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Geo. Elliot Me to We sets impressive precedent KEVIN PARNELL
Woodstock You don’t have to have been around for the first one to get in the groove of Woodstock Revival III at Gatzke Orchards coming up this July. ...............................
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Love all Bump up your tennis skills every Friday evening or Sunday morning with the Lake Country tennis club. Ramp up the adrenalin with some tournament play. ...............................
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On a sunny weekday afternoon last week a group of George Elliot students marched up the street from their high school to make a special visit to the Lake Country Food Bank. The students—ranging from Grade 8s to Grade 12s—are members of the We Club at George Elliot, a club that from the start of the school year until last week had been selling coffee and smoothies at the school, raising money for both home and international charities. The group formed after most of the students attended the Me to We (www.metowe.com) conference at the start of the school year. Me to We is a social movement that features young people around the world trying to make a difference. The We Club at George Elliot followed through on the Me to We philosophy, raising more than $2,000 this year from the sale of coffee and smoothies to students and teachers. “At the beginning of the year most of us went to the Me to We (conference),” said student Molly Davidson. “Then we started to meet every Friday at lunch. Me to We is about global change as well as trying to do things within the community.” So the George Elliot We Club adopted the Lake Country Food Bank as its local charity and put together a year-long fund-rais-
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GEORGE Elliot We Club members gather around Lake Country Food Bank manager Phyllis MacPherson after presenting her with over
$1,187 the club raised. Club members are (front row left to right) Molly Davidson, Food Bank manager Phyllis MacPherson, Rylee Robinson, Sara Larson (middle row) Emma Middleton, Kyla Cassan, Alexandra McAllister, Alyssa Clements, (back row) Isaiah Brown, Anisha Joubert and Kailey Butler. ing campaign that ended on the steps of the food bank last week, where the group presented food bank manager Phyllis MacPherson with a cheque for $1,187. “This is absolutely marvelous…and they made double that amount,” said MacPherson after accepting the cheque. “It’s just beautiful. These kids are something else.” One of the reasons behind the George El-
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liot We Club choosing the food bank as its local charity was the timing. The students felt many people think of the food bank around the Christmas holidays when there are countless campaigns going on, but tend to forget about the need for food in the community during the summer months. “In Lake Country people forget about the food bank,” said student Rylee Robinson. “You don’t realize there
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are people that need food and it’s not just homeless people, it’s people that just can’t afford it.” MacPherson, who has been running the Lake Country Food Bank for 25 years, told the group that the demand continues to increase in Lake Country and the money they raised would go a long way. The other half of the money raised by the We Club will go toward building a school in Nicaragua. Kyla Cassan will
get first-hand experience as the Grade 11 George Elliot student will join the Me to We organization to help build schools in Central America. “It’s really going to be amazing,” said Cassan. “It’s getting more real to me now because I have my plane ticket. It’s really going to be an eye opener,” Cassan said. “I’m looking forward to being able to understand their culture better and see how they live.” As for the George El-
liot We Club, the students plan to follow through with more fundraising next year as well as attend the annual Me to We conference. “We had a lot of Grade 8 and 9s this year so next year we want to carry on,” said Davidson. “We set a goal of surpassing this year’s total and we want to figure out some new things to try.” newsroom @lakecountrynews.net
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