The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
In a bit of belated news, it was back in the spring of this year, that 12-year-old Jessie Drews received word that her entry in a school bus safety poster contest, sponsored by the Manitoba Association of School Business Official (MASBO), was the one chosen to advertise School Bus Safety Week, which ran from October 19 to 25. Shortly before that week arrived, posters produced by MASBO started going up around J.H. Kerr and other schools in the province; all were suitably reproduced in the form of young Miss Drews' entry. J.H. Kerr and the community were proud to have Jessie's submission so prominently displayed. Jessie herself said seeing her poster displayed in her own school and knowing it was also up in many others made her feel very special. The grade 7 student added that she enjoyed riding the bike, she won for her efforts, over this past summer. Jessie didn't enter this year's contest and perhaps that's best. It will give some other deserving student a shot at winning. Right up to date now, the Snow Lake Community Library Board held their regularly scheduled meeting on November 19. However, this meeting involved several more people than usually attend gatherings of the group. Denise Wier of Manitoba Public Library Services, Janet Locken, Frontier School Division's Library Services Coordinator, Frontier Area Four Superintendent Gary Wickens, and J.H. Kerr School Principal, Dean Elliott were all in attendance. Up for discussion was a shared services agreement between the two bodies and they came to agreement on the document's contents in what might be record time. The meeting lasted just under a half hour and the groups agreed to share facilities and materials in somewhat the same fashion as had been agreed to with the previous School District of Snow Lake. Also on the table was the Library Board's wish to rename the library after a former Librarian who passed away in the summer of 2003. The Frontier representatives felt the renaming was an excellent idea and stated that the library belonged to Snow Lake's and the division felt that the community's people should say who their facility or parts of it are named after. As a result, the J.H. Kerr School Library will be renamed the Dorothy Salahub Library in a ceremony shortly after Christmas. The ceremony will be held at this time so that family members, who will be in the community during Christmas, will be able to attend. On a closing note, the Snow Lake recycling program recently sent out a couple of truckloads of recyclables. The group realized $9,000 from the sale of the material.
