{"id":2348,"date":"2012-09-19T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/north-star-academy-laval-students\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:42:02","slug":"north-star-academy-laval-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/north-star-academy-laval-students\/","title":{"rendered":"North Star Academy Laval students collect teddy bears for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\nBy Robert Frank<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    \u201cOrientation night is an occasion to meet,<br \/>\ngreet and share,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northstaracademy.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Star Academy Laval<\/a> (NSAL) admissions secretary Paola el<br \/>\nKhouri.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the private high school decided to<br \/>\nextend its sharing outside of the NSAL community, consistent with the traditional values<br \/>\nthat principal Jos\u00e9e P\u00e9pin says the academy<br \/>\nespouses.<\/p>\n<p>It invited students to bring stuffed animal<br \/>\ntoys to contribute to brightening the lives of&nbsp;impoverished children in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being the poorest country in the&nbsp;western hemisphere, the Caribbean nation sits<br \/>\nastride a major geological fault line and was<br \/>\nstricken by a devastating earthquake in 2010<br \/>\nthat killed some 316,000 people, injured another 300,000, and left a million people homeless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students provided about sixty teddy<br \/>\nbears, which will be distributed in Haiti<br \/>\nthrough a Montreal charity,\u201d el Khouri<br \/>\nexplained.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<br \/>\n\u201cThe NSAL family is now looking forward to<br \/>\nits open house, Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2-5<br \/>\np.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qq9R9rg1KQA\/UFo_FbNoc2I\/AAAAAAAAAF8\/TNROPTBtSaw\/s1600\/120914+North+Star+Academy+teddy+bear+collection+for+Haiti.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120914-North-Star-Academy-teddy-bear-collection-for-Haiti.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>North Star Academy student Savleen Kaur Sur shows off some of the five dozen teddy bears<br \/>\nthat her high school collected to send to children in desperately impoverished Haiti,<br \/>\nwhich has not yet fully recovered from a catastrophic 2010 earthquake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com \u201cOrientation night is an occasion to meet, greet and share,\u201d said North Star Academy Laval (NSAL) admissions secretary Paola el Khouri. 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