Martensville Youth Practices Entrepreneurial
Skills With Lemonade Stand
Shanine Sealey,
Martensville Messenger
In last week’s issue of the
Martensville Messenger, a
photo was included of a local
youth taking advantage of
the beautiful weekend of
Buster Days by working
at a lemonade stand.
During the Buster Days
parade, multiple members
of the Martensville Fire
Department stopped in to
enjoy a cold, refreshing
glass of lemonade from
Tanyka’s beautiful stand.
This business minded 8
year old has decided to
take things to the next
level and has entered into
a contest through Potash
Corps for ‘Lemonade
Day Saskatchewan’. The
purpose of this program
is to help teach youth
how to start, own and
operate their own business,
starting with a lemonade
stand. According to the
website, this first began
in Houston, Texas in
2007 and has since grown
from 2,700 kids, to over 1
million kids across North
America in 2015.
Upon registering, each
child receives a backpack
with an Entrepreneur
Workbook that helps to
teach them the fourteen
lessons of Lemonade
Day, including; creating
a budget, setting profitmaking goals, serving
customers,
repaying
investors, and giving back
to their communities. There
are numerous benefits to
this program including
lessons learned in a wide
variety of life skills
such as; financial ability,
economics,
customer
service,
presentation
skills and design, critical
thinking, problem solving,
mathematics,
oral
&
written communication,
leadership,
time
management and much,
much more.
Tanyka’s mother, Jaime
Osam, explained that this
is the first time that her
daughter has entered the
Potash Corp Lemonade
Day entrepreneur contest
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and that Lemonade Day is
geared to children to teach
them the basics of running
their own business. “It gives
the children an opportunity
to earn money, and also
a chance to win several
prizes,” Osam added.
Those
participating
can visit the Facebook
page ‘Lemonade Day
Saskatchewan’ and post
pictures of their lemonade
stand, and the ten with the
most Facebook “likes”
by June 14th will be
entered in to win. “Please
show support for a fellow
Martensville entrepreneur
hoping for a chance to get
lucky and win a prize,”
Osam stated. The image
of Tanyka RIGHT can be
found on the ‘Lemonade
Day
Saskatchewan’
Facebook
page.
Help
support this incredible 8
year old by “liking” her
photo.
For more information
on Lemonade Day, visit
w w w. s a s k a t c h e w a n .
lemonadeday.org.
ABOVE: Visit ‘Lemonade Day Saskatchewan’ on Facebook and find and “like” this image of Tanyka
to help her get one step closer to winning a prize for her entrepreneurial skills.
2A & 2R Operetta “Bugz”
The
students
in
2Adelman and 2Ryan
were “spectacular” in
their performances of the
Operetta, “Bugz.”
The
students left the audience
spell-bound with their
singing, dancing and acting.
Three shows were held.
An evening performance
was held for the families
of the actors and two
shows were performed for
the Valley Manor student
body. The students worked
hard to practice their lines
at home and at school. A
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bulletin board outside the
gymnasium
introduced
the cast. This included
the students’ portraits they
drew of themselves which
was accompanied by a
photograph of each actor
in costume.
A special
highlight for the students
was performing the same
Operetta our present Grade
Eights performed when
they were in Grade Two.
Mrs. Zacharias used her
photography
expertise
to capture pictures of
the cast. She took time
afterwards to snap a few
pictures of our Grade
Eights’ with the Grade Two
student who was playing
the same character. The
students were instructed
by directors, Ms. Janet
Adelman, Mrs. Val Ryan
and the incredibly talented
music
teacher,
Mrs.
Heather Mann.
ABOVE & BELOW: Grade 2 classes at VMS dazzled the crowd during their performance of the
Operatta “Bugz”.