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Message from Mayor Christina Benty

Graduation is a major community event and this year was no exception. How wonderful to see family and friends gather to celebrate this milestone in these young people’s lives. It was gratifying to observe not only the affection that this class had for one another, but to hear their affection for the small community that they grew up in. No doubt you will be inundated with words of wisdom.

Soak it all up because we want you to be successful. My personal words of advice for you are this: always remember the teeth brushing rule. No one brushes their teeth once a month thirty times and expects a clean bill of health. That is ridiculous. It is a daily albeit tedious habit that creates the compound effect. It is that way with everything in life. It is the small, incremental decisions you make on a daily basis that shape your future. You are and forever will be a product of your choices in life. Choose your habits wisely.

So on behalf of the Town of Golden, it is my pleasure to offer my sincere congratulations to the Grad class of 2014. No matter how far or near you may be I hope that you will always think about this community with fondness.

Message fromMLA Norm Macdonald I would like to offer my congratulations to this year’s graduating class. It is an exciting and important step in your young lives.

A quality education is a great gift and provides an advantage throughout one’s life. We are fortunate to live in a society that provides public education to all its children.

I wish graduates all the best as they step out into a world full of opportunity and challenges. It is important to establish your own independence but also to look at others in our communities who need our support and assistance. Embrace the responsibility to help others that also comes with adult life.

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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dreams come true.

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Principal’s Message; T he eaglets are ready to fly Congratulations to the GSS/GAS Graduates of 2014!!!

This is such a special time as we celebrate our Graduates’ successful achievement of the BC Grade 12 Dogwood Certificate and for the BC one special graduate, Evergreen School Completion Certificate. With this milestone accomplished, they are now ready to pursue their future goals – post-secondary education, work, travel.

During their years at Golden Secondary/Golden Alternate, these students became very fond of the ‘Eagle Story’ and I know they secretly hoped to watch it once more before the end of the year, but I didn’t think we could afford the extra time….sorry grads. Even though we didn’t get the opportunity at school, the Historians generously shared a key moment of the inspirational video during the Graduation Ceremony last week. To sum up the story, the mother eagle teaches her young all the skills that are necessary for independence until she

feels they are ready to leave the nest and then to get them started on their way, she gives them a gentle push out of the nest. As the story says, our job at Golden Secondary has now been completed and tonight our eaglets are spreading their wings and getting ready to fly.

What has gotten them to this point tonight? Over the years, they have grown from small children proudly standing up in front of their peers sharing their favourite treasured item during show and tell times to performing at Jam Sessions in the forum at GSS and in the Spirit Square. They fine-tuned their athletic skills to win championships. They tackled and mastered challenging courses such as Calculus, Biology, Math, Chemistry, History, English, and French. They completed and presented Independent Study projects, learned to play musical instruments and sing, organized Grad, planned Leadership activities, attended Community Conversations with the Mayor, built things out of wood and metal, fixed cars, drove cars, and worked at jobs to put gas in their cars. It has been truly rewarding to see these young people grow and develop their skills and talents over the years they have been in school. As you can see, they are definitely ready to become independent and move on with their lives. That is how they have reached this point where they are leaving the nest.

The most outstanding characteristic about this

Graduating Class is the amazing manner in which each of them has retained their special unique qualities, while still melding as a close knit group. I know that they will do great things in our world in the future!

Dr. Seuss sums it up nicely with these words of advice: “Good, better, best; never be at rest.

‘Til your good becomes your better, and your better becomes your best.

If you don't know where you’re going, any road will take you there.

You have brains in your head; you have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own and you know what you know.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Will you succeed? Yes, indeed!

Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.”

Finally, to my Grads of 2014…representing the Mother Eagle, before as I ‘push’ you out of the nest, I would like to leave you with some last words: No matter where you are or what you are doing, remember what Boxer from Animal Farm would say, “I Must Work Harder”. On behalf of the staff at Golden Secondary School, I wish you the very best…and in the words of Johnny from the Outsiders, ”Stay Gold, Ponyboy”.

Mrs. Iris Trask, Principal

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Valedictorian’s Message; Do not fear the future I want to tell you about the strangest dream that I had last night, but I will tell you about that dream later. I have something else to say first.

