Young women’s conference saluted

Three groups were presented with Recognition of Excellence certificates during last night’s regular monthly meeting of the Rainy River District School Board here.
First, trustees heard how 45 girls attended a Young Women’s Conference at Quetico Centre back in April. The conference was aimed at educating the students regarding a variety of topics relevant to them.
The participants discussed body image, and how pictures in magazines and the media are made to look perfect and how that affects teenage girls. Other topics covered included Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, pregnancy, sexual assault, self-defence, and date rape.
Meanwhile, Fort High students were on hand last night to give the board a presentation on the wonders of technology integrated into the classroom at the high school.
The students explained how fortunate they were to have so much advanced technology in their school—from a fibre optic microscope and professional DNA fingerprinting equipment to digital video equipment.
There also is a wide variety of computer software used in the Math, Communications, Science, and Geography departments.
The board also heard the third-place speech from the district intermediate speech contest held here May 13. The speech was entitled “Amazing Feet” and was read by its author, Kerrilyn Esselink, from Donald Young School in Emo.
Also at last night’s meeting, the school board heard reports from its First Nations Advisory Committee and Policy Committee.
It also approved the Special Education Advisory Committee’s 2003 Special Education Plan and the Transportation Committee’s 2003-04 bus operators’ contract.
Also approved was the request to transfer the bus route contract from Albert Ferris to Greg Ferris.
Finally, the board approved a motion to award a computer tender for 210 computer stations to two companies.
The larger tender for computers went to Wilson’s Supply as the low bid at $302,016.90 while the smaller one for peripherals, such as printers, was awarded to Insight Canada Inc. for $22,805.84.
That works out to $1,438.18 per computer.