Local freemasons contribute to anti-violence program

November 23, 2011

Police tech students from the Cégep de Sherbrooke Stéphanie Lessard (left), Maxime Delorme and Alex Marchand-Dion are among those who speak to young kids, like Sherbrooke elementary students Isabelle Moran (second from left) and Amy Marchand-Dion, about how to react and overcome instances of violence in schools. Photo: Bruce Patton

Every year students from the Cégep de Sherbrooke’s police techniques program volunteer their time to spread a message of non-violence to fifth and sixth grade students in Sherbrooke and other areas of the Eastern Townships. This fall all their hard work and their effort to end violence in schools was recognized and rewarded by the freemasons from all the lodges of the St. Francis district and the Masonic foundation of Montreal who just donated $1,425 to the “United Without Violence: express yourself!” program.
“Your generous gesture will allow us to reinforce our action with primary schools students, to form even more Sans Violence Units, to support the students in their actions and reward them” Liette Picard, the program’s director in Sherbrooke and a police techniques professor at the Cégep, told the many freemasons at a ceremony at the lodge on College Street in Lennoxville Tuesday night.

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