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THE Full Service 1 INCLUDING GST 32 PAGES Sunday Feb 142010 Quaker State 1095 Dr l 9058309929 SUNDAY FEATURE Arts program celebrates milestone Initiative has served as springboard for talented youth BY CHRIS TRABER ctraberyrmgcom Celebration of the Arts an enduring and entertaining show case for aspiring York Region talent that catapults budding careers and induces audience cheers launched its 10th anni versary at the Newmarket The atre last week The initiative began as a hum ble event to thank and acknowl edge clients of the York Region Media Group and has bloomed into a major talent competition and springboard to stardom for many local youths In the events first nine sea sons 175 bursaries worth more than 280000 have been award ed to finalists in varied artistic disciplines In 2004 at the age of 1 1 New market jazz dancer Joey Arrigo seized the day and stage winning his junior category and 1 500 In his final year at High School he has his sights on a professional career after gradu ation That was a lot of money for an yearold he said It VALENTINE GIFT FROM THE HEART STAFF PHOTOSTEVE Kennedy Joy left checks out the Valentines Day project by Glen Cedar Public School classmate Nathan Thompson Thursday Schools lead next wave of diversion See EVENT page BY TERESA tlatchfordyrmgcom York Region schools are beginning to embrace upcycling While many students have already jumped aboard the blue box and green bin recycling programs within their schools some are taking the opportunity to take the next step So far five elementary schools across the region have signed up for a new program offered by Terracycle Inc to divert more waste from local landfills We are making people think outside the box when it comes to reusing waste Terracycle co- founder Robin Tator said It gets them looking at waste a different way The program allows participants to collect nonrecyclable waste such as food wrappers ship the items to the company free of charge and receive two cents per item he said The company reuses the trash to create products such as totes pencil cases back packs umbrellas and flower pots to be sold at large retail stores Products wont be available in stores for about a year as the company must collect the material before production can begin Students get really excited when they see a bag made of something they could have upcy- cled Mr Tator said We are hoping this pro gram will inspire youth to come up with their own projects to reuse waste- By participating in the program students and teachers may come up their own ideas to See page VISIT FOR BREAKING NEWS PHOTO GALLERIES VIDEO AN HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR TO TMCFADDENYRMGCOM CSX STARTING FROM 29020 MSRP include Navigation System with Voice Recognition interface Leather trimmed heated seats Tech up for zero down 0 29 ACURA CSX iTech model shown bub am thai atwrgDWBiMaiiiawoiiiiiiiFisxMimmw ma a aait3aiiMaaMBaiiaiK J rrmSMoCSUtJi till I OmmtttmmmVM0BfmBfmmnmmimttmmauCaiaal 15796 Yong St Aurora 9068411400 4163243232 Email