Elementary students create colourful landscape murals

Marie Sharpe elementary Grade 5 students Keysha Kipling (left) and Shantae Guichon paint Rona Home Centre’s shed walls a colourful sea and landscape. The two were joined by their classmates. Students in grades 1 and 2 later added to the murals.

May. 24, 2011 8:00 a.m.
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