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Volunteers, bus tickets and breakfast needed in Maple Ridge
Suburban living doesn’t get much better than in Maple Ridge, says Trevor Connor, principal of Maple Ridge Secondary. And on a bright day in the midst of the tidy, well-kept...
2016/2017
Telus, Hyatt join forces to help school: Family day at Beaconsfield part of ongoing contribution to community
Earlier this year, Lord Beaconsfield Elementary’s classroom computer system that was on the verge of collapsewas rescued by a $25,000 Telus donation to The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign. The school...
2015/2016
Community comes to rescue of hungry families in Surrey
Such is the state of poverty in some North Surrey homes that a family recently had only a single onion to eat between them all weekend. “That’s all they had,”...
2015/2016
Homeless teens often stay hidden
Homelessness among teenagers is an invisible epidemic, says Dawne Tomlinson, principal of Langley Secondary. “You will see homeless adults in Langley but you won’t see homeless teenagers because they are...
2015/2016
Truck makes hefty Christmas haul; London Drugs marks fifth annual toy run with donations to five schools
It’s not a sleigh, and there are no reindeer, but there are Santa’s helpers, so when that big blue and white truck pulled up outside Bonaccord elementary school in Surrey...
2015/2016
Meet a success story: Teen mom credits her education and career to CABE program
This time of year, charity fatigue often sets in. As we’re busily recovering from the bounty that is Christmas, or maybe even planning to hit a few Boxing Day sales,...
2015/2016
Beedie Group helps children in need, stepping forward to ‘adopt’ neighborhood school
It’s Friday and lunch day at Burnaby’s Douglas Road Elementary and there’s nothing but joy on the face of principal Mary-Ann Brown as she dishes out the macaroni and cheese...
2015/2016
London Drugs toy run is all about Christmas spirit
Should you be in search of the spirit of Christmas, so often lost in the rush to retail and piles of wrapping paper, look no farther than the delighted face...
2014/2015
SOS saves families from hunger
Each month the SOS room in the basement of Norquay elementary offers a lifeline to as many as 14 impoverished families. The acronym stands for Support Our Students but it’s...
2014/2015
Donors help Charlie’s Closet keep Tupper secondary students well dressed
A year ago Charlie’s Closet was almost bare – just two used T-shirts on a rickety clothes rack in a small storage room at Tupper secondary school in east Vancouver....
2014/2015
Canucks coach Willie Desjardins returns to class to talk to kids about teamwork
A qualified social worker and holder of two teaching degrees, Willie Desjardins has a curious background for a National Hockey League coach. But it showed to good effect Friday in...
2014/2015
A closet for students who don’t have one at home
There are some students attending Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Secondary who own their own cars. And there are some who own only the clothes on their backs. The gulf that...
2014/2015
CABE looks after teen mothers and their children
For many Grade 12 students, graduation year is a hectic but fabled time of anticipation and excitement as the world beyond the classroom waits. But for Vanessa Ellingson — the...
2014/2015
Burnaby school breakfast program gets boost from group of businesswomen
In 2011, The Vancouver Sun’s Children’s Fund sent $11,000 to Edmonds Community School to pay for breakfasts for the 45 children coming to school hungry every day. “We’ve just about...
2014/2015
Providing for young moms — and babies
Kayci is 16 weeks old and her mother Shakayla Bowe is 16 years old — a symmetry of weeks and years that will never come again. And if those numbers...
2013/2014
Canucks icon Trevor Linden scores with inner-city school
The largest collection of Canucks jerseys seen so far this fall were one the backs of kids and teachers stuffed in the gym of Surrey’s Mary Jane Shannon elementary in...
2012/2013
Vancouver Rotary Club feeds hungry kids at Norquay Elementary
A few years ago there was a feeling within the Vancouver Rotary Club that perhaps it was time to redirect its charitable energies to something other than providing breakfast for...
2012/2013
Best Buy donates musical instruments, bringing rock’n’roll to Burnaby school
The well-to-do can wear jeans full of holes but for a poor boy jeans ripped almost to the crotch and held together by pins and embarrassment are a stigma, not...
2012/2013
Surrey breakfast program gives kids food for thought
In September, the Surrey school district took the hesitant step of providing a breakfast – of sorts – to almost 600 hungry children in eight inner-city schools where the poverty...
2011/2012
Surrey breakfast program feeding hungry students, keeping them in school
“A six-year-old that’s hungry is not a pretty picture.” Pat Horstead’s observation, which creates the disturbing image of childhood cuteness distorted by want, came Wednesday in a small cupboard of...
2011/2012
From bombs to books; Indomitable spirit of ESL students inspired principal to write book
From the outside, Edmonds community school looks like an ordinary neighbourhood school. But inside, it is a microcosm. Four out of five students were born outside Canada, more than half...
2011/2012
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