June 3rd, 2011-Tatiana Clarke Sings Her Award Winning Song

Posted by Adam MacKinnon 
on Jun 3, 2011
 

 

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 Cornwall and Ron Toyota from Crescent Beach, BC.  Tamara Lorincz was also visiting; she is going to apply for the Rotary Peace Scholarship.

 

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 Joseph A. MacKay School.  Laura is a teacher and a literacy coach and Tatiana is a student there.  Joseph A. MacKay has been in Halifax for a long time, it has survived the Halifax explosion.  The kids there are exciting, creative, and passionate. 

 

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.