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The Greater Victoria School District is blaming a deficit in communication with other stakeholders regarding the development of a safety plan for SD61 schools. Education Minister Lisa Beare threatened the potential dismissal of the school board on Dec. 6 if a ministry-approved safety plan was not in place by Jan. 6 – a move ultimately caused by the 2023 cancellation of the school police liaison officer program which has been a contentious issue as police have reported an uptick in gang activity within Greater Victoria schools . On Sept. 17, then-minister of education Rachna Singh ordered the board to develop the safety plan in collaboration with Victoria, Saanich and Oak Bay police departments, the West Shore RCMP detachment, and local First Nations by Nov. 15. In a letter to the ministry from the board, which was handed in with the draft safety plan on Nov. 15, board chair Nicole Duncan noted the timeline for the plan was ambitious and it "has impaired the board's ability to meaningfully collaborate with the range of interested parties." They explained that with support of the district's Indigenous Education Department, they reached out to the "Four Houses" of Indigenous peoples the board works with – Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, Metis Nation of Greater Victoria and Urban Peoples' House Indigenous Advisory – and after meetings on Nov. 8 and 12, they received feedback which "indicated a need for further engagement with the Nations." On Dec. 2, a joint letter from the Songhees and Esquimalt chiefs called for the reinstatement of the police liaison program, saying there was an "egregious" lack of communication and consultation between the parties, which Duncan acknowledged in a subsequent statement. The board also noted that the Metis Nation had no comments on the draft safety plan, and the Urban Peoples' House Indigenous Advisory was unable to comment within the time available. "We are concerned that we have not been able to engage sufficiently with all of the Four Houses, including appropriate further dialogue with the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, or to receive feedback from the Urban Peoples' House Indigenous Advisor," noted the letter. Additionally, the ministerial order directed that the safety plan address crime prevention and proactive crime prevention strategies at schools, which the board notes is not a "power, function or duty" of the board per the School Act. "Although crime prevention is not a function of the board, the board appreciates that it is responsible for determining policy for the efficient and effective operation of schools, the provision of an educational program to students, and the provision of health, social and other support services in district schools," noted the letter. The board met with police delegates on eight occasions between November 2023 and September 2024 to discuss the shared responsibility for student safety, where police partners, according to the board's letter, demonstrated a "general lack of interest" in collaborating with the district and little was accomplished within those meetings. The board says they invited the four police services to discuss the safety plan on Oct. 8, but the police departments instead opted to use the meeting to revisit the board's decision to not rely on school liaison officers. In submitting the safety plan at that time, the board noted that it did not support the use of police services to manage student behaviour or discipline, unless it involved criminal behaviour, and would rather use appropriate district staff and trained, qualified professionals to lead proactive student supports and interventions. The November draft safety plan, which was made public with the letter to the ministry, included a number of policies and protocols relating to online safety, drills and crisis response. It also notes a "gang risk assessment" which identified a lack of codified communication protocol between police services and the district. "Where there is an actual or potential risk to members of our learning community, we will continue to activate our existing protocols and proactive measures outlined in the safety plan to appropriately address student safety in collaboration with our staff, and community partners, which includes police services," noted the draft safety plan. The board now has less than a month, working with a ministry-appointed advisor, to develop a plan to be approved by Beare's office. With files from Arnold Lim

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Fundraising is already underway for Niagara’s annual Stockings of Love campaign — shopping, stuffing and delivering thousands of filled stockings to seniors living on their own or in long-term care homes. But as the campaign grows bigger, extending into communities outside St. Catharines for the first time, it’s asking Niagara residents for help to achieve its goal of more than 3,000 stockings. “We’re bigger because we’re reaching more people, meaning we need more financial donations and stuffed stockings, we just need more,” said founder Janice Ford-Spencer. “I need donations earlier than later — now — so I can sleep at night.” Ford-Spencer launched the campaign in 2018 with the hopes of putting smiles on faces of seniors in her Port Dalhousie community. She knew support around the holidays was geared towards families and children but saw a void in what was being provided to local seniors. Now, seven years later, there are more seniors living in homes or living on their