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WPC’s Library Welcomed Forty Living BooksKAMAL DHALIWAL – HUI YAN LI

On May 12th, 2016, Windsor Park Collegiate along with Frontenac School, hosted the school’s first ever Living Library: Being Indigenous, here at WPC on Treaty 1 Land, the traditional territory of the Anishinabe and Home of the Metis Nation.

The Human, or Living library, is an international movement started in Denmark in the year 2000 by a group of youth who wished to break down the barriers that divide people. It is where we borrow people instead of books to create dia-logue and understanding.

Over forty individuals with an Indigenous background were invited as the living Books. They came to talk about their life experiences with the students of WPC and Frontenac School.

Through the conversation, students gained a lot of knowl-edge of the Indigenous culture, as well as lessons about life and career options. As one student said, “One part that stayed with me was even though she (Shaneen Robinson) went through a lot, she remained strong and positive and pushed through. Listening to her story made me think about pursuing something that I am passionate about even though it seems impossible.” Other students reflected on the im-portance of maintaining their own culture and language, “I don’t really speak my language but after speaking with him (David McLeod), I want to”.

The Books chose to share their stories because they be-lieved that the younger generation is more powerful in mak-ing a change in society. By building relationships between the younger generation and the Indigenous community of Manitoba, our society is led to better embrace the Indige-nous culture and contributions made by the community.

David McLeod, one of the books, posted his thoughts about his experience on social media and expressed it was “a pleasure” to meet with our students who showed “a keen interest in the Indigenous community” and was impressed by many “thought provoking questions”. He summed the event up well when he said, “our community is blessed with amazing people”.

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SPORTS STARS

Carly Jenken Devon Walls Grace Tegeniza

Kayden Groutette Noah Hinds Rachael Swan

Renz Cruz Tomoki Nojima Tyrul Loewen

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Lyndsay Carriere Dayne Graham Mohammed Mansaray

Kevin Neil Miguel Villacorta Ramandeep Sarkaria

Jared Thibodean-Swanson Harman Vats Moison Storts

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Celebrating Another Year of the Success of WPC Athletes

MUDRA DAVE

On June, 3rd, 2016 WPC athletes were honoured and appre-ciated for all their hard work throughout the year.

The annual sports banquet takes place every year, recogniz-ing the athletes who have performed exceptionally in their sports.

This year of 2015-2016, over 150 student athletes were invited to the banquet.

The three main awards were the “Coach’s Choice Award”, “Most Valuable Player” and “Athlete of the Year”

The athletes who played on two or more sports, the “Scholar Athletes” were honoured with an opportunity to attend an annual luncheon as well as honoured with a certificate at the sports banquet.

Danille Buchard Skylar Trudeau Kristofer Bryndisarson

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WINDSOR PARK COLLEGIATE MAY - JUNE 2016Ready, Set, Go! The Great Battle against Mental Illness

NYIRIAK DE CHAGAI

On Saturday, May 14th, over 150 participants from WPC ran and/or walked in the Shoppers. Love. You. Run for Women event. Smiles were bright and laughs were shared at on of our biggest events of the year.

The idea of supporting the run began with a group of Grade Twelve students from the Career Internship Program who were passionate about bringing awareness to mental health within the school and community.

The project was quickly brought to life as Mr. Vince sug-gested the Shoppers. Love. You. Run for Women to the group. The WPC team decided to add their own special events to the already established run to raise money and encourage participation. Events such as a registration table during lunch hours, floor hockey tournament, two success-ful pizza lunches, and the recruitment of two teachers who made special contributions to the movement. Mr. Nuytten promised to shave his hair at 100 participants & Mr. La-france promised to shave his beard at 150 participants in the run/walk.

To prepare for the event, the running team organized an op-tional run every Sunday and CIP students continued to take registrations at noon. At first, registrations were progressing quite slowly, at a rate where the students and teachers were concerned that the goal was not going to be reached. On the last day of registration students, along with the support-ing teachers, encouraged their fellow peers to participate in some way, either through a donation or registration and as a result the goal was surpassed.

