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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010
We Day ‘sets off the fire’ in Surrey students Ted COLLEY Staff Reporter
SURREY – If enthusiasm and desire could do away with hunger, disease, poverty and war, the world would beat a path to the door of Kwantlen Park Secondary school. Today (Friday) is We Day, a Canadian event celebrating the power of youth to change their world. This fall, there are three events in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, each featuring inspirational speakers, musicians and more. It’s all part of a program created by Free the Children, an organization dedicated to showing North American students they can make a difference, they can change the world. We Day is the culmination of a year of work on behalf of less fortunate children struggling with hardship and deprivation, work the 60 or so members of Kwantlen Park’s Global Issues Club embrace with joy. Last year, the students raised $8,500 to pay for the construction of a school in a village in Sierra Leone. This year the focus is local; the money raised will be used to help underprivileged kids closer to home. We Day is the biggest day of the year for these kids, a chance to get together with thousands more just like them and draw inspiration and energy for the year ahead. Club member Sophia Matthekis waxed poetic as she described We Day’s effect on her and her colleagues. “It’s like a match that sets off the fire we all have within us, a trigger of the inner Good Samaritan.” Last year’s event saw 16,000 youth gathered at Rogers Arena to hear the Dali Lama speak, Sarah McLachlan sing and kids from other schools in other towns talk about their fundraising ideas.
see WE DAY page 5
❚PHOTO/Sharon Doucette
A stick, a passport and an inspiring outlook Former South Surrey Eagle Scott May says the waiting game isn’t ideal but insists he has no complaints about where the game has taken him
Story by Michael Booth
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SCOTT MAY/ ere’s a trivia question, hockey “Throughout fans: Who is the only Surrey my hockey Eagle to have his jersey displayed career there in the Hockey Hall of Fame? has been ups Scott Gomez has his name on and downs the Stanley Cup and the Calder Trophy, but no and I’ve laundry in Toronto’s hallowed hall. learned how Nope, the honour belongs to Scott May, to battle whose 2006 Milwaukee Admirals playoff jersey through the is in a display honouring the minor league affilidowns and ates of NHL teams. how to try and May didn’t know about the jersey in hockey’s ride the highs. shrine until a buddy told him about it earlier this It’s a huge year. He still hasn’t seen it for himself but the life lesson happy coincidence is another positive aspect of when you go what has turned out to be a somewhat charmed through all hockey career. He has never played a game in that and come the NHL, but May is definitely not complaining. out stronger “There’s been a lot of positives for me,” the in the end.” 28-year-old forward said. “The number of players who make the NHL is extremely small and when I see a lot of my buddies making it, I think it’s great. I’m extremely happy for them, but the ride that I’ve been on has been great, too. I had my education paid for; I experienced the whole big U.S. college thing, played pro for four years and then went off to Europe to play there. I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t want those opportunities. Yeah, OK, I’ve worked for them, but I’ve also been treated pretty good in return.” see MAY page 18