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10 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
15 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS<br />
December<br />
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday<br />
9 10<br />
16<br />
23<br />
30<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong><br />
20% O�<br />
Fat Quarters Buy 3<br />
get the 4th FREE<br />
Sorel Boots<br />
20% O�<br />
SEWING NOTIONS<br />
30% OFF<br />
Festive feast<br />
Karen Jukes serves J.A. Laird Elementary students<br />
Brandon Cote and Errol Baddas during the turkey lunch<br />
provided by AG <strong>Valley</strong> Foods and catered by Randy Mac-<br />
Steven and Anna Steedman of MacSteven’s Fresh Foods<br />
on Thursday December 6th. The event fed 200 students.<br />
Sobeys and Hopkins’ Harvest and Kountry Kitchen also<br />
prepared 200 plates for students at Eileen Madson Primary<br />
on December 5th.<br />
Photo by Kristian Rasmussen<br />
PJs, Boxers, Nightgowns,<br />
Housecoats &<br />
Lingerie 20% O� O�<br />
Yarn & Knitting Supplies<br />
20% O� O�<br />
17<br />
Life is Good<br />
20% O�<br />
Flannels 30% o�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
24 WE PAY<br />
THE HST<br />
ON REGULAR PRICED ITEMS<br />
11<br />
18<br />
25<br />
Sock Day - Buy 1<br />
& get the 2nd<br />
30% O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O�<br />
Minkie 20% O� O� O� O� O�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
Accessories<br />
20% O�<br />
Dr. Suess Fabric 20% O�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
Closed<br />
Invermere library unionizes<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
Union cards are among the newest documents being<br />
housed at the Invermere Public Library, after local<br />
library staff became members of the Canadian Union<br />
of Public Employees (CUPE) in mid-November.<br />
“Library workers are front-line employees who<br />
carry out the day-to-day<br />
operations at the library,”<br />
said Invermere Public Library<br />
technician Nicole<br />
Pawlak. “We feel that by<br />
joining CUPE we will<br />
have a stronger voice and<br />
be able to better serve our<br />
community.”<br />
The library’s five employees voted unanimously to<br />
join the union, a move they say is aimed at ensuring<br />
library staff input is heard when charting the future<br />
course of the library, which is overseen by a sevenmember<br />
board of trustees that changes significantly<br />
every two years. Three board positions are turning over<br />
this month alone.<br />
“In recent years, some decisions the board has<br />
implemented were against staff reccomendations,” said<br />
Ms. Pawlak. “Now this staff will have more of a voice.”<br />
Sorel Boots<br />
20% O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O�<br />
Flannel 20% O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O� min.<br />
12<br />
19<br />
26<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
Hats, Mitts &<br />
Gloves 20% O�<br />
Minkie 20% O�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
BOXING<br />
DAY<br />
CLOSED<br />
“Maybe personnel isn’t the<br />
board’s strength.”<br />
Nicole Pawlak,<br />
Invermere Library technician<br />
Don’t forget! All sewing machines are on sale! See flyer in store.<br />
516 13th Street, Invermere • Phone: 250-342-9313<br />
13<br />
27<br />
Sorel Slippers<br />
20% O� O�<br />
Christmas Fabrics 30% O� O� O� O� O� O� O� O�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
Slippers<br />
20% O�<br />
Yarn & Knitting Supplies<br />
20% O�<br />
14<br />
28<br />
Ladies Fashions<br />
20% O�<br />
Quilting Cottons 30% O�<br />
min. 1 meter cut<br />
Men’s Fashions<br />
20% O�<br />
Sewing Notions<br />
30% o�<br />
31 1 NEW 2 3 4 5<br />
YEAR’S DAY<br />
CLOSED<br />
20<br />
With the Invermere library’s chief librarian on sick<br />
leave as of the end of September, some decisions at the<br />
library were made with no staff input over the fall, said<br />
Ms. Pawlak. The chief librarian is expected back early<br />
in the New Year.<br />
“Maybe personnel isn’t the board’s strength, and<br />
maybe having a collective agreement in place will relieve<br />
board members from having to worry about day<br />
to day operations,” she added, not-<br />
ing the board’s mandate is around<br />
fundraising, executing the strategic<br />
plan, and conducting policy<br />
reviews.<br />
Asked about whether the staff<br />
are requesting increased wages,<br />
Ms. Pawlak said staff are more<br />
concerned about a collective<br />
agreement that creates consistency in library policies.<br />
The library operates on a municipal library model,<br />
and is funded by the District of Invermere, and the<br />
regional district areas F and G. There are currently 26<br />
libraries across B.C. that are unionized, including libraries<br />
in Castlegar, Fernie, and Creston.<br />
“CUPE is a large union and by becoming part of<br />
CUPE we will now have access to a wide array of information,<br />
education tools and resources,” added Ms.<br />
Pawlak.<br />
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15<br />
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Men’s Fashions<br />
20% O�<br />
Notions 20% O�<br />
22<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
Ladies Fashions<br />
20% O�<br />
Fat Quarters Buy 3<br />
get the 4th Free
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