At the kickoff event on Thursday May 12th, race kits were distributed and live music from the guitar students filled the atmosphere of the WPC gym. Several speakers from the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba came to the event to give words of encouragement and speak about their experiences with mental illness. The courageous mother of Reid Bricker, the young man who is believed to have suicid-ed after being released from the hospital late in 2015, also spoke to the crowd who gathered, her remarks were moving and reminded all about the seriousness of mental illness.

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Teachers of the Month

MARIAMAN MANSARAY - YU YAN LI - KAMAL DHALIW-AL - YOANA TODOROVA - RAMANDEEP SARKARIA

Teachers of the Month

Mr. Lafrance is a Grade 9-12 Woodwork Technology teacher at Windsor Park Collegiate. Being surrounded by an Industrial Arts atmosphere growing up and becoming close with his Industrial Arts teacher during high school, Mr. La-france became passionate about teaching.

He does not just teach, but is also an enthusiastic athlete who loves playing soccer and enjoys watching hockey. During the Mental Awareness Run/Walk on May 14th, Mr. Lafrance stood out by offering to shave his beard in sup-port of the cause.

Next year, Mr. Lafrance will continue teaching Grade 9-12 Woodwork Technology and is excited to teach a new course offered at WPC, Pre-Engineering in the new MarkerStudio.

Mr. Davis is a History, Drama and Musical Theater teacher at WPC. He teaches students from grade 9 to 11. and became interested in teaching due to his interest in law and music. He chose WPC because he graduated from this school and he also likes the people of WPC.

He likes to watch CFL football. His favourite sport to play is rake ball. He put an outstanding effort into the WPC musi-cal Footloose. WPC wishes him best of luck for his future.

Mr. Nuytten wears many hats in our building; he teaches French, Global Issues History of Canada, Reading is Thinking, and Science. Being influenced by family mem-bers working in the education field, Mr. Nuytten decided to become a teacher after earning an Arts degree with a major in History. He began teaching at WPC in February of 2011 and loves to teach and interact with young people.

He also loves to play rugby and hockey. He coaches and-started the Rugby program at WPC. Mr. Nuytten feels very deeply about both mental health and cancer. By cutting his long hair in support of the Mental Health Awareness Run/Walk and donating it to Cancer Care, he was able to sup-port both causes.

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MR. NUYTTEN

On Tuesday, May 17th, Staff and Students at Windsor Park Collegiate pledged to take personal action against Climate Change. 222 members of our school participated in the day’s events in a number of ways.

Some tackled the Commuter Challenge and chose to arrive to school by walking, biking, busing or commuting to school in some fashion other than taking a private vehicle. Others chose to tackle the Consumer Challenge and eat local, or-ganic and vegan for the day. Others still tackled both chal-lenges to complete the entire Climate Change Challenge.

The day started during A and B slot when students had special presentations by Green Action Centre regarding bike safety. Not only did students leave with important information that would serve to keep them safer as they chose to bike on the streets of Winnipeg, but they were also treated to a nutritious Bike Blended smoothie.

The Social Justice and WPSEA committees helped by selling environmentally friendly chili during lunch. Over 50 bowls of chili were served and over $225 dollars was raised and sent to support the Canadian Red Cross in their efforts to help the citizens of Fort McMurray, Alberta. It was agreed unanimously that the chili was environmentally delicious.

Meanwhile, the parking lots remained nearly empty as staff and students chose to “leave the car at home!” During the lunch hour, the metals lab was abuzz with students who brought their bikes into be checked. Mr. Suszko’s expertise was put to the test.

After school, the Junior Varsity Rugby team continued to accept the challenge by taking a team bus rather than multiple private vehicles to their game against Sisler. The benefits of their citizenship action were evident in the fe-rocity of play.

Overall a tremendously positive day for the environ-ment was created by the individual actions of the staff and students at Windsor Park Collegiate. We look forward to even more participation across the di-vision for next year’s Climate Change Challenge!

Climate Change Challenge Accepted

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WPC’s Farwell to the Two Most Inpsiring People!

YU YAN LI - GIOVANA ZHU

Ms. Thorington has been the principal of Windsor Park Collegiate for eight years. She was excited when she be-came the principal of WPC because it is her first time being a principal of high school. Ms. Thorington is always glad to see students grow and the accomplishments they achieve. She also enjoys working in a team setting and getting to know the staffs better. Next year, Ms. Thorington will be taking on a leadership role at Island Lakes Community School. Ms.Thorington is proud of the students at WPC because of the way they support and accept each other, and also the welcoming atmosphere that the visitors can feel when they come into the building.

