The saying “music soothes the savage beast” was put to the test at St. John’s Academy in Shawnigan Lake on May 27.
Over a period of several days, a black bear had been attracted to the smell of the school’s trash cans, which are kept outside in a wooden structure and not accessible to wildlife.
In response, the academy had restricted the movement of students to avoid the area where the trash cans are stored until the bear finally realized it wasn’t going to be able to get at the cans.
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