Grade 12 boarder Angela Lee is
aware of the needs that surround us
Student-in-Charge of Music and
in our own community.”
Wadsworth House, and is very involved in the music and theatre programs, yet she has also earned over 200 volunteer hours through
The YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria, and Haliburton has received enormous support from the Lakefield
the Charities and Community
College School community. Not only
Service Program and volunteering
do students help raise money during
for two summers at a hospital near
the YWCA Tag Days each year, but
her home in South Korea. She cites
over 20 staff, parents, friends and
Woodhaven Lodge’s Battered Moms
alumni were actively involved in the
and Tots program, which she has
recent, and enormously successful,
participated in for several years with
Crossroads Safe Haven capital
her peers, as the most impactful
campaign to build a new women
experience. “Woodhaven is not
and children’s shelter in downtown
meant to be a women’s shelter,” she
Peterborough. Many LCS staff have
says, “It is a lodge run by a family
also sat on the YWCA’s board of
who opens it up to battered women
directors and participated in the
and their children each Christmas.
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraising
We cook, talk and play in a very free
event.
environment—it feels like we have come together for Christmas dinner. It is not until you learn about these families’ backgrounds that you would know how badly they have been hurt.”
Eighty-nine percent of LCS community members who responded to a recent survey reported that they most often volunteered with local organizations, but some had touched lives as far away as
Margaret explains that LCS students
Cambodia, Singapore, Bermuda,
raised $1040 during a Coffee House
Nicaragua, the Philippines, and
this winter to buy food and gifts for
Bequia. Gerry Bird, LCS Director of
the Woodhaven Lodge program.
International Programs, coordinates
“Our volunteers helped with food
the Round Square International
preparation, played with the chil-
Service and other projects, and
dren, and discovered that each
student exchanges. In 2001, Gerry
woman had a unique story of abuse.
learned about the Bequia Mission
Our students were warm, caring,
from former LCS librarian Pat
and hard working—they experi-
Butcher. Later that year, Gerry and
enced personal growth and new
his family—Sandra, Jeremy ’04 and
understanding. Privilege brings
Hilary ’06—travelled on a one year
responsibility and students can use
sabbatical to Bequia, a small island
their abilities to make a difference.
within St. Vincent and the
Volunteering locally will make them
Grenadines, to volunteer with
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