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Your weekly ePB from the All Point Bulletin | Volume 3 | Issue 48
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Water commissioners approve rate increase
Photo by Meg Olson
Despite a dramatic drop in the price of the water Point Roberts Water District purchases from Vancouver, district commissioners have approved a five percent increase in water rates for 2013. To read more, go to story.
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Whatcom residents take teaching to task in Kenya
Photo by Tembo Trading Education Project
When Kenya vice president Stephen Kolonzo and his wife Pauline opened a school to educate 20 impoverished children under their care, they quickly found themselves in over their heads. So they called on Whatcom County residents Debra Akre and Jeana King of the Tembo Trading Education Project for advice. For full article, go to story.
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Blaine schools wrangle with state reforms
Local educators are elbow deep in adopting major reforms as they work together to hammer out the details of federal and state initiatives that fundamentally alter how students are taught, and how students and teachers alike are evaluated. For full article, go to story.
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What some people call art, well, others don't. Here's one reader's response to a letter in the last issue from someone who didn't like the art published by the All Point Bulletin. To read the letter, go to letters.
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All high school sports, all of the time.
Sports writer Ian Ferguson reports on Blaine High School teams ...
Turn to Sports
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UPCOMING EVENTS
iDIGIVATE Community Innovation Network: Saturday, March 2, 7 - 9 p.m., Tsawwassen Arts Centre, 1172 56 Street, Delta. A social forum providing adults with an opportunity to meet others passionate about life, including guest speakers from the community and beyond. Share your passions - digital technologies, innovation, music, stories, science and more. Register at www.deltareg.ca/Start/Start.asp.
Fiber Fest: Saturday, March 16, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., community center. Fiber arts on display and for sale, demos, raffles. Free admission. Info: barbwray@att.net.
Wings Over Water: Saturday, March 16, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Blaine Middle School, 975 H Street, Blaine. Eleventh annual Northwest birding festival. Kids' activities, expert wildlife speakers, wildlife and geology field trips, live raptor presentation, food, art and craft vendors and much more. Additional festival activities March 14 - March 17. Info: 800/324-3555, wingsoverwaterbirdingfestival.com.
March Spring Break Academy Introducing Camp Demigod: March 18 - 22 and 25 - 28, Tsawwassen Arts Centre, 1172 56 Street, Delta. Come role-play as mythological demigods while learning about the actual science and inventions of ancient Greece. LEGO robotics, digital music and games. NASA award winning international curriculum. Students contribute to an ImagineSTEM Blog. Morning Academy; Afternoon LEGO + Arts. Register at www.deltareg.ca/Start/Start.asp.
CPR Class: Monday, March 18, 6 - 9:30 p.m., 2030 Benson Road. Participants will learn adult, child and infant CPR, choking and AED (automated external defibrillator) use. Class is free, certification card $5. Register by emailing chief@wcfd5.com.
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MEETINGS AND ONGOING EVENTS
PR Taxpayers Association: Monday, March 4, 7 p.m., community center. Featuring Point Roberts Park and Recreation District commissioners Mark Robbins and Linda Hughes. Info: 945-1357.
PREP (PR Emergency Preparedness): Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m., community center. Info: Henry Rosenthal, 945-1711, Virginia or Ed Lester, 945-2827.
Trinity Community Quilters: Wednesday, March 6, 1 p.m., Trinity Church hall. Info: Barb Wayland, 945-3012.
PR Hospital District: Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m., community center.
PR Garden Club: Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m. Info: 945-5075.
PR Parks and Recreation: Monday, March 11, 7 p.m., community center. Info: 945-1357.
Friends of the Library Meeting: Tuesday, March 12, 1-2 p.m. Point Roberts Library, 1487 Gulf Road. Info: 945-6545.
PR Water District: Tuesday, March 12, 5 p.m., 79 Tyee Dr., Suite A.
PRCAC (PR Community Advisory Committee): Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m., community center. Info: 945-5075.
PR Fire District 5: Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m., 2030 Benson Road. Info: 945-3473.
Point Roberts Registered Voter's Association: Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m., community center. Annual general meeting to inform and educate Point Roberts property owners and prospective owners regarding land use and development issues. Info: prrva.org.
PR Historical Society Meeting: Wednesday, March 20, 7 p.m., community center. Info: historicalsociety@pointroberts.net. Cemetery District Meeting: Tuesday, March 26, 5 p.m., 260 Tyee Drive.
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