b'68 HOORAYSA big shout out goes to Education Assistant Angela Behn at Forest Park Elementary who won the Canadian Special Olympics FemaleCoach of the year.Angela received her award in Toronto.CONGRATULATIONS! 68 Hoorays goes out to Parry Harder for decorating his schoolbus and always keeping the kids in Cedar safe on his bus.Big shout out goes to the NLPS carpentry crew who haveconverted Brechin Elementarys computer lab into a multi-useroom.Thank you so much for all of your hard work! 68 Hoorays goes out to Sandra Shahi, Colin Entner andNicolette Zuydervelt who put so much time and energy into carpentry crew creating an entertaining Talent Show at Uplands ParkElementary School.The students excelled at sharing theirtalents with their whole school and community.Much love to the Learning Alternatives music students aka Alt68.Your first music video and leadership from your producer Steve Jay-Z Holmberg is just the start of HUGE things to come.The energy and passion you all demonstrate inspire our school and community to take risks and move out of our comfort zone.Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato 68 Hoorays for Ladysmith Secondary (LSS), who recently hosted88 Japanese students and staff from Furukawa School in Japan. The Ladysmith and Nanaimo communities opened their hearts and homes to welcome the students for this short but culturally richexperience.LSS students and staff hosted fun evening activitiesto showcase the talent in the Fine Arts program. Visitors participated in stations doing improv, making Christmascrafts, photos with Santa and a Canadian themed photo booth. On Monday, our guests were welcomed at LSS to experience Canadian school life and the Furukawa students offered stationsin the LSS gym to share Japanese culture games, crafts, traditional clothing, wrestling and more.This time honouredannual event was once again asuccess for all! Ladysmith SecondaryPage9 Page12'