June 3rd, 2011-Tatiana Clarke Sings Her Award Winning Song
Today was another fantastic day in Rotary. Lots of Happy Bucks, two awesome guest speakers, and a great song. Tatiana Clarke, a student at Joseph A. MacKay school was in to sing us a song that she wrote and won an award for. It was a very moving performance.
June 3rd, 2011
Today was a fantastic day in Rotary. Lots of Happy Bucks, two awesome guest speakers, and a great song.
We had a few visiting Rotarians, Wayne Lawrence from
Paul Radford was on T.V last week so he was fined. Paul Bethel’s wife hasn’t had her baby yet but I don’t think he was fined for this. Paul Roy was happy because he was at the ‘Get to Know Rotary’ event and said it was great. Bonnie through in a few dollars and announce that she is taking a leave of absence next year to take her Masters (from the School, not Rotary, whew!). Andrew threw in a fine to announce that he is starting a new business and Ken was also fined for announcing that his 96.5 was voted the #1 radio station in Metro.
We were then educated and entertained by our guest speakers, Laura King and Tatiana Clarke from
The cuts have affected Joseph A. MacKay in a big way. There is much this school is lacking. Right now Joseph A. MacKay has a breakfast program that serves 40 students every day.
The school is in need of a reading club and a homework club. The students need volunteers to read and to do math problems with them. They need tennis balls, basketballs, a projector screen, chalk. They need some very basic needs and need people to spend time with the children. Karen gave us a lot to think about, some schools are obviously hit harder from budget cuts then others.
We were then treated to a song by our second guest, Tatiana Clarke. Tatiana just recently won the Council of African Canadian Education Provincial Challenge Contest. She did this by writing and singing a song ‘Black Nova Scotian’. Tatiana sang this song for us at the meeting. It was amazing.
