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Brentwood news updates can now be received via Twitter. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to receive updates as text messages or online via Facebook, the Twitter website, etc. Used by Barack Obama's electoral campaigners, Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most popular web offerings. Brevity being...

Bright blue skies and powdery white snow added up to a quintessential Canadian winter experience for thirteen lucky Brentonians this past mid-term in the annual ski trip to Vernon, B.C.  A truly international group representing Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, Barbados, Mexico and the United States were treated to well-groomed slopes,...

Over the past 14 days, Brentwood has established two firsts in their basketball program history. A tournament win at the Brentwood hosted "Countdown to the Playoffs" was followed by a gritty and determined win at Gulf Islands Senior Secondary, the first win in five attempts by a Blake Gage-coached team at Ganges. Indeed, it has been 14...

On Monday night on Saltspring Island, the Senior Boys basketball team defeated Gulf Islands Secondary School 71 - 49.  With this victory the boys went undefeated in league play and captured first place in the mid-island division.  Andre Coquillard had a monster game with 20 pts, 12 rebounds and 5 steals while Ian Parry and Matt...

In their final league game of the season, the senior girls defeated Gulf Islands Secondary School in an exciting game (45-42). Solid defence, combined with improved ball movement, rebounding and success at the free-throw line (5 for 8) produced the win. Denesha Doman had a strong performance with 21 pts, hitting several key outside shots and...

Cowichan News Leader article on senior boys basketball: http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_central/cowichannewsleader/sports/Brentwood_best_of_the_bunch.html

We are all delighted that Megan T has been offered a place at the prestigious and highly competitive University of the Arts in London, England. The University of the Arts is a federation of the world's most prestigious colleges for art and design and Megan will be studying Fashion Photography and Styling at the London College of Fashion. Megan is...

Aron Zharadka and Kevin Kim claimed a Brentwood first by making their own biodiesel from canola oil and simple organic chemicals. They had to do some high-powered chemical calculations to work out the expected amount of fuel and were both well pleased by the result, almost 100% yield. Their next step is to make another batch using filtered, used...

Over the weekend, the Senior Boys hosted their annual 16-team "Countdown to Playoffs" invitational tournament.  In the opener, the boys were challenged by an enormous Shawnigan Lake team that featured three players over 6'8" in their starting unit.  It was a back-and-forth affair, but Brentwood's bench proved to be the...

A small contingent of rowers ventured to the University of Victoria on Sunday to compete in the 25th Annual Monster Indoor Rowing Championships. These indoor races are held across Canada and, at the end of the day, national champions are crowned for the 2000 m distance. The day began with Eric Jackson and Connor McGuigan competing in the Junior A...