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SLHS Athletics Banquet honors their Panthers of 2013 by Julie Druker
David Cox, Melanie Robinson, Ben Moser and Johnny Vinkle
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elanie Robinson, who heads up the Phys Ed program at Sharbot Lake High School, emceed their annual Athletics Banquet on June 4, where a plethora of awards were given out to honor the school's junior and senior athletes. Though the school's winter season was cut short due to the climate at the school this year, Robinson decided to increase the number of awards given out to each team that played a full season, with two members from each team (and in one case three) receiving coach's awards and one member, the most valuable
player award. Called to the stage numerous times during the presentation were two athletes, one junior and one senior Panther, whose names are currently on the sign board in front of school. Both athletes received gold medals at the Eastern Regionals in Belleville and both will be heading to the OFSAA (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations) finals this Saturday, June 8 in Oshawa. The first is a grade 10 student, David Cox, who won a gold medal for junior boys high jump with a jump of
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By Summer Andrew n May 31 at North Addington Education Centre, David Wells, a CBC documentary producer, came to talk to the grade 9 geography class about their documentary projects. He talked to them about his job and how to make documentaries. Some of the projects Mr. Wells has worked on are “Hockey: A People’s History”; “Afghanistan: Beyond Hope and Fear”; “The War of 1812: Been There, Won That”, and “Chris Hadfield: The Man Who Tweeted Earth”. He is currently working on a documentary called “The Nature of Things with David Suzuki”. At the end of the presentation the students presented David with a school mug and thank-you card.
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Youth philanthropy alive and well at SLHS G by Julie Druker
rade ten students at Sharbot Lake High School had a chance to learn about and benefit a local charity through a program called the Youth Philanthropy Initiative program. The program invites students to learn about local charities in their area by having them chose and research one and then make their case to a number of judges as to why their chosen charity should be awarded a $5,000 cheque. The $5,000 is funded through the Toskan Casale Foundation of Toronto, which was started by Toronto philanthropist Julie Toskan Casale who began it as a means of inspiring young people to become aware of and involved in charitable organizations in their communities. The program runs at numerous schools in the Limestone District School Board and has become a regular part of SLHS teacher Randy McVety's grade 10 civics class. “I made the program a regular part of the curriculum with the hopes that by becoming aware of the many local charitable organizations through their own research and work, the stu-
Joelle Paar, Chifonne Hugh, Kayley Gregory and Tori Neuman. Photo courtesy of Cindy Scott dents might be inspired and become involved with them later in life”, McVety said when I spoke to him earlier this week. A total of nine projects were completed by SLHS students and in January those nine were judged by five senior students. Three were shortlisted to be finalists. Those finalists made a second presentation on June 3 to a different panel of judges that included School Principal Heather Highet and LDSB trustee Ann Goodfellow, along with six senior students. The winners were announced on June 3 and the group representing Breast Cancer Action Kingston, a lo-
cal charity that receives no funding from any of the larger cancer organizations or societies, and who provides family and educational services to people diagnosed with breast cancer, were the recipients of the $5,000 gift. Congratulations to Breast Cancer Action Kingston and to SLHS students Kayley Gregory, Tori Neuman, Chifonne Hugh and Joelle Parr. The student group phoned the charity the day of the presentation, and according to Randy McVety the representatives at Breast Cancer Action Kingston were absolutely elated to find out that they were the recipients of the $5,000 gift.
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1.75 metres. Cox, who made it to OFSAA last year and placed 13th, said he is hoping to make it into the top ten this year. He said the sport is all about form. Cox also received two MVP awards; one for the junior boys volleyball team and the second for track and field, and he was named the Junior Male Athlete of the Year. SLHS teacher and coach, Ben Moser, who presented Cox with the Junior Male Athlete of the Year Award, said that Cox is “a true, natural, stand out athlete. In every sport that he plays and the way he moves tells you that he is natural. He's improved his personal best year over year to the point where he is now jumping 180 centimetres, which puts him in the top ten junior male jumpers in the province. Not only that but he's also a great student, a great teammate and a great person.” Johnny “Boom Boom" Vinkle also made numerous forays to the stage to receive awards; as the senior boys MVP in volleyball and in track and field, as well as the Senior Male Athlete of the Year. Vinkle will also be heading to OFSAA in the shot putting event, having won gold in the Eastern Regionals where he beat out the silver medal winner by just under one metre. Vinkle also made it OFSSA last year in the same event. He will be competing against 23 others at OFSSA this year. Vinkle has been shot putting since grade eight and said he played it for years more as a “filler event” for him. Vinkle said he is seated 12th going into the event and he hopes to finish off in the top ten. He also said that he plans to continue playing volleyball at the post-secondary level. One of Vinkle's coaches, SLHS teacher Randy McVety said of Vinkle that he is "a great athlete who got the name “Boom Boom” because of hard hitting on the court... The thing is... Johnny is not at all an aggressive guy but rather, a very reliable player who can keep his cool and he is a player who plays hard but understands that sports are important but not the end of the world. He is also a player who always represents his school very well.” Other notable athletes who made numerous forays to the stage to receive awards were Skyler Howes, Taylor Welch, Cadence Cumpson and Aadan Kempe. Congratulations to all of the Panthers who received awards this year.
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