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Chicken suits principal?

Students of Paisley Road school (front, from left) Anastasia Arenzia, Hayley Keefe, Haleigh Young and Maryam Felfel were delighted to see their principal, David Marquis, don a chicken suit to reward the school for a successful fundraising campaign. The students sold frozen chicken in the hopes of raising money to purchase a new sign for the school. Marquis had promised to dress as a chicken, provided the kids managed to sell at least 200 boxes of chicken. They more than doubled that goal, selling over 500 boxes and raising $3,400.

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Tall order

Michael Adam, left, and Aidan Obbema took advantage of good packing snow last weekend and created this eight-foot-tall snowman. Obbema started to make the snowman in the morning by himself but realized the job was getting too big for one person, so he called his life-long friend to help him finish it.

204473 City hall glide Krista McElroy enjoys a skate on the rink in front of city hall, with Church of Our Lady in the background. She was there with Dallas Green (not shown) last Friday, making use of the natural ice rink created this winter. It’s a preview of the skating that will happen starting next winter on an artificial ice rink to be built as part of a civic square in front of the new city hall.

204466 Royals look for boost in profile, attendance Diamond

204456 Ending poverty Guelph Community Health Centre executive director Konnie Pee, left, and University of Guelph professor Linda Hawkins discuss the matters at hand at the launch of the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination’s Community Plan. The plan was launched at an open house event at city hall on Tuesday afternoon. Some 40 people came out to the launch representing the various working groups within the task force, as well as community organizations and individuals interested in collaborating towards an eventual end to poverty in Guelph and Wellington County.

204446 Golds galore from local athletes Del Monte

204478 Children’s singer a big draw Award-winning children’s singer Kathy Reid-Naiman of Aurora, Ont., drew a big crowd of youngsters and their parents to the Guelph Public Library on Saturday morning. Her highly interactive show was one of a series of free events held frequently at the downtown library.

204455 Teen’s first fight night Jon La, who just turned 16 Tuesday, competes in his first Muay Thai fight Saturday.

204458 Let the Games begin Taytum Clairmont, left, Rachael Hanna and Emma Davidson of the Guelph Thunder Bantam AA hockey team are on their way to the 2010 Ontario Winter Games. More than 450 hockey players, aged 13 and 14, took part in tryout camps in the fall and Clairmont, Hanna and Davidson were selected to compete at the Games, which start today.

204448 Good sport Jonathon Elst (at left) of St. Mary school in Elora shakes hands after being defeated by fellow Grade 7 student Amandreo Cortes, of Guelph’s St. Francis of Assisi school, at the local Catholic school board’s 12th annual chess tournament. Sixteen schools took part last Thursday, with 12 students in grades 1 to 8 from each school competing. The event’s referee was local chess expert Hal Bond.

204467 Drama award Pat Dunn (at left) and Brianna Hastie were both nominated for best supporting actress awards for their roles in an Elora Community Theatre production, and Hastie ended up winning this award from the Western Ontario Drama League. The troupe’s production of That Summer, which opened its current season in November, also won a best director award for Julie Wheeler-Bryant. The play was adjudicated for the drama league’s Out Of Festival Awards, which are designed as a “learning experience for cast and crew,” a news release. The drama league’s “in festival” awards will be handed out at a festival in Owen Sound the week of March 15 that involves judging of shows performed by five troupes, none of them from Guelph-Wellington.

204447 Starting from scratch Led by DJ Craig Brooklyn, Grade 8 students at Mitchell Woods school get schooled in the classic art of the turntable. Brooklyn visited the school from the Scratchlab DJ Institute, a Toronto-based school specializing in DJ classes at all skill levels. The 44 students who entered the music classroom last week mainly recognized the vinyl discs from parents’ dusty record collections, but they left with a new set of skills and a new appreciation for the LP.

204469 He’s a funny guy Vicky Chu, a Grade 2 student at Taylor Evans school, reacts to a story told by children’s author Robert Munsch during a Family Literacy Day event on Tuesday. Pupils from three local schools came to the event at Olympic Honda on Woodlawn Road. Family Literacy Day is a national initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada and Honda Canada in 1999 to encourage families to read and learn together. Munsch, who lives in Guelph, is the honorary chair of Family Literacy Day.