Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Entrepreneur class more than “pen and paper”

Peacock Prairie Potluck company raises $1,500 for charity

Walter Woodroffe-Brown, student president of the Prairie
Potluck company at Peacock Collegiate, presents Carol
Acton, executive director of Hunger in Moose Jaw, a
cheque for $810.50 on behalf of the company on Jan. 23,
2014.(From left): Robert Rose, Amanda Bartell, Jenessa
Korbo, Matt Emery, Shailynn Taylor, Adam Russell,
Carson Ackerman, Tyler Hopkins and Zach Ransom.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


If it weren’t for Peacock Collegiate’s Entrepreneur 30 class, the 10 students in the class wouldn’t have been friends.

“We were a group of kids who really wouldn’t have become close in another setting, but with this class you had no choice but to become close and rely on one another,” said Grade 12 student Shailynn Taylor. “I think that was really cool that such a different group of kids all pulled together to do something.”

“The only person I’d ever hung out with, been friends with before this class was Amanda (Bartell) and now I consider everybody in here a friend,” added fellow student Carson Ackerman.

Taylor and Ackerman are two of 10 students in the class who created their business to sell the Prairie Potluck Cookbook featuring 130 recipes. 

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