Trustees with the Sudbury Catholic District School Board have realigned the school boundaries between Corpus Christi, St. Theresa and St. Francis Schools for the September 2004/2005 school year. In all, the boundary changes will affect 38 students who will have the option of attending their current school or transferring to the school within the new boundary. “Before, we had students within walking distance of one school but being bussed to another school,” said Acting Director of Corporate Services, Hugh Lee, on the boundary changes effective September 2004.

In the fall, the St. Francis school boundaries for JK to Grade 6 students will extend to part of Copper Street. The St. Francis boundary will move north of, but will not include Zinc street.

The St. Theresa school boundary will now include the Richard Lake, Long Lake and St. Charles Lake areas and the portion of Southview Drive near the greenhouse. (This area used to be part of the St. Francis school boundary).

For a graphic summary of the changes, please reference the Boundary Realignment Map.

Brittany Goldsborough, Student Council President at Marymount Academy addressed the student body at the “Kick Off For Cancer” campaign held in the school’s gym recently. Throughout the month of April, Marymount students will be canvassing door-to-door to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Proceeds from the Residential Canvass will go towards cancer research and to provide services such as reliable information, emotional support, transportation, and support at treatment centres and lodges. Special guests Sonia Del Missier, Marisa Certossi, Melissa Durrell and Peter Williams joined with the Marymount students to help celebrate the residential kick-off campaign. Marymount students have set a target of $1,000 as their goal in this year’s campaign.

Marlee Clement, a Grade 7 student at Marymount Academy was recognized by Ray Vincent, Chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board with a special certificate of appreciation for her excellent efforts in the 35th Regional Science Fair held this past weekend at Laurentian University. Marlee’s project entitled, “Reflex and Reaction Times,” examined the reflexes and reactions of a wide group of individuals with special emphasis on age and gender. She received first place finishes in both the Junior Physical and Best Health categories and her project was ultimately selected as “Best In The Fair,” by the judges. Marlee will now move on to represent the City of Greater Sudbury and Marymount Academy at the Canada Wide Science Fair which will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 9 to 16. Congratulations Marlee!

Twenty-six youth from St. Charles College will be hosting 26 students from Mountain Field Academy in Forteau, Labrador from April 9 to April 15, 2004 as part of their involvement in YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada, a program of the YMCA of Greater Toronto. YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada promotes cross-cultural awareness and a sense of national identity among Canadian youth aged 12 to 18. Travel costs are funded by the Government of Canada through Exchanges Canada.

The students from St. Charles College and Mountain Field Academy will be participating in activities at Dynamic Earth and Path of Discovery on April 10, Science North’s sunset to sunrise tour on April 11, YMCA on April 12, Manitoulin Island on April 13, and Anderson Farm and Capreol Rail Museum on April 14. In addition, the Boy Scouts of Canada have volunteered their time and camp at Windy Lake for an orienteering session on April 9 in the morning.

YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada sponsors exchanges between two groups of equal size in different communities. Each group hosts the other. During their stay in Sudbury, the youth will live with the families of their twin group. Since 1976, thousands of young people have experienced the cultural and geographic diversity of Canada through participation in YMCA Youth Exchanges.

For further information, please contact: Daniel M. Boisvert at St. Charles College,

ph: 566-9605 ext.6341, 969-4415 (home),662-0543 (mobile)

Students from the Sudbury Catholic District School Board had a
tremendous showing at the 35th Sudbury Regional Science Fair held at
Laurentian University this weekend winning 25 out of 40 awards in
several categories including; Junior Physical, Junior Life, Intermediate Life and Junior Engineering.

St. Francis students lead the way, collecting a total of eight medals followed closely by the students of St. Anne school with six, Marymount Academy with five, St. Charles College with three, St. David school with two, and St. Paul School rounded out the awards with one. Gold medal winners pictured, (left to right) include; Andrew Pawluch, St. Francis Catholic School, Scott Baiden, Jessie Hamilton Public School, Marlee Clement, Marymount Academy, Colin Loney, and Joshua Hubert, Jessie Hamilton Public School. The students will now move on to represent the City of Greater Sudbury and their respective schools at the Canada Wide Science Fair which will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 9 to 16.

