OLIVER – One week after a blaze ripped through the only high school in Oliver, B.C., almost 500 students are returning to the books – but that doesn’t mean they’re all heading back to class.
Starting Monday morning, Grade 8 and 9 students at Southern Okanagan Secondary are being told to pick up academic work from a Catholic church across the street from the destroyed school.
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Those students can also touch base with teachers between 8:30 and noon, although formal classes won’t get underway until additional portables arrive in the community, 40 kilometres south of Penticton.
But classes are resuming for Grades 10 through 12, as senior students in will be housed in existing portables, an undamaged section of the school and in the nearby church.
The district is still offering counselling services for anyone affected by the Sept. 12 fire that destroyed most of the school.
A cause of the blaze remains under investigation. (CKOR)
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