Old Duchess Park School......Gone

Thursday, August 26, 2010 03:56 AM

Salvaged Douglas Fir timbers from the old Duchess Park High School are loaded on to a truck to be shipped to a specialty mill

Prince George, B.C.- All that is left of the old Duchess Park School is memories.

The demolition of the old school is complete, and yesterday, the last load of salvaged Douglas fir timbers from the building, was loaded on to a truck to be shipped to a specialty mill in Penticton.

The school ground has been levelled, and excavator operator G.S. Stuart Austen is heading home to Surrey.

The demolition of the old Duchess Park Secondary School started this spring on the same day students moved into their new school on the east side of the block.

Below left, Duchess Park Secondary just before its date with the wrecking ball, while at right, the new landscape with the building ....gone.

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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 03:56 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: censored on August 26 2010 6:19 AM

Worksafebc just loves to see people being lifted like this guy!! Money first safety second.... that our new economy i guess!

Posted by: PrinceGeorge on August 26 2010 7:33 AM

Totally unsafe! Just saw a piece the other day on TV showing new home construction framing in the lower mainland: Everybody is merrily working away without any eye protection - hammering, using nail guns, cut-off saws...no safety boots...

Apparently nobody noticed anything wrong as the show was about mortgage rates and not about safety!

Posted by: Reevus on August 26 2010 9:05 AM

Another thing about this story thats kinda wacko...... "and excavator operator G.S. Stuart Austen is heading home to Surrey".... So we don't have any excavator operators without work that are locals????

Posted by: gus on August 26 2010 9:25 AM

"So we don't have any excavator operators without work that are locals???"

Yes, but they were not low bidders.

Probably a case of the low bid general hiring the people for his team that he knows will work well for him and are affordable at the same time. Not all that unusual, I think.
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I am curious how one can see that boots being shown on a TV video clip while the person is working can be so clearly identified that one can tell that they do not have steel toes.
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Yup, the worker is being held up by a bucket, but he has a hard hat and a high vis vest, so he can be seen clearly for miles.

Not sure if he has steel toed boots though. :-)
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BTW, did you notice the guy in the cab has no hard hat on.

Reminds me of the picture quiz. "What's wrong with this picture"
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Low bidders. That is the problem. Low bidders.

Posted by: interceptor on August 26 2010 9:37 AM

Being lifted without a proper man lift is wrong regardless of visibility. A bucket on a skidsteer is not a "proper manlift". You are allowed to operate an excavator without your hard hat on however.

Posted by: JamesToney on August 26 2010 9:48 AM

RIP old duchess park

Posted by: my2bits on August 26 2010 11:57 AM

Kinda sad. I went to high school there when it was new, at that time it was Prince George Senior Seconday School.
It sure was an improvement from the Duchess Park Junior High School across the field, and from the old Baron Bing where we used to have woodwork, metalwork, and home economics, walking up the stairs which were sloped to one side, and creaked all the way up.

Posted by: supertech on August 26 2010 9:02 PM

Anyone get killed on that job?? Didn't think so. Who cares how a man makes his money? Sky diving is unsafe too. So is walking across the street and playing hockey. I say to hell with WCB. They only pay out for people who know how to use and abuse the system. There are thousands of cases unsettled from 35 years ago and more.