VILLAGE PEOPLE
BY GARY VERBEEK, MECHANICS AND BIBLE TEACHER Have I really been at ACS for 30 years and teaching for 35? Initially, I was hired to start a mechanics program but started out teaching woods class. Five years later, we tore down the two bay “garage” behind the school and Fricia Construction built the awesome mechanics shop we still operate out of today. Little did I know that the skinny 13-year-old kid named John Atsma, who was helping his father, Hilka, build that addition, would one day marry our daughter and be in charge of the newest expansion of ACS! [...]
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TOP 10 REASONS WE LOVE GRADE 5 AT THE MIDDLE
We are enjoying having the grade 5 students at the middle school! They have been at our campus for almost two months now and feel right at home. Even though the COVID-19 restrictions allow limited [...]
KIRSI’S JOURNAL OF BLESSINGS
BY KIRSI ANTUNES, SCHOOL COUNSELLOR The beginning of the new school year started with excitement and trepidation. I am excited about beginning my position as the new [...]
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
BY BRIAN KONING, DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT What a year it's been, “covidly” speaking. We’ll never look at the expression, “Hindsight is 20/20” the same way again. We [...]
OUR FORTIFIED TOWER
I have a new energy and a new motivation this school year. Seeing staff every day and having students back in the building reminds me why we [...]
WHEN YOUR BOAT IS ROCKED
Ask any student who’s been on the SALTS grade 8 sailing trip, they’ll talk for hours about their five days aboard a tall ship in the Salish [...]
To launch the Inside Out blog in 2015, we created this music video to introduce our brave writers. While some of the writers have changed since then, we still feel it celebrates the spirit of who we are and the types of stories we want to share with you. Enjoy!