Month: October 2005
Bears and Regals Support Sudbury Food Banks
As part of an annual coordinated food drive at Marymount Academy and St. Benedict, members of the St. Benedict Bears football team recently assisted Marymount Catholic Charities Council and students from Marymount Academy in helping to load 6,000 food items into U-Hauls and vans to be transported to the Inner City Home on Elm Street. With the 5,000 items collected at St. Benedict, this left other students with the task of unloading more than 11,000 food items at Inner City Home.
“This food drive is an annual event involving the St. Benedict Bears and the Marymount Regals,” stated Dennis Kennelly, Chaplain for both schools. “Students from each school keenly look forward to the good-natured competition to see which school can collect the most food items in the two-week period. This year the girls win the bragging rights but the Bears students claim they will regain the title next year.” The St. Benedict Bears and Marymount Regal high schools would like to thank Spencer Furniture and U-Haul on Highway 69 South for donating the vans and trucks for transporting the food items to the Inner City Home.
SCDSB Takes Lead in Region with Student Safety Initiative
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board will be presenting a Lifesavers course to train Lunchroom Supervisors in the various aspects of first aid on Friday, October 21, 2005 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the St. John Ambulance Training Centre, 2935 Bancroft Drive.
The three-hour Lifesaver course has been set up specifically for the lunchroom supervisors in the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. The initial concept to provide a training course for lunchroom supervisors came from Immaculate Catholic School parents and Catholic School Council. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board in conjunction with the Regional Catholic School Council is presenting this training course as a follow up to the Lifesavers course provided to the Board’s secretaries in August 2005.
“The board takes the safety of our students very seriously,” stated Zandra Zubac, Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. “Our Board is one of the first boards in the province to train lunchroom supervisors and the very first in the region.”
To compliment the Lifesavers course, the Board has also agreed to purchase portable first aid kits to be used by lunch room supervisors (inside or outside), First Aid posters to be posted in all classrooms, reference manuals displayed at the office and mobile First Aid kits with a manual for all field trips and outside activities.
For more information on the Lifesavers course, please contact Clara Steele,Regional Catholic School Council Chair at ph: (w) 855-4955 or (h) 983-1966.
St. Albert to Host Open House at New Location
St. Albert Adult Learning Centre will be hosting an Open House on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at their new location, 504 St. Raphael Street, Sudbury, (just off Howey Drive).
The public is welcome to visit the new location, meet the staff and tour the school complete with daycare facilities, brand-new computer labs as well as the classrooms for the various programs. St. Albert Adult Learning Centre offers High School credit courses for adolescents, and adults over 21 years of age, English as a Second Language, Literacy and Basic Skills, Correspondence, and Computer Classes.
If you need to improve your education, St. Albert’s has a program that will benefit you. Whether it is to enhance your employability, prepare for post secondary education, obtain a high school diploma or just for the love of learning, St. Albert is with you every step of the way.
Parking is available at the back of the school with parking places and a wheelchair ramp for persons with disabilities located near the front entrance. Coffee and goodies will be available all day!
For more information, please contact Robert Pappin at the St. Albert Adult Learning Centre ph. 673-3031.