own who are hungry and society “tends to want to forget them.” “They’re not the ones at the pulse of the conversation when people are sitting around the table talking about the state of affairs that our societies are in. They’re not the main topic,” said Ford-Spencer. “Bottom line, it’s a question of respect and teaching the right lessons to our young.” Each year the fundraiser has doubled its number of stockings and donations, providing more than 2,000 stockings to seniors in 2023. This year, the hope is to surpass 3,000. Stockings are filled with gifts geared to any gender and can include slippers, body lotion, crossword puzzles, playing cards, cosmetic case, scarves, tissue, hand sanitizer, writing pads, herbal teas, snacks and more. A large portion of stockings go to seniors living in long-term care homes, but the campaign also works with local community organizations and churches to identify seniors on their own in need of a gift and some cheering up. “Who’s at home alone, who’s that widow struggling who’s lost their spouse that year and doesn’t have children. These people are also hungry (and) can be alone and not have anyone see them on Christmas, so I find them,” she said. “It’s about honouring them and their lives while they’re still here.” This season Ford-Spencer is hoping to extend the project’s reach beyond St. Catharines. She has a small group set up in Niagara Falls and Grimsby volunteering to help seniors in their area, taking “baby steps,” with the goal to add more communities in the years ahead. “It was rather St. Catharines-based. There would be the odd, outside-the-boundaries, deliveries to recipients ... that’s happening, that’s very exciting,” she said. “The more seniors in the Niagara region we can reach, just the better it is and the happier everyone is.” As a volunteer-driven organization — Ford-Spencer calls volunteers her “elves” who return to fill stockings every year — the campaign is a win-win for every person involved. “The person who wants to make up the stocking loves to do that, remind them of their childhood and who doesn’t love that memory of getting one from Santa, and the recipients and the volunteers ... love coming to the workshop, the headquarters, and stuffing stockings,” she said. “I think that’s one of the reasons why it’s so successful and at the end of the day, it’s helping the people who are usually the forgotten ones.” In addition to collecting $25 pre-stuffed stockings, Ford-Spencer said they are also raising funds to purchase stockings and stuffers for people who cannot get to the drop-off locations. The campaign runs through December 20. For more stocking stuffer ideas or to see a full list of drop-off locations visit the Stockings of Love Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/stockingsoflove.seniorsaloneatchristmas/ Donations are welcome by e-transfer: stockingsoflove1@gmail.comTraffic police yet to recover ₹98 crore in fines

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Pune: In last week’s column, I wrote about an old booklet titled “Meat Curing in the Presidencies” written by “an agriculturist in Chittoor”. It was self-published in Poona in 1890. The author arrived in India from the US in 1872 and lived in Bombay (Mumbai), Chittoor, Madras (Chennai), and Poona (Pune). He wrote the booklet while living in Poona from 1882 to 88. The booklet was meant to guide the farmers, Indian and European, in preserving meat. In the absence of refrigerators and cold storage, cold smoking and salt curing were used to preserve fish and meat. Hogs were slaughtered in winter and hams and other pork products were salted and hung up or placed on a shelf to last the following summer. In America, salted meat (and particularly salted pork) had been essential in the diet of European-Americans since colonial times. The cultivation of corn and the husbandry of swine made up a principal sequence in rural life and agricultural economics across the upland South and Midwest. Before the twentieth century, two basic ways of salting large chunks of pork (ham, bacon, shoulder) were used – the brine method (most widespread in the North) and the dry salting method, which was extensive in the South. Nineteenth-century agricultural policies in the US encouraged the farmer to adopt home-curing of meats. The farmer was not only supposed to cure meat, but he was expected to sell it too. The author of the booklet envisioned the farmer in India as a “businessman” – he was expected to combine business talent with increased knowledge of how to produce, study his “own special situation” concerning markets and seek to produce along lines in which remunerative prices could be obtained. The author emphasised that Indian and European farmers in the Presidencies should inquire more closely into the wants of local markets and try to meet their requirements. The “local markets” that the author mentioned were the ones patronised by the British Army and the European civilians. It was true that the mofussil depended upon large Indian cities and Europe for good quality processed meat. While the author expected that nearby farmers should supply cured meat to towns and cities, he ignored the fact that agricultural practices in India were linked to religion and caste and that slaughtering animals for meat and curing beef and pork were not practised by a large section of farmers. The cattle were employed on farms and for milk, and farmers sold them to butchers. According to the author, butchers in Poona offered a low price for cattle and hence, he expected the farmer to process the meat