The front page of The Westcoast Reader March 2014 issue
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Reading by: Patty Bossort
The March issue is out now!
Monthly Archives: February 2014
BC events and activities: February 2-March 6
A red robin in spring.
(Photo: blmiers/CC, Flickr
This week in BC there are many great activities for the family to enjoy. Here are just a few:
Vancouver
Explore The Talking Stick Festival.
- On now until March 2, 2014.
- This is a great event to celebrate aboriginal arts and culture.
- Discover theatre, dance, drumming, and music and other performances.
- Watch a Talking Stick Festival video here.
Visit the GUIZHOU CHINA, In the Season of New Rice photo exhibit.
- At Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
- On display from March 1 to March 30.
- See the pictures of village and small-town life from a changing community in China.
Victoria
Explore the Be a Tourist in Your Hometown event.
- This event happens from February 27 to March 2.
- This event features free or discounted Victoria attractions.
- Enjoy more than 30 attractions, valued at over $300.
Young girl fights bullying
Alvena Little-Wolf Ear and her mother at rally in Nanaimo
Photo: Robert Barron / Nanaimo Daily News
Adapted from The Province and the Nanaimo Daily News
Reposted February 24, 2016. This year Pink Shirt Day is February 24.
Level 2
Alvena Little-Wolf Ear is 9 years old. She is in grade 4.
Alvena was unhappy. Children at school made fun of her. They would not play with her.
Annette Little is Alvena’s mother. Annette saw that Alvena was unhappy.
“She kept a lot of it in. No one really knew,” said Little.
Teachers, school staff and other students helped Alvena and her mother.
Read the PDF and do the exercise
Visit the links
Learn more about how to stop bullying.
Report bullying here.
Visit the Healthy Active Natives Facebook page.
Report bullying here.
Visit the Healthy Active Natives Facebook page.
Four Surrey schools make an anti-bullying statement in a flashmob. Six hundred students participated.
Find out more about Pink Shirt Day, February 26.
Watch the videos
Watch the BC government public service announcement about cyber bullying, ERASE bullying.
Watch this video about how to stop bullying in 10 seconds.
Watch this video about Pink Shirt Day at Point Grey Secondary School.
Watch this video about how to stop bullying in 10 seconds.
Watch this video about Pink Shirt Day at Point Grey Secondary School.
