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Best by Carney
Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary School in Port Coquitlam was awarded a
$20,000 Best Buy gift card through the Best Buy Best in Class Fund technology
program. To win the award, 50 students and staff put together a short video
showing how technology could be used to enhance learning at their school.
The Media Arts 12 class created the video, the Drama 10 class acted in the
video, and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble sang the background jingle.
Archbishop Carney was one of 15 schools to win the award across Canada.
The video is at youtube.com/carneyevents.
High hopes for Hope High
Hope Lutheran Church in Port Coquitlam voted January 17 to add grade nine to its
existing kindergarten to grade eight school, beginning in fall 2010. The plan
is to add one grade each year until the school includes kindergarten to grade
12. The school has waiting lists for several of its grades.
The new Hope Lutheran Christian High School will be Christ-centred and focus on
quality education, technology and athletics.
Every student will receive a laptop computer for use throughout the year, and
the school will have a WiFi network.
Information meetings about the new school will be held on the evenings of February 2 and February 8.
A week to show strength
January 31 to February 6 is Catholic Schools’ Week in British Columbia. Catholic schools throughout the province will
participate in local activities to showcase the education they offer. The theme
for the week is ‘Celebrating our Faith: Sharing our Story.’
Grow locally, eat liturgically
Rudi Krause, Robert Lockridge and Ryan Weemhoff, students at Regent College, are
involved in an urban farm project in Vancouver. The purpose is to ‘grow food locally, connect people with the story of the food they eat, connect
food and meals with the liturgical year (the food is being offered between
Advent and Easter) and explore a kingdom-based economy.
Most of the food was grown in three small gardens in east Vancouver, some is
surplus from the A Rocha farm in Surrey, some is surplus fruit harvested in
neighbourhood backyards, and some (such as blackberries) is from plants growing
wild in the city.
The food is picked up by shareholders every second Friday at 1744 Graveley
Street. Many of the shareholders are from that neighbourhood, while others come
from other parts of town, including Regent College. For more info:
604.264.1199.
A Rocha outreach
David and Shauna Anderson became the new directors for A Rocha’s B.C. Field Study Centre in Surrey in November. Shauna, a lawyer, will give
particular attention to linking A Rocha’s Community Shared Agriculture Project with mothers and children living in
challenging financial situations.
David, a biologist and a pastor with a passion for young adult education, will
focus on developing A Rocha’s internship program and connecting with the local community. A Rocha is an
international Christian environmental ministry whose Canadian headquarters is
in Surrey.
Celebration of long lives
The Anglican parish of St. John the Divine in Burnaby held its final eucharist
service January 3. At a vestry meeting November 15, the parishioners voted 78
percent in favour of closure after 110 years of ministry, concluding that there
wasn’t enough money to keep the community going.
The St. Richard parish in the Norgate neighbourhood of North Vancouver held its
last service January 17. That parish also voted in November to close down, after decades of
ministry.
Lion has the magic
Critic Mark Robins named The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – produced by the Christian- based Pacific Theatre – as the best theatre production in Vancouver in 2009.
Robins, who saw about 50 productions last year, called the production “a magical trip back to Narnia that I will not soon forget,” adding: “This was not the magic of special effects, lavish costumes or elaborate sets,
but the magic of great theatre.”
The review appeared online at GayVancouver.net.
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Eastward Ho
Fountain of Faith and Love is a new program for Chinese Catholics running 8 – 9 pm Sunday nights, on radio station AM 1470 in Vancouver. The program is
produced by Chinese Catholics in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver – with the assistance of the Catholic media ministry, Salt and Light Television.
Father Anthony Ho is the main speaker, and oversees production of the Vancouver
segment of the show. The plan is for Vancouver to also join Montreal and
Toronto in a half-hour TV program running Sunday nights on the Salt and Light
cable channel. Some 70 volunteers in Vancouver are working, in areas such as
promotion, fundraising, programming and spiritual direction. – BC Catholic
Multiplied like loaves and fishes
Three professional actors, David Anderson, Laurie Portocarrero and Glen
Williamson, will present The Gospel of John, February 3, 7 pm at St. Dunstan Anglican Church in Aldergrove. Using the words
of a modern translation of the gospel and only a few props, the three actors
portray dozens of characters.
Eating for a good cause
The Scotiabank Feast of Fortune dinner, February 5 at the Continental Seafood
Restaurant in Richmond, is the central component of a fundraising campaign by
the Tapestry Foundation. The aim is to purchase updated operating room
equipment for Mount St. Joseph’s Hospital in Vancouver.
The purchases will include high-tech video imaging equipment, used to guide
laparoscopic surgery. The event is timed to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and
includes a traditional 10-course Chinese meal, live and silent auctions, as well as opportunities for
donors to pledge additional funds.
Contact: 604.877.8336 or tapestryfoundation.ca.
TWU more sporting
Trinity Western University (TWU) will begin competing in six new Canadian
Interuniversity Sport (CIS) categories as early as this fall: men’s and women’s cross country, track and field, and swimming.
These new sports will provide an opportunity for a larger number of students to
compete and are cost effective when compared to team sports.
Currently, TWU has CIS teams in men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and basketball, which have collectively earned 11 national
championship medals including four gold medals.
With the addition of the six teams, the TWU Spartans will now be competing in 12
of the 19 CIS sports.
Different city, same streets
Pat and Vicki Conroy, who founded the Agape Catholic Street Ministry in
Vancouver, moved to Belize in 2007. They have opened Emmaus House, a ministry
for young parolees aged 12 – 19, in Belize City. The house offers the young men an alternative to the gang
culture. – BC Catholic
Bugs in the river
Two interns, Mitch Campbell and Marine Montmagnon, have been working on A Rocha’s Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network project in recent months.
They have been collecting and analyzing freshwater invertebrates (aka ‘bugs’) to determine the water quality of the Little Campbell River watershed. The
invertebrates have different tolerances to pollution, oxygen depletion and
other water quality issues.
A Rocha is an international Christian environmental organization whose Canadian
headquarters is in Surrey.
February 2010
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