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CTV News
14 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Graduation a celebration for adult students with disabilities
Graduation a celebration for adult students with disabilities at Place Cartier Adult Education Centre in Beaconsfield. Loading the player instance is taking more time than usual Loading the player instance is taking more time than usual For mature students with disabilities, Place Cartier Adult Education Centre in Beaconsfield offers work skills and social programs. Like all schools, it's grad season for the hard-working folks at the school on Montreal's West Island. Student Stephanie Toriani says it's been a good year. 'Math, English, French, and we have exams as well, but I passed!' she said. The centre is part of the Lester B. Pearson School Board, with 150 mature students with learning challenges. It also offers work training and other vital courses for people 17 years and up living with disabilities. They put together their own graduation day party. Educator Amanda Dowbyhuz says it's all part of the 'Thrive' program. 'Events like this kind of show how they can plan a party,' she said. 'They bring their positive attitudes and their amazing ideas.' With the gym full of dancers and music, student Tevin Morrison-Davis said, 'It's a party and I'm a DJ!' Austin Amato-Reede said the work training experience he received is satisfying because he worked in the coffee shop on-site. 'I'm proud of myself for doing it,' he said. 'My school year was really great.' Morrison-Davis and Amato-Reede added more skills by helping out with the camera work and interview questions. Tevin Davis, Mattew Kennedy and Austin Amato-Reede Tevin Morrison-Davis, Matthew Kennedy and Austin Amato-Reede assist on CTV News video shoot with reporter Christine Long. (Christine Long/CTV News) Programs are all about positive, hands-on learning with tangible results. 'It's an opportunity for them to practice the leadership skills that they've been honing all year,' said pedagogical consultant Matthew Kennedy. 'We do a lot of events, but this is the main one that is put on by students this year.' Every year is full of accomplishments for these students. '[We] celebrate all our differences and we're all accepting here and we consider ourselves a one big family,' said special education technician Erliza Magajes.
BBC News
21-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Lily King's parents call for caution after allergy death on holiday
The parents of a teenage girl who died in Morocco from an allergic reaction have urged others to be extra cautious eating out while on King, 18, from Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, had gone for a drink with her mum Aicha, who comes from Morocco and speaks fluent Arabic."The restaurant staff said we had to eat something, and I told them she had allergies and we would rather not eat, but they insisted it would be fine. I told them to be careful and they didn't listen," Aicha told the inquest at Milton Keynes Coroner's Court this week confirmed Lily died on 23 June 2024 from a cardio-respiratory arrest caused by anaphylaxis and triggered by food. "Every time you eat out, especially abroad, it's Russian roulette," said Lily's dad Michael."Most restaurants in the UK are very careful, but many other countries don't have compulsory training programmes for staff around allergies. "Someone needs to warn people who are going on holiday to other countries – not only Morocco – to be very, very wary of eating out. Especially if you don't have the language," he said. Lily had a catalogue of allergies for most of her life, the most severe being seafood, nuts and leaving home to study economics at Exeter University, her parents said the allergies became worse."She wanted to be like her friends – a normal person. That led to her eating out more, but she was always very careful and carried her EpiPen and antihistamine suffered her first ever anaphylactic shock that year while at a festival, and was treated by St John afterwards she travelled to Morocco with her mum to visit family and celebrate completing her first year at chose a restaurant that Lily loved and had been to before. Her mother said she told restaurant staff three times about Lily's food allergies and what she could not eat, before ordering chicken and meal arrived with other food and a sauce on the plate."She literally took a tiny piece of food – we think it was carrot - and tasted it. She got an itchy tongue which she always had before a reaction."She took a Piriton (antihistamine tablet) and used her EpiPen. She said 'I'm going outside to get some air'," explained mum rushed out to join her and gave a second EpiPen injection."She was being very, very strong, because she said, 'Don't stress mum, you know I love you. I love you. I'm very sorry, I'm going', and then she passed out," she said.A trip to the hospital was then delayed by two issues, the family said. The ambulance did not arrive, and Aicha said the restaurant insisted she paid for the food before leaving in her nephew's car."The next day, she came around temporarily but then had a seizure. Later they did a brain scan, but there was no activity," said Michael. His daughter passed away in hospital four days after her visit to the restaurant."We never believed it would come to this. We're devastated."She meant the world to us, she was our baby. We had 18 marvellous years with her," he said. The family said it had tried to take the restaurant to court in order to raise the issue at a national level."We only want the Moroccan government to realise how important it is, and for their hospitality industry to recognise that restaurants should be told to educate their staff."I care about other families going through the same thing," said and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, whose daughter Natasha died in 2016 from an allergic reaction to a baguette, said: "Lily's family did everything they could to keep her safe. "Yet on this occasion even though Lily and her mother flagged her allergies, it still went dreadfully wrong."Lily's death highlights how dangerous food allergies can be and the potential risks of travelling abroad with food allergies." What are the rules in the UK? The UK Food Standards Agency states that food retailers and caterers are required to provide allergen information, as set out in food must:Provide allergen information to the consumer for both prepacked and non-prepacked food and drinkHandle and manage food allergens effectively in food preparationMake sure that staff receive training on allergens Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New Bucks town Wetherspoons opening date set as £3.5m revamp to start next week
