Weyburn Comprehensive School is preparing to celebrate their first Education Week as a Grades 7-12 school. Education week runs from Oct. 17-21, and this year’s theme is “Celebrating Today, Preparing for Tomorrow.”
The school will have two great athletic events and a Weyburn Concert Series show coming up this week.
The second half of the Co-op Challenge Series of volleyball games will take place in the Eagle gym tonight, Oct. 19, starting at 6 p.m. This is a revival of a competition from former years when the two senior volleyball teams went head-to-head in a four-match competition. Weyburn is ahead two matches to none at the present time. There will be activities, a band, a concession and free Co-op give-aways.
As a Communithon fundraiser, the WCS SRC is conducting a teacher prepared lunch auction. Students can participate by bidding on teacher prepared lunches. Teachers can get quite creative, and students compete to buy delicious meals. All money raised by the donated lunches is to be presented by the SRC to Communithon 2016.
Celtic music will fill the Cugnet Centre with “Everything Fitz” putting on an evening of fiddling, step dancing and song on Thursday evening, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Tom, Julie, Kerry and their parents are three-time Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champions and will present two hours of great entertainment for young and old. Come out and support the arts here in Weyburn and there is plenty of parking.
Tickets for the upcoming musical “Seussical” are on sale in the school office. This is a musical put on by the Grade 7-9 students, and will be performed on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 16-17.
WCS’s annual fowl supper has been set for Thursday, Dec. 1.
In addition, there is a gold medal winner at WCS, as Kaitlyn Harrison won a gold medal at the SHSAA provincial cross-country championship held in Delisle on Saturday. She was competing in the junior girls’ category. This is the first time a WCS student has won since the late 70’s and early 80’s when WCS athletes like Jim Onstad, Cheryl Hardy and a few others dominated SHSAA cross-country.
This weekend the WCS Eagle’s girls’ soccer team is hosting the 2A regional SHSAA soccer playoffs. All games are at Jubilee Park with a 4-5 elimination game Friday at 3 p.m. Then on Saturday, starting at 9:30 a.m., there will be the two semi-finals, and the final goes at 3 p.m. There will be teams from Moose Jaw (Peacock, Vanier, Central), Notre Dame and the host Eagles.
Every game is an elimination game and the two finalists will advance to provincials next week. As this is a SHSAA event there will be an admission charge of $6.
The weekend is also very busy with the boys’ soccer team in 3A regionals in Yorkton along with the volleyball teams in tournaments in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw.
The boys’ freshman team is hosting a home tournament in the Eagle gym while the freshman girls are away at a tournament as well. The football team will be in Moose Jaw for their start of playoffs.
