Thursday, February 3

AHS COVID 19 Daily Checklist Check-in.  I am A Okay, hope you did yours this morning as well.   Let’s work together 

Congratulations to both of our Junior A basketball teams for successfully defeating Meridian Heights last night in league play. Our Jr A boys won a close battle in the first game, and our Jr A girls dominated in the second game! 

Good luck to our Junior B basketball teams as they host their tournament starting tonight…the Woodhaven Winter Invitational. Both our Junior B boys and girls will be playing 2 games tonight. 

Good luck to our senior girls basketball team as they start the Prescott tournament today after school. The senior girls will be playing 2 games tonight…both in Copperhaven’s gym. 

Congratulations to the following student athletes that have been named as the January 2022 Athletes of the Month! All of these student athletes are currently representing our school on a basketball team. Can these student athletes please see Mr. McLachlan during morning break to pick up their shirt…

Tyler S, Sophia O, Naveah O, and Callen S

Black History Month - Black History of Alberta

Annie Saunders is an early entrepreneur among settlers on Indigenous territories now known as the province of Alberta. Born in the United States circa 1836, she migrated to Alberta nearly 30 years before we became a province. In 1877 she was a steamboat stewardess when she met and was hired by Mary Macleod to serve as nanny and housekeeper for the family. Saunders lived with the Macleod family from 1877 to 1880. Although it could not have been easy for a single Black woman to navigate the race and gender relations of the time, Saunders branched out on her own and ran a number of successful small businesses, including a restaurant and catering business, a laundry service, and a boarding room service for children. Saunders died on July 19, 1898 in Pincher Creek and her funeral on 27 July, 1898 was reportedly well attended by the local residents.