News Stories

Project Adventure 2020 was a blast, with students from around the district coming together to participate in a unique dogsledding activity in Salmo. A huge thank you goes to Alexis Folk, a grade 7 student from Adam Robertson Elementary School, for her fundraising efforts.

Ian is an outstanding athlete from LVR who has brought home 4 medals from the Special Olympics Canada, Speedskating competition in March that took place in Thunder Bay Ontario. Ian was part of Team B.C. and skated with outstanding performance.

The purpose of the Family Support Institute of BC is to strengthen, connect and build communities and resources with families of people with disabilities in BC.  We believe that families are the best resource available to support one another.

If you are interested in learning more about the the BC Deaf & Hard of Hearing Outreach Program see the newsletter.

On a snowy Tuesday, three SD8 students participated in a truly Canadian winter activity; dog sledding. After arriving at Spirit of the North Kennels in Salmo, students were greeted by sounds of 50 or more dogs all excited to have the chance to pull their sled. These dogs are a mix of rescue dogs and dogs that are bred to sled-race.

Local speedskater Ian Walgren won a pair of medals at the Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games last week in Vernon.

Walgren, who competes with the West Kootenay Speed Skating Club, opened the Games as one of the banner carriers in the opening ceremony for the Kootenays region.

The Google Read & Write pilot has begun. The initial workshop held on January 25th was a success. Over 50 participants attended the workshop via zoom from a site in each family of schools. Support at each site was provided by teachers Danny Leeming, Melanie Mobbs, Daniel Auger, Alastair McKay and Sofeya Devji.