Track meet in Grand Forks

Grand Forks is the administrative centre of School District 51.  When Big White first wanted to open a school and approached their local town of Kelowna, the school district there said they would prefer to bus the children to Kelowna rather than have a school on the mountain.  So, Big White approached the district in the other direction who said they had loads of remote schools and one more wouldn't be a problem!  So, Grand Forks is the school district that controls Big White school, and the children were invited to a track meet there, with all the other school from the district. However, Grand Forks is 3 hours away so an early start was required....5am to be precise.  The journey was beautiful, the road follows the Kettle Valley river the entire way, but in the 3 hours we were on the road, we travelled through the village of Beaverdell, the small town of Rock Creek, another village of Midway, which sits on the border to the United States, and Greenwood, which boasts to be Canada's smallest city with a whopping population of 708!  That's it, in 3 hours we came across 4 settlements no bigger than Upottery...crazy!
However, despite the distances travelled we all had a great day, glorious weather and the children got to run on grass...little things!

Big White senior class.