Green News
- Belmont student recognized for groundbreaking recycling efforts
Goldstream News Gazette - Edward Hill, June 9, 2011
Changing the recycling habits of a school the size of Belmont is no easy task, but these days separating plastics, paper and tetra packs has become the new norm. For her efforts in helping cement this seismic shift in school culture, Grade 11 student Kati Walters won this year’s Capital Regional District EcoStar award for youth leadership.
- Off the Grid Video
Todd Harris, May 30, 2011
- Celebrating Environmental Stewardship Among Youth
/A\ News Vancouver Island - Stephen Andrew, April 21, 2011
Greater Victoria high school students took part in a unique exchange with a mission to change our culture. Just in time for Earth Day, the Off The Grid festival celebrated youth environmental stewardship.
- Emerging artists go OFF-the-GRID for Youth Summit
Media Release - YesBC, April 4, 2011
Three young, emerging musical acts will join festival headliners Jon and Roy at the Greater Victoria Youth Climate Action Summit and Off-the-Grid Music & Art Festival on April 21st.
- JON and ROY Go Off-the-Grid
Media Release - YesBC, March 7, 2011
Folk rockers Jon and Roy have been voted to headline the region's first ever Off-the-Grid Music & Art Festival at City Centre Park on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
- Festival goes off-grid
Goldstream News Gazette - Edward Hill, February 28, 2011
Part youth summit and part environmental party, Greater Victoria students will flood into Langford for an “off the grid” sustainability conference and music festival in April.
- Outrage over decision on West Shore high schools
Goldstream News Gazette - Opinion - Dan Spinner - CEO WestShore Chamber of Commerce, February 22, 2011
Despite a school board report projecting a staggering 55 per cent increase in school age children over the coming years on the West Shore, Minister of Education Margaret MacDiarmid told the Sooke School Board last week that the ministry would not fund the planned two new high schools in Langford and Colwood.
- Westshore School Proposal Problems
/A\ Channel News Vancouver Island, February 21, 2011
Greater Victoria's Westshore is home to the fastest growing communities in the Capital Region. Colwood, Langford and the Sooke School District have been planning to replace Belmont Secondary with two new schools.
- EARTH DAY Off-the-Grid Festival aims to energize youth culture for climate action
Media Release - YesBC, January 31, 2011
YesBC (Youth For Environmental Stewardship), a Victoria-based non-profit organization empowering youth to lead the way to a sustainable future, in collaboration with the WestShore Chamber of Commerce, announce the Greater Victoria Youth Climate Action Summit and Off-the-Grid Music & Art Festival to celebrate Earth Day 2011 on April 21st at Langford's City Centre Park.
- Colwood performing arts centre concept lands $15K grant
Goldstream News Gazette - Erin McCracken, January 27, 2011
The future of the proposed Emily Carr WestShore Performing Arts Centre largely hinges on whether a new high school is built in the Royal Bay area, most of which remains undeveloped.
- Recycling on the edge
Goldstream News Gazette - Edward Hill, January 11, 2011
On a drizzly Thursday evening, a handful of students and teachers move from class to class, collecting tetra packs and pop cans from stacked recycling cabinets. In sprawling Belmont secondary, they hit 100 rooms. The extra work makes for a long day, but with gritty resolve, a small troupe of volunteers has quietly rolled out Belmont’s first "beyond the blue box" recycling program.
- Belmont students stock food bank shelves
Goldstream News Gazette - Edward Hill, December 9, 2010
It was a bitter evening, cloaked in merciless, pounding rain, but Belmont students managed to hit the mark for 10,000 Tonight. About 160 students brought in 9,336 non-perishable food items in four hours Wednesday night. With food donations from earlier this month and more goods rolling in Thursday, the effort eked a few cans above the 10,000 goal.
- Belmont gears up for 10,000 Tonight
Goldstream News Gazette - Edward Hill, December 3, 2010
Five years ago, the idea that Belmont secondary students could collect 10,000 pieces of non-perishablefood in one evening seemed unfathomable, impossible. It's a different world now. With in-progress "10,000 Tonight" banners tacked on the walls and students drawing up posters around him, teacher Troy Harris said the event is one of the most important legacies of the school.
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