Seattle Marathon 2015

The last weekend of November each year we head down to Seattle to run the full and half marathons. This year we had our largest group with 16 running the 42.2 km distance and 8 running the 21.1 km – and every one was successful! Thanks for Trevor and Brandon Steele for motivating the youth on the course to be superstars.

At our pre-race dinner.

Sage thinks his smile works on everyone.

Gord gets a birthday ice cream

All prepped up and ready to run!

Every Seattle Marathon has to end with lunch at Dick’s.

January 26, 2016 0

Hollyburn Snowshoeing

If the falling snow we snowshoed to the Scouts cabin we will be staying at for our winter camp trip in February.

January 26, 2016 0

We are still here

We might have been quiet on posting updates about what we have been doing but we have certainly been busy the last two months. We will have a series of posts to catch you all up.

January 26, 2016 0

Lighthouse Park Hike: Nov. 19th, 2015

After a few days of high winds and rain we took the opportunity to get out to the water and trails of Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver and bask in the sunshine.

November 20, 2015 0

In the Garden Nov. 9th

Our main tasks today in the garden was to aerate the compost, pull weeds and dead plants for composting, seeding cover crops and nitrogen fixing plants, adding leaves for winter protection and erosion control, harvesting potatoes and leeks, and planting garlic. This week we will make potato salad and potato leek soup with our bounty!

November 10, 2015 0

Canucks Visit Streetfront

After our return from the bowling tournament we had our annual visit from Vancouver Canucks Rod Brathwaite (Manager, Community Partnerships & Hockey Development). Rod was joined this time by Alfred De Vera (Media Relations) who was eager to meet and speak with our students.

They left us with a gift of box seats for Dec. 26th game against the Edmonton Oilers. Thank you Canucks for this great opportunity!

Canucks Rod Brathwaite (Manager, Community Partnerships & Hockey Development). Rod was joined this time by Alfred De Vera (Media Relations) spoke with our students.

November 9, 2015 0

3rd Annual Alt. Bowling Tournament

Today Streetfront participated in the 3rd Annual Alt. Bowling Tournament at REVS along with 10 other VSB alternative schools. While we didn’t win the Bergeron Cup we had several strikes, too many gutter balls to count and a lot of fun! Thanks to Foundation Alt. for hosting yet another fun tournament and congratulations to Outreach Alternative for winning the tournament!!

I wish the general public can see these tournaments, the annual Arts Fair and Sports Days when Vancouver’s Alt. Schools come together because they would see a diverse, talented and energetic group of youth.

November 7, 2015 0

Deep Cove Training Run

We had 16 youth (of a possible 28 for the Seattle Marathon) running the 19 km Deep Cove route today – and in record time too! Well done gang!

Post-run group shot finding them still looking fresh.

November 5, 2015 0

CLICK video: “Jesse’s Journey”

Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids (CLICK) is a community-based, non-profit foundation that was initiated to help inner city children and youth in Vancouver. They are a great supporters of the students at Streetfront. They have produced this touching story highlighting a former students journey. Jessie does a great job in representing many of the challenges our student’s have and do face in their lives. Well done Jessie and thank you for representing your peers so well and sharing your story!

November 1, 2015 0

Cycling at the Burnaby Velodrome

On Thursday our students had the fantastic opportunity to try their hand at the sport of cycling on a velodrome track. There wasn’t anyone in the Streetfront class (students and staff included) who could say they were not intimidated by this sport that sees one cycling around a track that had up to 47 degrees in pitch! We would like to thank Nikki from Urban Native Youth Association and Michael from Burnaby Veldrome for giving us this opportunity and expert guidance. We hope to return soon to this wonderful sport.