I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer… Oh sorry, wrong speech. If you can’t tell, I’m a fan of Animal Farm.

Welcome everyone. In preparing this speech, I read a lot of speeches from all of the greats; Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, and read some speeches that were given in this venue years ago.

But I do realize that at the end of the day I have to write a speech that will mean something to my brethren. So here we go.

The world as we know it is going to end. We don’t know when, we don’t know how. Me and my classmates have learned not to trust any rumours.

We together have survived every forecasted apocalypse from Y2K, to the end of the Mayan calendar, and all the other little ones in between.

It may not be a great idea to start off a hopefully inspiring speech with this bleak fact, but what I want to make clear is that I have faith that everyone on this stage will accomplish something great by the time it does come to an end.

We have come leaps and bounds from the first time we were all together. We proved once and for all that it is possible to fit one of us in a locker… which thankfully has not come up since that day.

I remember going into that first day of high school with so many misconceptions about it. I believed that high

school was a place to be feared and loathed. Although I will not lie to you, there were some parts of high school that were scary. Everyone in Physics 12 has experienced some fear.

I really believed that high school was exactly as the movies made it out to be. I thought that if you were not part of the cool kids, then your experience would be miserable.

Thankfully, in our class, there are no cool kids. In fact, we are all equally cool and uncool.

We owe this to the fact that everyone in our grade is so different. With everyone being so different, we didn’t have time to form the high school stereotypes that I thought were going to be so common.

We have artists, athletes, musicians, gamers, comedians.

And my favourite thing, is that we all gel together perfectly.

It seems the times have only brought us together. And we owe much of that togetherness to the teachers of GSS, for their years of support.

In particular, I want you to hear something from a teacher that has inspired a lot of us. I want you to know something Mrs. Stott said. What she said, I have never forgotten. She said, “to find what you love, and do it.”

This relatively simple concept is what I want to leave with my class. Go on and do what others have said to be impossible. Never settle for anything less than what you would want, because I know what you can achieve.

And I’m not going to say that this is going to be easy. It is a good time for someone who might want to pipe in with the catchphrase of, “if you love what you do, you’ll Congratulations on your graduation!

This is the start of many great achievements.

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Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

never work a day in your life.”

And to that I say, no.

It’s going to be hard work. It’s going to be very hard.

But fruits of your labour are going to be as delicious as muffins from the concession.

When I look at my class I see a lot of things. I see friends, I see the memories that we share, and I hear the laughter that we’ve caused for one another.

I feel a heaviness on my chest that soon we will go our separate ways. I feel the fear of moving on in the world, and of the thought of not knowing when I will see my friends again.

This whole year, for many I’m assuming, the future has seemed very uncertain. But it no longer does. I no longer fear the future because I see it sitting right over there.

And I know that we are as prepared as we can be.

On behalf of myself, and on behalf of my class, I would like to thank you - the parents, the teachers and the school staff. And most of all, the classmates of the class of 2014 for five amazing, inspiring, life-changing years.

Thank you. *Valedictorian Owen Campeau’s speech was recorded and transcribed by The Golden Star

