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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016
Parents fight ‘for the heart of Oyster River’ MiKe Davies Campbell RiveR miRRoR
The parents and community members who would be affected by the closure of Oyster River Elementary, like those at Discovery Passage Elementary two days earlier, showed up in droves Wednesday evening to defend their school. Banners reading, “Don’t take the heart out of Oyster River,” and other messaging were hung around the gymnasium, petitions to various levels of government were at a side table on the way through the door and the concern and disappointment could be read on the faces of those who filled the room. The structure was the same at both consultation meetings. Superintendent Tom Longridge and Secretary-Treasurer Kevin Patrick gave a presentation on the rationale given for the facility being chosen when staff was tasked with selecting two schools for closure, which was followed by small roundtable discussions amongst those assembled to ask questions of trustees and staff, suggest alternatives and express their concerns. “I was actually impressed with the process of the meeting,” said BobbiJo Thulin, chair of the school’s Parent Advisory Council. “I think the way that they organized it was much better than if they would have had
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Wind chime noise among quirkiest bylaw complaints Kristen Douglas Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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School District 72 superintendent Tom Longridge opens Wednesday night’s public consultation meeting by explaining to those assembled the rationale presented to the board in recommending Oyster River Elementary for closure.
a ‘town hall’ type meeting. I think they got a lot more accomplished by having the smaller groups. Parents were able to bounce ideas off each other that maybe one wouldn’t have
thought of. It was nice to see that there wasn’t just a panel of district officials, but that they integrated and communicated with us, which was important.”
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She also feels more hopeful about her children’s school’s future than she did before the meeting, which wasn’t the predominant feeling at
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Windchimes, an ice machine maker, a hot tub, and garbage trucks. Those were some of the things that reportedly got on some Campbell Riverites’ nerves in 2015. The noise makers prompted public nuisance complaints to City Hall as revealed in a bylaw enforcement statistics report recently released by the city. Of the 555 bylaw complaints the city received in 2015, public nuisance was the most common beef, with 216 incidents reported. Of those 216, 79 were related to unsightly premises (vegetation, 50, and materials, 29) while 32 people complained about graffiti and 30 had a noise complaint. Powertools topped the list of noise complaints at eight, while garbage collection and vehicles each generated seven complaints. Amplified music prompted four calls to the city while windchimes, a heat pump, an ice machine maker, and a hot tub each generated one complaint. Coun. Charlie Cornfield, upon seeing the statistics at council’s Monday night meeting, noted that
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