The opening date has been set for the new Wetherspoons in Beaconsfield, with works set to begin for a £3.5m revamp. The pub will be named The Chiltern and will be at 12 - 14 Station Road in the New Town on the site of the former Prezzo. Renovations will begin on Monday, June 23. The company has claimed that 50 new full and part-time jobs will be created. READ MORE: Burgers Artisan Bakery, Marlow, close its doors TODAY | Bucks Free Press It stated that the name is referring to the historical past of the building as the Chiltern Cinema. The pub is set to open on December 2, 2025. The Chiltern will feature a large rear terrace, front pavement terrace and an enclosed garden. Wetherspoon's chief executive, John Hutson, said: ' We are looking forward to starting development work on the new pub. 'We are confident that The Chiltern will be a great asset to the town's social scene.' There has been a mixed reaction to the news of a Wetherspoons opening in the town and there has been back and forth as to whether it would open. JD Wetherspoon had purchased the building after the Prezzo closure and received planning permission from Bucks Council for a pub, the company then put it back on the market in August 2023, then u-turned in 2024 and received new planning permission to begin works this year.
ABC News
10-06-2025
- Climate
- ABC News
Sewage spills in Perth's south leave Bruce Lee Reserve in Beaconsfield covered in wastewater
Authorities say it could take days to fix a burst wastewater main that kickstarted a number of sewage spills in Perth's southern suburbs over the weekend, with residents still reeling from the stench of wastewater that inundated local parks. The problems started when a sewage pipe burst on Friday morning in the suburbs of Hamilton Hill and Spearwood, causing wastewater to flow down a residential street, into two homes and the front yards of another four. To stop the flow of wastewater, authorities needed to switch off the pump stations and pump the sewage away from the area. But the diverted pressure caused a second burst in Beaconsfield on Saturday morning. The odour was still affecting residents in Beaconsfield on Tuesday morning, when a large pool of wastewater could be seen on the soccer pitches at Bruce Lee Reserve. Parts of South Fremantle and the Fremantle fishing boat harbour were also impacted, while the stench of human waste has lingered across the area for four days. Karen Willis from the Water Corporation said authorities had managed to secure the area and the issue was now "under control", despite sewage still sitting in some parks. "We're going through now seeing that wastewater starting to recede. We'll work with the local councils to ensure that we do rectify any issues that have been caused as a result of that," she told ABC Radio Perth. A custom-made pipe to replace the one that burst in Spearwood is being fabricated and will be installed later in the week, Ms Willis said. "We're looking at getting that reinstated certainly [within] the week," she said. It remains unknown what caused the original burst. "We're going to have to wait to get that section of pipe that burst back to look at that," Ms Willis said. "It could have been a pressure spike, it could have been a number of different things that could have caused that. "Because this was sort of an ancillary impact in the Beaconsfield area with that second burst, we'll certainly be looking along that pipeline to make sure we're aware of any other potential issues."
News.com.au
09-06-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
‘Smells like a toilet': Workers scramble to mop up mass sewage leak in Perth's inner suburbs
A creeping deluge of human waste sliding into Perth's Swan River has been stopped but authorities are having to custom-make pipes to fix the massive spill. The spill centred around the suburbs of Beaconsfield and Spearwood, just to the south of Fremantle, and began on Friday. On Monday night, pools of human waste were still sitting across soccer pitches in Beaconsfield, and had run down to the Fremantle commercial and recreational fishing boat harbour. 'Sewage has been identified at the stormwater drain at the southern end of Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour,' a spokesperson for the City of Fremantle said on Monday night. 'As a result, the groyne in the Fishing Boat Harbour is closed until further notice.' Water Corporation has warned people not to fish in sections of the Swan River or at the Fremantle Sailing Club because of overflows. The government water authority also cautioned people that areas in Spearwood and Beaconsfield could smell bad. 'Went out to look and you could smell it,' a Beaconsfield resident told Channel 9. 'Smells like a toilet.' The issue started when a sewer main burst on Hamilton Road in Spearwood on Friday. Small and related overflows were sparked in the leafy, riverside suburbs of Alfred Cove, Applecross and seaside South Fremantle. These overflows, in and around the Swan River, have entered the major river. 'The repair in Spearwood is quite complex, instead of being able to weld a band around that pipeline, we're having to prefabricate a new section of pipeline,' a Water Corporation spokesman told media on Monday. The water authority was also forced to erect a sign near the stagnant pool of human waste at a Spearwood park, telling people not to jet ski or sail on the water, drink it or swim in it.
