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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 2012, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A4 A 4 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 TOP NEWS winnipegfreepress. com The Health Report A P R O D U C T I O N O F Promotion Partner: saintboniface. ca E V E R Y S U N D A Y F R O M 1 1 A . M . T O N O O N W i t h h o s t s C h u c k L a F l � c h e a n d G r e g M a c k l i n g Transformation at St- Boniface Hospital On Sunday, June 24, tune in for the final episode of the season, and learn how Dr. Michel T�treault, President & CEO of SStt-- BBoonniiffaaccee HHoossppiittaall, iiss ppllaannnniinngg oonn transforming care. The Health Report will return to CJOB 68 on Sunday, September 9. Visit www. thehealthreport. ca to catch up on past episodes. Have a safe, healthy and happy summer! 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LEASE * See dealer for details. CC9607 MTH. 0% LEASING ON ALL CRUZES. S ERIOUSLY, how many public school subjects have a peripatetic perogy promoting them provincewide? Petrusia Perogy is the No. 1 fan of Ukrainian bilingual programs, and let's see pre- cal or biology match that. Petrusia works out of Happy Thought School in East Selkirk, visiting schools, reading to kids in Ukrainian and appearing in parades. Advocates of Ukrainian bilingual education say interest is picking up after years of decline, thanks in large part to immigration, but the numbers are still relatively low - fewer than 600 kids in six school divisions, only one class as high as Grade 9. " We are so fortunate to have what we have. I've seen what it does for families, it's language, it's communities," said Susan Zuk, president of Manitoba Parents for a Ukrainian Education. " Parents from all these communities meet each other and become friends." Nancy Lovenjak, principal at Happy Thought, one of the province's most successful Ukrainian bilingual programs, said children come to her school from as far away as Clandeboye and St. Andrews. For some children, Ukrainian is a first language, for many of them a language they hear spoken at home only from their " baba" ( grandmother). Those kids move on to pick up French and Spanish with far greater ease than unilingual students, said Lovenjak. " All three of my Ukrainian teachers come from Ukraine," Lovenjak said. Happy Thought turned a multipurpose room into a Ukrainian museum. Zuk said the Ukrainian bilingual program started with one Manitoba school in 1980 and has grown from there. While an attempt to start a public high school a decade ago couldn't get the necessary student numbers, " There's been more talk of parents wanting to go up to Grade 12," Zuk said. " There has been more talk of expansion - St. Vital, St. James, Brandon." Lovenjak said students split their day between English and Ukrainian, taking science, math and language arts in English. " We're not immersion, we're bilingual. You have to celebrate language - it's the doorway to understanding," she said. Lovenjak now has three students whose parents were in the Ukrainian bilingual program at Happy Thought as children. " Parents don't realize they bus" from anywhere within the six divisions to the nearest Ukrainian program in that division, Zuk said. Alberta has a Ukrainian public high school, she said, and Ontario just hosted a national conference of Ukrainian bilingual educators. Teachers here have at least two professional development days a year. " There's sharing of curriculum between Manitoba and Alberta," Zuk pointed out. And meanwhile, the MPUE and Petrusia Perogy will continue to set up booths in malls and at baby shows to spread the word. nick. martin@ freepress. mb. ca Keeping Ukrainian in the classroom Bilingual education on rise in province By Nick Martin Across the divisions ENROLMENT in Ukrainian bilingual programs in Manitoba: . Smith- Jackson School and Mackenzie Middle School in Dauphin, Mountain View School Division: 78 this year, 88 projected for September; had 125 students six years ago. . R. F. Morrison School, Seven Oaks division: 97 this year, holding steady in recent years. Some students taking Ukrainian course at H. C. Avery Middle School. . Ralph Brown School, Winnipeg division: 69, had 161 students 12 years ago . Springfield Heights School ( K- 6) and Bernie Wolfe Community School ( K- 8), River East Transcona division: 90. It's fluctuated between 86 and 103 over the past six years, had 142 a decade ago. Chief Peguis Junior High, with 23 students, does not have enough to be considered an official program, the division says. . Happy Thought School and East Selkirk Middle School, Lord Selkirk division: 121, up from 102 two years ago. . Oakbank Elementary and Springfield Middle School, Sunrise division, 94, down from 104 two years ago. - source: school division statistics Information about Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education can be found at www. mpue. ca . THE Free Press series Our City, Our World has made it the first Canadian newspaper to win the Associated Press Media Editors' Innovator of the Month award. " The Winnipeg project is impressively ambitious," said judge Gary Graham, editor of the Spokesman- Review in Spokane, Wash. " The variety of topics gave readers a comprehensive view of how their community has changed and why it has changed." Judges said they were impressed with the quality and depth of the monthly special series highlighting Winnipeg's ethnic communities. The Our City, Our World series showcases the city's Ukrainian community in today's paper. Earlier this year, the series shone light on the African, Filipino, South Asian, United Kingdom and Middle East/ Jewish communities. Multicultural series earns award OUR CITY, OUR WORLD: UKRAINE EDITION / J1 KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Happy Thought School's Grade 2 class in traditional dress with mascot Petrusia Perogy. A_ 04_ Jun- 23- 12_ FP_ 01. indd A4 6/ 22/ 12 8: 28: 26 PM ;