Seismic upgrades announced for Cilaire and Pleasant Valley Elementary Schools

A well-respected indigenous and youth advocate will investigate allegations of a racist game being played in some hospital emergency rooms. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond will look into claims that health care workers in at least one BC hospital play a game to guess the blood alcohol level of indigenous people seeking treatment in their emergency departments.British Columbia continues to flatten the COVID-19 curve, with no deaths reported for the seventh straight day.Two Nanaimo schools will get close to $19 million dollars to make them earthquake-proof and two others will get upgrades. Seismic upgrades at Cilaire and Pleasant Valley Elementary schools will begin in the summer of 2021 with construction completed by the following summer.Nanaimo RCMP and city fire inspectors are investigating an arson at Motion Specialties on Bowen Road.You can help grow more local journalism on these airwaves with a donation at chly.ca/support.Written and reported by Lisa Cordasco, News Director for CHLY 101.7FM.Have a tip? Email: [email protected] Find us on social media at Twitter: @lisacordasco / @chly1017FMFunded by Sustaining Donors and the Community Radio Fund of Canada and Heritage Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative. Sustain CHLY’s News Department for many years to come by signing up for a monthly Sustaining Donation.