You may want to take a second look at the labels when buying school snack starting Tuesday. St. Stephen Elementary School will become a total Nut Free Zone. The School is the last Elementary school in the Province to become Nut Free.
This measure is necessary to provide the safest possible learning environment for all the students.
Officials at the school says that they do have students in their school that have severe and life threatening allergies to nuts.
They say that it is critical that they do all they can to protect these students.