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STUDENTS, PARENTS SCHOOL STA FF ARGUE FOR REBUILT LSS AT TUESDAY NIGHT MEETING MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
said. A Grade 11 Karen student said LSS has been very supportive to her community and as a More than 150 Langley Secondrepresentative of the Karen refuary students, parents, teachers, gees, she “strongly supports the special education assistants and rebuild. alumni sent a message to the “We see education as a way to a board of edbetter future. ucation on In my expeTuesday night rience, the — rebuild the students and school, don’t teachers here close it. want you to There were succeed,” she 30 people on said. the speakers Former list and severLangley City al more who councillor and sent in corcurrent sperespondence cial education to be read out assistant at at a special LSS Sharla DAVE LEWIS meeting about Mauger spoke LSS’s potential passionately closure held about how her son, now in Grade inside the school’s gymnasium. 11 at LSS is thriving at the school. School trustees and district staff Tuesday was his first day in were there to hear input from the the piping program. public as part of the public consul“This school is where each stutation that is required when condent matters regardless of social sidering the closure of a school. or economic status. Students feel LSS counsellor Dave Lewis said safe and respected here,” said the school fits the diverse Langley Mauger. City community, and that incluAn LSS alumni, and now teacher siveness can’t be re-created. at Stafford spoke about how excitNinety per cent of the staff faed and ready her students are to vour staying put, Lewis said. make the move from her school “We are thriving because of to LSS. She said Stafford students what is in this location. To blow are proud of their middle school it all up twice in less than a deexperience. cade is a crime,” Lewis said refer“Leave Stafford alone,” she said ring to the conversion of HD Stafof the idea being considered to ford from a high school to middle turn it back into a high school. school. “No one listened in ’08. We sinContinued Page 11 cerely hope you do this time,” he
We are thriving because of what is in this location. To blow it all up twice in less than a decade is a crime
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A parked pickup truck was destroyed by fire on Monday (Feb. 9) at 1:32 a.m. in the 20200 block of 53 Avenue in Langley City. No one was hurt. The cause had not been determined by The Times’ press deadline.
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