MOvember

Korah staff earned over $1,300.00 in fundraising for prostate cancer research in Movember. Mr. Muto was top earner with over $400.00 raised.

Get your tickets!

Barrage Performance

Name Me

Name the new mascot. Stay tuned for details.

Grad Video 2011

Science Awards

Congratulations to all Korah students who participated in the regional science fair.
Once again, Korah students brought home the trophy for best senior school.

Individual award winners were:

Eric McAlister-$ 100 University of Ontario Institute of Technology Award

Jesse Merelaid-$ 100 Ontario Ministry of the Environment Award

Katie Lennox-$ 1000 University of Ottawa of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship, $70 MDS
Laboratory Award

Chris Valela-$50 Best Natural History Award

Adam Hopfgartner-$50 Essar Steel Award

Christina Meyers-3rd Place in Senior Science and 3rd place in fair

Miranda Ferris- $100 Ontario Medical Laboratories Award, $500 Algoma University Entrance Award, 1st Senior Project

Nitika Shanker - $100 Hydro One Award, 2nd in Senior Science, and 2nd in the Fair, Nitika is
eligible to travel to the National Science Fair

Miranda Ferris with first place award, senior project.

Yearbooks

Yearbook Cover Design

Front Cover

Back of cover

Art work by Jaimee Carter 2011

Wrestling Champions

On Friday, Feb. 10 our boys wrestling team successfully defended their city championship title, beating all teams in the Sault by more than twice their score. Our girls also had a good showing, taking 3rd place and allowing our team to also capture the combined boys/girls title.
Congratulations wrestlers.

Concert

GREASE!

Plan to attend the Musical Theatre classes presentation of Grease coming in March. Click on poster to view larger in the browser.

2nd Annual Super Bowl Draw

Mr. Iacoe announces the winner of the 2nd annual Super Bowl Draw. The winner was Mr. R. White of Sault Ste. Marie.

Green Facts

Recently, Korah’s Green Council performed recycling and waste audits on your trash! And the results are in. Here are some “Korah Green Facts” regarding Korah’s garbage.

In one day, Korah produced 100 lbs of trash... that’s 19000 lbs per school year! — over 19 tonnes!

That turns into over 20 lbs per student every single year... and that’s just during school!

Korah’s Green Council would like you to try to reduce your daily trash by using reusable containers for drink and sandwiches, and fill a Rubbermaid with carrots instead of buying packaged junk food.

Students Of The Month

Maddison Walker - French

Stephanie Cowley - Geography

Erin Shillington - Math

Anna Reich - Business & Computer Studies

Justin Hunt - Business & Computer Studies

Making Of A Champion

Screen Printing of Boys Basketball teams shirts by Stich King.

NOSSA winners!

Senior girls won NOSSA AAA Championships played at Korah this week.

Congratulations coaches and players!

Boys Basketball East-West

SENIOR BOYS BASKETBALL ANNUAL EAST-WEST GAME

WHEN: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
WHERE: Korah Collegiate

START TIME: 6:00PM

GAMES:

GAME 1: WHITE PINES VERSUS CASS
GAME 2: ST. MARY'S VERSUS KORAH
GAME 3: SUPERIOR HEIGHTS VERSUS ST. BASIL

COME OUT AND SUPPORT YOUR COLTS!!!

Senior Girls Basketball Final

Highlights from final game against St. Basils.

Our girls turned in a valiant effort and pushed the St. Basil Saints to the wire on route to a 49 to 42 set back. Our girls definitely out worked the Saints which resulted in many turnovers. The girls should be very proud of their effort and how they left everything they had on the court. Abigail Fogg led the Colt attack with 17 points while Adri Ivey added 10 and Sam Iacoe chipped in with 9.
The coaching staff and girls would like to thank the fans who were simply outstanding. You were definitely a difference maker. You were loud and the girls definitely fed off that positive energy. Korah hosts NOSSA this year.
Congratulations go out to Abigail Fogg who was this years winner of the Referee’s Award which
combines sportsmanship and athleticism.

Korah Choir

Singing and Sweets Concert. 2010.

Student of the month

• Thomas Groulx - Science


• Bailey Hiebert-Long - Science


• Jamie Murray - English


• Aaron Christie - Tech

Singing and Sweets Concert

Cancer Awareness

Student Council ran a cancer awareness and fundraiser on Friday. Students wore pink and for $2.00 got a sticker that said "BeCause I care".

