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The junior high group has been involved with a number of initiatives as of late, which include the following:
Camp Trip preparation: Each junior high group will be heading out for three day backpacking trips in early June. The trips will occur at the Point Campground at Upper Kananaskis Lake, which is a 4 km hike from the camp site. The students are responsible for packing their backpacks and planning and supplying all of their food for the camp.
Track and Field: We have approximately 15 athletes training for the Foothills Track and Field Meet on May 25th. The athletes are competing in sprint and long distance running as well as jumping and throwing events. We have been fortunate to have Mrs. Simard assisting with the coaching this year!
Calaway Park: The students are off to Calaway Park on May 27th for our annual science day activities. The students complete activities looking at mechanical systems and structures and forces while at the park.
We have also begun preparations for next years' elementary school cross country running program. We have had great success with our program and plan to host another successful race next year! Beginning this week, we will be starting our running practices for the children! We look forward to seeing many students out!
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Longview School ~ Let Learning Soar - 50 Years & Growing
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Longview students and staff are so proud of Brielle Goss for being honoured by the Royal Canadian Legion for her Remembrance Day Poster. On Thursday, May 5th at the Turner Valley Branch during a moving awards ceremony and reception, students were recognized for their artistic and literary talents around the theme of Remembrance. All the students did a wonderful job in recognizing those individuals, past and present, who have served our country during war and peacekeeping missions. Everyone at Longview School would like to send a big Thank You to Mr. Day and everyone at the Turner Valley Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion for everything that they have done.
The first, second and third place winners in each of the artistic and literacy categories were announced. Students were escorted by the Sgt. at Arms to the front of the room. Veterans expressed their appreciation for the wonderful job the students had done and students were given an award. Brielle's submission was a beautiful black and white pencil sketch entitled 'The Cost of Freedom' which included a large cross with a long shadow, smaller crosses scattered all over a hill and a large Canadian Flag in the middle. All the posters and stories/poems were posted on the walls around the Legion for everyone in attendance to view.
The Legion was full of proud students, parents, brothers/sisters, grandparents, teachers and friends because of the important accomplishments of these students. Brielle won three different awards for her poster, to her surprise. She received first place in the youth category for black and white posters. She then received first place for the poster at the Area Level and second place for the poster at the District Level. Brielle and all Longview students are very proud of their school and take great pride in being an eagle. The saying is, 'Once an eagle, always an eagle' which is about the qualities, characteristics and behaviors we foster in our students. It is very important to our school that our students represent themselves, as well as, their school to the highest standard possible and they know it. At Longview School we have many reasons for being proud and we celebrate them at every opportunity. Congratulations Brielle for always 'Doing Your Best' in everything that you do and for representing yourself, your family and Longview School so very well!!
Longview students and staff are so proud of Brielle Goss for being honoured by the Royal Canadian Legion for her Remembrance Day Poster. On Thursday, May 5th at the Turner Valley Branch during a moving awards ceremony and reception, students were recognized for their artistic and literary talents around the theme of Remembrance. All the students did a wonderful job in recognizing those individuals, past and present, who have served our country during war and peacekeeping missions. Everyone at Longview School would like to send a big Thank You to Mr. Day and everyone at the Turner Valley Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion for everything that they have done.
The first, second and third place winners in each of the artistic and literacy categories were announced. Students were escorted by the Sgt. at Arms to the front of the room. Veterans expressed their appreciation for the wonderful job the students had done and students were given an award. Brielle's submission was a beautiful black and white pencil sketch entitled 'The Cost of Freedom' which included a large cross with a long shadow, smaller crosses scattered all over a hill and a large Canadian Flag in the middle. All the posters and stories/poems were posted on the walls around the Legion for everyone in attendance to view.
The Legion was full of proud students, parents, brothers/sisters, grandparents, teachers and friends because of the important accomplishments of these students. Brielle won three different awards for her poster, to her surprise. She received first place in the youth category for black and white posters. She then received first place for the poster at the Area Level and second place for the poster at the District Level. Brielle and all Longview students are very proud of their school and take great pride in being an eagle. The saying is, 'Once an eagle, always an eagle' which is about the qualities, characteristics and behaviors we foster in our students. It is very important to our school that our students represent themselves, as well as, their school to the highest standard possible and they know it. At Longview School we have many reasons for being proud and we celebrate them at every opportunity. Congratulations Brielle for always 'Doing Your Best' in everything that you do and for representing yourself, your family and Longview School so very well!!
Longview Link By Chey Nickerson
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On May 20th and 21st the Wrangler Reunion. Wrangler reunited at the Roadhouse for the long weekend and lots of people dropped in to say Hello to Eva and the gang.
Longview spring clean up was on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd. For more information and for pick up please contact 403-558-3600.
The Longview Library will be celebrating Senior's Week with their annual Strawberry Tea at the Community Hall in Longview on June 8th from 2:00 to 4:00pm. Everyone is welcome and I can vouch for the strawberries and fresh cream....it's wonderful so stop by, see your neighbors and friends or meet new ones.
