Halloween events, a super bingo and lest we forget

Look out here next week and in print in the Messenger next Thursday, for an exclusive interview with Marcus Tabachnik, Chairman of the LBPSB, as we talk about the current round of Major school Change consultations, with the decisions to be decided on Dec. 21st.

The next great fundraiser bingo is on this Saturday starting at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for children in advance sales or $12 for adults and $8 for children at the door.

Some of the top prizes include a 1.1 cu.ft. stainless steel microwave oven, a mini-sound system which includes an IPOD dock, and vouchers of $100.00 to shop at the mall, plus all those other great secondary prizes. Bingo winners will also have a chance to win a pair of passes to go and see the Montreal premiere of “Twilight: New Moon” on Wednesday, Nov.18th.

There will be the usual half and half raffle where you could win some cool cash and the second prize will be a pair of tickets for the Sunday night screening at 7 of Michael Jackson’s This is it” and get this folks, Christmas raffle tickets will also go on sale at the bingo and the Grand Prize is a pair of tickets in the club section, that’s right all the concession goodies and other amenities included for the Sunday afternoon game on Sunday, January 3rd between the Habs and the Buffalo Sabres, courtesy of Verdun School Express and the voice of the Habs, CJAD/800 News Talk Radio. Tix are 5 for $5 or 20 for $10.So see ya at the Bingo!

Halloween was also celebrated in style last week. First off at Riverview, it was those great pumpkin works of art that were on display down the main corridor and the must visit to the Haunted area in the gym which managed to get a few jumps out of your local reporter. Visitors had to walk into a darkened gym with a creepy guide called “Jennie” and up onto the stage. It was scary enough to make you do the Monster Mash, which turned out to be a real ‘Graveyard Smash.’.

Over at BA last Friday during the lunch hour, it was students and staff in their Halloween finest including a visit by the Village People and those twins, Mario and Luigi from that Nintendo Game, and a couple of students dressed up as ketchup and mustard shakers. The art teacher, Miss Linda Benjamin, well being art teacher has its advantages, so she was done up as a leopard. Teacher and championship touch football coach Jeff Dort along with lab technician Kevin Lariviere, keeping in mind that they like to see their name here in this column..(lol) were dressed up as tennis players. We hardly could recognize them.

And some students got lucky as a result of their winning the costume contests and won themselves a pair of tickets to go and see Michael Jackson’s This Is It, courtesy of Verdun School Express, which ensured them a Thriller of a weekend…

At BA, next Wednesday, their next big event takes on a more serious tone with the annual salute to our fallen heroes where the whole school will hold its Remembrance Day ceremonies in the morning, and we will be there to cover this very special event.