Students’ Council has embarked on a number of initiatives to help those less fortunate than us. They collected cans to start off our Canned Food Drive by Trick or Treating for Cans during Hallowe’en night. A competition between classes will continue. The deadline for collecting cans is Wednesday, November 17th, 2010.

In addition, they have once again spearheaded the Shoe Box campaign collecting various non-perishable items for children in Africa aiming for the city record of 200 boxes!

Pink day initiated the start of our campaign to help fight the spread of breast cancer with a proposed hair cutting event to take place prior to the holidays. Some staff have already committed to this event to the point where they are unrecognizable! As an FYI, our school will be holding its own Relay for Life event this year on Friday, June 3rd, 2011 helping to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society, prior to the city-wide event a week later.


Our two student senators along with the help of Mr. Dal Cin will be leading a proactive campaign at Korah similar to other secondary schools as part of the Project ABCD (Action for Building a Community that is Drug free) initiative.

Claymation Animation Examples Grade 10

Animation by Danielle Dewar, grade 10.

Zack Larett, Grade 11

Korah C.&V.S.

Junior Football Team

Coach Annett and the junior football team.

The DU

Karl

On October 8th, 2010, Korah’s leadership class hosted its annual students and alumni duathalon. This year’s du course was set up in the surrounding Korah neighborhood and consisted of a 5km run, a 20km bike and a 2.5 km run. A total of 56 participants competed in both the team and individual categories.
The first place overall team consisted of Spencer Hogan, Scott McCrone and Matt Cuddy, the runner up team included Jack Carlyle, Brenden Carson and Stephen Erickson. In the individual category Mr. Wilson took first place, followed closely by Karl Zimmermann, while the best costume award went to Jaimee Carter, Claire McCarthy and Evelyn Steele. Many excellent door prizes were donated, including a mp3 player donated by Sarah and Steve McLeod, which was won by Lesia Kinach. Eric McAlister won a weekend stay at Maple Cove Cabin in Ranger Lake, donated by the Piazza family.
A thanks goes out to all of the sponsors who generously donated prizes, gift certificates and monetary reimbursements. Hope to see a great turnout at the 2011 Korah Duathalon!

By Claire McCarthy

Flash animation

Sports

Another sports season is underway. Come out and support your girls basketball, and boys football teams as they put in another season of competition.

Animation Links

National Film Board Web Site on Animation:

http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/index.php

Time-lapse photography:

http://vimeo.com/3551875

School Photographs

School photos will be taken on Wednesday, September 15 for grade 9 and 10 students in the a.m.
Grade 11 and 12 students will be taken on Friday, Sept. 17th in the a.m.
Please bring order envelope and money to photographer at time of sitting if you would like a package.

Back To School

Korah ambassadors show new grade 9 students how to use condiments.

Student street comes alive on the first day back to school. Our new grade 9 class enjoys the improvements such as benches and tables that have been added to student street at Korah.

Football

Time to say goodbye

Above: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey present the Kathryn Rose Harvey Award to Michelle Millar.

Above: Mr. Iacoe with Ms. Schliephacke present Ms. Schliephacke’s daughter Marissa with her diploma.

Photo Contest

1st place winner: Liisa Steinwedel

Second place winner: Alyssa Eddy

Third place winner: Lindsey Hornblower

Graduation

Congratulations to all Graduates.
Photo Illustration by Liisa Steinwedel.

Fashion Show 2010

Every year the graduating Colts put on a fashion show to raise funds for graduation and prom. After last year’s top-notch "What Not To Wear" fashion show, the Colts needed to think of something extra special. This year’s theme "So You Think You Can Dance" really suited the show, as the dances were amazing.
Choreographers Alena Atkinson, Kristine Caldbick, Kait Cupido, Connor Dunster, Jessica Gencarelli, Kristen Greco, Ashley Hunter, Nicole Maione, and Sadie Puddister worked hard to teach a cast of 41 these extraordinary dances. One of the favourite dances by the audience was the grad’s rendition of "Thriller," where almost the whole cast performed the original choreography from the famous Michael Jackson music video. The most loved dance of the night, by far was the "Mash-Up Dance" performed and choreographed by Mitch Dionisi and Cameron Prouse. This fantastic dance duo captivated the crowd the second they began.Hostesses Chantal Rose and Allison Bovingdon, modelled beautiful gowns all night from Susie Yoo. Allison says, "It's too bad they aren’t actually mine!"
Audience member numbers have gone up since last year, according to Mr. Elliott, who says "This is one of the best turn-outs in a while." After watching this exciting Korah Fashion Show, the audience was heard murmuring choruses of "That was really good!" or, "Awesome dances!" or, "I really enjoyed that, they did a good job!"
The Fashion Show team would like to thank: the Grad Committee, the choreographers, Jesse Evans (on sound), and Jay Nguyen (on lights), all of the donating stores, Mrs. Elliott (the teacher in charge), and Nicole Maione (without whom the show wouldn’t have gone on). Great work graduating Colts!

