District Parent Advisory Council Healthy Schools Cookbook
Dear Parents and Staff;
The DPAC of SD 91 formed a Healthy Schools Committee last October to assist schools in the implementation phase of legislation involving food and beverages offered in schools. Part of this committee’s work has been the development of a cookbook project.
The cookbook can be used as a tool to healthy eating choices and it will have a special section for school hot lunch menus that will meet all the criteria that hot lunch providers can implement simply. Essentially it will have a best of the best practices across our district. A project of this type is the first in the province.
We are currently seeking recipes from ALL our schools to form this SD 91 cookbook. There will be PRIZES for the top three schools participating, based on per capita recipe submissions. Prizes will be various kitchen items useful to the school in assisting meal programs; such as a food processor for first prize and a basket of various kitchen implements for second and third prizes.
As you consider your submissions, please keep healthy choices in mind. Once the recipes are submitted they will be classified in the choose most, choose sometimes, choose least, as set out in the legislative criteria. Typically "Choose Most" and "Choose Sometimes” recipes are highest in nutrients, least processed, made with whole grain flour, smaller amounts of fat, salt, and sugar.
"Choose Least" recipes tend to be low in key nutrients such as iron, calcium or may be highly salted, sweetened, or processed.
~The Community Nutritionist will also assist us to add nutritional tips to the recipes if needed. We hope to develop some of your recipes into PAC lunch menus (with your permission).
If you have a large serving recipe (20 or more) we are interested in it! Please submit it on the PAC recipe sheet so that we can develop it into a hot lunch menu.
Please have all recipe sheets in by JUNE 16 to your school. Feel free to make copies of the recipe sheet or submit additional recipes on a standard sheet of paper following the outline of the sheet. The more recipes submitted the better chance your school will WIN!! While all our students are enjoying the summer break, we will put the cookbook together and have it printed for distribution in September when we all come back to school.
We would also welcome submissions of artwork from students across the district relating to healthy eating. Please submit them on 81/2 by 11 paper with name and school on the back so that we can give credit where credit is due and use them in the cookbook.
School District 91 District Parents Advisory Council
Healthy Schools Cookbook Recipe Sheet
__ Appetizer __Soup __Main Dishes __PAC Lunches
__ Beverage __Vegetables __Breads __Traditional Aboriginal Foods
__ Salad __Side Dishes __Desserts __Brown Bag Lunches
__Dressing __Canning
Your Name School
Recipe Title
Ingredients (List in order of use)
1. 7.
2. 8.
3. 9.
4. 10.
5. 11.
6. 12.
Recipe Directions:
May we use your recipe in future cookbook printings with credit to you? Yes No
May we develop your recipe into a large serving recipe for school hot lunch programs?
Yes No Please contact me first at (phone or email)
How many cookbooks would you like to preorder? @ $10 totaling $
Please make cheques payable to DPAC SD 91 Nechako Lakes and attach to sheet.
Will your child be at the same school in Sept? Yes No
If no, please indicate school child moves up to so that the cookbooks can be delivered there for them in September
~Thank you for participating in this initiative to promote healthy food choices and share in developing healthy lunch options for our kids in SD 91!~~
School District 91 District Parents Advisory Council
Healthy Schools Cookbook
Pac Lunches Recipe Sheet
Title
Your Name Your School
Main Dish_______________________
Side Dish_______________________
Fruit or Vegetable_______________________
Beverage_______________________
Ingredients
Please fill in the table with the amounts/measures of ingredients under the serving heading. If your recipe can be made for smaller and larger servings please show amounts for each in a separate column.
Servings |
Ingredients |
Servings |
Method:
May we reprint your recipe with credit in a future cookbook? Yes No
May we adjust your recipe to fit the guidelines better? Yes No Contact me .
Contact phone or email
How many books would you like to preorder? @ $10 each totaling $
Please make cheques payable to DPAC SD 91 Nechako Lakes and attach to this form.
District Parent Advisory Council of
School District 91 Nechako Lakes invites
you to attend our
Annual General Meeting
Saturday, May 24, 2008
At the Lakes District Secondary School Library
Proceedings begin at 10:00 am
Light Lunch and refreshments will be provided
Elections of Executive
Presentation from Calvin Desmarais on Aboriginal Parental Involvement
Visioning PAC needs for 2008/09
Door prizes will be given away!
Please join us for this very important opportunity to
learn and participate in parental involvement within
our school district.
