Monday, February 1, 2016

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Thinking about La Loche

Education Minister Don Morgan speaks about the 10th
 anniversary of the amalgamation of school divisions
on Feb. 1, 2016 at the Prairie South School Division
office on Ninth Avenue Northwest.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald
By Lisa Goudy

While Monday was a celebration of 10 years of school division amalgamation, Education Minister Don Morgan also reflected on La Loche.

"It's one of the biggest challenges that our province is trying to deal with now," he said. "All the divisions have had plans and stuff where they've done the training for lockdowns, the risk assessments, all of the things that you can do and you assume it's like when you're a kid, you have a fire drill at school that you're never going to use it and this is the time we had to."

On Jan. 22, two teenaged brothers were killed in a home in the northern community and a teacher and an aide were shot dead at the high school. Seven people were also wounded.

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