News Items tag as: School District 83

Enderby elementary school closed due to COVID outbreak
November 15, 2021 - 10:43 AM

An Enderby elementary school has closed for the week following a COVID-19 outbreak.
Province trims number of school trustees in North Okanagan-Shuswap by four positions
March 05, 2018 - 9:47 AM

VERNON - The number of trustees in the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District has officially been reduced to five, down from nine.
Non-certified teachers are being hired as replacements for North Okanagan-Shuswap classrooms
February 07, 2018 - 1:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN – Non-certified teachers will be working in an on-call capacity for the North Okanagan-Shuswap school district.
North Okanagan students transform school lockers into works of art
December 26, 2017 - 10:50 AM

ARMSTRONG - Generic orange lockers are getting a major facelift at a high school in the North Okanagan.
North Okanagan-Shuswap School District could move ahead with outdoor school as early as next year
December 20, 2017 - 1:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District is thinking outside the box.
Should the Province hold a byelection for a new North Okanagan-Shuswap School Board?
August 14, 2017 - 6:30 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - The province is being pressured to hold a byelection in the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District.
One year later: How things are going with North Okanagan-Shuswap's one man school board
June 20, 2017 - 9:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - It’s been a year since controversy swirled in the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District, leading to the firing of the board of education and the appointment of a single, official trustee.
Students treated for 'severe reaction' to marijuana at North Okanagan high school
February 17, 2017 - 6:30 PM

ARMSTRONG - School officials are encouraging parents to talk to their kids about drug use after several students in Armstrong suffered severe reactions to marijuana that may have been laced with another substance.
Armstrong, Silver Creek schools saved from closure
December 14, 2016 - 8:05 AM

NORTH OKANAGAN - School closures in the Armstrong and Salmon Arm areas are officially off the table.
No reason to close schools in Armstrong, Silver Creek, report says
December 09, 2016 - 3:30 PM

SALMON ARM - Possible school closures in the North Okanagan and Shuswap may be off the books.
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

News Items tag as: School District 83

Enderby elementary school closed due to COVID outbreak

Province trims number of school trustees in North Okanagan-Shuswap by four positions

Non-certified teachers are being hired as replacements for North Okanagan-Shuswap classrooms

North Okanagan students transform school lockers into works of art

North Okanagan-Shuswap School District could move ahead with outdoor school as early as next year

Should the Province hold a byelection for a new North Okanagan-Shuswap School Board?

One year later: How things are going with North Okanagan-Shuswap's one man school board

Students treated for 'severe reaction' to marijuana at North Okanagan high school

Armstrong, Silver Creek schools saved from closure

No reason to close schools in Armstrong, Silver Creek, report says

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