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New Lethbridge school named after former public division superintendent

Lethbridge’s newest school officially has a name.

The K to 5 school being built in the Southbrook neighbourhood on the southeast side of the city will be known as Dr. Robert Plaxton Elementary.

The name honours the public school division’s longest-serving superintendent. Plaxton served in that position for 18 years between 1973 and 1991.

“We are very proud to have our newest school named after a man who dedicated so many years of his life to our school division,” says Clark Bosch, Chair of the Lethbridge School Division Board of Trustees. “The Board of Trustees received a number of very worthy submissions for names for the school but in the end, we feel very good about the name that has been selected.”

The new elementary school will be unique, in that it will be the first one in Lethbridge to have special solar panels to help generate power for the school.

Meanwhile, Dr. Plaxton’s wife, Ann Louise says it’s an honour to have the school named after her late husband, noting he was very proud to be a teacher.

Aside from serving as superintendent for nearly 20 years, Plaxton helped open the first school on the west side, Nicholas Sheran, along with Park Meadows on the north side.

The name for the new school was approved by trustees earlier this week.

(With files from Lethbridge School Division)

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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