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South Grenville DHS Teams Are Gingerbread House Champions
(Prescott) – They weren’t your average gingerbread houses.
Then again, average houses don’t win first, second and third at the Canadian Gingerbread House Championship.
Student teams from South Grenville District High School accomplished that feat November 27 when members of the Specialist High Skills Major Hospitality and Tourism Course swept the youth teen category at the event, held during Upper Canada Village’s annual Alight at Night Festival.
(Pictured above: This entry called The Holiday Station won students Cody Knapp, Devon Deschamps, Rebecca Bush and Cassie Richards the $300 first prize in the youth teen category of the Canadian Gingerbread House Championship.)
Students Cody Knapp, Devon Deschamps, Rebecca Bush and Cassie Richards won the $300 first prize for their work The Holiday Station. Megan Tobin, Todd Bernard and Lyndsay McDonald took the $200 second prize for Snow Day, while Victorian Charbonneau, Chelsea Kinghorn, Tegan Bannan, Lindsey Kinch and Dez Kawamoto won $100 for third place with Santa’s Workshop.
“To be in that room as a teacher...well…I felt ten feet tall,” said Teacher/Chef Brandi Donovan-Caron of the placings.
“When they announced third place, there was a cheer. When they announced second place there was a louder cheer and then when they announced first the room erupted and everyone knew what we could do at South Grenville. Being there as a teacher was very special for me.”
Knapp’s team won with an amazing entry, which consisted of a train station and locomotive approaching it along a licorice track. The station featured a roof covered in snow made from white icing. It bore red and green jujubes as decorative Christmas lighting around the Holiday Station sign. The holiday train pulled two boxcars and a caboose filled with candy canes, chocolate Lego blocks, yellow and orange jujubes and other delectables. The train “rolled” along on gingerbread wheels with peppermint-drop axels and red licorice whip wheel frames as it drove past a frozen green pond. To top it off, the scene featured a snowman as the conductor, waiting outside the station for the train and its delicious load to arrive.
Snow Day featured a town scene after a Christmas snowfall. Tobin’s team’s layout featured jujubes for decorative coloured lights, spearmint leaves for trees and shrubbery, and candy canes as light posts along the streets.
Santa’s Workshop was an incredible creation formed from three gingerbread children’s “building blocks”. Charbonneau and her team created “stained glass windows” out of red candy. The layout featured a “runway” for Santa’s sleigh leading up to the door of the workshop, and a frozen pond.
Tobin said the competition was a great life experience because it taught students about perseverance due to the painstaking nature of the work and the detail that went into it.
“I didn’t do it for the money, I did it because it helped me prove what I’m capable of,” she said.
The candy houses will be on display in Crysler Hall at Upper Canada Village until January 1.
For more information, please call:
Brandi Donovan-Caron
Teacher/Chef
Tourism and Hospitality
Specialist High Skills Major Program
613-925-2855
Posted December 18, 2010
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