Faith&Friends
FROM THE EDITOR
We Can Be Heroes
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ou don’t have to rush into a burning building to save a baby or rescue someone from the path of an onrushing train to be a hero. Sometimes, it can be something as simple as being in the stands during a hockey game. This is what happened to Nadia Popovici, a 22-year-old Seattle Kraken fan, late last year. She was seated behind the Vancouver bench watching the game against the Canucks when she noticed an irregularly shaped mole on the back of assistant equipment manager Brian Hamilton’s neck. Nadia, who is going to medical school next year, says the mole caught her eye. “It can’t hurt to say something,” she told CBC News Network. Nadia held up the note she’d written on her cellphone to the plexiglass behind the Canucks bench, alerting Brian that the mole could possibly be cancerous. Brian initially brushed off the note, but then had a team doctor check it out. It was indeed discovered to be a cancerous mole that could have had lethal consequences if left untreated. “She saved my life,” a grateful Brian said later. Nadia could have noted the mole and dismissed it. Instead, she acted—with life-changing results. We can all be heroes by refusing to turn away, whether from inequity, intolerance, injustice or any other “in.” All it takes is you refusing to stand aside. The world will be a better place for it.
Ken Ramstead FEBRUARY 2022 2022 I faithandfriends.ca I faithandfriends.ca 4 • MARCH
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