If you graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary when Captain and Tennille’s Love Will Keep Us Together topped the charts in Canada, you have until Feb. 15 to register for your 40th reunion.
Central’s Class of ‘75 will celebrate its four-decades reunion May 23 at the Executive Inn in Burnaby.
The cost is $50, and tickets purchased by Feb. 1 will be eligible for an early-bird draw.
Tickets and space are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis
Grads who can’t make it are asked to let organizers know by emailing [email protected], so they can be taken off the “missing persons” list.
Organizers are also looking for donations of door prizes.
For more information or to register and pay online, visit burnabycentral75.weebly.com.
Students help school go green
Burnaby North Secondary’s Enviro Club got a head start on Metro Vancouver’s ban on organic waste in regional landfills that took effect Jan. 1.
Before the new year, the group rooted through a day’s worth of their school’s garbage, sorting it into different categories and weighing it.
“We want to establish a baseline of the waste Burnaby North students make before we implement green bins in the school,” said Owen Yin, a Grade 11 student and Enviro Club executive. “After the green bins are introduced to classrooms, we can conduct another audit and then we’ll be able to determine how much food waste we were able to divert from landfills.”
The students collected a total of 55.5 kilograms of waste from the school’s North building and concluded 63 per cent of it was compostable.
“If we were able to compost all our food-scrap waste, we would divert almost a tonne of waste every month,” said Dalton Woo, a Grade 11 student and club executive.
To see an online interactive display of the waste the club collected, visit audit.silk.co.
Gaming grants help schools
Burnaby school parent advisory councils (PACs) got more than half a million dollars in gaming grants to play with this year.
Every year, all B.C. independent and public school PACs are eligible to receive $20 per student to enhance extracurricular activities, and local schools took in $506,600.
That’s down $5,920 from last year because of lower enrolment.
How the money is used is up to individual PACs.
At Seaforth Elementary, for example, parents helped pay for an annual Santa Breakfast, as well as other fun classroom extras, like games and puzzles for “inside days,” Grade 7 graduation activities, and Thrilling Thursdays – lunch events for primary student that have featured everything from Zumba dancing to exotic animal exhibits.
Seaforth parents are also saving up for a playground upgrade.
“Unfortunately it takes a long time to raise $50,000,” PAC chair Cheryl Healey said.
As the district’s biggest school, Burnaby North Secondary got the largest grant at $37,800, while Marlborough Elementary topped elementary schools at $19,520.
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