Students create art to show COVID lives lost are more than statistic Written by Sylvia St. Cyr Monday, May 24 2021, 5:01 AM A student in front of one of the hearts put up outside Gordon Bell, honouring people who died from COVID in Manitoba. (Supplied) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Junior High students in Winnipeg are creating hearts to honour the 1,000 plus Manitoban lives that have been lost due to the novel coronavirus. Mirae Young is the visual arts teacher at Gordon Bell Secondary School in Winnipeg. "Back in February an organization called Communities Not Cuts started a memorial of hearts on the river walk. It was created to honour the individuals whose lives have been lost to COVID," says Young.