The agenda for this AGM and directions to the Lakes District Secondary School can be viewed on our DPAC website,
mail.sd91.bc.ca/~dpac/index
AGM NOMINATIONS LIST
This is the list of positions up for nomination for DPAC. Note that if the Secretary / Treasurer position is combined, there will be another Director position available. Please forward nominations to DPAC@mail.sd91.bc.ca Include name, contact numbers, school, and position seeking. All nominations will be accepted until May 24, 2008 at the AGM. Names will be posted as soon as candidates have accepted their nomination.
Chair
Co Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Director -
Director -
Director-
Director- If Secretary / Treasure is one position
Annual General Meeting 2008 Agenda
May 24, 2008
Lakes District Secondary School Library, Burns Lake
10:00 am - Call to order
Introduce Nominees, guests
Declare Quorum (10%)
Approval of agenda
Additions/changes
Move adoption, seconded, vote
Elections
Final call for nominations
Vote / acclamations
Move, second executive be ratified
Presentation by Calvin Demarais – Aboriginal Parent Clubs
Reports
Annual Chair Report – Michelle Racher
Annual Co-Chair Report – Adele Gooding
Annual Treasurer Report – Nina Knocke - Reminder for gaming grant applications
Annual Director’s Reports
Lynne Reed
Julie Daum
Maureen Bayless
Mini Verduzco
Constitution and Bylaw changes
Vote
Move, second changes
Lunch Break and Networking
New Business
BCCPAC Spring AGM Resolution results
PAC Visioning
Budget 2008/2009 for adoption
Vote
Move, seconded, vote
Passed $984.87 expense for PAC education/meeting supplies
Old Business
Any PAC request for DPAC visit
PAC Survey
Date and time of next meeting
Adjourn AGM
COMING SOON! GET OUT YOUR FAVORITE RECIPES…
DPAC COOKBOOK……As you are aware, the Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Elementary Schools is now in effect. DPAC is at the forefront of assisting PAC groups and parents learn more about the guidelines and find ways to implement the changes. We will be asking for any great recipes to put into an exciting COOKBOOK, keeping in mind the new guidelines. Get out your favorite recipes! More details to follow soon.
Good morning,
As you are no doubt aware, young workers are among the most likely to suffer from a serious workplace accident. With summer just around the corner and with many students getting ready for their first jobs. The District PAC in conjunction with Career Programs would appreciate the opportunity to have a guest speaker come and talk with as many of your respective grade 10 students as possible - others are welcome to attend as well.
Worksafe BC has a number of young individuals who travel the province talking to students about the deadly issue of workplace injury. These speakers are in great demand to say the least and we have been able to secure the speaking services of Nick Perry (bio below) for the dates of Monday April 21st & Tuesday April 22nd. The presentation is approximately 45 minutes in length
It is the hope of the District PAC and Career Programs that your students will be afforded the chance to hear Nicks story/presentation in each of your respective buildings.
I have listed the days/time the Nick would be available to present at your school. I hope arrangements can be made to allow this to happen.
Please let me know if your school can or cannot accommodate the speaker for the dates/times listed below:
April 21 - LDSS in the morning
April 21 - FLESS in the afternoon
April 22 - NVSS in the morning
Aprl 22 - FSJSS in the afternoon
Nick was 19, when he got a job at a Victoria lumberyard. Six months later 42 loose sheets of lumber weighing 1,200 kilograms fell on him, leaving him an incomplete paraplegic. Today, he is able to walk, but his life is not back to normal. "All that independence that your worked so hard to gain can be taken away from you in a snap of your fingers", he warns. "Know your rights at work, because you can get hurt. Just look at what happened to me."
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to call or email
Thanks,
Darren
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Darren Carpenter
School District No. 91
Career & Trades Programs Coordinator
Box 950, Vanderhoof, BC, VOJ 3A0
Office Phone: 250-567-2291 Ext 259
Cell Phone: 250-570-9739
Fax: 250-567-2123
"Make the Impossible.........Possible"
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BCCPAC Advocacy Project
Mission Possible 2
Speaking Up! Solving Problems in Public Schools
Sponsored by the District Parent Advisory Council of SD 91 Nechako Lakes and BCCPAC.
Workshops: Two locations, two dates, two options!
Saturday, April 12, 2008 1. Morning: 9-11 a.m. or 2. All day: 9a.m. to 3 p.m. W.L.McLeod Training Centre, Vanderhoof To register: Contact Michelle Racher at |
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1. Morning: 9-11 a.m. or 2. All day: 9a.m. to 3 p.mp Lakes District Secondary School, Burns Lake To register: Contact Lynne Reed at 250-692-7444 |
All Parents Welcome!
