SOOKE HISTORY: Passing decades have brought plenty of changes to Saseenos School

SOOKE HISTORY: Passing decades have brought plenty of changes to Saseenos School

From the beginning of our local school system, youngsters living on the eastern side of Sooke River all attended Sooke School, either walking, bicycling, or occasionally even getting a ride. When parents in Saseenos began pressuring for a local school, it was in 1959 that a new school actually got under construction. A fire got in the way, though, and the first classes of Saseenos School, all 99 students, took place in the basement of Sooke Scho…