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Stirling students organize food drive

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TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Small in years, but big in heart, 25 five-year-old Scarborough students recently collected food for people in their community with the help of their teacher. The senior kindergarten students from Alexander Stirling Public School are the school’s first French immersion class. Looking to celebrate their 100th day of school, the students accepted an idea from their teacher, Famina Nanji, to organize a food drive to collect 100 non-perishable food items for a local food bank. “Counting by 10 is a really important thing for them to learn, so I thought, to make it a really relevant way of doing so, why not collect 100 items for the local food bank, and that way we can count up to 100 and make groups of 10 of the food items,” Nanji said, noting the exercise also tied into the students’ character education training, which so far has seen them learn about fairness, kindness, caring and friendship. “I thought this would be a really neat way to involve the local community as well,” she added. “To give back to the local community and do something nice for other people, as well as working on the math concept.” To help collect the 100 food items, Nanji appealed to all of the school’s students, who jumped at the chance to support the drive. “The response was really nice, and it was pretty amazing,” she said. >>>STUDENTS, page 16

Groups will give away 1,000 new books to promote reading at an upcoming event for residents of Kingston-Galloway and Orton Park. Sp o t l i g h t o n L i t e r a c y : A Community Conversation will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5 at St. Margaret’s Public School on Galloway Road. The event is meant to get residents and others talking about how to raise literacy levels in the east Scarborough neighbourhoods, which are often abbreviated as KGO. “A disproportionate number of KGO children and youth have been under-performing their peers across the province,” said event organizers The Learning Partnership, adding in a statement closing this gap will require a collaborative effort from

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TITLE GAME: St. Bede Catholic School’s Jeremy Aibi, centre, is blocked by St. Dominic Savio Catholic School’s Alex Saurer, left, and Nathan Friginette during Catholic elementary schools’ east region boys’ basketball championship game action at Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School on Wednesday. St. Bede went on to take the title by a 49-36 score.

Beginning March 5, you’ll be receiving a Tuesday edition of The Scarborough Mirror. We’re replacing our current Friday delivery with an early week newspaper, creating more timely news delivery and offering merchants the chance for early week flyer distribution. “Change is important for a media company as we constantly strive to meet the need of our readership and our advertiser, in providing quality news delivery and adver-

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educators, parents, children and the community at large. The group, which aims to improve literacy by giving parents the skills to teach their children to read, hopes to start a “dialogue” in the community about reading, and connect families to information and resources that can help them do it. The deadline to register for the forum (by visiting www.readingpartnership.com/events or calling 416-282-7284) and be eligible for child care during the evening is Monday, Feb. 25. A light dinner will be served during the first half-hour. Other partners in the event are the Toronto Public Library’s Morningside branch, the Scarborough East Ontario Early Years Centre, the Toronto District School Board and Frontier College, which donated the books.

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