Playland on the students' dime

KSA takes a student-paid trip to Playland.

By Jeff Groat
[coordinating editor] 

On Saturday, Sept. 29, Kwantlen Student Association staff, volunteers and elected officials took a trip to Vancouver’s Playland amusement park. According to Tony Chiao, KSA director of finance, the trip was meant as a thank-you to the KSA staff for all the hard work they put in over the first few weeks back to school.

The KSA held a volunteer-only event in June, but this time decided to extend the invitation to paid staff members and elected officials.

“This time around we were thinking, ‘maybe we should invite staff as well, since they’ve worked for the KSA so hard, we should give them an equal opportunity to just like relax and enjoy,’” Chiao said.

According to Chiao, the outing included 4-5 staff, 4-5 volunteers and 8-9 elected officials. Tickets cost $22.75 each and each person was allotted a $17.50 food allowance.

“A meal at McDonalds will be around six to nine [dollars] depending on what kind you choose. If you just wanted fries it will be cheaper, if you just want a burger, it will be cheaper.

“There’s different combinations.”

(Chiao was interviewed Friday, before the event took place.)