grant will assist Carlin Elementary Middle School students to learn about access to healthy food options provided by the community.
The grant, provided by the Farm to School Canada Grant for the 2022-23 school year, are offered in partnership with the Whole Kids Foundation, open to all K-12 schools across Canada.
This initiative create opportunities for students to access healthy, local food at school and participate in hands-on learning that connects them to the local food system and community members involved in it.
Carlin vice-principal Sandra Major explained the school will be using the funds to upgrade its capacity at the school to provide food including buying crockpots, knives and a few other kitchen essentials.
There are also plans to purchase a freezer and upgrade the existing stove in support of the school’s soup program, an endeavour to source locally grown produce for soup for the students.
Major said the Parent Advisory Council soup program organizer, Amanda Jackson, has devoted countless hours and been personally instrumental in getting the soup program up and running.
Some of the grant funding will both provide a small honorarium in recognition of all the work and a food safe/distribution of health foods in schools training opportunities.
Carlin becomes one of 33 schools across Canada to receive a 2022 Farm to School Canada Grant, and one of 166 other schools to receive grants from Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) since 2016.
F2CC is a partnership-based organization with a vision for vibrant and sustainable regional food systems that supports the health of people and planet.
To learn more about the Farm to School movement in Canada, and how its connecting students with food and the systems that produce it, visit.
Steve Seelinger has spent the last year advocating for road safety changes to an intersection of Springbend Road and Highway 97A between Grindrod and Enderby.
Despite his public efforts to draw attention to the dangers of the blind merge intersection, he had heard nothing in response from the transportation ministry.
So when he called regional highway operations manager Danny Morris for an update Wednesday, the anniversary of his sister Jan Seelinger’s fatal motorcycle crash at that intersection, he was taken aback.
Morris told him changes to the intersection had been approved by the ministry and those changes were now in the works towards being completed likely by this fall.
“Hearing those words turned an emotionally terrible day to me into a glimmer of happiness,” recounted Seelinger.
Before talking with Danny I had no indication of anything happening. Throughout this whole thing, for me it was always about getting something done moving forward so what happened to my sister would not happen to anyone else.”
Thomas told Black Press that land surveying work is underway, with the intention of adding both electrical signage overhead and “bigger and bolder” roadside signs to warn motorists.
“In the past year, there have been other accidents at that intersection but fortunately none of them have had fatalities…it is a bad spot,” Seelinger said, noting there are also other road safety improvements that could be made on the Highway 97A stretch between Sicamous and Vernon.
Thomas said the intersection improvements will ultimately cost between $400,000 and $500,000.
Seelinger’s sister died in the crash on June 22, 2021, when the Salmon Arm woman collided with a commercial farm vehicle.
He admits the crash was his sister’s fault, but he has been driven by the need to address the contributing factors which could be improved that led to her death.
“You like to wish that things maybe could happen faster, but I am glad the funding to make the changes is in place and something is going to happen,” he said.
Seelinger added he is grateful for all those who supported him in his journey the past year and added their voices to his campaign to bring about changes to the intersection.
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