Dragon Boat Races

Since 1999, dragons have swarmed the St. Marys River near Topsail Island in Bellevue Park. The Dragon Boat Festival pits teams of 20 rowers against one another, all in the name of fun and charity. Seventeen teams took part this year, with all proceeds supporting the Sault Search and Rescue and the Sault Family YMCA.

DIVISION A

1st place - Top Donks

2nd place - Bawating Braves Alumni

3rd place - The Village People

DIVISION B

1st place - HSCDSB

2nd place - PUC Power Paddlers

3rd place - Group Health Centre Dragon Hearts

DIVISION C

1st place - Korah IB on a Boat

2nd place - Cruise Aid Oars

3rd place - Wee Not Fit

Student of the month

Matt Simon - Geography

Adrienne See - Math

Randi Leclair - Science

Korah Track and field - 2010

This year Korah’s track and field team showed continued signs of improvement. 67 athletes competed in city meet with 40 qualifying for the NOSSA championships in Sudbury. Our NOSSA gold medalists included Corey Conforzi with gold in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter events, setting a new record in the 100 meter; Cydney Mihell in the 300 meter hurdles, Abigail Fogg in the javelin, and Rachel Ivey in the shot put, who also set a new NOSSA record. Other finishes that qualified for OFSAA included, Cydney Mihell placing second in the 400 meter race, Jaimee Carter placing second in triple jump, Rachel Ivey placing third in the discus, Stephen Maloney placing second in high jump, and Nick Burns placing second in the 3000 meter race. The coaching staff is extremely proud of the team this year and looks forward to increasing our numbers at every level next year.

2010 Rotary Award nominees

Badminton - Taylor Hammond, Haodong Zhou
Basketball - Anthony Greco
Curling - Michael GrecoFootball - Esa Pulkkinen
Cross Country - Jack CarlyleHockey - Brenden Carson
Track and Field - Corey Conforzi
Wrestling - Wylie Middleton
Soccer - Cam Prouse - B’Nai B’Rith - Walter Lowe - Mitchell Dionisi

This year Wylie Middleton won the Rotary award in Wresting for the third consecutive year and Jack Carlyle was the winner in cross country for the second consecutive year. Congratulations to these two fine athletes.

Athletic Awards

Congratulations to all the female athletes that represented Korah last night at the City Wide A.C.T. Athletic Banquet. You should all be very proud of your accomplishments. The following students were named top athletes in their respective sport. Riley Hogan & Haley Allen in Badminton, and Kala Studens in Soccer.

After 4 years of representing the Colts, Nicole Maione finished her high school athletic career by being named the city’s Top Graduating Athlete.

Water Project

Some students show their water bottles provided to all students at Korah by the Green Council.

Interview with Mr. DiBerardino

Y.B.: What is the water project?

Mr. D. In the water project we are trying to do two things. One is that we are trying to discourage the use of bottled water, and by that I mean plastic water bottles that you buy from the grocery store. In doing so we hope to eliminate these from our school because of the effects on the environment which were discussed at the presentation in June.
The second thing is that we want to challenge the students to drink only water for two weeks. The money they would have spent on other beverages, they would then donate so that we could give it to an organization which builds wells in countries that don’t have clean water. The premise for that is that one dollar can provide clean drinking water for 365 days. Ten dollars will provide clean drinking water for a person for a lifetime. So that’s what that we’re trying to accomplish, to raise money for that.

Y.B.: What exactly does the Green Council do?

Mr. D.: The Green Council is an environmental club that has different environmental initiatives each year. One of the things that we do every year is participate in the school cleanup once in the fall and once in the spring. Every year there are different projects; last year our major focus was on the plastic bag recycling program.
This year we got grants in order to buy water bottles for the entire student body and staff, to try to discourage the use of plastic water bottles. Our other initiative was to try and revitalize student street, or the courtyard in our school. We were able to receive grants in order to put in picnic tables and benches in the courtyard for students to use, so they’ll have some place to hang out outside during the day. We planted some new trees in there as well.

Spring Concert