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Ladysmith resident Shelley A. Leedahl lets off a lantern Feb. 19 at the Transfer Beach Amphitheater during the Ladysmith Rotary Club’s “Light Up the Night for Heritage Week” event. The Rotary Club sold 110 lanterns to raise money to rebuild the children’s playground at Transfer Beach, and the event was a celebration of both Rotary’s 110th anniversary and of Heritage Week in Ladysmith. LINDSAY CHUNG
Wear pink to stand up to bullying Feb. 25 Lindsay Chung THE CHRONICLE
Schools and communities across the country will be standing up to bullying this Wednesday (Feb. 25) for Pink Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day is a national awareness campaign that encourages everyone to wear something pink to show that we are all working together to prevent bullying in schools, communities and online. In Ladysmith, this important day will be marked in many ways. Students throughout the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District will be hosting anti-bullying activities in the classroom
and in the community. VIIC has supplied shirts and wristbands The school district will be officially to schools in Chemainus and offered launching Pink Shirt Day Wednesday at them to Ladysmith Secondary School as noon in Nanaimo. well, but they do still have a limited sup“Anti-bullying awareness activities are ply of pink shirts for the public. a part of everyday education in the disThe shirts and wristbands are free, and trict,” school board chair Steve Rae said any donations that are collected at the in a press release. “With awareness proj- branch will go to the Haven Society in ects like Pink Shirt Day, it further enforc- Nanaimo, which provides shelter and seres the importance of universal respect of vices such as counseling and crisis supall our students and those in the commu- port for women in the mid-Island region nity.” who have been physically, sexually and/ Outside of the schools, Vancouver Is- or emotionally abused and their children. land InsuranceCentres (VIIC) in the CorAnybody who comes into the VIIC ofonation Mall will be offering pink shirts fice to pick up a pink shirt or wristband and new pink wristbands that state “Re- can also enter a draw for an autographed spect the right to be different.” Stef Lang CD.
VIIC has been involved with Pink Shirt Day for several years, and branch manager Millie Stirling says they feel it’s important to raise awareness about bullying and how it affects our youth and our community. In particular, Stirling finds that providing shirts to the schools is very powerful. “It’s been difficult for schools to organize events because not everyone has a pink shirt or can afford to buy one,” she said. “This way, we find, especially with elementary schools but also the high schools, by providing shirts, it allows them to do a bigger event to send an antibullying message.” See Shirts Page 4
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