Local elementary school students from six of eight schools in the region earned important fundraising dollars for their schools, and embraced winter activities this past February through the 20th Annual Rotary Winterama campaign hosted by the Southampton and Tara Rotary Clubs.
Students brought in a collective total of over $12,000 that goes directly to their schools to help fund breakfast programs and important school projects.
Local corporations, businesses and individual supporters generously stepped up as well allowing the participating Rotary Clubs to defray costs of Winterama, and to broaden their services to support youth programs in our area.
This year’s Winterama offered a Winter Olympics Challenge to students, where students accumulated kilometres doing fun winter activities during the period of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
High-achieving students in local schools earned bronze, silver and gold medals if they met certain kilometre benchmarks. Top classes in each school were also awarded a recess activity bucket, hand-delivered by Bearama, to help them keep active at recesses.
Participating students in local schools logged a total of over 21,000 kilometres during the campaign … more than half-way around the world!
Northport School
See some of the smiling faces below, skating with Winterama mascot “Bearama”, and later wearing their medals. A total of 233 students skated, skied, sledded, hiked and snowshoed their way to their Rotary Olympic Challenge medals, and many more accumulated kilometres trying their best.
Sauble School was the top school for total kms, despite being the smallest school population-wise (162). They accumulated a total of 6,603 kms, or 41 kms per student!!
The top four pledge-earning students in Winterama also won prizes for their hard work fundraising for their schools.
EPESCS Port Elgin
1st place: Charlie Schaab, EPESCS, who raised $1200.
2nd place: Serenity and Andre Saunders, G.C. Huston, who each raised $795.
3rd place: Sam Stephenson, EPESCS, who raised $720 for his school.
G. C. Huston Southampton
G. C. Huston, the small but mighty school in Southampton, raised a whopping $3,900 for their breakfast program and activities.
Sauble School
Hepworth Public School
