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Arts @ the Marina celebrating 20 years! This July long weekend will mark the 20th anniversary of Arts @ the Marina in Leamington. Arts @ the Marina is a widely acclaimed Art Show that features the sale of work from over 70 very talented local and regional artists and artisans. Held at the Leamington Marina, this outdoor event will take place on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1. Admission is free. From left to right, Grade 8 students Krista Mallat, Monica Piorro, Mariah Gandaio, Taylor Omar and Grade 8 teacher Andrea Niven Pannunzio display a cheque for $5,000 to the Free The Children program’s Clean Water Campaign.
Fireworks July 1, Canada Day at waterfront The Municipality of Leamington, its mayor and town council invite all residents to celebrate Canada Day on S u n d a y, July 1st with a fireworks display at the Leamington waterfront. Festivities will include; fireworks with barbecue food in the upper park by the Lions Club. Dale Butler & Friends will entertain from 8 p.m. until the sky darkens for the big light show!
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Queen of Peace students’ donation of $5,000 turns into $15,000 for Free The Children By Bryan Jessop
At Queen of Peace Catholic Elementary School, one large-scale act of kindness deserves another... and another. As part of the Free The Children program, the 320 students of Queen of Peace raised $5,000 for the Clean Water Campaign, an initiative that ensures the students of schools in Kenya are granted the availability of clean, healthy drinking water. Upon hearing of the contribution, Free The Children ambassador and Canadian pop music star Nelly Furtado matched it with a $5,000 donation. Afterwards, Queen of Peace learned that an application to the Big Dreamers Award — sponsored by the National Bank of Canada and Disney’s Club Penguin — had been accepted to the tune of an additional $5,000, good for a combined sum of $15,000. “We’re just glad we were chosen,” said Queen of Peace teacher Andrea Niven Pannunzio. “We’ve applied for Big Dreamers Awards before and didn’t get them, so we were pleasantly surprised this time.” Queen of Peace students, led by their own Grade 8s, raised the $5,000 through two years of events and programs such as the Christmas Carnivals of 2010 and 2011, hot dog sales, chocolate bunny sales and family and teacher donations. During a leadership workshop hosted by Free The Children at Queen of Peace in early May, the school made its donation of the original $5,000. Prior to its two-year Clean Water Campaign, the local school raised $8,500 to help build a new all-girls’ school
in Kenya called Oleleshwa. Builders broke ground in March of this year and hope to have the school up and running by January of 2013. The facility was named after the Oleleshwa tree, well known in eastern Africa for its ability to thrive through severe drought conditions. “It’s a symbol of hope,” Pannunzio said. Queen of Peace has been involved with Free The Children for the past seven years. The school was inspired by fellow Ontario native Craig Kielburger, who founded Free The Children in his early teens after reading an article about an African youth who was killed while trying to defend the rights of his fellow children. “It’s all about kids empowering kids — that’s why we like it so much,” Pannunzio said. The Clean Water Campaign at the Leamington school was launched with an assembly where the key phrase was “Maji ni uhai,” which translates to “Water is life.” The next stage for QOP students in the Free The Children program will be launched on Friday, June 29. This phase will focus on the actual education of Kenyan youths through providing school supplies and instructor training. Although Pannunzio will be making the transition from Grade 8 teacher to Grade 1 French Immersion teacher at Queen of Peace starting in September of this year, she assured current Grade 7 students that a Christmas Carnival will continue to serve as a Free The Children fundraiser in December of this year — as it has for each of the past five years that she has taught Grade 8. “They’re totally into it now,” she said of QOP students.