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Surrey/North Delta Leader
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A cup and some cash The North Surrey Lions cooked up a storm and raised $1,000 recently at Route 99 Tire and Auto Centre in Whalley. Owners John and Wendy Chilton donated the money as their tire supplier, BridgestoneFirestone, brought in the Stanley Cup for a visit.
YES, she can
SURREY’S CYNTHIA BHOURJI is one of two young women to receive the Gordon Smith Youth Environmental Stewardship (YES) Awards. The YES awards are open to youth in the region that have shown passion for the environment and intend to pursue post-secondary education in the environmental field. Supported by Metro Vancouver Regional Parks, Parks Partners and private donors the fund is administered by the Pacific Parklands Foundation (PPF). Bhourji is a Grade 12 student at Tamanawis Secondary School. In 2009, she founded Change the Beat and developed various local and international projects including “Neem: Planting Hope”. With the help of others, Bhourji contacted rural villages in northern India to coordinate the planting of trees. Starting in Bhandhala, the project since expanded to seven more villages.
Kwantlen First Nation elders Cheryl Gabriel and Lekeyten Antone delivering the opening prayer and song during Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s aboriginal open house.
Aboriginal awareness
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wantlen Polytechnic University’s Aboriginal Gather- and Kwantlen’s Aboriginal Gathering Place. “The goal for ing Place opened its doors to more than 200 Grade the day was for students to develop an understanding of the 8-12 Aboriginal students from the Richmond, accessibility and range of post-secondary options available Surrey, Langley and Ridge Meadows in our region, to meet Kwantlen students, facschool districts recently at its Surrey campus. ulty and staff, to experience a university campus Titled Your Path, the open house featured setting, and to consider how they might begin campus tours, mini lectures and an informato establish a plan for their own transition to tion fair for the students, school district staff post-secondary studies. and teachers in attendance. “Based on the feedback we’ve received, I think The event received an official opening of we’ve succeeded on all fronts today.” prayer and song from Kwantlen First Nation Organized within Kwantlen’s Student Life elders Cheryl Gabriel and Lekeyten Antone. and Community Division since April 2010, the Speaker and BC Lion J.R. LaRose talked Aboriginal Gathering Place has since launched about his own battles with adversity as a youth a number of initiatives focused on community with Aboriginal roots and how it fueled his outreach, student support programs, and onmotivation for success as a professional athlete. Joshua Mitchell campus awareness of Aboriginal issues, history “I couldn’t be happier with the turnout and and culture. participation at this event,” said Joshua MitchYour Path is one of a series is of initiatives ell, director of student engagement at Kwantlen including peer mentoring, student club activiPolytechnic University who oversees Aboriginal Services ties, lectures, workshops and campus festivals.
No need to remain silent JOHNSTON HEIGHTS Secondary
Picture this Surrey Photography Club member Paul W. Sharpe receives his gold medal award from contest chair Richard H. Weiner for the winning photograph in the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA) Pacific Zone Print Challenge 2012. The winning photo, Walt Disney Curves, was taken in Los Angeles. For more of Sharpe’s photos, visit www.wizardofwonders.com. For more information about the Surrey Photography Club, visit www. surreyphotographyclub.com HOW TO SUBMIT
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student Thomas Matsumoto won second runner up at the Canadian Bar Association, BC branch’s (CBABC) Law Week speech contest. The Barry Sullivan Law Cup is one of the cornerstone events of Law Week in BC. The Law Cup is named in memory of Barry Sullivan whose contributions to both the legal and educational professions are honoured each year through the presentation of this cup to the provincial winner. Students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 are invited to compete in the annual Public Speaking competition. Matsumoto received a trophy and a $150 cash prize. The finalists were judged by a
“Based on the feedback we’ve received, I think we’ve succeeded on all fronts.”
Justice: Does having the Charter lead to a more just society? made for an exciting contest and once again the calibre of the speeches was absolutely astounding,” said competition judge and CBABC executive committee member Jennifer Chow. “All students did a phenomenal job and should be Thomas Matsumoto (right) with his award from very proud of themthe Canadian Bar Association speaking contest. selves. Law Week 2012 Justice of the Supreme Court of was celebrated across Canada with British Columbia, a law professor, events ranging from mock trials and the director of Access Pro Bono and public open houses to flash mob a member of the CBABC executive demonstrations, public speaking committee. competitions and Dial-A-Lawyer “This year’s theme, Access to Day.
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