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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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Volume 16 Number 10
Rimbey students hear powerful message in music By Amelia Naismith
Rimbey Junior Senior High School student Cassidy Hohn was called to join Robb Nash and sing Adele’s Rolling in the Deep during his presentation at the school, Feb. 27. Photo by Amelia Naismith
After having taken a small group of students to see Robb Nash and his band perform in Ponoka, Rimbey’s Junior Senior High School social worker knew the group needed to come to Rimbey to spread their message. “It’s a powerful message. Basically it’s a powerful message of resilience,” said Margo Froehlick, school social worker. “It’s just an awesome mix of humor, music and message.” Nash and his band toured Rimbey Junior Senior High School Feb. 27 after a $1,000 donation from the Lions Club helped make it possible. Nash doesn’t charge for his presentations because he’s conscientious of school’s budgets but welcomes donations to keep him going down the road. Nash tours schools, reserves, prisons and detention centres across the country playing music; using the music and his own personal story to help people who are dealing with troubled times in their life, or providing words of encouragement and strength others can draw upon in the future. At 17-years-old Nash was in a car accident, from which he died. Miraculously his heart began beating again but his family was told he’d never wake from his coma, which he also did. It was a day wrought with icy roads and terrible weather conditions when teenage Nash and his friend decided to take a drive, rushing down the highway at 120 km/h. They pulled out to pass a car and found themselves face to face with a semi-truck. Nash’s friend hit the brakes, but they collided. “We hit this semi-truck head on.” Nash told the junior and senior high students of Rimbey’s school as well as Bluffton Junior High, Rimbey Christian Junior High and West Country Outreach School about his accident with good humor and an upbeat pace but topics covered in his presentation were decidedly less funny yet very necessary to speak to students about, as hardships and feelings of anger, bitterness and despair are universal to youths and adults alike. Gone were his hopes of a sports career because of it was several months before Nash was fully out of his coma and could remember who he was, although he had no memory of the accident, and his life was vastly different from they way it was one second before the two vehicles collided. Continued on page 9
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