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MEGAN BRATTEBO

OWEN CAMPEAU

NAOMI CARLSON

DACEY CHALUCK

DANICA DAHLIN

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NICOLAS DEVLIN

SIMRAN DHAMI

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AIDAN HOGAN

BEN HOMER

SAYOKO HOSOKAWA

TYLER HUNTER

MANRAJ JASWAL

ADAM JOHNSON

LARISA JOHNSON

JOSHUA KAISER

SHELBY KLASSEN

JAIME KNOWLES

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KENDRA KOZEK

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KELSEY LLOYD

TAYLOR MADER

TIFFANIE MCGRATH

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CAITLIN NAGY-DEAK

GURWINDER NAYYER

SARA OTAWAY

Erik Oosthoek

Justin Palumbo

Regan Paul

Kara Penno

Stephanie Penno

Makayla Peverill

Dani Poitras

Hailey Sadler

NIKK SCOTT

COLIN SHIELDS

MARSHALL SKUBA

Rahul Summan

Jordan Trotter

Daniel Warnock

DARBY WILSON

Jacob Wright

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Awards and Bursaries from the 2014 GSS Grad Megan Brattebo Kicking Horse Chamber of Commerce Bursary Kicking Horse Movies Bursary Rotary Club Bursary St. Paul’s Anglican Church Bursary Owen Campeau Canadian Union of Public Employees 440 Bursary Kicking Horse Culture Bursary Columbia Valley Credit Union Bursary Golden RCMP Bursary Naomi Carlson Les Zsoldos Memorial Bursary Dacey Chaluck Golden Teachers’ Association Bursary Dogwood District/Authority Awards Danica Dahlin East Kootenay & District Labour Council Golden RCMP Bursary Ben Demers Canadian Union of Public Employees 440 Bursary Nic Devlin Golden Golf Club Bursary Golden District Minor Hockey Sportsmanship Bursary Simran Dhami Golden Hospital Auxillary Bursary Keith King Memorial Bursary Courtney Drummond Canadian Union of Public Employees 2309 (Town of Golden) Michaela Dunn Aman Virk Memorial Scholarship Golden RCMP Bursary Carley Frasca Dogwood District/Authority Awards Columbia Basin Trust Columbia Valley Credit Union Bursary Tera Jubinville Memorial Bursary Aleisha Galligan

Columbia Valley Credit Union Bursary Andrew Ginn HR Pacific’s Future Contractors Scholarship Michael Oddy Memorial Bursary Aidan Hogan Golden Alternate School Bursary (Lithograph work) Manraj Jaswal Louisanna Pacific Bursary (Business) Adam Johnson Golden RCMP Bursary Golden Village Inn Scholarship Larisa Johnson Dogwood District Authority Kicking Horse Culture Bursary Columbia Basin Trust Physicians of the Golden Medical Clinic Bursary Town of Golden Bursary Shelby Klassen Golden Golf Club Royal Canadian Legion Branch 122 Golden Teachers’ Association Bursary Golden Bakery Student Leadership Bursary Jaime Knowles Golden RCMP Bursary Kendra Kozek HMC Services Inc. Bursary Sysco Food Services Culinary Award Levon Lindequist Golden Teachers’ Association Bursary Kelsey Lloyd Friends of Yoho Dogwood District/Authority Awards Golden Teachers’ Association Bursary French Language Bursary Taylor Mader Canadian Timberframes Louisanna Pacific Bursary Golden Alternate School Bursary Tiffanie McGrath Congratulations to all the 2014 Grads!

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Royal Canadian Legion Branch 122 Dogwood District/Authority Awards GSS Alumni Bursary Physicians of the Golden Medical Clinic Bursary Tamika Nagao Golden Teachers’ Association Bursary GSS Parent Advisory Committee Bursary Nathan Emery Memorial Bursary Presented by Maryann Emery Erik Oosthoek Golden RCMP Bursary Walter Bell Memorial Lions Scholarship Regan Paul Golden Alternate School Bursary Dani Poitras Golden Alternate School Bursary Hailey Sadler Canadian Union of Public Employees 2309 (Town of Golden) Bursary Leo Club Bursary Rahul Summan Dogwood District/Authority Awards Golden Secondary School Bursary Jordan Trotter Friends Of Yoho Scholarship Canadian Mountain Holidays Columbia Power Corporation GSS Youth Legacy Scholarship Jen Cusworth Memorial Bursary Daniel Warnock Golden McDonalds’ Restaurant Bursary Darby Wilson Golden Volunteer Firefighter’s Association Bursary Jacob Wright Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 440 Bursary Columbia Valley Credit Union Bursary GSS Parent Advisory Committee Bursary Rocky Mountain School District Scholarship

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Congratulations Larisa!

Whatever you wish for the future, wherever your dreams may lead, may you find they bring you happiness and inspire you to succeed.

Love, Mom, Dad, Dlaine, Loren & Ryan.

You did it Colby, we are so proud of you!

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All our Love! Mom & Dad

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Always savour the moment!

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With our love, your family.

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Congratulations Kara & Stephanie!

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We’re so proud of you.

Love, Mom, Dad, Sahil, Manisha, Grandpa & Grandpa

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

- Vince Lombardi

Congratulations to our bursary winner:

Kendra Kozek

Keep following your dreams, we’ve got your back.

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