Poplar Hill students make yearbook

Memories of the 2009/10 school year will be preserved in a yearbook, like precious moments frozen in time.
Students from Abe Scatch Memorial School were given their very first professionally made colour yearbook, which held all the memories of their school year June 14.
Julia Sisler, a teacher at the school, and students began talking about having a yearbook earlier in the year. They accepted help from Xerox Canada and the project was set in motion.
“In university, I was awarded a Xerox Canada scholarship and their company generously helped fund my education,” Sisler said. “I thought they should know what I was doing with that degree. I thought Xerox would be interested in connecting to young innovative students in a remote area of Canada.”
The yearbook project was set into gear in late April. Students who were interested in helping formed a yearbook committee to organize and put it together.
Staffs on the committee were Sisler, Melissa Major and Carlin Thompson.
The students involved were Alfie Moose, Alana Strang, Janine Strang, Leeanne Strang, Marcie Suggashie, Monika Wassaykeesic, Rochelle Wassaykeesic and Tyson Wassaykeesic.
Having a school yearbook was exciting for the entire school.
“As soon as the word got out that we were putting together a yearbook the committee was constantly under a barrage of questions,” Sisler said. “Kids wanted to make sure their pictures were in it and they were desperate to know when it would be ready.”
The yearbook is filled with memories of positive achievements, photographs of the students and school events.
“Having a yearbook builds a sense of school unity,” Sisler said. “The senior students can look back on this after their graduation with real pride, knowing they made that. Having a yearbook reminds us great things happened at school this year because of all these people.”
Sisler hopes it will be a constant reminder of the students’ accomplishments for years to come.