Weekly News Episode 1

The CPT 30 class is working on weekly news reports. Here is their first installment.  Watch for more episodes later.

RJC Opening Program

The official school opening for the 09-10 school year was held on the afternoon of September 20th. Parents, grandparents, alumni and constituents joined in encouragement and support for the upcoming school year.

Erik Epp and Heidi Epp, co-presidents for the 09-10 school year introduce the leadership teams.

Welcoming comments were made by Principal Gail Schellenberg.

Jim Epp presents the 08-09 Proficiency Award winners, Jennifer Regier and Aleta Martens

Aleta Martens accepts the 2009 Govenor General's Medal.
Geraldine Balzer has comments from the Board

Taylor Roy, grade 12 student, shares his comments about his experience at RJC.

Ed and Mary Ellen Brockman, parents of Evan and recent graduate Carissa, shared their thoughts at opening.

Concert Choir performed two songs for the audience.

Grade 10 Spiritual Retreat

It was an exciting time when we packed up for Grade 10 Retreat at Christopher Lake Quest Bible Camp, 1 1/2 hours north of Rosthern. 17 excited 15 yr olds (two more joined us the next day) eagerly loaded up the bus. The theme of the retreat was 'Risking New Beginning". Jim Epp lead the three sessions using the story of Moses to explore the theme. Nancy Epp lead the music with some enthusiastic grade 10 students and Holly Epp lead in some of the activities. The 'hidden agenda', and one we met quite well, was that of having fun, relaxing and getting to know one another. After many ping pong, card and kick ball games we grew much more comfortable with one another.

We were sad to see the sun disappear and thunder clouds roll in but we did not let it dampen our spirits and we continued with all the activities that we had planned. Monday morning was spent participating in initiative and cooperative games lead by Shaun the Quest camp director. That afternoon we headed out on the water. The students spent the majority of their time swimming, playing on the water trampoline, or tubing and surfing behind Ron and Edith Regehr's boat. The water was a balmy 68˚!

Thanks to all who helped make it a successful time. Special thanks to Ron and Edith Regehr for taking the day and providing the boat and the expertise behind the wheel of the boat and making it such a fun day for the kids on the water. Thanks to Ashley Nickel for braving the storm to travel up to the lake to help keep us safe by life-guarding for the afternoon. We are also thankful to Ewald and Louise Epp for cooking and feeding us very well for 3 days!

Jim Epp leading one of the sessions on 'Risking new beginnings"

Holly Epp organizing the 'getting to know you games!'

'Kaiser' face off!

Welts was a popular past time with the boys!!!

Tying the knot with Shaun.

Red light...... green light!!!

Crossing the poisonous water.

Turning the page.

Plugging the dike. A race to the finish.

Water fun !

Ryan Epp, Paul Ayres, Joey Fan and Michael Epp dare the driver to capsize them!

Tori Penner, Kaitlyn Baker and Stephanie Willie are not to be outdone.
Fun on the water trampoline.

Can the whole class be out on the water at the same time?

The whole gang!

Grade 12 Retreat

The grade 12s went to Camp Valaqua in Alberta for their class retreat
last weekend. There, they spent time contemplating community, what
that means, and how do you achieve the type of community that reflects
God's plan for the world. They were led by Abe Janzen, (MCC AB
director), Kim Thiessen (singer/songwriter/activist), and Carrie Enns
(MCAB youth leader).

Bringing Down the House

The leaders of the Faith and Life Committee introduced their chapel theme for this year. They have chosen "Bringing Down the House" for their theme. It focuses on how Jesus brought heaven down to earth. They plan to explore and develop this idea and touch on other ideas throughout the year. The unveiling chapel had the student body involved by having them separate into groups and 'build' with lego blocks a place where God is present on earth. They then presented their structures to the rest of the student body and explained how they felt God was present there.

Lego!

