Streetfront once again hosted the Vancouver Alternative Schools Volleyball Tournament. This is an amazing sporting event with over a hundred kids playing volleyball for over 5 hours. 3 courts are packed with teams, doing their very best for their respective teams. We had two divisions (Jr’s – grades 8,9 and 10 and Sr’s – grades 11 and 12) competing and the winners met in the ultimate final. 8J9J won the Jr’s division and Spectrum won both the Sr division and the ultimate final.

Streetfront and the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) celebrated Thanksgiving with an amazing celebration. The students harvested food from our garden (rye which was separated and then milled; carrots; kale; spinach; chamomille; herbs) which was turned into bread; chips; tea and muffins.

It was wonderful for the students to see their efforts come to this beautiful fruition. To actually eat the food that you grow and care for is something that very few of can claim.

2013 is proving to be a great snow year. We’ve been getting out and playing as much as possible. Numerous snowshoe and snow board/skiing trips have already begun. Most of these out trips will help prepare the kids for our upcoming winter camp trip on Cypress mountain.

Streetfront headed down to Seattle early on Saturday November 24 for their annual marathon trip. We met at the portable at 5:45 am, with our ID; running shoes and sleeping bags ready to go.

After a quick stop at the outlet malls, we boarded the bus and went straight to the Marathon Expo and volunteered for 4 hours. After that, we went to a restaurant to fuel up in preparation for the big day.

We woke on Sunday to cloudy skies but were ecstatic that it wasn’t raining. Those running the Half Marathon were ready to go at 7:30 am and the Full Marathon kids started at 8:15 am. Its always inspiring to see these young kids, all with incredible person stories, lace up their shoes and do something that almost no other kids would ever think of attempting.

We at Streetfront are so proud of all their efforts and can’t wait for Vancouver in May 2013.

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