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Central Alberta hamlet faces prospect of losing its only school

March 3, 2016

Parents in a tiny hamlet just west of Sylvan Lake are facing the prospect of busing their elementary-aged kids out of town. Enrolment at Benalto School has fallen to the point where the local school division has put it on the chopping block. Tom Vernon reports.

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