The trees are starting to bud, grass is getting a bit greener and soon the streets will be cleaned of the debris and stones of the winter; watch for street cleaning schedule on the sign boards in Longview. We appreciate the residents moving the vehicles off the streets as we attempt to clean them.
The grass clipping area is again open for leaves and grass clippings only. Once more, thanks to everyone for their cooperation.
Hope everyone had a safe and fun filled long weekend.
On May 20th and 21st the Wrangler Reunion. Wrangler reunited at the Roadhouse for the long weekend and lots of people dropped in to say Hello to Eva and the gang.
Longview spring clean up was on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd. For more information and for pick up please contact 403-558-3600.
The Longview Library will be celebrating Senior's Week with their annual Strawberry Tea at the Community Hall in Longview on June 8th from 2:00 to 4:00pm. Everyone is welcome and I can vouch for the strawberries and fresh cream....it's wonderful so stop by, see your neighbors and friends or meet new ones.
The trees are starting to bud, grass is getting a bit greener and soon the streets will be cleaned of the debris and stones of the winter; watch for street cleaning schedule on the sign boards in Longview. We appreciate the residents moving the vehicles off the streets as we attempt to clean them.
The grass clipping area is again open for leaves and grass clippings only. Once more, thanks to everyone for their cooperation.
Hope everyone had a safe and fun filled long weekend.
The Life of A Scientific Artist
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There is now scientific proof that thoughts can actually create physical manifestations or events. Think about the implications! Here's an example: if you've ever imagined that you 'will eventually get caught speeding', you've already imagined the officer pulling you over. This is all that is needed to create the event. I repeat, there is proof of this! Along the same lines, if 'misery loves company' and the reward for being miserable is to acquire company, then the misery perpetuates itself. So, on the flip side, if you: 'laugh, and the world laughs with you,' you are also acquiring company to laugh alongside you.
Despite all this, happy thoughts don't 'sell' the nightly news or the daily paper. The media is just another industry that knows exactly how to manifest what they want: Ratings and sales. And so, we read the emblazoned black words, gasp at the horrifying images, we hear the dark tones in the anchor's voice. We even buy the magazines and then re-live them with our loved ones. Misery loves company indeed. So I say: Down with misery! There is too much stress in our world to continue encouraging it. Stop assuming that 'no news is good news.' If that were true, why would we need broadcasters? Find more of the happy stories and more of the funny anecdotes. Write them down and spread the news everyday. Happy people find creative solutions to a problem and they rise up. Just like artists. We artists have our places in every industry. We are the problem solvers, historians, culture-builders, environmentalists, entertainers, animal conservationists, teachers, inspirers and dreamers. We encourage the light. Now, the next time you watch the news, read the paper and listen to friends you'll be wondering… where's the happy? Science says you can become the happy. Our world deserves it.
~Love and light from The Real RobiN Thibodeau
allseasonchick@gmail.com
Publishers note: And here folks you have the reason why the Gateway Gazette is the place you will find The Life of an Artist series, amongst many other bright, positive, fun, quirky and especially local pieces that we all need more and more of. Thank you Robin.
There is now scientific proof that thoughts can actually create physical manifestations or events. Think about the implications! Here's an example: if you've ever imagined that you 'will eventually get caught speeding', you've already imagined the officer pulling you over. This is all that is needed to create the event. I repeat, there is proof of this! Along the same lines, if 'misery loves company' and the reward for being miserable is to acquire company, then the misery perpetuates itself. So, on the flip side, if you: 'laugh, and the world laughs with you,' you are also acquiring company to laugh alongside you.
Despite all this, happy thoughts don't 'sell' the nightly news or the daily paper. The media is just another industry that knows exactly how to manifest what they want: Ratings and sales. And so, we read the emblazoned black words, gasp at the horrifying images, we hear the dark tones in the anchor's voice. We even buy the magazines and then re-live them with our loved ones. Misery loves company indeed. So I say: Down with misery! There is too much stress in our world to continue encouraging it. Stop assuming that 'no news is good news.' If that were true, why would we need broadcasters? Find more of the happy stories and more of the funny anecdotes. Write them down and spread the news everyday. Happy people find creative solutions to a problem and they rise up. Just like artists. We artists have our places in every industry. We are the problem solvers, historians, culture-builders, environmentalists, entertainers, animal conservationists, teachers, inspirers and dreamers. We encourage the light. Now, the next time you watch the news, read the paper and listen to friends you'll be wondering… where's the happy? Science says you can become the happy. Our world deserves it.
~Love and light from The Real RobiN Thibodeau
allseasonchick@gmail.com
Publishers note: And here folks you have the reason why the Gateway Gazette is the place you will find The Life of an Artist series, amongst many other bright, positive, fun, quirky and especially local pieces that we all need more and more of. Thank you Robin.
Faith Forum ~ He Knows and Loves Me SO WELL….By Gloria Wessner
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Today's Faith Forum was written by King David (the same one of 'David and Goliath' fame). Here he has an open dialog with God, and we learn a great deal of how to be open with God while at the same time realizing how well he actually knows us already. After you read this psalm, it's great to know that we are so loved!
