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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 5 Feb 2014, p. 11

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I rate it with enamel colour accents and precious “The whole point of our club is to is» ' . metal clay. a substancethat in its original state is as reach out and help People around the ' a ‘ ‘ .. 1,: miglea'hle an: versatilie‘ as clay. but transforms i ‘ world." said Michell Ye, is. a (irade 10 ‘A un 9' etorc '0 pures ver. student at SIAM who was one of the - ‘lllnStmmo?fWil';Ilior§2ffim your creations and they it organizers of the market “'l'here are 2: WI come I" I e n . ‘ ore your eyes. , _ lot of issues that people aren't aware of Members of SJAM's Building Bridges club, including holiday market organizers W06! your creation home the same day or give it ‘1 and we want to raise awareness and Michelle Ye and Annie Liu centre, present a cheque for $700 to Canadian Red Cross to VOW sweetie f‘" Valentine 5 Day V's” ‘ help in any way we can.” representative Susan Stork for typhoon Haiyan relief. lat/”MAL mom www.meclayhndglassca/adult»workshops or C3“ i “We had a lot of students make 5'9"46‘1882'en-221- “ homemade things and multicultural was a really big deal fora lot of people. and then we go into each community . , items,” said Annie l.iu. 17. a Grade 12 “We knew that a lot of people would and ask them. ‘What do you need?” Chinese NCWYeal' Gala ‘ student who also helped organize the be sending donations immediately. but The Philippines has its own Red . market. "We also invited Ten lhousand we also knew this would be a Iorig Cross" infrastructure in place. so they've FBI). 8 at RIM Park Villages to sell some of their fair trade recovery and we didn't want the situa- been able to have a lot of volunteers on . . . . . . . products." tron to be forgotten." the ground ready to go when they knew h slit}: (entiai‘g‘ntanoNiluneys: (rig-WEI (fins? gs More importantly, they were raisrng 'lhe members of the club said they the storm was coming. so I [g aid" fig] F0 | f: .a t RlMePark ' t funds to help the relief effort in the recognized the privileges we enjoy in “their focus now is on helping peo- ’ DEL. om nigh a fan. ‘ (Erma 'th t d: ‘ Philippines. still recovering from the (anada. and they wanted to help those ple be healthy and dealing with the dis‘ t' all“? 3,58%!“ng 53:15:41; fit“: a m i ‘ destruction wrought by typhoon llaiyan less fortunate in other parts of the ease and sickness that came after the [ion] "i“? at“: raga: filed it wick? in November world storm.” said Stork. “Their determining ma 3:” 0mggezd22mw; t' l ancfices C e1 b? It was the strongest typhoon to ever “We wanted to benefit other people the need and getting into remote areas. piem ‘ ambe‘ ‘ . n d childp avai a L . hit the island nation. taking 5.260 lives in a way. and help them be as fortunate which is always the most difficult. orppn-mermi l?“ ”Tmmb t if“ I . il { and fundamentally changing the living as we are," said Ye. “They have travelling teams that will i )r mo 8 n 02m: ion .: ou ‘ e 8a 1' ema conditions of the I ll million people Susan Stork. donor relations inanagr head out from the emergency mponse WWW") OCCC' e or V“. cocoon: ‘ . . affected by thet'ategory G storm er for .he local branch of the (anadian unit and determine where they haven’t So far. (anatlians have raised almost Red (.ross, was on hand to receive the been.” An evening With “0 million to aid in those relief efforts. donation and talked to the students and Stork said continuing support is with the (kwernriient oft‘anada recent their teachers about the ongoing efforts important for the Philippines and said i The Spark author F8b‘ 1 l ‘ ly ending a matching donations pro in the Philippines. she appreciated the student‘s eiTons to l Emmanuel at “mam"! (Zhild (are (‘entre pr“ . gram . The efforts are‘being'coordinatled raise awareness and funds for the work i ent an evening Mm Kristine Barnett. author of lin- Bui the storm recovery continues. 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