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VOCM News Evening Update October 8th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Brian Medore. City of St. John's has ordered a
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  Speaker 2: problematic apartment building on Brazel Street in St. John's to close,
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  Speaker 2: but they're saying tight-lipped on the reasons why. The property,
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  Speaker 2: formerly known as Harborview Apartments, has been the site of
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  Speaker 2: numerous police complaints and serious incidents over the years. Acting
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  Speaker 2: on a property complaint earlier this month, Inspectors with the
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  Speaker 2: City of St. John's and the Fire Department found what
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  Speaker 2: are called health and life safety deficiencies. The City has
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  Speaker 2: ordered that the building be closed until those issues can
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  Speaker 2: be rectified. The City won't provide details on how many
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  Speaker 2: tenants are affected, how they are being accommodated, or the
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  Speaker 2: specific issues found. The City is not providing further information
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  Speaker 2: on the situation at this time. A business owner in
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  Speaker 2: Mount Pearl calling attention to the dangers associated with kids
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  Speaker 2: riding motorized and pedal bikes through his parking lot after
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  Speaker 2: a teenager crashed on the weekend, leaving him in hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Justin French, the owner of French's Automotive on Park Avenue,
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  Speaker 2: says they have traffic of all types, including big trucks
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  Speaker 2: moving through the lot day and night. French posted a
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  Speaker 2: video of an incident Sunday in which a teenager was
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  Speaker 2: hurt after his front wheel separated. from his bike.
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  Speaker 3: And that young fella got hurt. He's got multiple stitches
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  Speaker 3: in his face. He's cracked off numerous teeth, you know,
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  Speaker 3: face and everything all swole up. And one of the
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  Speaker 3: things I'm, you know, and that sucks. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to see anybody hurt any time. But
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  Speaker 3: it could have been so much worse. If that little
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  Speaker 3: guy had happened to go, you know, a foot and
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  Speaker 3: a half to the right, he would have went right
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  Speaker 3: in through one of our glass doors. And then I
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  Speaker 3: sit there and go, oh my, what would have happened
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  Speaker 3: to him then?
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  Speaker 2: The Education Minister disputes a contention by the MHA, who
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  Speaker 2: represents the Kenmount Terrace area, that the new K-8 school
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  Speaker 2: in the sprawling subdivision will be large enough to accommodate
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  Speaker 2: all students in the greater catchment area, including the schools
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  Speaker 2: off Thorburn Road. Government has changed the eligibility parameters, reserving
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  Speaker 2: the new school for those who live exclusively in the terrace. Initially,
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  Speaker 2: students from outside the subdivision were to be accommodated at
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  Speaker 2: the new facility But that plan has changed entirely. Education
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  Speaker 2: Minister Paul Dinh says the numbers do not add up
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  Speaker 2: as there are about 1,060 students in the region, but
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  Speaker 2: the new school has space for only 860. However, housing
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  Speaker 2: them in the newer neighborhood will relieve pressure on other schools.
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  Speaker 1: Larry's Brook is an example where it was well over there.
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  Speaker 1: numbers in the last couple of years. But now we
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  Speaker 1: have room there that allows it to grow. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: don't see it hitting the maximum, but there's room there.
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  Speaker 1: There's room in St. Andrews. There's room in Prince of
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  Speaker 1: Wales Collegiate. And, of course, Camelot Terrace has some room
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  Speaker 1: to grow.
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  Speaker 2: That's your newscast. I'm Brian Maddow.