Lakeshore Collegiate Institute

Infobox Education in Canada
name= Lakeshore Collegiate Institute


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streetaddress= 350 Kipling Avenue
city= Etobicoke
province= Toronto
postalcode= M8V 3L1
areacode= 416
phone= 394-7650
url= http://www.lakeshorecollegiate.ca/
schoolboard= Toronto District School Board
area= Etobicoke
principal= Beth Butcher
viceprincipal= Mary Horrell
John Bratina
Antonio Santos
viceprincipal_label=Vice Principals
schooltype= High School
grades= 9-12
enrollment= 948 (Spring 2006)
language= English
mascot= Phoenix
teamname= LCI Phoenix
colours= Blue, White, Silver
lastupdate= February 8, 2007

Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (formerly New Toronto Secondary School and often abbreviated to TITTY) is a high school that serves the Village of Long Branch, New Toronto and Mimico, working class neighbourhoods in Toronto's west end. It is situated at the intersection of Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Avenue. It is in Ward 3 of the Toronto District School Board.

Due mostly to its dedicated staff, Lakeshore Collegiate boasts several leading programs in the Toronto District School Board, including that of the Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, English and recently Media departments.

Sports

LCI has several very accomplished sports teams including: Hockey, Baseball, Badminton, Volleyball, Golf, Tennis, Soccer. The football team was resurrected in the fall of 2005 after many years of absence. The hockey team won the TDSSAA West Championships and qualified for OFSSAA in 2004 (Peterborough) and 2006 (Timmons). The baseball team won the TDSSAA West Championships in 2006. The soccer team also won TDSSAA West Region championship.

Extracurricular Activities

Lakeshore Collegiate offers a wide range of extracurricular programs for students whose interests run the gamut. Among these are the Student Activity Council (or SAC), Leadership, Dance Club, Drama club, wide range of sports teams and various mathematics and science competitions. These programs allow students to participate in regional sporting events, practice their business skills (via the student-run "Lakestore"), and attend camps, as well as fostering both school spirit and co-operation within the student body.

The Food Drive

It has been an annual event at LCI that every December students collect food, clothes, and even toys for the local food bank. Every year students become increasingly generous and the donation of items reaches several thousands. It has become a "competition" to see which teacher's homeroom class would collect the most items.

"Drama Lives At LCI"

One of Lakeshore Collegiate's highlights is its Drama Department. Headed by Gregory Danakas, the Drama department offers courses for grades nine through twelve. LCI has annual stage production in which students are selected via audition. Past stage productions have featured performances of Bram Stoker's Dracula, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Euripides' The Bacchae and Ann-Marie MacDonald's Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Drama at LCI offers other extracurricular opportunities, such as the Play By the Lake/Sears Drama Festival, where student directed, student acted, and often student written plays are performed. This year, the student written plays This Party Blows and Lipgloss were performed. As of March 9th 2007, Lakeshore has won the Best Host School Award for its district.

Reputation

Lakeshore has a strong reputation, owing in part to active involvement with the community.

One such example of this spirit has taken the form of fundraisers for the local community health centre, LAMP. Another community-oriented initiative, the Clean-Up-the-Parkathon (CUTPAT), involves the cleaning of local parks and recreational spaces by the student body.

Refusing to stop at local involvement, recent efforts within the school have resulted in programs such as the TEEN project, which has taken on two sponsor children and supports their endeavours.

Guidance

LCI's Guidance office is an important facet utilized by many students within the school. The guidance office operates as a resource for the student body. Students can make schedule changes, discuss career options, examine job postings and apply for or research about post-secondary education programs and scholarships, among other things.

Music

Lakeshore has a well-staffed, well-supported musical department which has, in recent years, put on concerts both for the student body and the public.

Notable Graduates

WWE Wrestler Adam Copeland (Edge),Former WWE Diva Trish Stratus,the late Dom Deluise, emerging artists such as Actor Scott Hempstead, Photographer Dennis Marciniak, Videographer/Graphic Designer Kevin Nguyen and also NHL hockey player, Emmanuel Fernandez.