like pouring salt in an open wound to adorn these pages with an image of the school building itself.

For many of you this story is old news, you may have read about the issue in a newspaper or heard of it on radio or television, its that kind of story, but essentially the fabric of Zenon Park is being torn in a jerking destructive way. The school in the village has long been an outstanding example of a totally French school operating within the English speaking Tisdale School Division. Operating its whole school program with high school and the pride of all as its students have graduated and gone on to distinguish themselves having proceeded right through school in French.

The provisions of the Canadian constitution and various measures taken by both provincial and the federal government have set in motion a provision for a wholly separate education system with in this province. So it is, that seven Zenon Park families wanting the best for their children and their heritage, have formed a second school in the community. Composed mostly of students in their last years of school and with legislation and money on their side, they have set about suing the Tisdale School Division, the Zenon

Park School Board, its individual members, in an effort to take control of the existing facilities for their thirty or so children. It is believed that their motivation is to further consolidate their language and culture.

Thus two factions have emerged, those who support the current school board with some eight-nine children and the group who have established a separate French school system. The provincial Department of Education initially supported the board and the Tisdale School Division but has since reduced Zenon Park's school from a French school to a somewhat limited French immersion operation. In such a small community with everyone used to working together and sharing in the pride of