Parents from Fern Avenue Public School
surprised their trustee when they arrived en masse to protest a pilot
project she thought was nearly a sure thing.
Trustee Irene Atkinson
previously said she would halt installation of a $10,000 chilled-water
vending machine if the community opposed it. A group of about 20
parents attended the March 11 school council meeting to make themselves
heard and halted Atkinson's plans. | READ MORE