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Students celebrate Sports Day at RHS
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca Quatre entreprises s’unissent pour aider Sports Day in Canada was over the weekend on Nov. 21. But since there is no school on a Saturday in Canada, close to 100 students at Russell High School (RHS) elected to celebrate the national sports and Russell High students got the jump on Canada’s national fitness celebration day.
physical fitness day on the Friday morning before instead. Gordon Zubyck, RHS teacher liaison for the event, explained that the goal of Sports Day is getting physically active, regardless whether as part of a team sport or somethingmore individual.«The focus is more on participation,» he said.
volleyball and pushball. One further highlight of themorning was presentation of a $10,000 cheque fromRBC from the national bank’s Learn to Play grant program. The money will go towards pur- chase of gymnastics tumbling mats along with instructional resource texts and other
On ice or asphalt, hockey is Canada’s game and when there’s no ice to be had, a game of street hockey for Sports Day works just as well.
This year’s Sports Day at RHS had students given the option of going off for a bicycle jaunt along the recreational trail between the villages of Embrun and Russell, hea- ding down to the Russell ice rink for a few rounds of shinny, chasing after an orange ball in street hockey games at the back of the school, or staying inside the gym and spending time on the courts for basketball,
items on basic gymnastics, portable tennis and badminton nets and racquets, agility challenge gear to help with track-and-field training, and floor scooters and push poles for use in learning basic paddling techniques for canoeing and kayaking. The equipment will be available for use by both students at RHS and their elementary counterparts at Cambridge Public School.
Quatre compagnies de la région ont fait un don de 1000 $ à la Banque alimentaire C.C.S. à Casselman, le 18 novembre dernier. Ce don aidera la banque alimentaire à préparer des paniers de Noël qui seront distribués aux familles dans le besoin. Sur la photo, on reconnaît Mario Laplante de la compagnie 417 Bus Line Ltd, Marc Brisson de la Fondation Brisson et Serge Charette de Casselman Tire. À l’avant, on voit Laura Beaudry, Diane Perreault et Chanelle Beaudry, toutes les trois volontaires à la banque alimentaire, ainsi que Carole McMaster de Physio Casselman.
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