NDG NEWS THE FREE PRESS – September 13, 2016 – 7 Loyola High School’s 18th annual fundraising golf tournament coming September 27 BB I?335 O:?<; in partial or full tuition assistance. This year, the goal is to raise $250,000. The annual Loyola High School Foun - “We get a lot of the alumni and now a dation Golf Tournament is the private in - lot of business associates are sponsoring stitution’s biggest fundraiser and, now in the event,” said Wyzykowski, noting his its 18th year, co-chair James Wyzykowski son attended the school. “Every year, we says 2016 will be the event’s most ambi - are getting better and better. People are tious. getting more bang for their buck.” Wyzykowski, an NDG resident who Participants pay $450 to enter and there graduated from the school in 1983, has will be an auction of donated items. been on the organizing committee for Wyzykowski said this annual event is some 16 years and he has co-chaired the important because “all the money we raise event for the last seven. goes to the bursaries.” One in every six Loyola High School students According to the school’s website, last This, he concluded, gives students the relies on bursaries and a substantial portion of year’s proceeds of $225,000 funded 34 per - opportunity to succeed in a school that that funding comes from the annual golf cent of the total financial aid awarded. otherwise might have been unaffordable tournament slated for September 27. This photo During the 2015-16 school year, 118 stu - for their family. was taken on September 2. Find Out What dents (1 out of 6) benefitted from $679,500 Your NDG Marymount Academy and MIND to temporarily cohabitate Home is Worth BB I?335 O:?<; can house two distinct schools with sepa - more than a year while MIND’s current rate entrances etc.” facility, in cohabitation with Bancroft Ele - On-Line Due to renovations at its facility on St. MIND is touted on its website as an “al - mentary, is renovated. Urbain St., Moving in New Directions ternative high school.” It was founded in Asselin said the school has 42 students Visit (MIND) will temporarily cohabitate with 1975 by the former Protestant school in grades 9 through 11. It’s not a neigh - Marymount Academy on Côte St. Luc Rd., board. It is a “learning environment for bourhood school, he noted, as the students www.NDGHomeValues.com starting in November. motivated students seeking an enriching are offered spots in the program based on Gerda Schieder, groupe sutton – centre-ouest English Montreal School Board (EMSB) educational environment,” the website their needs. spokesperson Mike Cohen said, “It is a states. It is a school for those students That means, he added, that those stu - temporary co-habitation that was approved whose needs “are not being met within dents are used to traveling to school from by the Marymount Academy International the traditional high school setting,” it ex - different parts of the EMSB coverage area. Governing Board in June. The building plains. The students, he added, generally rely on once housed the Marymount Adult Edu - Head teacher Patrice Asselin said he public transportation and all the parents cation Centre (now in Côte St. Luc), so the does not anticipate any problems with this have already been warned about this facility is designed in such a way that it move. He said the co-habitation could last planned move. 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