When registering, please indicate the session you want to attend.
Light lunch provided for all-day participants.
For more information you may view or print a poster.
Nechako Lakes April 2008 sessions Mission Possible 2 2.pdf
District Parent Advisory Council of
School District 91 Nechako Lakes invites
you to attend our first land-based,
Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
At the Nechako Valley Secondary School Library
Proceedings begin at 1:00 p.m.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Presentation from Loraina Stephens, Dietician from Prince George
With the new legislation regarding healthy foods in schools coming into force in January 2008 for primary and elementary schools, then in September 2008 for high schools, we believe the information and advice Loraina will be able to provide will be relevant and timely. Please take advantage of this excellent opportunity to come out and find answers to your healthy food questions that will benefit yourself and your schools.
Door prizes will be given away!
Please join us for this very important opportunity to
learn and participate in parental involvement within
our school district.
The agenda for this Fall Meeting and directions to the Nechako Valley Secondary School can be viewed on our DPAC website,
mail.sd91.bc.ca/~dpac/index
Welcome to the 07/08 School Year
Well I hope that you all had a wonderful summer and were able to recharge your batteries with some great fun with your family over the summer. Here we are back to the new school year!! It is amazing how fast summer goes, one day you think it will last forever, the next it is buying school supplies and new clothing for the kids.
As you know, the DPAC had our first AGM in June. We are now ready to move forward in working with your PACs and SPCs to assist you in any way you need and in providing information on district and provincial based issues.
The DPAC is currently in budget negotiations with the District. We hope to bring several programs to both parents and students this year. These will hopefully include BCCPAC Advocacy workshops, a major speaker presentation, WCB presentations to high school students, support of a new District Student Advisory body, conference attendances for interested parent leaders, and meeting with each PAC and SPC. We are seeking a total of 16,555.99 to provide services and events. We will present this to the Board at their September meeting on the 17th at Muriel Mould School.
We would like to have every PAC join BCCPAC. Once our budget is approved, we will be in a position to financially support the membership for each PAC with a grant for the $65 fee, or through direct payment of those fees. We only had 4 of 23 eligible groups represented last year. We have a goal of having all 23 represented this year. The membership provides many supports to members and a vote at AGM policy meetings. The last AGM saw resolutions that resulted in the below noted playground grants. This year, you must be a “member PAC” in order to apply for the 1 million dollar portion of the 4 million playground grants. We will ask two things in return, you have your PAC sign up PRIOR to the Dec 15 eligibility deadline and that you will either take your vote to the AGM, or fill your proxy vote or assign an open proxy to a
DPAC member to be carried at the AGM. The votes are important!! We need our district to be represented! A registration form is attached. Please contact the DPAC with any questions.
Every PAC now has a school district email account. All bulletins will be sent out to those accounts which can be accessed either from home or your school. Your school secretary will be able to assist you with your set up. There is a quick link to be able to send your message to all PACs as well as the DPAC. This is another route to enable communication between our PACs and DPAC to share information. To that end, could you also email a list of the names, phone numbers and email of your PAC executives, DPAC Reps and SPC members to dpac@mail.sd91.bc.ca . There are some items where we need to make quick contacts regarding issues and this list will be of great assistance. We need contact information to have your voice included! If you would like your personal email to also be notified for all mailings please indicate so, so that the quick lists can be updated.
The DPAC will be holding regular monthly meetings this year. They will be the third Wednesday of each month at 7 PM. The September 17th meeting will be via teleconference and dial in instructions as well as an agenda will be emailed the week prior. Please get your agenda requests in by Monday the 10th of Sept. All are invited; DPAC reps please ensure you attend. Please look regularly at the DPAC website for updates at http://mail.sd91.bc.ca/~dpac/index .
Just a reminder to all PACs that DPAC rep and SPC members are one year positions. These are to be voted on by secret ballot yearly as stated in the School Act regulations. One SPC member must be an executive PAC member. Please make sure these details are seen to, in order to maintain the legality of these legislated positions. There will be SPC training sessions announced soon to ensure all SPC members have up to date information and guidelines.
I am sure many of the elementary PACs are interested in the playground gaming grants. I sent out emails during the summer to keep you up to date with details as I got them.
The gaming website at http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/gaming/grants/pacdpac.htm will have the online application form for the $3 million gaming branch portion of the playground grants. The application period for this year is September to November 15th. There will be an additional application period over each of the next two school years. These grants will be dispersed January 31 of the year following the application. This grant is to cover 80 % of total costs of a playground
structure with a max grant of $20,000.
