The search for an assistant superintendent for School District 58 is over.
Christine Perkins, currently principal of Howe Sound Secondary School in Squamish, was appointed by the board of trustees earlier this month and is expected to start Aug. 1.
The district was without an assistant superintendent since Steve McNiven moved up from the assistant role to district superintendent last summer.
“We’re quite happy with the skills and abilities she brings,” McNiven said.
Perkins has a PhD in educational leadership and policy and has experience in aboriginal education, social justice, and technology, the district said in a press release.
Lesson on anthropologist James Teit tonight
Members of the public are invited to the Seniors Centre tonight for a history lesson on Nicola Valley anthropologist James Teit.
The presentation by Upper Nicola Band cultural heritage resources manager Lynne Jorgesen will explore Teit’s impact on the Nicola Valley as part of the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives Association’s annual general meeting.
Teit arrived at Spences Bridge in 1884, when ranching and industry in the Nicola Valley were booming.
Fascinated by the local indigenous culture, Teit married into a Thompson family in 1892.
Over the following decades, he researched indigenous ethnography, chronicled Thompson myths, and even managed to record local First Nations singers.
The meeting and presentation begins at 7 p.m. tonight (March 19) at 1675 Tutill Court.
