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The general consensus around Chemainus is the former St. Joseph’s Elementary School building currently housing the St. Joseph’s Art Studios has been sold.

But Keefer Pollard, the former principal of the school and district principal of Island Catholic Schools that owns the building, says that isn’t true.

“The school has not been sold,” he indicated. “We have informed the artists that most likely there will be no change until at least Christmas, so, barring unforeseen circumstances, they can feel secure in their rented space until then.”

St. Joseph’s Art Studios was created last year where artists rent previous classroom space to showcase their art, display items for sale and offer various classes to the public. A grand opening of the rejuvenated facility was held May 1, 2019.

Related: Art studios make an impression on the community

Island Catholic Schools has kept its options open for the future of the site.

“Island Catholic Schools has begun exploring what we will do with the property,” Pollard confirmed. “We want to ensure that St. Joseph’s Church can remain on the property and provide a place of worship for North Cowichan residents.

“Beginning last December, we met with the Parish Council to broach the idea of what we should do. We formed an Options Committee and are currently exploring options for moving forward. Unfortunately, restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have slowed down our progress as it has hindered our ability to meet.”

Related: New gallery space opens at St. Joseph’s Art Studios in Chemainus

Many former students and teachers at St. Joseph’s found a new home at Queen of Angels School in Duncan.

St. Joseph’s Elementary was a well-known Catholic School in Chemainus that served the community from 1964 to 2018.

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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