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Thursday, July 10, 2014 X Volume 27 No. 80
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Enhanced security on way to SD73
Name badges, roll shutters, security cameras to be used in Kamloops schools By Cam Fortems STAFF REPORTER
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Fortunato Vetere knows a thing or two about a well-built home. When the 86-yearold left his home in Grimaldi, Italy, in 1951, he left behind a house he had built with his bare hands. He settled in Barriere upon his arrival in Canada, where he stayed for 10 years before building another home on the North Shore of Kamloops. Fifty years later, he still lives in the Kamloops home and the house he built in Italy is owned by a relative. On Tuesday, July 8, Fortunato said he wouldn’t be moving any time soon — despite his family having won the YMCA-YWCA’s Dream Home Lottery. Fortunato, along with son-in-law Paul Fischer, daughters, Josie Fischer and Lucy Vetere and son Joe Vetere, won the lottery’s grand prize — the $560,000 home at 500 Pointe Pl., along the 18th fairway of Sun
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From left: Kamloops Y CEO Colin Colin Reid greets Y Dream Home winning family members Paul Fischer, Thomas Durr, Noah Fischer, Lucy Vetere and dog Obie as they enter their $560,000 abode in Sun Rivers. Allen Douglas/KTW
Rivers Golf Resort. “I just couldn’t believe it. I’m actually still kind of dumbfounded,” Paul Fischer told KTW shortly after hearing he had won the home. It was Paul’s name on the ballot pulled, but the family had purchased a book of five tickets — as they have done every year for the last 17 years — and agreed to split
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any winnings. It seemed a harmless agreement — in all those years, the group had never won a thing. “When he [Y Dream Home Lottery marketing director Bryce Herman] phoned, I was thinking, ‘Oh, I finally won one of those secondary prizes!’” Paul said. “And then he told me it was the house and I just couldn’t believe it.” The rest of the fam-
ily was equally stunned. It was Paul who had the honour of telling them the good news. It took some convincing before they were celebrating with him. “They didn’t believe me,” he said. “They thought I was pulling their leg and I said, ‘No, I think I was just on the radio. Seriously, go listen.’” X See DUSTING OFF A11
Beginning in September, all adults —from secretaries to principals to teachers — in Kamloops-Thompson schools will wear name badges. The requirement is part of a number of new security measures being implemented following the fatal shooting of 20 children at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut two years ago. “At a large school like Sa-Hali or South Kamloops secondary, it will let staff know if someone has checked in at the office,” said the district’s health and safety manager, Michelle Marginet. Changes to security in the school district began almost immediately after the Sandy Hook shootings, with a directive that school doors, other than the main entrance, must be locked during the school day. Other new measures included lock-down procedures twice a year and a requirement that visitors sign in. It will take several months to bring in the name tags to each school. In addition to wearing name tags, teachers will be required to keep their doors shut and locked while inside with their class. “We can’t make our classes into fortresses,” superintendent Terry Sullivan told trustees at their regular board meeting on Monday, July 7. “We have to have a balance.” Following the tragedy in Connecticut, the district struck a
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