himself. He noted how the modern American farmer was trying to earn more and become self-sufficient at the same time - he cured the meat for the local market and received almost double the amount in cash. He had the sausage, tenderloin, spare ribs backbones, pigs’ feet, heads, and a considerable quantity of lard left to pay for the labour of curing. He repeated the experience for a few years and made his business even more profitable. In 1886, the author met a European farmer from Manjri near Poona who told the author that any farmer “who shaped his affairs to supply a superior article of hams, bacon, and sausage, would build up a paying business, and one which might become more popular and profitable year by year”. The customers who demanded “gilt-edge” butter were looking for “gilt-edge” hams and bacon as well. Curing meat was linked to connoisseurship in Europe and America.. There was no danger of the demand failing once such trade was established. At the Manjri farm, the hogs were slaughtered and after the meat cooled, it was cut up. The pieces were rubbed with salt well, especially where their shank was sawed off. Barrels were placed where the pork would not freeze on the one hand, nor be too warm on the other. The bottom was covered with salt, and in this were packed the hams and shoulders with enough of the side meat to make it compact, sprinkling salt on each layer, and when it was all packed, an old barrel was put on the top on which was placed a heavy weight. In the course of three or four days, brine was made by stirring in water all the salt it would absorb. It was then poured over the meat and made to remain for about six weeks. The meat was lifted out and hung up and permitted to drip for a few days, after which it was smoked brown and put away for future use. The smoking was done in a smokehouse. A smokehouse, or smokery as it was known in Britain, was a building where meat and fish were cured with smoke. It was also used to store meat. Smokehouses were uncommon in and around Poona and the author suggested some methods to give the meat the proper curing. A barrel, or two barrels, one set on top of the other, made a very good place for smoking a summer quantity of meat. The meat was hung in the upper one and the smoke was made in the lower one. It was advised that the barrels should not be allowed to get too hot. Green hickory, hickory bark, maple chips, dampened corn cobs and the like were considered to make good fuel for the smokehouse. The French were known to use damp wheat straw and that is what was used in Poona. The booklet suggested that hardwood sawdust could be used in the Bombay Presidency. It had the advantage of never making a blaze, something that was to be avoided in all smoking of meats. When sawdust was used, a large iron kettle was often employed in which to make the fire. November was also the month of agricultural fairs in Poona and winter wheat was sold at the venue. The wheat straw was used at the Manjri farm. After curing, each ham was wrapped with plenty of paper and then bags were made from old flour sacks, and these were whitewashed. Yellow ochre was sometimes put in the whitewash to make the sacking appear just like meats that were imported from Europe. The whitewash did not preserve the meat, but did prevent flies from depositing eggs on it through the thin sacking. Appearance contributed a great deal to the value of hams and bacon. The meat was expected to be clean and presentable. For the best breakfast bacon, the thinnest and leanest sides were used, and a little sugar and saltpetre were put in the brine. “If pork is intended for sides of bacon, it must be cut differently from what it should be for rolled or spiced meat; and the hams must be cut in a shapely and marketable form – not simply big junks of salt pig, called ‘hams’ just because cut from that part of a pig where the ham generally comes from”, the booklet said. The farmer who attempted this venture was expected to know how to trim, cure, and handle, wisely select his times and seasons, select his stock so that it would make the kind of product for which a good price could be obtained, feed it as it ought to be fed to secure flavour and quality that would command a fancy sum, and make a better product than anybody else; in other words, learn how to do the work from start to finish a little better than anybody else. However, there simply was not any competition among Indian, and even European, farmers to sell cured meat. The British after having established a separate department dedicated to agriculture undertook various experiments at farms set up in places like Poona and Saharanpur. But almost no efforts were made to educate and train native farmers in the art of curing meat since they were aware of their religious sentiments and the beliefs associated with purity and cleanliness. Some animals were considered holy, others were “dirty”. While the impact of the colonial rule on Indian foodways has been studied in detail, there is little documentation of American influence on Indian food habits apart from the Columbian Exchange. Examining it will enrich the knowledge about the customary ways of dealing with generation, harvest, preservation, preparation, and consumption of food. Chinmay Damle is a research scientist and food enthusiast. He writes here on Pune’s food culture. He can be contacted at chinmay.damle@gmail.com17 Education & Technology Group Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2024 Unaudited Financial ResultsVP Kamala Harris addresses election loss, urges supporters to hold ‘power’