Quest for Community participants Ruby Peppard and Don Warthe took a group of students to Cuba in March to help rebuild homes damaged in last fall’s hurricanes.
By Colin Payne, Anna Kirkpatrick, Michelle Miller & Chris Benjamin
Briarpatch Magazine
September/October 2009
1. Quest for Community: Community-based education in rural British Columbia
By Colin Payne
Quest for Community, a new program of the public school system in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia’s Southern Interior, aims to sow the seeds of community in the most fertile soil there is - the minds of youth.
The program, which launches this fall, is a result of the combined visions of Ruby Peppard and Don Warthe, two teachers at Mount Sentinel Secondary School in South Slocan, a small, rural community near Nelson, B.C.
