The Weyburn Comprehensive School’s Entrepreneurship 30 Junior Achievement Company King Street Fudge has won the “Company of the Year Award” from the JA of Saskatchewan Business Hall of Fame Awards.
This provides them with the opportunity to represent Saskatchewan at the JA Canada Company Program National Championship at the first annual JA Youth Success Summit. The winner of the first-ever Canadian Company of the Year will win a trip for three students to JA America’s COY in Punta Cana 2019.
Two students from the winning company will attend the 2019 JA Youth Success Summit in Calgary at SAIT on July 21-26, 2019 (a new interactive conference developed and hosted by JA Canada).
Co-President Landon Field also won the Professional Leadership Award, allowing him to travel to the Youth Success Summit too. Accompanying him will be Taylor Cameron, VP of Human Resources, and Co-President Lorynn Labbie. In addition to this prestigious award, Labbie also won the Financial Management Award of Excellence, earning her a scholarship too.
King Street Fudge, a JA company comprised of 23 hard-working young men and women, were very successful in the first semester at WCS.
This JA Company donated $863.79 to the Canadian Cancer Society. They produced and sold homemade fudge in five flavours: Chocolate caramel marshmallow, cookies and cream, mint, gingerbread, chocolate, and they added a pink fudge for breast cancer.
In the photo, in the back row are Jordan Dunkley, Landon Field, Owen Hiltz, Nathaniel Parisien, Anthony Fleming, and Nolan Vogel.
In the second row are teacher Margot Arnold, Taylor Cameron, Emily Haupstein, Emma Wiens, Solomiya Shkapoyid, Nick Moffatt, and Spencer Ordahl; and in front, Payton Mabee, Lorynn Labbie, Chelan Keith, Manuelle Mateo, Annah Fox, and Kelsey Petersen.
Missing from Photo:
Jesse Thompson, Nolan Thackeray, Andrew Sawchuk, Jelisa Dunkley, and Connor Guenther
