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The Flin Flon School Board voted Tuesday to send children to a Bomber game and a Creighton student to their alternative high school. Though Creighton has had its own high school for three years, trustees narrowly okayed a motion to let a Creighton student attend Many Faces Education Centre for the first quarter. Trustee Glenn Smith said there are various reasons a Creighton student might still attend class in Flin Flon, including the availability of programming not present in their home community. He said the board looks at each request on a case by case basis. The trustees were closely divided on this particular case, as Trustee Trish Sattelberger, board chair, voted against the motion along with trustees Murray Skeavington and Karen Yeo. Trustee Smith joined trustees Karen Power, Tim Davis and Angela Simpson in passing the motion. The money that Creighton Community School would have spent to educate the student will now be transferred to Flin Flon. The board also voted to participate in the Flin Flon Bombers' Tickets for Kids campaign, with Trustee Sattelberger the lone voice of opposition. The board will spend $1,200 to send Kindergarten to Grade 12 students to a game at the Whitney Forum free of charge. But the trustees were not happy that the Tickets for Kids program announced the board was supportive before the trustees had had a chance to vote. They carried a separate motion to write a letter to the Bombers expressing their disappointment. Other highlights from the meeting: A motion carried to send a letter to the Manitoba government thanking them for listening to the concerns of the board and the public regarding the ward-voting system. Education Minister Peter Bjornson recently announced the Public Schools Act will be amended to allow school divisions to hold at-large elections rather than splitting their electoral districts into at least two wards. It's a change the board has spent years fighting for, as the ward system has disenfranchised half the city in two general elections and one by-election dating back to 2002. A request for additional fencing at Kiddie Korner Day Care, based in the Ruth Betts School building, was referred to the Facilities and Grounds Committee for further review. The board voted to place 16 certified teachers on substitute teacher agreements for the 2009-10 school year: Betty Bortis; Margaret Galbraith; Linda Guthrie; Tom Guthrie; Marlene Kroeker; Lori Lawrence; Cindy Lee; Susan Lindsay; Caroline Loat; Kelly Lytwyn; Glenna McKay; Nicole Menzies; Darlene Myden; Leslie Ruben; Kim St. Amand; and Aimee Stephansson. The board voted to place eight non-certified teachers on substitute teacher agreements subject to their successful application for a limited substitute teaching permit: Raymond Biberdorf; Florence Day; Adrienne Grudgefield; Amanda Link; Lori Suss; Darlene Wilson; Joanne Ziehlke; and Crystal McKay. Superintendent Blaine Veitch reported that student councils from Hapnot Collegiate and Creighton Community School attended a recent student leadership conference in Tisdale, Saskatchewan.
