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S U N D AY P E O P LE

Freedom Walk steps into town

Entrepreneur turns passions into profits

Push for victim rights started in Newmarket, co-founder says

BY TERESA LATCHFORD

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BY TERESA LATCHFORD

Alex Vydrin tips his entrepreneurial hat at the current youth unemployment rates. The 20-year-old Newmarket youth has always had a nose for business and while youths continue to struggle with unemployment rates almost double that of adults, he thinks the solution is to run with your imagination and passion. The recent business marketing graduate took a school assignment and turned his passions into a flourishing business locally and internationally.

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The final stretch of the Freedom Walk includes Yonge Street in Newmarket. The cross-Canada walk that began in Vancouver stops at the York Region Administrative building June 21 and 22 before wrapping up in Toronto. With five men covering 4,500 kilometres in 63 days, the hope is to raise funds and awareness to provide support to victims of violent crime through the Canadian Crime Victims Scholarship Fund and the CCVF Secondary School Scholarship. “Newmarket is where it all started 13 years ago,” Canadian Crime Victim Foundation cofounder Joe Wamback said as he travelled with the walk, trading paper footprints for donations to help support victims of violent crimes and their families. The goal is to not only raise funds for a number of initiatives and support services, but also to spread the word that offenders and victims still don’t have equality when it comes to supSee CRIMINALS, page 8.

‘I collect two things: hats and sneakers. I thought, ‘What could be better than combining the best of both worlds?’’ Alex Vydrin

20-year-old Newmarket youth

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“I collect two things: hats and sneakers,” he laughed. “I thought, What could be better than combining the best of both worlds?’” He created a hat that features wide sneaker laces in the front that are interchangeable, so any outfit can be matched. After completing the assignment and with some coaxing from his friends, he made a few hats to test the market. He sold 1,000 VLACED hats in just three months. Now a year in, he not only has the authentic streetware in local skate shops in Aurora, Toronto and Bradford, but he is also shipping to retailers in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, United States and throughout Canada.

Newmarket’s Alex Vydrin took a school assignment and turned his passions into a flourishing business.

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