A.L. Horton School Honors Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day

A.L. Horton School Honors Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Ukrainians had a major role in making Canada into the great country it is today!

So, A.L. Horton School presented a special assembly in the gymnasium on September 13 to honor Ukrainian- Canadian Heritage Day which was held on September 7.

The new Principal, Mr. Matt Spronk welcomed everyone who attended while he said it was an exciting day for their school because they are celebrating the contributions that many Ukrainian people made to the Province of Alberta.

From there, everyone sang O’Canada in Ukrainian which was led by the students.

Grade five and six Ukrainian Bilingual students then said “This day is a way of celebrating the Ukrainian pioneers who came to Canada over the past 128 years. There are approximately 376,000 Albertans that identify themselves as Ukrainian.

After that, Katie Perepeletza, the mother of Ukrainian Bilingual Grade three student, Addison read Addison’s story about their Ukrainian ancestors where they went all the way back to 1898.

Ukrainian Bilingual students-Austin Ezio, Kyla Ogrodnick, Grace Olineck, Zander Laschowski, and Annika Sawatzky also read what they researched and wrote about their Ukrainian ancestors.

Following this, all the Ukrainian Bilingual students sang, ‘This Land is Your Land’ in Ukrainian and English.

Like every Ukrainian celebration, this one closed with Ukrainian dancing performed by the students