Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 education Winn Pix Frek May 2000 division eyes replacing Sisler High school Winnipeg school division has made a pitch to the province to replace Manitoba largest High school with a new although there has been to Price tag established for replacing Sisler High school in several Winnipeg one chairwoman Lori Johnson i can imagine it would be pretty two years the new Lorette collegiate was built for but it is less than on third the size of major renovations were also proposed As an option during a recent tour of Sisler by the Public schools finance Johnson we have to do something because of the num she Sisler has students and is expected to keep its been added added added its the biggest school in the province of Johnson said trustees May also consider As an alternative reviving a request for a new High school in the divisions Northwest near King Edward Street and Inkster that idea was shelved several years ago when anticipated housing projects didst another possibility would be an expanded Flo rence Nightingale school several blocks South of the 80yearold elementary school has deteriorated badly and enrolment has parents have proposed that the province build a new and larger school that could include Grade 9 classes now held at Board finance chair Anita Neville said Winnipeg one has not replaced a High school since Kelvin and Johns in the the cites newest High schools College Bruns collegiate and Oak Park High school were built in the 1970s and Early changing names of schools like spitting on the grave Manitoba history being say activists by Nick Martin visit the free press Booth in 51 vital Well be there May 23 its your Chance to win a Shoum Smi simply Complete the order form below and drop it off for entry into a random draw for a shopping name address postal code phone Are you currently a Winnipeg free press subscriber yes no the free press a vital part of Manitoba history will be lost if seven Oaks school Divi Sion strips the names of two families from its heritage Winnipeg president Bernie Wolfe said school divisions should be doing far More not Only to Hon our outstanding but also to ensure children know their own Community said the longtime City Council Lor and heritage activist who has a school named after him in West Kildonan collegiate in seven Oaks has moved into what was formerly Edmund Partridge school and Centennial Ken Seaford Junior High will Dis appear next fall when its classes Are transferred to other schools to allow a major expansion of adjoining Maples Colle Seaford and Partridge descendants Are upset that seven Oaks trustees Are so far willing Only to place the families names on wings within the larger school Board chairwoman Claudia Sharbit wants to rename seven Oaks and Leila North schools after Partridge and but doubts she has enough Edmund Doest anybody realize the amount of time and Effort he put into West Marc daunt free press Wolfe Kildonan As its said that because i knew he was really Dedi Wolfe said he Speaks at his own namesake school each bringing alive the memories of people after whom Transcona schools Are such As Mur Doch Margaret under Bill and John Mackay was a Wolfe if everyone who owed him fees had paid hed have died a wed go in and Tell the kids who John Gunn he was the descendant of one of the original four families with lord were living i get a kick out of talking to Mary a Transcona trustee since said Boni face school division missed a great Opportunity when it recently named Island lakes Community opening next Island lakes who cafes said to turn your head and ignore people who did great things in the Community is an she Andree was instrumental in naming Joseph Teres school after a former Transcona police chief this Man was very he had a Way with Young teachers like Margaret under Hill Are the ones who instilled the values these children carried through Andree kids at Harold Hatcher school take walking Tours to see where Hatcher lived when he worked at the Canadian National shops and became a longtime school she Irish Elwick is worried that her whom seven Oaks Elwick Community school is named May suffer the same Fate As Edmund Partridge and Ken in seeing it were getting rid of said whose late parents Ursula and Neville were heavily involved in Community when the school Board came to us in the my brother and i were just she if families in 20 years there going to turf they never let the name go up in the first its very unsettling do i believe it could happen to Elwick Community its like spitting on the just they ii Tell you i Ittel division weighs Sale of school to Day care by Nick Martin Landau wrote the Book on customer satisfaction offer the largest t our service department is tops in the we offer competitive Lelse rates finance we think our sales team Fiche friendliest and most professional in the won 4 am Cassue 29 i air 1 Drums seat Vrtis Oil wite Drivers buy Only Ubu Wagon Only fully equipped i co Drivers i lease 1x45740 Cirrus 4 Low escort z1u Lars Only 144710 1996 jew Cherokee Only 555 Empress is 7722411 Winnipeg school division could sell the former John Dafoe school to a Day care coalition for that would allow a major daycare expansion that includes operating from 6 to Midnight monday through sat urday at the former school on Grant and it would overcome the final Hur dle that become a Deal breaker the daycare inability to afford the salaries of Winnipeg one who Are required by contract to service division owned this is said Winnipeg one chairwoman Lori that not a decision that going to be taken theres not a lot of precedent for Johnson said the division is reluctant to sell off its because it May be needed in the it would be on the condition we would have the option of taking Back the build ing if finance chairwoman Anita Neville school properties Are not for the most for concern of changing demo one of the concerns of doing it is establishment of a Neville acknowledged that Selling John Dafoe school could Lead to pres sure to sell other division property at Market value to reduce All other former schools Are in use for some form of she a spokesman for the department of education said the provincial Public schools finance Board would have to give its permission for Winnipeg one to offer the property for and would subsequently have to approve the proposed the province favours seeing Community organizations take Over surplus he Johnson said trustees Are determined to make the project daycare ser vices to the Community Are much need and would be an asset to the she trustees realized this is a much needed the majority of the Board Are very commit Ted to see this project move on the move and carpathia child care have been negotiating for a lon term lease to take Over the former John Dafoe school on Grant the two Day cares which now have 218 spaces in the former be open 6 to Midnight six Days a add at least 24 infant care and incorporate a variety of Community and social but a lease Means the Day cares would have to use Winnipeg one who make at least an afford the custodians we that make or break on the move executive director Mavis min uck Early childhood educators will be paid Only about an hour even after the infusion of million into Lay care in this months provincial said adding which is pretty Iron int it ;