The Friends of Rachel Club (F.O.R) at DVSS joined Cody’s Challenge and held a 24 hour fast and raised $2,000 for those with no food.  Above the F.O.R. Club  presents their donation to Cody Makowecki.
    
    A Drumheller youth’s quest to share with those who have literally nothing to eat is spreading and was taken up by the DVSS Friends of Rachel (F.O.R.) Club and raised $2,000.
    Last summer in anticipation of visiting Roatan, where his family has worked extensively for the betterment of the community, Cody Makowecki began what he dubbed “Cody’s Challenge.” It was simply a plea to his friends and neighbours to fast for 12 hours to help understand what hunger feels like and donate $25, enough to feed a family in Roatan for a month.
    He was successful and when he was there in October was able to distribute about $4,800 of food to families.
    Since then, he made a presentation to the DVSS F.O.R. Club and they took up the cause.
    “They got very excited and decided they wanted to take this on as a challenge,” explains teacher Lynn Hemming. “It was an emphatic answer.”
    While some fasted on their own, a core group of students also held an overnight fasting event at the school together as a shared experience. About 20 participated.
    “Our community revolves around food and we are really privileged to have it,” said F.O.R. Club member Raine McDougald. “We want to try to challenge another school or group to do it as well.”
    In all, the group met their goal and raised $2,000.
     Cody explains that the food is distributed through the Familias Saludables in the Roatan. This organization administers the Morgan Jayne Project.
    “It is awesome that they hit their goal, “ said Cody. “When I started this my goal was $500, and now we are at almost $5,000.
    Hemming explains the students went to the We Day in November. This is a youth engagement initiative. Going away from the rally the F.O.R. Club committed to take on a local project and an international project. Their local project is the annual DVSS senior’s dinner.  Cody’s Challenges is their international project.
    “We hope to earn our way back to We Day again next year,” said Hemming.

Drumheller’s Sook Park spends her time over the winter crafting paper sculptures made from pieces of folded paper. She gets the paper pieces from using scrap, magazine pages, and used lottery selection cards. Park estimates the large swan on the right takes over a thousand pieces to construct.

Customers at Drumheller’s Valley Truck and Car Wash (Esso) often smile or ask questions in amazement when they see an origami animal sculpture made by owner Sook Park.
    Park, who owns the business with husband Chiha, uses her down time at work and home during the winter to make her paper sculptures, and also has helpers who make pieces in their spare time for her.
    Traditional paper-folding, also known as origami, dates back hundreds of years in Europe and Asia.
    Park explained she first saw the origami figures on television when she was visiting Korea, and was instantly impressed and interested in learning how to make them.
    Her son told her she could learn the art on the internet, and she set about watching instructional videos on You Tube.
    Three years later, she would have amassed a huge collection of the origami figures if she’d kept them.
    “I’ve given a lot away, but I didn’t count how many,” said Park.
    Her current collection on the commercial pop fridge at work includes a monkey, a pair of swans, and a dinosaur.
    She makes the figures out of scraps of paper, magazine pages, and used lottery selection cards, the cards customer fill out.
    For the lottery cards, she makes four cuts. Each piece of paper from that stack then takes nine folds to shape the piece. She estimates it takes about 1,000 pieces to make a large sized figure, such as a swan.
    The pieces of paper are interconnected differently to create each figure, and only the odd tricky or special piece  added on a figure requires gluing.    
    “It’s easy. I already have four at home I made this year.” she said.