Wednesday February 5, 2020 ~ LANGFORD
by Mary Brooke ~ West Shore Voice News
It was a blast from the past with an easy lilt. At an afternoon assembly in the gym at Lakewood Elementary School in Langford on February 3, hundreds of students led by Principal Bryan Johnson took part in the opening of a 25-year anniversary school time capsule.
For the most part, the 1995 contents of the large black tube with bronze-plate label were a letter from each student about what they saw their future to be in the year 2020.
A few alumni from the school — now well into their adult lives (and some now SD62 teachers themselves) — were in the audience and some of their long-ago life predictions have come true!
While playing guitar, Fine Arts teacher Jym Wilson led some of the students in singing the school’s song ‘Keepers of the Code’ about positive community behaviour.
Afterward the students returned to their classrooms to compose their own time-capsule contributions to be opened in 2045.
Their letters will be put onto a memory stick, which Principal Johnson teased would probably be ‘unknown’ (or historic) technology 25 years from now, just like the VHS tape he waved to the crowd and the Nintendo player and pog that were mentioned in the 1995 letters that also contained drawings or photos.
Pogs (for those who don’t recall) were thick cardboard disks about two inches wide with colourful glossy images on one side, used like trading cards. Does that make you feel old?
It was a fun day for adults and kids alike, a special Lakewood moment for the school that has grown from 265 students to now 466.
========== Notes:
The event was attended by SD62 Trustees Dianna Seaton and Wendy Hobbs, as well as SD62 Associate Superintendent Dave Strange.
This article was first published on page 1 in the January 31 to February 4, 2020 print-PDF edition of West Shore Voice News.