Katie Baschuk and Tiera Goertz representing their group

Hugo Malan and Colton Regier experienced some technical difficulty during their presentation.

God is found "Everywhere"

And especially at "RJC"

Fashion Do's and Don'ts

SRC members presented a fashion show during Chapel time last week to help the new students (and the returning students) understand the 'do's and don'ts of RJC dress code!

Heidi Epp models dress code that has been defaced. Definitely a fashion no-no!

Although the legging are fine the long sleeves under Samantha Bloomfield dress code shirt violates section 2.34.8 of dress code!

Erik Epp demonstrates a definite male fashion faux pas .....sorry boys....no jumpers allowed for you!

Taylor Epp shows the proper way to accessorize RJC dress code.

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

We take a lot of pictures here at RJC! We love to highlight the activities and especially the students themselves during the school year. We do this for many, many reasons. We use them for website blog updates (check us out at www.rjc.sk.ca ) , newsletters, school displays, yearbook and especially for the year end slideshow. During the year we have many requests from parents and students for jpg files of pictures that they have seen displayed. Unfortunately, due to the vast quantity of pictures we keep on file and the time it would take to locate each requested picture, it has not been possible to honor these requests. However, (being a parent myself), I understand fully why parents and students would like to have access to the pictures we have. After all, high school is a unique time in their lives and having a photograph depicting their experiences only becomes more treasured as the years go by.

For that reason Lloyd has been searching for an efficient way to make this possible. He think he have found a solution to this problem. He has found a website that will host our pictures and allow you to download any file you want, any size you want. You then can keep it on file yourself or have a print made from your file. I have downloaded the majority of the pictures that I thought the parents would be most interested in for the previous 2008-2009 school year. The pictures are in SETS ordered by DATE and ACTIVITY. Hopefully this will help you locate sport pictures, team pictures or isolate a particular event.

To access these files you need to go to www.flickr.com . In the search box type rosthernjrcollege and click on search. Then click on the RJC shield. Then click on rosthernjrcollege's photostream (to the right on the screen). Then choose sets, (left hand side under the large type). From here you can choose whatever file you would like to look at. Click on, all sizes, choose the size you would like and download!

These pictures will remain on this website until the end of June 2010.
I apologize for the vast number of pictures in each file but since every parent is looking for pictures of their own child I could not pare them down. (Not to mention the time it would take!) A fast computer would definitely put you at an advantage!

For the current parents of this years’ student body, please be aware that we are planning to post the 2009-2010 pictures at the end of June 2010 on this website. This way you can access pictures of your sons or daughter then.

We are hopeful that this will be a good solution to our dilemma. Your children are beautiful people and we enjoy capturing that in print!

RJC takes the afternoon off!

Wow, has the temperature been hot. It is making the first week of school somewhat challenging! We are trying not to complain since we have been waiting for months for +30 temperatures to happen. We just didn't imagine that we would be in dress code and sitting in a hot classroom when it finally did!

The students have been doing very well trying to cope under these conditions. We decided to take last Thursday afternoon off to enjoy the sun. The student body was transported out to the Valley Regional Park about 2 miles down the road. We had a great time playing beach volleyball, kick-ball and mini-golf. Of course the best part was playing in the water and getting each other wet!

Torrey Falconer and Allison Goerzen enjoy the sun.

Sarah Nickel joining in on a beach volleyball game.

John Baker sets the volleyball.

Spencer Russell putting for birdie.

Baily Neufeld and Heidi Epp stop to pose during their round of golf.

Parker Olfert takes on the wishing well challenge.

Playground equipment has a certain appeal to it...at any age!

Jordan Wiens give it a whirl.

Jim Cheng and John Aubichon take a ride on the zip line.

Of course the water was the most popular draw of the afternoon.

Relief from the heat!

Like kids being drawn to a fire hydrant!

Colton Regier chases down Jesse Wozniczka.

Payback for Jon Willie as Hillary Fast gives him a taste of his own medicine!