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Almost one thousand students at St. Charles College bit down on their apples – on the last day of school heading into March break.

At ten o’clock the students created a collective crunch to celebrate Nutrition month in Ontario.

The event is celebrated each March with fruits and vegetables like broccoli and celery and it is organized by the head of the school breakfast club, teacher Elizabeth Szilva.

As part of the Ash Wednesday service at St. Charles College, the students’ FIRST robotics team presented a cheque to Deacon Steve. The cheque in the amount of four hundred dollars will be used to support Chalice, a Catholic organization that supports children in Third World countries.

Every year, the school aims to financially support a handful of children in places like Haiti, Bolivia and Africa. Throughout the Lenten season, the students take up a collection in their homerooms. These students created a business plan that involved getting community sponsorship. Werner Scherzinger, who heads up the group says “we wanted to support children who have nothing and want very little.”

Grade twelve students at St. Charles College were blowing up balloons today as a symbol of their stress levels. These students will form the graduating class of 2014 in a matter of months, and while they are thinking about their post secondary options, they are also trying to keep their grades up and budget for next year.

The Sudbury and District Health Unit came to deliver some stress strategies and tips to the soon-to-be graduates. One of the activities was for students to blow up a balloon and gradually release a little bit of air at a time. This was to show them how small stresses compound and create anxiety and depression.

Student Success Teacher Anastasia Rioux says, “the school has made anxiety and depression a focus this year after viewing the results of the school climate survey completed by students last spring. Students feel that they are stressed and don’t know how to deal with their feelings or where to turn when they feel that way.”

Public health unit nurses K.C. Rautainen and Stacey Gilbeau were on hand for the interactive session that left students pondering their stress loads.

Students from the Grade 12 Leadership Class at St. Charles College headed over to Falconbridge Extendicare to spread some Christmas cheer. The students shared the task of decorating the senior’s home in preparation for Christmas. The students even helped make some decorations with the residents. Mrs. Belanger’s class came up with the idea and Falconbridge Extendicare proved to be the perfect place to give back especially with it being only a few hundred steps away from St. Charles College.