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Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 2001.
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South Delta Secondary art teacher Julie Lymburner is pictured on the front page of the October 27, 2001 issue of the Optimist with some of the students who worked on a mural that was sent to New York as a message of hope after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 2001.

South Delta Secondary art teacher Julie Lymburner is pictured on the front page of the October 27, 2001 issue of the Optimist with some of the students who worked on a mural that was sent to New York as a message of hope after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.