- December 18, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Nine year-old Ezra LePage-Linch furrowed his brow as he sized up potential customers walking by.
On display, ready to sell, were a number of his homemade, hand-painted dinosaur trinkets: dinosaurs ornaments, dinosaur bookends and yes — an ultra-rare, one-of-a-kind dinosaur candle.
LePage-Linch and his classmates at the Lupine Experiential School in Vancouver held their annual holiday market at the Vancouver Vineyard Church, at which students sell homemade goods and art as the culminating event of their economics unit.
Students donate at least half of their earnings to charity organizations that they had chosen earlier in the year.
This year, which was the third edition of the Lupine market, students chose Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center and Portland-based Family Dogs New Life Shelter as destinations for the event’s proceeds. The Lupine Experiential School was founded in 2019 by Jackie Taylor, who also works as a teacher and helped…
