Crockett visits 7-11!
Did you know that Manitoba is the "Slurpee Capital" of the world? The 7-Eleven stores in Manitoba sell an average of 8,300 Slurpee drinks per store each month, which makes this province the world leader in Slurpee sales.

Crockett just had to go and check it out for himself! You should have seen the look on the guy’s face when we asked him to get his picture taken with Crockett! Priceless!

Crockett pays Buzz and Boomer a visit!
Happy Birthday Buzz and Boomer! Crockett visited the mascots of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at the football stadium on Sept. 18th.

Buzz and Boomer hatched in 1984, making them 20 years old this season. Buzz is the one with the ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ attitude. Boomer is the taller, sophisticated one. The two mascots work with Captain Blue who drives around the sidelines in a World War I-style biplane. Crockett had a lot of fun at the game! The Bombers beat the Toronto Argonauts 43-34!

Terry Fox Run
During Crockett’s visit in Winnipeg, he participated in the Terry Fox Run and received a certificate. Every September our school raises money to donate to cancer research.

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada's West Coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18-years-old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.
While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada's Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario.

It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.

However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, more than $340 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

Crockett was at the kick-off assembly for Unicef!
Bairdmore School was chosen as the site for the kick-off assembly for the Unicef campaign. We listened to poetry, saw some videos made by students in our class and learned about why it is so important to donate to Unicef. We made it into the Winnipeg Free Press (our primary newspaper).

Crockett won’t be here for Halloween, but he has already seen the generosity of our school community!

Crockett Meets Winnie the Pooh at Assiniboine Park Zoo
Did you know that Winnie the Pooh is named after our city? In 1914, Winnipeg soldier Harry Colebourn bought an orphaned black bear cub in White River, Ontario while en route to fight in the First World War. He named the bear “Winnie” after his hometown, Winnipeg. The cub became the mascot of Colebourn’s regiment.

When Colebourn was shipped out to the front in France, he donated the bear to the London Zoo, where it spent twenty years entertaining zoo-goers, including Christopher Robin Milne, the young son of author and playwright A.A. Milne.

The young Milne renamed his stuffed bear Winnie the Pooh and his father later crafted stories about a boy and his bear, Winnie.

Crockett went for one last trip to the zoo to say goodbye to his “beary” good friend Winnie!