HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2011-04-06, Page 15Mini Me to We celebrates students' work
Sum Htrlldertnlatk
Inspired to "be the change" after par-
ticipating in Free the Children's Me to
We conferences in Toronto, students
have returned to Iluron and Perth
Counties full of ideas of how to improve
the lives of those in developing nations
• and dose to home.
A mini Me to We conference, held for
the third year at the Blyth Festival 'theatre,
is the place where Iluron and Perth
County students can share their ideas and
their succe'ses with social justice projects,
said organizer Kathy Douglas.
"I wanted to give kids a chance to
model Free the Children, with that
emphasis on changing the world so
they could get a chance to celebrate
what they're done," she said.
As art student Becky Caissie, of
Goderich District Collegiate Institute
created an oil painting on stage, the
mini Me to We event in Blyth invited
local groups on stage to share their
school and church projects.
Schools such as Wingham Public
School, Northwestern Secondary School,
St. Anne's Secondary School, Central
Iluron Secondary School shared their
Snakebite
coming to Music
in the Fields
Gartt Reid
Lucknow Sentinel
The 2011 line-up for the third annual
Lucknow Music in the Fields was
announced on April 1 at Finlayson's Res-
taurant to a packed house of dignitaries,
Lucknow Kinsmen, media, friends and
family.
The one -day music festival, organized
by the local Kinsmen Club (co-chaired by
Rick McMurray and Ken Irvin), will take
place on the Lucknow soccer fields, Aug.
27. The big news of the day was the
announcement of pelfortllers Blake Shel-
ton, Lonest(u-, Jason McCoy, Victoria
Banks, Dry County, River Junction Land
and Snakebite.
'the Kinsmen said they sur looking this
year to really move forward and make this
one of the top one -day summer concerts
in Midwestern Ontario. Jordan Andrew,
the events spokesperson for Music in the
Fields, thinks this year's lineup and overall
concert atmosphere will snake it their best
concert yet.
"Our outlook is long terns as opposed to
short tern) 111(1 Wt' all agree with that and
we want to keep growing as much as we
possibly can;' said Andrew. "'this year we
air cupping ticket sales at 6,0XX) and we art'
confident we are going to hit that this year.
A big reason 1 think we can get there is
because of the names we have this year''
I Ieadlbning the concert will be Blake
Shelton. 'the CMA's 2010 Male Vocalist of
the Year brings his popular style of totality
music to this year's festival stage. In 2001,
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food drives, sale of Christmas
ornaments, days of silence,
30 -hour famines, walk-a-
thons and other projects to
support mothers In Sierra
Leone, build schools overseas
and support organizations
and causes like Amnesty Inter-
national, World Vision, I lurri-
cane Katrina, earthquakes in
1lalti and Japan.
Church youth groups like
the ones from Walton and
Bluevale United Churches
and St, Peter's Church 1n
Kingsbridge talked about the
schools they've help to build
in Sierra Leone and the mis-
sion trip they took to Costa
Rica where they helped build
a playground.
Megan Cardno, of the (;lob&
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about the need to share idem
and continue to do the work
for social Justice.
"Fundraising is an amazing
way of working together for a
common cause. l want to see
us continue the Iluron County
tradition of having compassion
for people in need," she said.
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