 Rick Hansen Secondary School (Image source: https://www.abbyschools.ca/schools/rick-hansen-secondary) Joseph C. Shields, Student of Rick Hansen Secondary School
Living in the Bradner area and as a former Bradner Elementary student, I can say that I loved Bradner. I've always loved the area. And the school plays a key part in keeping the Bradner tradition alive. After Bradner I went to Eugene Reimer Middle School. Which was a mostly positive experience, of course any school has their flaws but I would say Eugene Reimer, being smaller is still a good school by all means.
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 Abbotsford, BC - ParentsFIRST - Jared White, Executive Director of a local charity, Advokate Life & Education Services, joins a large list of candidates stepping up for one of the seven School Trustee positions in the upcoming local government election on Saturday, October 20, 2018.
 By Heather Lemieux - Bradner, BC - Abbotsford parents are once again reeling after the Abbotsford School District issued a letter yesterday stating "there is insufficient seats to support the number of registered catchment students in the 2017/18 school year."
 Abbotsford School District Busses - Source - Facilities, Abbotsford School District Bradner, BC - Editorial, By Heather Lemieux - A meeting was held last night regarding bussing in the Abbotsford School District. Ray Velestuk, Secretary-Treasurer of the Abbotsford School Board said that the district looked at getting rid of bussing ENTIRELY or increasing the amount bussed students pay by 3 or 4 times.
 Source - Abby News, print edition (reproduced) The Abbotsford News misreported results from last week's poll about the Abbotsford School Board's decision to strip the top two grades out of all Abbotsford rural schools including Bradner and Mt Lehman.
 Source - Bradner Elementary District Website Bradner, BC - On February 23rd, 2016 exhausted parents and members of the community attended the Abbotsford Board of Education meeting to hear the trustees vote on the fate of rural Abbotsford schools.
 Source - CBC Abbotsford Townline Road gas station stabbing leaves man dead. Without prejudice - Reader beware. The Abbotsford School Districts plan to re-configure 6 rural schools in Abbotsford from grades K - 7 to K - 5 has brought a lot of stress on families with children attending district schools. The west Abbotsford children are to be sent to Eugene Reimer Middle School (ER), and has parents standing up to the district in force saying no and standing firm - their kids have been withdrawn from the district all together. So what's wrong with middle school? Whats wrong with ER? Much discussion has taken place about the violence drug, and crime issues in the west Abbotsford area, namely in the area of Townline Road and Blueridge Drive. The community has requested the analysis of what is being SAID and what is REAL. This article is a compilation of recent events that have happened. This is a fact vs rumour analysis, decide what you want... participate in the discussion. What is referenced here is only a small cross-section of the search engine results available, there are many other incidents, Reader beware.
What on earth is going on at Dunach Elementary School? The Abbotsford School District closed this school in June 2010 and boarded up the windows. The Abbotsford Police have been seen there frequently as it is thought that they are conducting parts of their training in the building, but not lately. Over the last few months there has been School District staff, contractors and equipment doing various upgrades and construction. Today, a Bradner parent saw a huge garbage bin outside with tables, chairs, projectors and equipment... why the school district is being so hush hush...?!
On February 3rd, 2016, trustees Kevin Godden and the School Board Treasurer attended Bradner Elementary School for a meeting with Bradner parents who posed questions from every possible angle, re-phrased and re-worded to get results. Straight answers were almost non-existent. The only question they answered without smoke in mirrors or trotting down bunny trails was, "Did the district buy land on the east side of Abbotsford for a new school?" In light of all the latests upheavals I’ve felt in my community of Bradner and the enormous strain the re-configuration plan has put on Our families, unknowingly or not, I suggest the Abbotsford School Board take a minute - and a long stride in the backwards direction - to see the ramifications of their surprise announcement in late November 2015 and their effects on the smaller of life sources within our great country.
 Bradner May Day Royalty 2014 - Image Source - Facebook By Lynda Richard - The community of Bradner is well known for its annual Bradner May Day Celebration.
This important community event has been taking place for nearly 100 years! May Day began 97 years ago and involved all of the communities in the northwest Abbotsford area, formerly known as Matsqui. |
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