Christmas break has started, and students are glad to have a break from school. The last week of school before the break was fun, full of charity and had plenty of sports games for the Mustangs.
The senior and junior boys’ basketball teams each played two home games this week. On Tuesday, the teams played against Central Algoma Secondary school, the juniors winning 31-21. The seniors also played hard against CASS the final score was 37-23 for CASS. On Thursday, the teams played the Blind River Royals, the juniors lost 28-37 and the Seniors lost 21-27. Joe Cassidy, a Grade 9 basketball player, said, “The Blind River game was really well played by our team and theirs.”
The girls’ volleyball teams hosted a home tournament on Wednesday. Ecole Secondaire Catholique Jeneusse-Nord,W.C. Eaket, Espanola Secondary School, and Elliot Lake High School came to play our girls. The junior team won three games and lost one, while the seniors won two and lost two hard fought matches. The Mustang teams are ready to return to the court in the New Year.
SHARE/Go Green’s “Give Change to Make Change” campaign had a great outcome. The staff and students of MSS donated $442.90 to help build a school in Haiti – the winning class was Ms. Desbien’s senior French class. The Fill A Backpack campaign led by Students’ Council gathered school supplies for the refugee students who will be attending MSS has also been progressing well. So far, enough school supplies for two students have been collected.
SHARE/Go Green held a Christmas Pageant and Bake Sale on Tuesday, December 15 at MSS. The group put on a miniature show called Rollin’ in Dough for the audience. The show also included Christmas Carols, sing-a-longs, live music, and a bake sale afterwards. Rebeca Dawson, a SHARE/Go Green executive, said “The pageant went excellently. We had about 50 people and an array of performers from MSS. We put on the play Rollin’ in Dough and Mistletoe, and it was a lot of fun.” SHARE is getting closer to their goal of paying for a school to be built in Haiti. Generosity characterized the good holiday spirit at MSS.
With the Christmas break started hopefully there will be more snow soon, so people can go out on their snowmachines, sliding and make snow people. Have a Happy New Year! ‘Til next time, stay golden, Mustangs.
