Congratulations to staff and students of Uplands Catholic School for their fundraising efforts and exceeding their goal of $500 towards the "OK Clean Water Project" in Cameroon. Principal Sue McCarthy kept her promise - if they reached their target amount she would kiss a pot-bellied pig at their wrap-up assembly! She confided later that his nose was quite wet but she definitely enjoyed kissing him more than the python!

At Centennial Public School, students participating in the Kiwanis Read-a-thon raised funds that will be sent directly to the Central Asia Institute that help build schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Each regular sized class had to read 100 hours (smaller classes 50 hours) in order to build their part of schoolhouse.

Congratulations to the students who raised $450 in pledges! 

Congratulations to students at Cambridge Street Public School who participated in their Kiwanis Read-a-thon during mid-April by reaching a new milestone! A total of 1954 books were read, surpassing the amount from 2009! What an achievement!!

Many exciting things are happening as Uplands Catholic School launches their Read-a-thon on April 6th! A tree sprouting books mysteriously grew over the weekend in the front lobby of the school. Teachers, library technician and principal have many activities planned over the next 3 weeks.

As part of their fundraising efforts, they will be dedicating the funds raised to the "OK Clean Water Project" in Cameroon and IF they reach their target goal of $500, Mrs. Sue McCarthy, principal, will bravely kiss the "lips" of either a python or a pig. Over the course of the next few days, the children will have the chance to vote which set of lips Mrs. M. will kiss!

As of mid-February, 15 local Ottawa schools and 12 Out-of-town schools have either run or will be running their Read-a-thons! That means over 4100 local and 5400 out-of-town kids reading!!

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