Appearing in the photo with the gold medallists are Dan Landry, President of the Sudbury Regional Science Fair and Sue Tessier from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

The Marymount Junior and Senior Volleyball teams went undefeated in Round Robin action finishing first overall at the Northern Ontario Secondary School Association (NOSSA) volleyball championships held in Sturgeon Falls this past weekend. The Junior girl’s team defeated team

Central Algoma Secondary School in the final, two games straight, to capture the NOSSA “A” championship while the Senior team established themselves as the team to beat, showing that the road to gold would go through them. In the finals, the Marymount Senior Regals defeated the Manitoulin Mustangs in straight sets to be crowned the 2004 NOSSA “A”champs.

Marymount Academy Junior Volley Ball Team:

(Front row, L-R); Colleen McHugh, Sam McLelland, Lyndsay Wandziak, Shawna Moore, Melaine Fenton, (Back row); Kristine Dost, Maelynn Deroy, Michelle Pelot, Teresa Parada, Rebecca Williams, Natasha Smith, Coach – Tammy Jutila, Assistant Coach – Kenzie Jermey, (absent).

Marymount Academy, Senior Volley Ball Team:

(Front row, L-R); Brittany Goldsborough, Tessa Skot, Marisa Talarico,(Back row, L-R); Alexandra Paventi, Krysten Scott, Meagan Jamieson, Mackenzie Golka, Christine Roy, Deidre Urso (absent), Head Coach: Michael Margarit, Assistant Coach: Nikki Cambridge, (absent)

Congratulations Regals!

Grade 4, 5 & 6 students at St. Theresa Catholic school enjoyed the opportunity to explore the many aspects of their Canadian Heritage and present their projects to fellow students and judges at the Heritage Fair held at the school recently. The classroom evaluation in the French Immersion Program includes “les science sociales, communication orale, and redaction.” Grade 4 students, Daniella Mardero (left) and Alanna Skot give a brief presentation on the history of Marymount Academy to Rossella Bagatto, Superintendent of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. The students selected this particular project because Alanna’s two sisters attend Marymount and as Daniella stated, “My mom is in charge of the school and my dad works there,” referring to the fact that Mrs. Patty Mardero is the Principal of Marymount Academy and Eric Mardero is the teacher for the Gifted Students Program at the school.

“La petite Italie,” by Scott Fleury and “Marymount” by Alanna Skot and Daniella Mardero were chosen to represent the Grade 4 class while Jennifer Donnelly’s project, “Ma famille,” and Peyton Pressaco’s project , “Sudbury Cherche et Sauver,” from Grade 5/6 were selected to represent their school at the Regional Heritage Fair to be held May 6th and 7th at Laurentian University. St. Theresa Catholic school would like to thank the following judges for taking time to help with the Heritage Fair; Councillor, Ron Dupuis, Mme. Annette Blais-Laforge, Mme. Denise Massimiliano, Mme. Maureen Lacroix, Mme. Marthe Poirier. Mme. Lorraine Sahadat and M. Gerry Robillard.

Marymount Academy students have undertaken a 25 hour fast to promote this year’s theme, “ THIRST FOR JUSTICE.” The fast started this morning at 7:00 a.m. with students having their last meal together at the school. The students will not eat again until Friday morning, April 2, 2004 at 7:30 a.m. The purpose of the 25 hour fast is raise awareness about issues of injustice in the world.

Participants will spend this time together focusing on issues facing people in other parts of the world such as Asia, Africa and Latin America. Students recognize that people in these countries are thirsting not only for the basic necessities in life such as clean water but also education, health care and even the right to vote in elections. THINKfast is designed for youth from 16 to 25 years in age.

Trustees of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board began their accommodation review process at the January 20, 2004 meeting of the Board. Consistent with the direction given by the Trustees at their October 7, 2003 meeting for the 2003-04 accommodation review, there will no new consolidation of the schools within the Sudbury Catholic Board. The consolidation of St. James School and Our Lady of Fatima as per the Board decision of December 17, 2002 will proceed as planned in September 2004. Expansion of the St. James school is almost complete.

Trustees decided to review the realignment of the busing boundaries that will affect schools in the south end of the city. A decision regarding the boundary reviews will be made in April 2004.