It is very tempting to break this passage up and discuss it as it goes; but it says so much in a single read that I would encourage you to do that. At the end I will give you more thoughts on it.
"1) God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
I'm never out of your sight.
You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too
your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful
I can't take it all in!
2) Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you're there!
If I go underground, you're there!
If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,
You'd find me in a minute
you're already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I'm immersed in the light!"
It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
3) Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration what a creation!
You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
4) Your thoughts how rare, how beautiful!
God, I'll never comprehend them!
I couldn't even begin to count them any more than I could count the sand of the sea.
Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
And please, God, do away with wickedness for good!
And you murderers out of here!
all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations
See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred.
Your enemies are my enemies!
5) Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;
See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong then guide me on the road to eternal life." Psalm 139 (From The Message, copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.)
We're an 'open book' to God because as this first part of the psalm says, he created us. If I make a pottery piece or fashion a work of art, I know my work, inside and out, because I created it. This is the way it is between me and God, because he formed and fashioned me.
The second part talks about how God is literally everywhere, never leaving me alone anywhere - even in the dark. It's the same as light to him; and therefore very safe for me.
My favorite part of this psalm, though I love all of it, is the third part because of its exceptional intimate picture of how God created me, and every single one of us as an individual. The scripture here makes no secret about when life starts for each individual - at conception. It talks in detail of when a person is in the womb and how God is there with them, overseeing and watching each stage of development. God has each day of our life set and equipped, and he knows how we're going to live it - even before we actually do!
When I get up in the morning, my prayer should be that I'll live that day with God, whatever he brings my way that day. I believe that David was so enthralled and in love with God, and excited about living with God each day; that he was expressing his feelings about those who didn't love God like he did. Instead, those people (as they do today) chose to do evil and belittle the God he adores and substitute cheap 'god-imitations' (anything that takes the place of God), instead of living with and for the real deal - God Himself.
In the last part of the psalm, David seems to be inviting God to 'check him out' to see how pure he is so that he is as free as he can be from wrongdoings so that nothing hinders him from following God down that path to eternal life.
Perhaps you find your own heart longing to know God as intimately as David does. Nothing needs to keep you from this relationship except your own willingness to let him in. He's “already there waiting” as our psalm says. Feel free to write me at gloriawes@hotmail.com, and I'll be glad to discuss with you how you, too, can have this intimate relationship with God.
Today's Faith Forum was written by King David (the same one of 'David and Goliath' fame). Here he has an open dialog with God, and we learn a great deal of how to be open with God while at the same time realizing how well he actually knows us already. After you read this psalm, it's great to know that we are so loved!
It is very tempting to break this passage up and discuss it as it goes; but it says so much in a single read that I would encourage you to do that. At the end I will give you more thoughts on it.
"1) God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
I'm never out of your sight.
You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too
your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful
I can't take it all in!
2) Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you're there!
If I go underground, you're there!
If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,
You'd find me in a minute
you're already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I'm immersed in the light!"
It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
3) Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration what a creation!
You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
4) Your thoughts how rare, how beautiful!
God, I'll never comprehend them!
I couldn't even begin to count them any more than I could count the sand of the sea.
Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
And please, God, do away with wickedness for good!
And you murderers out of here!
all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations
See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred.
Your enemies are my enemies!
5) Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;
See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong then guide me on the road to eternal life." Psalm 139 (From The Message, copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.)
We're an 'open book' to God because as this first part of the psalm says, he created us. If I make a pottery piece or fashion a work of art, I know my work, inside and out, because I created it. This is the way it is between me and God, because he formed and fashioned me.
The second part talks about how God is literally everywhere, never leaving me alone anywhere - even in the dark. It's the same as light to him; and therefore very safe for me.
My favorite part of this psalm, though I love all of it, is the third part because of its exceptional intimate picture of how God created me, and every single one of us as an individual. The scripture here makes no secret about when life starts for each individual - at conception. It talks in detail of when a person is in the womb and how God is there with them, overseeing and watching each stage of development. God has each day of our life set and equipped, and he knows how we're going to live it - even before we actually do!
When I get up in the morning, my prayer should be that I'll live that day with God, whatever he brings my way that day. I believe that David was so enthralled and in love with God, and excited about living with God each day; that he was expressing his feelings about those who didn't love God like he did. Instead, those people (as they do today) chose to do evil and belittle the God he adores and substitute cheap 'god-imitations' (anything that takes the place of God), instead of living with and for the real deal - God Himself.
In the last part of the psalm, David seems to be inviting God to 'check him out' to see how pure he is so that he is as free as he can be from wrongdoings so that nothing hinders him from following God down that path to eternal life.
Perhaps you find your own heart longing to know God as intimately as David does. Nothing needs to keep you from this relationship except your own willingness to let him in. He's “already there waiting” as our psalm says. Feel free to write me at gloriawes@hotmail.com, and I'll be glad to discuss with you how you, too, can have this intimate relationship with God.
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