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Port Hope High School will host a spaghetti dinner and silent auction tonight
to help build a school in Sierra Leone.
"It's going to be a great evening. It'll be a night full of music and good
food," said Carolyn Oster, teacher at Port Hope High School.
Dinner will be prepared by the school's senior culinary class and served in
the gymnasium.
Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the evening will start with live entertainment
by Diana and Those Guys, a local rock group.
The LaJeunesse Youth Orchestra will perform after supper, from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
Ms. Oster said that items such as Toronto Raptors tickets, golf and other
sports accessories, home decorating supplies, a six-month membership at the YMCA
and gift certificates for Port Hope restaurants have been donated for auction.
"There are more things coming in every day," she said.
Ms. Oster and her family are involved with Plan Canada, an international
child-centered development organization that offers aid to children in
underdeveloped countries. They travelled last summer to Sierra Leone visit the
child they sponsor.
While there, they noticed that many children don't have the money to go to
school, and there is a desperate need for school buildings.
"They have nothing, outside a chalkboard and chalk," said Ms. Oster, who
noticed some classes being taught outdoors.
The money raised this evening will go toward a new school building, text
books, training for teachers, school supplies and a water well. Port Hope High
School will help Plan Canada build half a school by raising $16,250. The
Canadian International Development Agency will match them dollar for dollar to
pay for the other half.
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