Ministik School - CARW2018
With this years CARW having a ‘Back to Geo-School’ theme, we thought we would school everyone with some actual schools! These caches will give you some history on some of the schools in the Strathcona County / Sherwood Park area. We hope you enjoy being schooled!
The Ministik School District was established on April 13, 1908. In 1950, the Government of Alberta started a program of consolidation of schools. Because of its central location in the southeast part of the school division, Ministik was chosen as the site for a new facility which consolidated schools in South Cooking Lake, North Cooking Lake, Deville and Hastings Lake.
On April 9, 1951 approval was given for a new site and the current building opened in 1951 as a Grade 1 to 9 school with 124 students and four professional staff. The first kindergarten class was taught in 1985. In 1986, two portables were added and in 1993 a new gymnasium opened. Another portable was added in 1994. In 1998, Strathcona County shut down the Ministik School playground because of it being unsafe.
Footnote: Some fun information about this school.. When ScooterRichard was in high school, he played a lot of basketball with his friends. This school was close to one particular rural friend, sorta, and a bunch of us decided to come to this school to play a game of hoops. You know the expression, bent but not broken? Well, we may have left one of the hoops in a similar condition.. by mistake of course. 8 foot nets are not a recommended height for high school kids. Hopefully this is not the reason the playground was shut down 5 years later.
In 2008, Ministik School celebrated its 100 anniversary and a new playground grand opening. The event included greetings from Dave Quest, a member of the legislative assembly of Alberta, Board Chair Bonnie Riddell and Superintendent Egbert Stang.
The current building is 65 years old and the portables are 41 years old.
This CARW2018 cache will be published prior to the CARW event.
Please remember that caches cannot be hunted until 9am Saturday March 3rd
Should you find this cache prior, it will not count for the event, and FTF points are only valid as of 9am March 3rd.
There are a total of 15 caches in this series. Some of the traditional caches are feeder caches, and will end up providing the final coordinates for the puzzle cache:
Colchester School - CARW2018
Remember to jot down these special numbers to help you find the last one in this series.
The numbers may be in the container, or ON the host.