An all-French evening at the Islanders game for Merrick Avenue Middle School students

On Feb. 9, 115 French students and their families from Merrick Avenue and Grand Avenue middle schools, along with their teachers, Denise Schleith and Richard Zawislak, enjoyed an evening of French and hockey. Bellmore-Merrick French students had the opportunity not only to watch the New York Islanders battle the Montréal Canadiens, but also to meet P.A. Parenteau, a Montréal native who plays for the Islanders, and converse with him in French. Before the game, the students met with Marc Antoine Godin, a sports writer from La Presse, a Montréal newspaper, and Manon Boucher, a representative of the Québec government office in New York.