It did not take long for the Kootenay Lake District Board of Education to find a replacement for departing Superintendent Christine Perkins. Friday, the Kootenay Lake District Board of Education announced that Trish Smillie has been selected the new Superintendent of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake), effective August 1, 2021. “I am honoured to be coming to live, learn,
Kootenay Lake School District is encouraging everyone in schools to wear the colour orange this week in honour of all Indigenous children who were forced into the residential school system. “Last week's news of the discovery of the mass grave of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is a heartbreaking confirmation that many of the Indigenous
by Letters to the editor on Monday April 26 2021
To The Editor: School District 8 Kootenay Lake does not own the Central school building that houses Wildflower school, or the land that it sits on.
A legal document, verified by a Nelson lawyer, and dated June 28, 1902, stipulates that the Province of British Columbia gave The Corporation of the City of Nelson “to have and to hold the said parcel or lot of land, and all and singular the premises hereby granted, with their appurtenances, unto the said The Corporation of the City of Nelson and its successors for ever, in trust for school purposes and as a school site.”
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SD#8 Superintendent Dr. Christine Perkins stepping down
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Superintendent of Schools/CEO, Dr. Christine Perkins, is moving on from School District #8 Kootenay Lake. She has decided to take on the Superintendent/CEO in School District# 22 Vernon effective August 1st.
“It has been an absolute honour to serve as the Superintendent/CEO for this transformative four-year period of time. I will take with me the many positive memories of the great people with whom I worked, associated, laughed, and had the honour to get to know,” Dr. Perkins said. “The change will allow me to embrace a new career challenge and be close to family while living in a community and region where my husband, Michael, and I hold significant history.”