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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS LOCAL - orange shirt day Portrait of Robert H Smith grade 4 / 5 teacher, Sara Tham, outside her classroom with books and material she uses to teach her class about residential schools. ORANGE SHIRT DAY: Typically, on Sept. 30 - Orange Shirt Day - the older students at Robert H Smith take a neighbourhood walk to the old Assiniboia Indian Residential High School site on Academy, a 20-minute walk from their public school. Due to social distancing worries the students won't walk to the site this year, but instead will discuss the little-known history of the River Heights residential school throughout the day at their school, starting with a virtual assembly. See Maggie's story. Sept 29th,, 2020