By Colleen Flanagan, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
Building connections in the community is what the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News’ Design an Ad program is all about.
The initiative has elementary school classes from across SD42 design and create ads for businesses and organizations cross both communities.
This year, 140 students in six classes from three elementary schools in the district took part in the program that was sponsored by 18 businesses.
Students who took part were in Grades 3-6 at Yennadon Elementary, Harry Hooge Elementary, and Pitt Meadows Elementary.
They had four weeks to complete their projects, then a design was chosen by each business.