After serving the Auburn community for more than 66 years, the demolition of the old Olympic Middle School has begun. The Auburn School District community passed a $456 million bond in 2016 that built the new Olympic Middle School and also razed and rebuilt Chinook Elementary, Dick Scobee Elementary, Lea Hill Elementary, Pioneer Elementary and Terminal Park Elementary. The bond built Auburn’s two newest elementary schools, Bowman Creek and Willow Crest. The new Olympic Elementary opened in 2019, but the old building has served as an interim site for four of the elementary schools that were rebuilt.
Local 86 Iron Workers, Auburn School District staff, school board members and others celebrated the milestone of the topping-off ceremony at Terminal Park Elementary on Nov. 15.
NANAIMO - As the calendar moves into November, focuses shift from Halloween to Remembrance Day, and what Nov. 11 means to those who have served and th.
that we vacuumed at the gents toilets at terminal park. this one here has a green mark on it. and this is one of the ones that s led our volunteer to the nest. my name isjohn de carteret. i m a retired police forensic officer and i m a beekeeper. this is the time of year when each nest will produce several hundred new queens that will be mated and then fly off and hibernate in the area. we regularly use the figure of 200 per nest. five of those will actually go on and produce a mature nest next year. but even at a factor of five, it means that year on year the numbers of nests can build up very quickly. by taking out one nest this year, we re preventing potentially five next year. it s notjust a case of killing hornets. we want to learn from them. so a dead hornet isjust a dead hornet, but the live ones can tell us where the nests are. wwe have to accept now, the last couple of years that we probably have a small resident population. however, because of the high figures in france, and
RCMP say a woman who was walking at a marked crosswalk in Nanaimo was taken to hospital after being struck by an SUV on Sunday evening.
Mounties say the crash occurred around 8:30 p.m. at a crosswalk on Highway 19A that leads to the Terminal Park Mall.