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Your LOCAL Media since 1918! VOLUME 108: ISSUE 16
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tofield School honours 67 students
Tofield School honoured 67 students for their excellence in athletics, academics, and citizenship for the 2024-2025 school year at their annual awards ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the school gymnasium. KARI JANZEN PHOTO Kari Janzen Staff Reporter
Tofield School honoured 67 students for their excellence in athletics, academics, and citizenship at their annual awards ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 3, held later this year due to the teachers strike. Gabriel Hall and Brent Hanasyk were the emcees for the evening. “Each and every student whose name will be called tonight should be incredibly proud of their achievements, of all the hard work that you’ve put into what you have accomplished,” Tofield Mayor Adam Hall said. “We are all deeply proud of you, and we look forward to seeing how you continue to contribute to our town and to the world.” In junior high, earning the Most Valuable Player (MVP) title from the 20242025 school year for badminton were Linkin Grant and Gavin Lutz. Liz Bigney and Parker LeBlanc earned the title for girls basketball. The male MVPs for basketball were Alec Hayduk and Trever Gordon. The female MVP for cross county was awarded to Brooke Jeffrey. Trever Gordon was named the male MVP for cross country and track and field. Sophie Neufeld was awarded with the female MVP for golf, and Baylee Roberts was named the male MVP for golf. Parker LeBlanc was named the female MVP for junior track
and field. Tori Clennin and Gavin Lutz earned female and male MVPs for volleyball. In senior high, Amy Fraser and Evan Woode were named the female and male MVPs in badminton and Claire Rickett and Liam Olson were named the female and male MVPs in basketball. Lily Hill and Brent Hanasyk were awarded the female and male MVPs in cross country. The male MVP award for golf was awarded to Dawson McPhee. The female and male MVPs for track and field went to Harlyn Anderson and Joseph Woodruff. Mercedes Fisher and Adriaan Hosker earned the MVP titles in volleyball. Achieving Grade 9 honours were Bennett Armstrong, Liz Bigney, Justin Coates, Braydo Crawford, Allison Ferron, Linkin Grant, Eli Hall, Tenley Hamer-Koehler, Brooke Jeffrey, Ruby Knudsen, Parker LeBlanc, Gavin Lutz, Emily Renneberg, Sophie Neufeld, Violet Stefanizyn, Jonas Teefy, and Everett Zilkie. Achieving first class honours in Grade 9 were Tori Clennin and Alec Hayduk. Also receiving first class honours and earning the highest overall average was David Cardinal. Grade 10 honours awards recipients included Aislin Allen, Grayson Armstrong, Catie Behiels, Steven Cardinal, Lily Hill, Cale Helfrich, Mason Jeffrey, Sakura Montgomery, Alex Stewart, Erin Strilchuk, and Daria Waddington. Evan
Woode and Aanya Dimri achieved first class honours and Dimri also earned the highest overall average. Achieving Grade 11 honours were Tiernan Allen, Harlyn Anderson, Xavier Bomiel, Karys Gallinger, Emma Hillyer, Elezebeth Hillyer, Corbin Lutz, Nicholas Macmillan, Cassidy Penner, Owen Rennie, Presley Perry, Eveline Rickett, and Jack Teefy. Achieving first class honours were Gabriel Hall, Ellie LeBlanc, and Erika Swedberg, who also earned the highest overall average. Swedberg was also awarded with the Tofield Municipal Library Award and $50 for being the Grade 11 student achieving the highest mark in English 20. Grade 12 honours awards recipients included Ben Behiels, Jared Clennin, Mercedes Fisher, Sofie Lindskog, Maddison Quattrin, Claire Rickett, and Madison Zemlak. William Hill earned the highest overall average in Grade 12. Daria Waddington was this year’s recipient of the Home-Time Realty scholarship, earning $250 for being the high school student with the highest average in Career and Life Management (CALM) 20. The Melita Wall Memorial Music Award and $100 was presented Mercedes Fisher. The Beaver County Social scholarship and $250 was awarded to Sofie Lindskog, who had the highest average in Social Studies 30-1. The Beaverhill Veterinary Services
scholarship and $250 went to William Hill, who had the highest blended mark in Biology 30. The Strix Ecological Consulting scholarship and $150 went to the students who achieved the highest blended mark in Chemistry 30, which was awarded to both William Hill and Sofie Lindskog. The Governor General’s Academic Medal, honouring the student who achieved the highest academic average in all the courses taken in grades 11 and 12, went to Sofie Lindskog. The Busy B Conservation scholarship and $300 was awarded to Mercedes Fisher, the Dave Watt Award of Merit and $250 went to William Hill, and the Wild Oats & Notes scholarship and $500 was awarded to Madison Zemlak and Ava-Rae Barnes. The Jessie Pearson Service Award and $500 was received by Ava-Rae Barnes. The Tofield Lions Club scholarship, awarded for the last time, was presented to Madison Zemlak. “It’s with mixed emotions that I present this award; happy that’s is going to a nice young lady but sad because it's the last time the Lions will be making this donation, as the Tofield Lions Club has folded,” longtime member Jim Warren said. The Darryl Albrecht Memorial scholarship and $500 went to Mercedes Fisher. on page 11 The junior highContinued Female Atte of the