There will be an additional source of funds from BCCPAC http://www.bccpac.bc.ca/whats_new/Whats_New.htm . This grant is the remaining million dollars sponsored by the Ministry of Education. You must be a BCCPAC member PAC at the time of application for this grant. The application period is now to November 30th this year only. Again 80% of the costs of purchases, not including installation costs up to $20,000 are covered. There will be no dual grants handed out; one grant precludes
the other, in clearer terms.
Over the summer, we have had discussions with the District to further assist PACs in acquiring playgrounds. A process has been developed with DPAC and senior administration for PACs to follow as a flow chart during the planning and acquisition of new playground structures. This flow chart will be sent to all of you by Monday Sept 10th. All schools will have the same process to follow and be given the same advantages. We have confirmed that the school district will do all installations at no cost to PACs. This is a huge savings as a playground I was involved in costing $25,000 would have cost an additional $15,000 to install! The district would appreciate volunteer teams to assist in installations to offset costs. A “playground party” can be a real spirit lifting event for a community and I hope you will all consider
something along those lines. There is a further savings to PACs in that we have identified a payment process which will have schools do the actual purchase for PACs, saving the taxes. The PAC in turn makes a donation to the SD in their school’s name to make repayment. This will also save each PAC a few thousand dollars. All of this will be outlined in detail in the flow chart which will be released next week.
You will all remember the Supporting Parent Leadership Seminar Series applications that were about last spring. We are happy to announce that Mini Verduzco of W.L. McLeod and Adele Gooding of Grassy EJSS and LDSS are the selected candidates to represent SD91 Lakes Nechako. We look forward to the information they will bring back to our district as they progress through this leadership training.
One more request, could all PACs please let me know when your PAC meetings and SPC meetings are held. We want to do two things with that information, one post those meetings on the web calendar of events for parents to be aware and second to enable scheduling to attend your meetings for information and support.
Please contact me with any questions, comments or concerns. I hope everyone gets off to a great start for the new school year. This one promises to be full of potential for parental involvement in our district!
Michelle Racher
DPAC Chair, SD 91 Lakes Nechako
(250) 570 0022
District Parent Advisory Council of
School District 91 Nechako Lakes
invites
you to attend our first
Annual General Meeting
and
Parent Education Day
Saturday, June 2, 2007
At the Fraser Lake Adult Education Centre
Proceedings begin at 10:30 am
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Presenters from the Board of Trustees,
School District Board Office, and the
British Columbia Confederation of
Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC)
will be on hand.
Door prizes will be given away!
Please join us for this very important opportunity to
learn and participate in parental involvement within
our school district.
To get to the Adult Lerning Center from HWY 16 turn north at the Chevron. Take the first right aprox 1/2 block.
The ALC is a long building on the right hand side of the road. Please see the proposed agenda on our Executive
Elections page.
March 8, 2007
Welcome to the DPAC Website!!!!
It has now been two weeks that I have held the position of DPAC Chair and I am excited about all that we have already accomplished and about plans we have to support
parent groups in our schools.
The construction of this website is one of the first accomplishments. We felt that it was vital to have an avenue to get information out in our diverse district. We also wanted to provide a one stop place for ALL parents to receive information and pose questions and concerns. The site is under construction and will be updated regularly. Please email any questions to me at [ mailto:racher67@telus.net ]. We also have plans to have a message board system added in the near future for your convenience.
We had two members attend the Interactive Innovations 2007 Conference in Prince George for which you will find a report on this website. Parents who may be interested in future educational events are urged to send an email to myself.
We also were able to participate in the selection process of our new Superintendent. The candidates all had individual qualities that were strong but I believe the correct candidate was chosen. We look forward to working with Ray Lemoigne as we build and establish DPAC.
Please take a look at the DPAC/PAC contacts page. If you see information that is missing or incorrect for your school, or have interest in filling a DPAC representative position please email me. DPAC representatives are needed in order to get information down to individual PAC’s. I would encourage all PAC Chairs to have a DPAC section in their meeting agendas in order to address this information.
We can also provide the service of having your school’s PAC minutes posted to this website so that they can be read by all parents from the comfort of their home or office as their time allows. I hope that all school PAC’s will take advantage of this opportunity. You can email the minutes to me for posting.
I look forward to DPAC evolving into what the parents of our district need. We are endeavoring to provide communication avenues and a collective parental voice to the District, and would like to hear your ideas. We would also like for more parents to get involved as we have several positions to fill.
Michelle Racher
DPAC Chair SD 91
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