UPDATE: Sombre La Loche ceremony marks completion of renovations at high school
UPDATE: The ceremony this afternoon to mark the reopening of parts of the Dene High School in La Loche has wrapped up. paNOW reporter Derek Cornet is in La Loche today as renovations were unveiled at Dene High School. He said the students played a role in a moving ceremony in the school gym.
Reporters were not allowed to record the ceremony.
“One student had a poem to the school about the aftermath of what happened, Others were accepting gifts from the dignitaries that were present, they also were greeting everybody as they came into the gym, and giving a keepsake as they left,” Cornet said in describing the ceremony. “This is something that students and staff at the school have been asking for … now some of their needs have been met at the school to make it more of a comfortable place for students and staff to come.”
Some of the school improvements include renovations to the school’s front entrance, administration rooms, junior science room, student lounge and washrooms. A wellness centre has also been added.
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It is a sombre day for many in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche as Friday marks the completion of renovations at the local high school where a school shooting took place three years ago this month.