Sherwood School students proudly caught red-handed

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Sherwood School students proudly caught red-handed LAURA YORKE The Guardian

Isaac McKeigan, front, Jillisa Jay, middle, and Keisha Judson display their Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic mittens. The Sherwood School students recently took part in the Red Mitten Campaign. Guardian photo by Heather Taweel

Students at Sherwood School are seeing red — mittens, that is.
The school recently took part in the Red Mitten Campaign to raise awareness about the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Seven classes at the school submitted art projects, done in both French and English, and received the red mittens as a reward.
The mittens are red and display the Olympic logo on the back and a white maple leaf on the palm.
The students displayed them proudly on Wednesday afternoon.
The Olympics were also discussed in the classroom as a way of educating the children about them.
The idea to participate in the campaign came after Kara Grant, two-time Olympian and daughter of Sherwood School principal Marion Grant, recently spoke to the students, said Anne Thomson, a physical education teacher at Sherwood School.
Grant made a point of reminding the students that she wasn’t any different than them, said Thomson.
“She said, ‘I’m just an ordinary person. I worked hard.’”
As well, the campaign hopes to inspire students who may have dreams of achieving something like the Olympics one day, she said.

Olympic flame for Winter Games lit

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The Olympic flame for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver has been lit.

The sun shone just enough over the fallen temples at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Thursday for a Greek actress in a pagan priestess' white gown and sandals to focus its rays on a silver torch using a concave mirror.

The flame will burn at the Vancouver Games in February, following a torch relay across Canada and a shorter run in Greece.

Bad weather disrupted the ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, and the past three Winter Olympics - in Turin in 2006, Salt Lake City in 2002 and Nagano in 1998.

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Priestess dance during the lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games
at the ancient stadium of Olympia, western Greece,
on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (Associated Press)


Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou, who plays the role of high priestess,
lights the torch of the Olympic flame during the lighting ceremony
for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games at the temple of Hera in Ancient Greece.
(Associated Press)


Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou, who plays the role of high priestess, right, raises the torch
as Ino Menegaki holds the pot with the flame during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony
for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. (Associated Press)


Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou, who plays the role of high priestess, left,
gives the flame to the first torchbearer Greek champion of giant slalom Vassilis Dimitriadis
during the lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.(Associated Press)


Greek actress Ino Menegaki, who plays the role of priestess, holds the Olympic flame
during the lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games,
at the temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia, western Greece. (Associated Press)


Priestesses follow the flame during the lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games
at the temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia, western Greece, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
(Associated Press)

The first torchbearer Greek champion of giant slalom Vassilis Dimitriadis
runs with the torch during the lighting ceremony for the
Vancouver 2010 Winter Games at the ancient stadium of Olympia, western Greece.
(Associated Press)

Photograph by: John Koles, Reuters