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RCMP Emergency Response Vehicle arrives at Petersen Road and Old Petersen Road on way to a shots-fired incident on Glen Eagle Drive.
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The peace of a street off Old Petersen Road was shattered by tragedy Friday morning after RCMP officers dispatched to Glen Eagle Drive arrived to the sound of shots being fired. “This morning at approximately
8:53 hours, Campbell River members of the General Duty Detachment RCMP were dispatched to the 1800 block of Glen Eagle Drive in Campbell River. The reason of the call was to check well being of a member of the public,” Cpl. Ron Shelrud of the Campbell River RCMP told the media just before noon Friday. “Upon arriving at the
scene, shots were heard and the General Duty members established a containment of the area and called in our Emergency Response Team (ERT).” Negotiators on the scene were speaking with the subject in the house, Cpl. Shelrud said. “It’s the first time in our police history we’ve been at that house,”
he said. “We’re not familiar with the individual.” The individual in the house was “having some personal issues,” Cpl. Shelrud said. The Emergency Response Team arrived after General Duty officers had the area contained for a couple of hours. People within the residen-
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While there were some alternatives presented at last week’s community consultation regarding the possible closure of Oyster River Elementary, one overarching question hung over the room and pervaded the discussion. Many parents of children who currently attend Oyster River wondered why the school, which they say falls under the “rural school” category in the BC Schools Act – being located outside a municipal boundary – did not qualify as such in the recently adopted School District 72 (SD72) 10-Year Facility Plan. The school is located in Area D of the Strathcona Regional District and is well outside the Campbell River municipal boundary, and while Area C schools (Discovery Islands – Mainland Inlets) were expressly exempted from the discussion of school closure possibilities, the community feels Area D schools were not afforded the same luxury. Rural schools are scheduled to be addressed during Phase 2 of the Facility Plan, where the district has said it will look at optimizing rural school use and look at “right-sizing” schools and examining alternative ways to “share costs, services, and functions” within those facilities. But Oyster River wasn’t included in the district’s “Rural” category, instead being categorized as “Campbell River South” in the Facility Plan alongside schools like Sand-
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