Of the 12 members of the Sunrise Health Region’s Area One Community Health Advisory Committee, five are Kamsack Comprehensive Institute students.
The other seven members are representatives from Canora, Norquay, Preeceville, Hyas and Pelly, said Allison Thomsen, who marks her second year on the committee. Area One is one of three such areas within the Region.
Serving on the Committee with Thomsen are Grade 12 students Breanna Bland, Braydon Fatteicher and Mikayla Woloshyn, while Chloe Irvine is the only Grade 11 student on the committee.
“As a committee, we meet about six times a year,” Thomsen said, adding that members of the committee are volunteers who take opinions and various discussions to the board.
“We have two general meetings with the board,” she said.
Among concerns that the Committee has taken to the board is the staffing situation at the Kamsack Hospital laboratory.
The Committee was also responsible for the organization of the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth) event held at Kamsack in the spring.
“We will be planning another P.A.R.T.Y. event in Kamsack for the upcoming spring,” she said, adding that following last year’s event much positive feedback was received.
“The students learned a lot and were wildly affected by it,” she said, adding that at the next P.A.R.T.Y. they plan to have more interactive presentations with the professional caregivers.
Last year’s event involved a scenario in which a vehicle had crashed into a tree, one person had been thrown out of the vehicle and was deceased, while two others remained injured inside.
“We’ll change the scenario to a different circumstance, but still demonstrate what happens in such situations,” Thomsen said.
tent is often humorous and theatrical," she said.
Speech arts categories offer classes for both groups (choral speech) and individuals, and all classes are further broken down by age, ranging from six years and under up to adult, open.
"There are poetry classes in which the selection is set, and a myriad of others where the competitor chooses his or her own poem in categories such as Canadian poetry, sonnets, and individual verse," she said. "The drama enthusiast can choose to enter solo scene, solo Shakespeare, duet scene, and duet Shakespeare. There are yet more options in categories such as storytelling, sacred reading and public speaking."
Entry forms will be available at all schools, from local music teachers, or at the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association’s website at smfa.ca. For more information regarding speech arts entries, one may contact Anna Russell or Sheila Ivanochko.
