Redfish Elementary School Bell Tower - Balfour, BC
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About five kilometres west of the town of Balfour, On Kootenay Lake, is the Redfish Elementary, complete with School Bell Tower
Waymark Code: WMYPJV
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/07/2018
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The bell tower itself comes complete with a small bell. The yoke which suspends the bell is of the type made especially for smaller bells, the type one may find on small schoolhouses in a semi urban setting, having a single centered mount, the yoke wrapping completely around the bell. A rope still hangs from the yoke's arm, meaning that the bell remains operable.
The tower stands over the main entrance to the school, a simple wood framed structure clad in tongue and groove, wood siding, with screened circular openings front and back and more prosaic straight topped openings on the sides. The asphalt shingled roof is a simple gable. The front of the tower holds the digits which constitute the year of the school's construction, 1987.
In School District No. 8 - Kootenay Lake, the Redfish Elementary School was, until 2018, a kindergarten to Grade 5 school. To acquiesce to the requests of parents, the school, once a K to 6 school, will be reconfigured to accept Grade 6 students in the 2019 school year and Grade 7 in 2020.