Lake Country Calendar, October 15, 2014

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October 15, 2014

Inside Election All the candidates have filed their papers and the run for District of Lake Country council, school district trustee and Regional District of the Central Okanagan has begun. ...............................

WHEN Davidson Road

parent Ed Petrukovich saw the number of vehicles coming in and out of Davidson Road to pick up kids this year, he enlisted his own son Matthew to help with traffic control and to work the cross walk at the school, which is currently running over-capacity.

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KEVIN PARNELL

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Chief for the Day Local kids posed with Sparky the Fire Dog and climbed into fire trucks at the Lake Country Fire Department’s annual Chief for the Day. ...............................

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▼ EDUCATION

Elementary school catchments under review KEVIN PARNELL The Central Okanagan School District is reviewing the catchment areas for Lake Country elementary schools and by next year’s school session there will be new boundaries to distribute students to the three schools in the district. Davidson Road Elementary is operating at over-capacity and with development in the Davidson Road catchment area continuing to bring in more young

families, that means some Lake Country kids that currently live in the Davidson Road area will be bused to one of Lake Country’s two other elementary schools: Oyama Traditional or Peter Greer Elementary. “The population in the Davidson Road area is way beyond the physical space that the school has to accommodate them all,” said Central Okanagan School District superintendent Hugh Gloster. “Davidson Road has so many primary

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kids that they can’t accommodate them all. We’re discussing moving the boundaries because all of the growth and development in Lake Country feeds into Davidson Road.”

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With one of the fastTHE POPULATION est growIN THE DAVIDSON ing populaROAD AREA IS tions in the country and WAY BEYOND most of the THE PHYSICAL growth in SPACE THAT THE young famSCHOOL HAS TO ilies, Lake CounACCOMMODATE try is seeTHEM ALL. Hugh Gloster, ing a crush of students School District 23 in the lowsuperintendent est levels of its elementary schools and most of

the new population is in the Davidson Road area with new developments such as the Lake’s and more development on the books in the area. Davidson Road remains over-capacity, despite the move of all Grade 7 students in Lake Country to a new annex near George Elliot Secondary this year. Last year, with Grade 7s, Davidson Road had 498 students while this year there are 481 students in Kindergarten through Grade 6.

Currently Oyama is operating under capacity by about 35 students while Peter Greer is also under capacity. “We have to cap Davidson Road and re-distribute,” said school board trustee Deb Butler, an Oyama resident. “I think it’s going to be tough because there is no easy line to draw. People are going to be affected and that’s always hard for everybody in the com-

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