The future of trades training
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Camosun will train over 2,700 trades and apprenticeship students each year with the newly opened 80,000 square foot Trades Education and Innovation Complex at the Interurban campus. We offer foundation and apprenticeship programs in: Carpentry, Electrical, Heavy Duty Mechanics, Auto Mechanics, Plumbing & Pipe Trades, Sheet Metal & Metal Fabrication, Welding and more.
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The 2016 Hearts of the Community
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On Tuesday, Beacon Community Services and the Peninsula News Review recognized some of the hardest-working volunteers on the Saanich Peninsula. Taking home the top honours this year are, from left, Heather Burkett (representing ORCCA Dental Clinic), Marilyn Maggiora, Kenny Podmore, Frank Watson, Katrina Jones and Judy Swift (representing BCS Volunteer Visitors). See page 3 for more coverage.
Parents lift the roof on Bayside leaks Public outcry for school roof replacement gains traction after 20 years of repairs failed to stem the flow Steven Heywood News staff
It took the injury of a student and a little digging by a parent to spark an uproar over a school roof that has been leaking for around two decades.
This week, School District 63 (Saanich) and the Ministry of Education are meeting to see if they can find an estimated $2.6 million to replace the roof at Bayside Middle School in Brentwood Bay. Parents, the district superintendent and local MLA believe this might
be the moment where a persistent problem is finally fixed. “You think, who has dropped the ball here,” says Sandra Arthur, the current President of the Bayside Parents Advisory Committee (PAC). A long time parent of students at
the school, Arthur said she didn’t become aware of the extent of the leaks until her son told her about a classmate who slipped in a puddle caused by a leak and was seriously injured. When she looked into the issue further, Arthur said she learned the roof has been leak-
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ing since Bayside was built in 1992. She said she was also stunned that despite years of asking for money to replace the roof, the school district had been repeatedly denied by the province. Please see: Bayside roof lost out, page 7