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Button Designing!

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Thank you to Peter Greendale from our annual Fine Arts Conference for the great ideas... Elbow Park School staff and students in Calgary have been living in modulars for the past 3.5 years. This was all because of the flood of 2013. Life was pretty tight there, working in one long hallway of portables, and a gym that looked more like a beer tent. It was decided that the old school would be restored, and man, is it ever amazing. Now that we are back in, there is so much to celebrate and commemorate. One of the ways students and I decided to commemorate the reopening of the school was with buttons! Also known as badges, every student in our school will receive one in honor of the school reopening. Originally, students were going to make buttons as a way to fundraise for this year's Terry Fox Run. Our button machines were ordered from "People Power Press". We purchased the 3-size kit of 1", 2.25" and 3" buttons. However, the Terry Fox committee did such