This year a record number of Lions Bay Grade 12 students - twenty-one in all -  are leaving behind the High Schools of Rockridge, West Van, Sentinel and Collingwood, to embark on the next phase of their careers. A goodly number, "rarin' to go", were able to attend the end-of-year Annual General Meeting of the Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation on 3rd June, held in the Village Hall (thank you Councilor Simons for relinquishing the earlier booking of the Green Energy Task Force at very short notice). We were very pleased to see so many take time away from busy exam preparation, along with parents and friends, to attend the meeting.

 

 

The Meeting included a sincere expression of appreciation for the generosity of Norm and Vickie Kirby. This year they established the Norman Kirby Scholarship Fund, a perpetual endowment where particular consideration is to be given to supporting a student or students in need. It is an independent Fund that will greatly enhance the existing Curly Stewart and LBCSF scholarship endowments that exist in Lions Bay.

Board members congratulated the students on achieving their graduations, two messages being "Take Time to Think" and "The Best Things in Life are not Things" (thank you John Dudley for the latter quote). It was also noted that about twenty-one kindergartners will be entering our local school in the Fall, "replacing" those who are moving on.

The evening ended with a vibrant reception where we learned first hand of the varied plans that many of our students have for their immediate futures.

Good luck and Best Wishes to all of the "class of 2009": Kate Allan, Eric Berard, Jorge Cabrera, Jackson Chandler, James Greville, Taylor Haxton, Pierre-Yves Heckert, Kevin Hope, Whitney Kobisew, Linden Ligertwood, Steven Loppe, Chantal Lyons-Stevenson, Devon Simpson, Brooke Skibinski, Hanna Sorenson, Ian Spencer, Brian Tan, Samantha Taylor, Kelvin Todosichuk, Kellen Welch, and Megan Wozny.

Thank you, on behalf of the Board of the LBCSF: Michael P. Broughton, Carole A. Conlin, Mary McLaughlin, Brenda Broughton, J.Glenn Gates, Debbie Goldberg, Sandra Kirkpatrick, Kim Mailey, Louis K. Peterson.