Winnipeg high school students dedicate song to health-care workers
River East Transcona School Division has released a music video dedicated to lifting the spirits of Manitoba’s health care workers.“The project began when we had our first choir meeting of the year,” Kildonan East music teacher Janet Isaac-Martens said.“Our students and I were having ideas on how we could perform when we couldn’t perform to an audience.”About 65 students from Kildonan East Collegiate, River East Collegiate and Murdoch MacKay Collegiate spent months working on the collaborative virtual video.“A boost to them is kind of necessary,” Kildonan East Grade 12 student Aiden Ordonez said. “To just reach out on our end and let them know that they’re appreciated.
We wanted to kind of recognize those blood, sweat and tears that they’re putting in.” R.F. Morrison School in Winnipeg supporting its Ukrainian students and staff As of Friday evening, the video had received more than 6,500 views on YouTube after being online for just a week.“It was nice to see that it was really so touching and it did really have that effect and that just kind of spirals onto us, and it makes us feel good that we raised them up,” Kildonan East Grade 12 student Jace Trosky said.The video has had a profound impact on many health-care workers, after an exhausting and tragic year.Dr.
Pierre Plourde, the medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, has experienced that both professionally and personally.“On top of everything else, my father died in December and I’m executor of his estate.
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