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Teresa Pring
Like most Neighbourhood Heroes, Teresa Pring gives much more than is expected at work and at home. Theresa works at the Nanaimo Boys and Girls Club, an organization that does the same for the children and families it serves...
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Larry Cooper
Larry Cooper wasn't nominated as today's Neighbourhood Hero because he has organized a four team mighty mites flag football league for kids 6 to 12, a peewee tackle football team for kids 8 to 11 and a bantam team for kids 11 to 13 ... but that certainly would have been enough to qualify him for the honour...
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Betty Dillabaugh
"I didn't realize how much it meant to have you here until now when I'll soon have to learn what it's like not to have you."
That's what Grade 6 student, Sarah Bateman, wrote in a memory book the students at Uplands Park Elementary School gave to Betty Dillabaugh last week when she retired as their school librarian...
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Coal Tyee's Grade 5 Class
As regular readers know, this column has spun off an exciting internet-based project called the "Hidden Heroes WebQuest, which has been designed for use in schools as well as other family and youth groups. The project is now being piloted in the mid Island region...
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150 Ways to Show Kids You Care
Paul Grey's Grade 5 class at Coal Tyee and Noreen Keen's Grade 6 class at Uplands Park are the first School District #68 classes to begin piloting our new Hidden Heroes WebQuest (www.nhero.org) and, from the early results, I think you'll be hearing a lot about them in this column over the next few weeks...
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Darren Hauca
Although this column is about one coach, it is meant to acknowledge all those coaches ... and their families ...who, year after year, give thousands of hours to our kids...
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Rotary Zimbabwe Project
Whenever they stop to think about it, I'm sure the students at Mountain View School realize just how lucky they are. They're surrounded by beautiful open fields, have a new $20,000 playground ... and they have a whole lot of wonderful desks, chairs, books, rulers, erasers, pencils, pens and paper...
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Heroes Abound at Cedar Community Secondary School
When I first started speaking to Mary-Lynn Epps' Grade 8, Textiles and Crafts class at Cedar Community Secondary School, the kids didn't seem very interested in our Neighbourhood Heroes school-based WebQuest program...
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Giraffe Project
Did you ever meet a human giraffe? If you look around, you'll probably find you know one.
The Giraffe Project defines "Giraffes" as people who are willing to stick their necks out to make a difference. Here are two examples...
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Trevor Prince
Today's Neighbourhood Hero is a young boy whose quick action saved another boy's life ... but that's not why he is a "Neighbourhood Hero"...
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Jessica Heikes
I helped a 7 year-old kid save for her post-secondary education today. You could help another young student the same way ... and it's easy.
It's about bottles, in particular, those plastic pop bottles. I hate returning them. So I end up with closets full...
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