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Catholic students take home tree seedlings for Forest Week
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5 – Excellent work
Hundreds of trees are finding new homes in Medicine Hat this week. More than 300 Medicine Hat Catholic school students took home tree seedlings which they can plant at home.
Grade 1 and 2 students from St. Francis Xavier, Mother Teresa and École St. John Paul II each took home a seedling as part of Alberta Forest Week.
Around 40 students took trees home at St. Francis Xavier and the kids were excited, says principal Jaimie Van Ham.
“They were a little surprised because we didn’t tell them in advance, but they were excited to take them home, show their parents and find a special place for them,” said Van Ham.
Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 186,679
There have been 27,921 variant cases ID’d in the province, 1,058 new today. There are 1,383 in the South Zone.
13,193 active cases (63.2 per cent of total) have been identified as variants of concern.
There are 1,839 total new cases in the province today.
There are now 643 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 145 of which are in ICU, and 2,073 deaths.
The province completed 18,976 tests in the past 24 hours.
The positivity rate is about 9.8 per cent.
Alberta has administered 1,497,256 of vaccine at the latest update.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s next update will be later this week.
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Catholic schools still in good shape for in-person learning
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Yes
Despite Calgary and Edmonton schools moving to online learning for students due to rising numbers of COVID cases and lack of substitute teachers, Medicine Hat Catholic schools are in a good position to continue in-person classes.
Dwayne Zarichny, superintendent of Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education, says schools remain well below levels of COVID cases of students and teachers that would require a return to fully online classes for junior and senior high school students.
“Parents are naturally concerned about the safety of their children,” said Zarichny. “So we take that very seriously. However, given the guidelines that are in place right now, we are continuing on a status quo basis.”