G8 2010 News

Moose FM reported:

YOU NEED TO KNOW: School Buses Cancelled During G8

Schools will be open, but bus transportation cancelled for the week of June 21st to June 25, the duration of the G8. It appears that life as we know it will be over during the G8 in Huntsville. Administrators from both the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic School Board have made the decision based on the advice of the Integrated Security Unit. 

You can read more about their plans here. It appears as if local businesses may or may not suffer, aside from the restaurants and accommodations that will feed and house media and support staff. Participants will be in Deerhurst Inn, they have it made!



So glad we do not live there! I remember during Ice Storm '98 parents got together, well a vitriolic few, complaining that our local school was closed for the 10 days the region was without power. This was in an Ottawa bedroom community, where most teachers lived in rural Carleton, on road that were iffy. 
Then, the principal called in several supply teachers, and had 50 students, with the entire staff showing up!



But the news continues: Superintendent of Schools for the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic School Board Darren Schmidt says high school examinations will continue even with the changes. 

Altered Examinations:

-Huntsville High School - June 15 - 18, 2010 and June 28, 2010 with PA days - June 29 and 30

-St Dominic Catholic Secondary School - June 16 - 18, 2010 and June 28 and 29, 2010 with PA day - June 30