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Leamington man dead after fatal accident near Wheatley
At 4:22 a.m. Sunday morning, March 10, emergency crews attended the intersection of Wheatley Road and Essex Road 8 just north of Wheatley in response to a collision involving a single vehicle. A Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was travelling east on Essex Road 8 and failed to stop at the “T” intersection, striking a ditch on the east side of Wheatley Road. The lone occupant, a 47-year-old Leamington man was pronounced dead at the scene. As of press time, his name had not been released. Wheatley Road was closed for several hours while officers investigated.
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By Bryan Jessop Leamington District Secondary School’s crosstown rivalry with Cardinal Carter will soon become less crosstown. Representatives of LDSS and the Greater Essex County District School board met in the school’s gymnasium Friday, March 8 to announce the secondary education facility’s future location — the southwest corner of the Sherk Street and Oak Street West intersection, immediately west of the Heinz grading station. The six parcels of land being tentatively purchased make up a combined 19.37 acres. Before the sale is made official, the school board must first go through a process of due diligence and receive approval from the Ministry of Education. “I’m really happy that we’re at the next step and moving forward,” said LDSS principal Mike Hawkins, the first speaker at Friday’s conference. Following Ministry approval, the school board will begin seeking firms to create the new school’s blueprint. Although the planning stages are still too early to determine to exact size and structure of the new building itself, it is estimated that the school will again be made up of two levels and take up 130,000 square feet of space. The front of the school is expected to face Oak Street. The plans for alteration to the existing Talbot Street West site began in 2007 when then ChathamKent-Essex MPP Pat Hoy announced a grant of $10.7 million to renovate the school, built in 1952. Repairs were first slotted for 2009 or 2010 and were to run roughly 35 per cent of
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The intersection of Oak Street West and Sherk Street will soon be the home of the new Leamington District Secondary School. (SUN Photo)
LDSS Principal Mike Hawkins discusses the future site of the school.
what it would cost to build a new school. The plan was then altered to demolish and replace 80 per cent of LDSS at its current location. “At the end of all the meetings, no one was happy,” explained GECDSB director Warren Kennedy. By 2009, the school board decided to delay the project and explain to the provincial government that
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From left to right, Greater Essex County District School Board chairperson Helga Bailey, school council chairperson Lilley DeChacco and LDSS student council president Chris Adams press the button to start a brief video presentation on the school’s future site, the corner of Sherk Street and Oak Street West. (SUN Photo)
it instead wanted an entirely new building for LDSS. In 2011, the GECDSB discovered through a press release that $26 million had been earmarked by the government for a new school. “We didn’t even get a phone call,” said Kennedy. “Normally, I’m not fond of surprises, but I was really happy to find out about that particular windfall.” The school will be based on a green, sustainable design and run a cost of about
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$27 million, not including the land’s purchase price. The board hopes to have the school opened in September of 2016. Construction will take an estimated 18 months. “We’re extremely relieved and extremely happy,” said GECDSB chairperson Helga Bailey, who unveiled the new location along with student council president Chris Adams and school council chair(Continued on Page 3)
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