In 2007, two boys organized the first "Pink Shirt Day" in their home town, to show solidarity with a classmate who was being picked on. 

Thirteen years later, Pink Shirt Day has become a nationwide event and will be celebrated in Weyburn next week.

The official Red Cross Day of Pink is Wednesday, February 26th. Students throughout the Opportunity City are turning it up a notch, however, and celebrating and entire Kindness Week, which will end with the annual Pink Day performance on Friday, February 28th.

"This year we have Saskatchewan Express coming to town to perform for us and we have a Saskatchewan Roughrider who will be here to do a presentation as well," said co-ordinator Tanice Abramson.  "We've kind of combined music and an anti-bullying presentation into one fun afternoon."

"It's kind of a celebration for all the kid's work and activities they do throughout the week because we focus on kindness all week, not just on Wednesday," added Tanice.

All week long, all elementary school students (from both Southeast Cornerstone AND Holy Family school divisions) will learn the same concepts and have conversations around the same subjects.

"We wanted to do more than just the one day so we thought we would do a Kindness week," said Tanice. "Every day we focus on one kind of characteristic of being kind so, responsibility, caring, helpfulness, respect and compassion, and so every elementary school in Weyburn has the same sort of lessons for the day, I send out a package, and then throughout the day students and teachers look for acts of that characteristic and we catch the kids being good and their names get put into a draw and at the end of the week we pull out two names from each school and they get to perform with Sask Express on Friday."

Tanice added that she is incredibly grateful to the Weyburn Comp and the Cugnet Centre for allowing them to hold the event, which sees students from four different schools all brought together in one place. 

Along with SaskExpress, the afternoon (or morning, for St. Mike's students), will also feature prominent Saskatchewan Roughrider, Dan Clark.

"The Roughriders do a great presentation on Anti-bullying so we wanted to connect that," noted Tanice.  "We wanted to make sure we had some messages that tie in the whole week that all the kids could receive."

She also wanted to express her gratitude to the school SCC's, who continue to help cover the costs of the performances. 

"We don't have sponsorship this year so each school is responsible for their portion of the concert and a lot of times our SCC's will fund that for us so it's really nice to have them on board to help support our efforts," she said.

She also noted that the Day of Pink on Wednesday isn't just for students. Anyone can wear their Pink shirts and partake in the thirteen year old tradition.