Events
What To Do Next, a fourperson visual art exhibition that focuses on why artists choose to create what they do. The exhibit is on the second floor of The River Market, 810 Quayside Dr. and runs until April 21. Featured artists are Judith Copland, Norm Coridor, Rob Fee and Irene LaCharité. For more info: www.newwest artists.com.
Group's decision comes under fire
Two Herbert Spencer Elementary moms say they disagree with the district parent advisory council's handling of a vote on a controversial issue regarding banning acting teachers from serving as trustees.
New May Queen named
The Royal City's smallest school has the privilege of providing the May Queen for the second year in a row.
Fraser rankings called 'stuff of nonsense'
One trustee calls it "irrelevant" and the "stuff of nonsense," but last Monday's release of the Fraser Institute's annual elementary school rankings had some interesting results for several Royal City schools.
