The 2006 Community Breakfast: students rise to the challenge at Laval Liberty and Laval Junior High Schools

As in previous years, Ms. Crystal Walters organized teachers at both Laval Junior and Laval Liberty High School to prepare the food. From coffee to pancakes, they made it all, and it tasted fabulous.

With activities going on during and after breakfast, students continued to celebrate until mid-day.

Thanks to the school band, the bingo match, hip-hop and Greek dancing, singing, treasure hunt, ornament and card making, fundraising by Ms. Edgerley’s special education class, prizes donated by generous sponsors, and finally a successful multicultural fashion show, we partied into the December holidays on a good note.

Throughout the celebration, students were reminded that they were fundraising for less fortunate community members. Jared Corallo, Secondary Five student said, “I’m glad I had so much fun for such a good cause!”

Students celebrated the unity of the school community, basking in the cheery atmosphere brewing in the halls. Secondary Five student Janani Sivakumaran remarked, “The community united so well. I never expected to see something like this on a regular school day.”

Secondary One and Two students from Laval Junior High School made a phenomenal contribution by helping out in almost every aspect of this event, such as decorations, pre-preparations, and waitressing. Many junior students attended the Community Breakfast with family members this year and we thank them for collaborating with senior students to raise an impressive sum for our donation.

We hope to have left a good impression on the public who so generously attended the breakfast in large numbers, and that we have inspired the organizers of future Community Breakfasts.

Have you ever picked up a book, noticed its plain cover and put it down? Sometimes observers underestimate our schools. But we know that our school life tells a whole other story, and the 2006 Community Breakfast is a good example of the many significant and positive dimensions that make up these two communities at 3200 Souvenir Boulevard.

Rosi Abitbol & Vicky Sgouromitis are senior students at Laval Liberty High School of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board.(Photo: Martin Alarie)