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Sacred Heart Is Nutrition Quiz Champ
posted (October 9, 2009)

The ADM Belize Mills Nutrition Quiz is held every year to promote proper nutrition but from a quick scan around the country to see what children’s eating habits are, it would be safe to say that a large number of our population especially our children are not getting the message. But every year, there’s new hope and maybe the participants in the 2009 ADM Mills Nutrition Quiz will encourage their peers to start living a healthier lifestyle. 7News arrived at the competition just as the winners were about to be announced.

Jacqueline Godwin Reporting,
It took close to four hours to finish but by at the end of the ninth nutrition quiz there would be only one winner, Sacred Heart College.

Jacqueline Godwin,
“Monica since the inception of this quiz competition your school has been battling between second and third place and finally today you students managed to capture first place. How hard did you study for that?”

Monica Chun, Winner – ADM Belize Mills Nutrition Quiz
“Very very hard. We started from last year about October I think or before the Christmas holidays and then we just continued. During the summer we met for intensive training and then after that when the new school year began so we had very hectic schedules so we had to work with each other’s schedules and then Saturdays we met after classes, anytime we had free time we met and we worked very hard and motivated each other.”

Jacqueline Godwin,
“When the competition started were you nervous and when did you actually start to feel comfortable?”

Monica Chun,
“Well from the beginning I wasn’t nervous to tell the truth. I was very relaxed and I was confident that we were going to win because my two team mates and I, we worked hard and we had confidence in each other.”

Jacqueline Godwin,
“Overall what does this mean for the school?”

Monica Chun,
“It’s a big big deal because everyone was counting on us at school and now we can go back and prove to them that we won and that we were the best for now and for longer I guess.”

Not if Orange Walk Technical has its way in 2010. For the second year consecutive year the students captured second place.

Jorge Lemus, 2nd Place Winner
“It is most about luck. You can study everything about nutrition, you can study certain aspects in the topic. So it is just mostly about your luck hoping that the questions that you get are the ones you have studied.”

Jacqueline Godwin,
“So two years in a row you guys have captured second place?”

Jorge Lemus,
‘Yes.”

Jacqueline Godwin,
“What will happen next year?”

Jorge Lemus,
“Next year we will have a better team and I hope they do better than we and they could come in first so I all I have to say to the next schools is unu betta pull up.”

While the quiz is an annual activity with participation from secondary school students, primary school children also need to get involved.

Robyn Daly, Nutritionist – Ministry of Health
“That would be something that I would love to see on this program involved, this quiz being represented in primary schools. It is a good start because as we know nutrition needs to start very early so I think from primary schools we need to start to introduce the quiz because it doesn’t have to be as intense as this one but just like how we have the spelling bee and something like that we could have something small in schools as well. So from primary schools they get exposed to the information, they get exposed to be around other students competing and the whole learning experience as it pertains to nutrition. So it would be a wonderful idea and I would love to see that happen.”

Coming in third were the students from St. Viator in Chunox Village. The first place winners took home six hundred dollars each plus a trophy for their school. The second place winning students received four hundred dollars each and a trophy for their school.

Post Office Goes Green

It is World Post Day but to celebrate the day this year – the Belize Post Office didn’t release a new collection of stamps. This year your mail men and women planted mahogany trees. 50 trees will be eventually planted but five were planted in school yards across the city today. So why is the post office planting trees? We were at the tree planting ceremony at holy redeemer primary school and asked mail supervisor James Gabourel about it.

James Gabourel Mail Supervisor
“Many people are surprised about the theme; what kind of connection the post office has with planting trees, with the environment. The Post Office feels that when combined together, the amount of carbon that is emitted from all these postal transactions is significant and as such we are looking ways of reducing the amount of carbon that post offices generate hence the theme being relevant.”

Holy Redeemer Primary School by the way already has a giant mahogany tree which was planted 28 years ago to mark Belize’s independence. The mahogany trees were planted at Wesley College, Gwen Liz, and St. Luke’s Methodist. The mahogany plants were donated by the Forestry Department.

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