Mr. Gerl has been the vice-principal of Windsor Park Col-legiate for three years. He first started as a full-time music teacher at WPC from the fall of 1991 to 1999. He has been in the WPC community for a total of 11 years. Shortly after Mr. Gerl started teaching at WPC in 1991, he knew that this is the place where he wants to spend the majority of his career. Over the years, Mr. Gerl has been connecting with the students, staff, and the community. He really enjoys the time that he can connect with students and provide them supports to pursue their goals; the opportunity to work with the students in the classroom has been the highlight of his career. In the fall, Mr. Gerl will become the vice-principal at Highbury School, where he will be working with elemen-tary school students. He is very excited to be taking on the challenge and starting his new adventure. After so many of years of being a part of the WPC community, so many won-derful memories being established and so many of difficult things had been worked through with students, staff and the community. WPC has really became home to Mr. Gerl and he really hopes to come back again someday before the end of his career.

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WINDSOR PARK COLLEGIATE MAY - JUNE 2016Celebrating another Year of the Career Internship Program

YU YAN LI

On May 31st, the very own Career Internship Program (CIP) at Windsor Park Collegiate (WPC) welcomed the partners and parents of the Grade 12 CIP students to its Gym 2 for a year end luncheon. The purpose of the luncheon was to celebrate the accomplishments of the students during the school year; more importantly, to appreciate the support of the partners and parents who have helped them along the journey.

The luncheon opened with guitar performances, followed by a brief speech by Ms. Thorington, the principal of WPC and a Grace for the food.

The podium was then handed over to the MCs of the CIP Luncheon, Evelyn Ekeanyanwu and Brendan Yeryk, who gave thanks to all the partners on behalf of the CIP pro-gram at WPC.

Blessing Aroso, a Grade 12 student in CIP, then presented Chris Loewen from Protegra-Butterfly the Extra Mile Part-ner Award.

Following which the MCs introduced the partners at the head table, invited them to speak at the podium and to present the awards to outstanding CIP students.

The CIP Luncheon eventually came to an end with applaus-es and photos.

This is yet another grateful year for CIP at WPC and a memorable year for the Grade 12 CIP students.

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KAMAL DHALIWAL

On May, 28th, 2016 culture club members planed a big event culture food potluck and culture dress up. People from different cultures brought their food.

There were a lot of different types of food, for example: bubble tea, paneer pakora, biryani and many more dif-ferent varieties. This event was held in the WPC library at lunch. While at the potluck, students presented on different countries while students and teachers got to learn about their culture and countries. Many students dressed up by wearing their cultural clothes and represented their culture. The reason for this event was to learn about different cultures and support diversity in the school.

WPC Celebrates Diversity!

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MR. PERNEROWSKI

1) The Fantastic Pernerowski, a great magician, can convert objects into other objects. He can convert• Two pencils into an eraser• An eraser and two pencils into a calculator• A calculator and a pencil into a laptop• An eraser, a calculator, and a laptop into a kitten After objects have been converted into other objects, they disappear. You come to The Fantastic Pernerowski with nothing but pencils. What is the fewest number of pen-cils you would need to create one kitten? A) 5B) 10C) 11D) 12 2) Mr. McIntyre only tells the truth on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and always lies on all other days of the week. Today he says: “Tomorrow I will tell the truth.”Which day is it?

A) TUESDAY C) SATURDAY B) FRIDAY D) SUNDAY

CONTRIBUTORS

Editors: Staff Editors/Advisors: Writers: Reporters: LayoutGiovana Z. Ms. Stangherlin Kamaldeep D. Nyiriak De C. Mudra D. Kerri Lynn M. Yu Yan L.Mudra D. Mr. Pernerowski Hui Yan L. Ramandeep S. Hui Yan L. Mudra D. Kamaldeep D.Nestor T. Mr. Herkimer Yu Yan L. Precious U. Harman V. Ms. Stangherlin Giovana Z. Mariama M. Sarah O. Yoana T. Hui Yan L.