Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise today and congratulate Helen Newton from Minden, Ontario.
Mrs. Newton was selected to receive one of three TV Ontario teaching awards from a long list of teachers from across the province.
Children across Ontario often read the delightful book Flat Stanley . Mrs. Newton's class makes its own Flat Stanleys to swap with classrooms around the world in a project that blends old-fashioned writing and geography with surfing the Internet.
Since the school does not have access to the Internet, Mrs. Newton takes the kids' adventures home to her personal computer and sends them to classrooms in Hawaii, Texas, France and the rest of the world via her modem.
Congratulations, Helen Newton.