Emotions were running high at last night’s (Wednesday) meeting to discuss the closure of Sacred Heart Catholic School in Williams Lake at the end of June.
Many of those in attendance told their stories of what makes this particular school special to them while others who helped build it shared their passionate desire to form a committee to see if they could do anything to alleviate it’s operating deficit.
Father Paul Simms led the town hall saying they need both enrolment and financial viability for sustainability.
“Right now we’re not sustainable, the parish cannot sustain this deficit.”
Diocesan Finance Officer Michael Donelson also spoke.
“If the community can come together to address sustainability for the school in the next 4 to 6 weeks so we’re not just kicking this problem down the road and we’re back here a year from now, then certainly we (the Catholic Independent Schools of the Kamloops Diocese) are open to looking at that.”
Before the meeting came to an end a sheet was passed around to those who wanted to be on this committee which was eagerly signed by quite a few people.
Sacred Heart Catholic School was established in 1992.
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