Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, August 15, 1997

Issue date: Friday, August 15, 1997
Pages available: 73
Previous edition: Thursday, August 14, 1997

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August 1997 a7 Ecol Agathe set to open flooded out school Back in business 100 students returning 26 by Melanie Verhaeghe for the free press rows of Bright new lockers line the freshly painted hallway of Ecol Only a few More finishing touches like assembling the principals new desk and painting the trim around the door frames need to be done before the once flood dam aged school reopens to 100 students our main objective is to Start classes As regular As said principal Pauline we have to give Back that normality to the school and our some Are still Liv ing in so it will be a just having the school ready for them that will give them its our Job to make it secure and another Challenge will be the old part of the school was torn Down last damaged beyond kindergarten and Grade 1 students will now be moved into the main part of the construction of the new addition will begin at the end of september and should be finished by repairs Cost and the new addition will add million to the Price everything that want a con Crete Block was torn Down and said Maurice director of maintenance at the Divi Sion Colaire Francomano Toraine some desks that were saved were brought Back to the school yester but there is no space for piles of books collected through a Csc radio National Book drive that netted the our main objective is to Start classes As regular As we have to give Back that normality to the school and our children principal Pauline Gagne school new and used a trailer will be put on the school lot As a temporary Library that can hold up to 400 it was quite unexpected that something so huge would come out of for our were so Small we afford to replenish Gagne said the school will take to books and share the rest with other including Rosenorn school that lost its k3 school to the it was damaged badly enough that we decided not to said principal Larry plans Are being finalized to add to the existing school that housed grades 4 to until the construction is 250 students from both schools will have to share were going to be packed in like Sar dines until the new addition is he he lunch room is now two classrooms and the resource room and Library Are also being transformed into class Eidse said the school May be but it has a fighting spirit that got it through the last two months of school and will continue until things return to nor teachers and the military saved most of the schools books and supplies before the water hit during the remainder of the students were Farmed out to makeshift classrooms in Winnipeg hotels and towns around Southern classes in Rosenorn will begin on schedule sure we had a but we bounced Eidse t Wayne free press painters put the finishing touches on restored Ecol flood blame probe next week red River Valley residents whole been pointing an accusing Finger at the province since their communities flooded this Spring soon will have a Chance to present their a special commission will be appointed by the Manitoba government next week to determine whether any of the provinces floodlighting measures such As breaching plugging Cul verts and construction of the Brunild Dike in any Way contributed to flooding in Agathe and Grande residents of the two swamped communities have been collecting evidence for the last four months to support their allegations the province turned the red River flood into a manmade disaster for natural resources minister Glen Cummings said hell name five people to reconstitute the Dor Mant Manitoba water commis Sion for the the act gives the commission quite a bit of scope and in not going to do anything to limit their ability to gather the minister Cummings stressed the commis Sion will be completely ind Epen and if will have authority to bring in outside experts to assist in their by the conditions of the act there he the commission is expected to hold Public hearings sometime later this cars 1990thunderbird 2 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