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Some of the students who brought in and packed items for Transition House include student council president Mark Rumbolt, Amy Dawe, Brandie Morgan, Jessica White, Cody Porter, Tyler Locke and the new Templeton Tiger mascot. |
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All about respect; Templeton Academy gives to Transition House 
The Western Star
MEADOWS — During Education Week, the theme was “Learn ... Respect ... Grow”. In recognition of “respect”, students and staff at Templeton did a special service project. They collected items to give to the women and children staying at the Transition House due to the abuse and lack of respect they were receiving in their own homes.
The students at Templeton Academy learned that the Transition House is a place for women (and their children) who have left abusive, dangerous homes. It is located in the Corner Brook area and provides a safe place for women from all over the west coast of our province. Because of the dangerous situations they may be leaving, often the women (and children) show up at Transition House with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
The Templeton Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Group provided laundry baskets for each classroom and the art students decorated the baskets. Students from Kindergarten to Level 3 brought in new essential items, such as toiletries, that are needed while the women and children are staying at Transition House. For those who cannot move back into their original home because it is dangerous for their well-being, the students brought in new or good used items to set up an apartment.
At the end of the week members of the Templeton Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Group, career development classes and several junior high volunteers organized the items and packed them up for the Transition House.
The students were very proud to discover the school had collected over 20 boxes and baskets full of supplies, including over 200 tubes of toothpaste, 100 toothbrushes, 150 bars of soap, hundreds of other toiletry items, school supplies, towels, linens, kitchen equipment, laundry baskets, clothes and so much more.
The students of Templeton Academy hope that in the future ‘respect’ will grow so strong that there will be no need for a Transition House; but for now, they are pleased that they could do something to help the Transition House and the women and children who have to visit there.
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