School beginning soon at Canadore and North Bay Police will be at schools too

Students from nearly 400 communities across Canada and 15 countries around the world are getting ready for the Fall Semester at Canadore College.

About 150 students moved into residence this week with another 300 coming over the long weekend.

Classes start Tuesday.

Meantime, frosh and orientation week includes activities like an outdoor concert, a city-wide scavenger hunt, a cruise on the Chief Commanda II, country carnival and the annual Shinerama fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis on Saturday.
And it’s not just students, parents and teachers that are getting ready for back to school next week, city police are too.

Their annual “back to school” traffic campaign begins Tuesday, with officers monitoring traffic and enforcing traffic laws along bus routes in community safety zones where the speed limit is 40 km/h and at school crossings too.

The campaign runs for two weeks during the peak traffic congestion hours of 7 am to 9am and 3 pm to 5pm.

Police are reminding drivers to get ready to stop for school buses, wait for pedestrians to completely cross the street and respect the community safety zone speed limit.