On Wednesday, Feb. 11th/15 the NOSSA Alpine Championships took place at Adanac Ski Hill. Approximately 80 racers took part in competition hoping to earn their way to the Provincial Championships at Blue Mountain. Serina Seguin finished with silver medals in slalom, giant slalom and overall combined while Katherine Boyce finished the day with three third place finishes. Marika Moskalyk finished the slalom event in 8th place and completing the team of five was Brier Cook and Sidney Smith. These five girls took the overall team title in the Level 1 category which is high school trained only racers with no club racing affiliation or history past the Nancy Green level. This is Marymount’s 5th consecutive NOSSA title and will be the 6th time in 7 years that alpine racers from Marymount represent the Level 1 program out of Northern Ontario at the OFSAA Provincial Championships. OFSAA takes place at Blue Mountain from Feb. 22nd-24th and will travel with racers from St. Charles, St. Benedict’s, Lasalle, and Lockerby.
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Cardinals take 2015 NOSSA Skiing Title
The NOSSA high school alpine ski championships were held this week at Adanac Ski Hill. Lockerby is always favoured to win – but the Cards upset the ski community with a strong showing that allowed them to clinch the level two girls’ title.
Level two means the skiers have raced at some time in the past.
Grade twelve Stephanie Martin racked up the most points for the team with a first place overall for girls’ skiing.
Three of the Cards girls’ placed in the top five – which secured the overall title win.
Lorenza Mottinelli came fourth overall, and Lauren Gareau came fifth overall. Grade ten student Alyssa Scott finished eighth.
The girls’ will now compete at OFSAA later this month at Blue Mountain in Collingwood.
Coach Gregg Kolodinski says “the girls’ were very modest and showed a lot of class this week which will prepare them for what’s to come in Collingwood. It’s nice to cheer for the underdog and see them sweep the podium.”
Blessing the throats of talented singers
Students and staff at St. Charles College had their throats blessed today to celebrate Saint Blaise’s feast day.
Blaise was a bishop and is the patron saint of wild animals and those with throat maladies.
Deacon Steve Callaghan also visited the vocals music class to bless the throats of those who have share their gift of singing.
St. Andrew community enjoys Christmas mass together
Staff, students and families in the St. Andrew community enjoyed a beautiful Christmas Mass interspersed with beautiful song on Thursday December 18th. Father Sam opened his parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle to everyone so that we could enjoy our last Christmas Concert for St. Andrew School. The choir began the celebration by singing Rejoice and Sing the Good News and everyone did just that. The FDK children sang It’s Christmas Day, the SK/1 children sang Hush There’s a Baby, Grade 2 performed the Huron Carol, Grade 3/4 sang Drummer Boy and Mary Had a Baby and finally the Grades 4/5 and 5/6 classes joined voices to sing I Saw Three Ships and Something About Christmas. Pictured are the three Kings presenting gifts to the baby as the grade 2 class sang the Huron Carol.
Students cut their hair for cancer
The Christmas Spirit was in full bloom at Immaculate Conception School in December. Emily Lotter, Grade 1 and Morgan Bradley, Grade 4, teamed up to do something very special – cut their hair for cancer. The girls didn’t stop the “giving” with the donation of their hair. They also raised $1002.35 from the sale of their handmade angel ornaments to their school, families and many community organizations. The girls have each chosen Canadian organizations to donate their hair and money. Emily has chosen to donate to Pantene Beautiful Lengths and Pediatric Cancer Research and Morgan has chosen to donate to Angel Hair for Kids.
Many thanks go out to all who supported the girls. Immaculate Conception Cougars rock!
Annual St. Benedict toy drive a success
The annual Toy Drive at St. Benedict has concluded and they are happy to announce that they collected 859 toys and over $180.00 to be donated to the TD Bank Toy Caravan. These will in turn be given to the Salvation Army who will ensure that all those families will have a good Christmas.
Living Nativity at St. Anne Catholic School
The true meaning of Christmas recently came to life for all of the students and staff at St. Anne Catholic School in Hanmer. The entire school community came together to celebrate the coming birth of Jesus. Students from FDK to grade 8 participated in the celebration of Jesus’ birthday through prayer and dramatization. Some grade 7 and 8 students acted as a voice in the Nativity story, while students from Mme Trepanier’s FDK class provided a dramatization. “I thought it was really creative and a cute play to watch,” said Cole Hamilton, a grade 8 student at St. Anne Catholic School.
The FDK students were very pleased with their accomplishments, and were happy to display the biggest gift at Christmas: Jesus. “My favourite part was riding on the donkey (wagon). I was happy to be Mary,” said FDK student Makinley Bertrand. “I felt special being Joseph. I liked pulling the wagon and knocking on the door of the Inn,” said Gillis O’Daiskey, FDK student.
Christmas for Kids Campaign in full swing at St. Charles College
Each year, the students at St. Charles College join forces with the students in their homeroom to help put gifts under the Christmas tree in a home somewhere in Sudbury.
Deacon Steve Callaghan organizes the campaign with the administrators working in the eight feeder schools – St. Bernadette, St. Andrew, St. John, Pius, St. Paul, St. Mark, St. David and St. Raphael. Deacon Steve says “The administrators at each of these schools know which family is in dire need of support and what life is like for them.”
After students are selected, the child writes a letter to Santa and each homeroom “adopts” one of the children. Money is then raised during the month in the mission envelope. All money is then given to a designated student on December 11th so that the shopping can be done.
Deacon Steve Callaghan then brings the wrapped gifts to the school principal on December 17th and 18th and the principal contacts the family for pick-up. He says, “When the principal and the secretary see us hauling in present after present – they are overwhelmed and often cry because of the generosity of our children.”
Marymount Academy canned food drive collects over 10,000 cans
The Marymount Academy Catholic Charities Council has been hard at work again this year organizing our annual canned food drive for the “Edgar Burton, one more can campaign”. Once again the Regals have done a tremendous job collecting cans and money, their total this year was 10 200 cans! Way to go Regals!