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Saint John, NB, Canada / The Wave
Apr 30, 2021 7:41 AM
From left to right: Coach Jason Thorne, Kylah Seyler, Jackson McElman, Tyler Newell and Andrew Bachynsky. Missing from photo: Eli Nason. (Image: Jason Thorne/submitted)
Kennebecasis Valley High School’s
Reach For The Top team is once again off to the national championship.
KV High defeated Fredericton High School 420-320 for its eighth straight provincial championship.
Jason Thorne, coach of the KV High team, said it was a tough competition and they were happy to come out with the win.
“We played Fredericton High very closely this season. They were certainly our biggest competition and going into the final game they had beaten us a couple of games previous to that this season,” Thorne said in a phone interview.
Zoë Watson, the superintendent of the Anglophone South School District. (Image: Tamara Steele)
The Anglophone South School District has seen a spike in student absences since Zone 2 moved to the Red phase this week.
Numbers provided by the school district show around 15 per cent of students were absent Monday and Tuesday.
That figure jumped to 23 per cent on Wednesday the first day in the Red phase and 27 per cent on Thursday.
Zoë Watson, the superintendent of the school district, said she was not surprised by the increase.
“We had noted that same jump in absenteeism back in November when our area went to the Orange phase for the first time,” Watson said in an interview Thursday.
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 9:45 AM AT | Last Updated: January 20
Premier Blaine Higgs and Dr. Jennifer Russell urged residents to continue to follow Public Health measures as the province moves to the yellow phase, warning the variants are still a threat. (Submitted by the Government of New Brunswick)
Another 26 cases are being reported in the province yesterday…9 are in Saint John region, 7 each in Moncton and Fredericton, 2 in Edmundston and 1 in the bathurst region. The Miramichi is still COVID free.
All cases are self isolating and under investigation. There are currently
304 active cases in New Brunswick, but only one patient is in hospital.
With the number of cases turning up in the three largest cities in the province…Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton….the premier and chief medical officer of health are considering whether to move them to the red phase and its much tighter restrictions later this week.