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Beating a giant drum during the performing of the “Huron Carol” by Sacred Heart High School student Sean McAsey on the flute at the school’s Christmas concert “A Peaceful Music” are students (from left) Annabelle Many, Kiara Storring, Kyra Papineau and Teagen Trask.
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Performing in the Sacred Heart Catholic High School’s Christmas concert are (from left, foreground) Olivier Jaeggi, Robert O’Connor, Matthew Chapeski, Sean McAsey and Maddison Craig.
Principal praises school community by John Curry john.curry@metroland.com
The Sacred Heart Catholic High School community came in for praise from principal Alex Belloni in her remarks at the school’s Christmas concert “A Peaceful Music” on John Curry/Metroland Dec. 14. “I can’t think of a more amazing Performing as a string ensemble at the Christmas concert “A Peaceful Music” at Sacred Heart community than this one,” she said Catholic High School in Stittsville are (from left, seated) Catherine Marziuk, Matthew Chapeski, about the Sacred Heart community Gabriel Wooltorton, Kayla Peckham, Jackson Anderson and Nick Van Leeuwen,. after delivering a long list of Christmas and seasonal projects undertaken at the school. These included the giant Christmas tree in the school’s atrium which features among its decorations the names of every student and staff member at the school. Other initiatives have included grade seven and eight students wrapping up Christmas gifts for Operation Christmas Child with the gifts slated to go all around the John Curry/Metroland world; students writing Christmas Choir members singing at the “A Peaceful Music” Christmas concert at Sacred Heart Catholic High School are letters to children in Nova Scotia; (from left) Samantha Clarke, Ida Juliano, Caitlyn O’Donnell, Erika Horner and Aidan Cullen. students preparing and sending birthday boxes to people in Canada’s North; preparing Christmas hampers including 27 hampers for families in Stittsville and 24 hampers for families in Richmond, while also collecting about $3,000 worth of gift cards for distribution to those less fortunate; raising $7,000 for the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa in its annual “Sleep Out For Youth;” staff contributing $15,000 to the United Way campaign which funds the Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa which provides financial assistance to families in need; raising funds for Haitian relief; and collecting numerous socks for the Shepherds of Good Hope. Principal Belloni said that the Christmas season should be a season of joy for those in the Catholic community, as people are awaiting the joy of the birth of Jesus at Christmas. She expressed the wish that everyone will take the time this Christmas to be joyful and share the good news of Christ’s birth with each other.