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Gabriel McPhee
Gabriel McPhee is at it again; growing his hair and having it cut to make a wig for a kid he doesn’t know who has lost his or her hair to cancer. This time his younger brother, Morgan, a Grade 1 student, has joined him...
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Colton Ferland
Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”...
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Nanaimo Unique Kids Organization
In January of 2005, four families realized that the normal school system wasn’t working for their children. Instead of complaining to the world, they decided to work with the school system to create a special school that would work for them. They call themselves the Nanaimo Unique Kids Organization (N.U.K.O.)...
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Brynna Hardy
Today’s Hidden Heroes story is written by Teesha Wilkinson who is in Laura Harrison’s Grade 11 Leadership class at Dover Bay Secondary School...
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Park Avenue School - Grade 7
A few weeks ago, the students in Mrs. McGonigle’s Grade 7 class at Park Avenue School wrote excellent stories about their Hidden Heroes. I have got as many as possible in print by selecting excerpts from several stories...
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Park Avenue School
I just received 24 Hidden Heroes stories from students in Mrs. McGonigle’s Grade 7 class at Park Avenue School. We all have much to learn from the insights these students have had. I’ve selected three stories for this week and I’ll have more next week. I know you’ll enjoy hearing from these budding story tellers...
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Uplands Park Pelandaba Project
The Grade 4/5 class at Uplands Park School has begun to help orphans in Africa. Their involvement started when they chose to sing two African songs during their Christmas Concert and then decided they would like to raise money to help children over there...
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Gabriel McPhee
One of the key messages in the school-based Hidden Heroes Education Project is that small things can make a big difference usually through what we call the "ripple effect". We saw a perfect example of the ripple effect last Monday at Chemainus Elementary Community School...
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Jake Kaese
A month of so ago, I was invited to a special event sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Eleven-year-old Jake Kaese was the featured speaker...
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Small Communities Can Make a Big Difference
As I have said many times before in this column, we are all surrounded by Hidden Heroes but unfortunately we often tend not to notice them because we have become a society of "fixers". We tend to look for what's wrong and try to fix it, instead of focusing on what's right and building upon those strengths...
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Randerson Ridge
Today I want to write about four Randerson Ridge Grade 7 students who have nominated their parents as Neighbourhood Heroes. I'll also write about another two who nominated their pets. We have something to learn from all six of these nominations...
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Randerson Ridge
I am in total agreement with Bria Sharkey's mom, Corrine, who says that when her job is something she loves, it's like playing all day...
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Janice Dunn
When four Mid-Island families couldn't find an educational opportunity that fit the needs of their children who have autism and other related disorders, they formed the Nanaimo Unique Kids Organization, a not-for-profit society...
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Gabriel McPhee
Gabriel McPhee took his first steps toward becoming a Neighbourhood Hero last year when he was just five years old...
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Mathew Stevenson
Mathew Stevenson entered Grade two at Uplands Park School reading at a very early Grade one level but now his future is looking much brighter thanks to the efforts of his parents; his teacher, Carol Jepson; a tutor; and most especially to the Uplands Park PAC who, along with the principal, Marie Harel, enthusiastically supported a pilot "Rec and Read" summer program and worked hard to bring a pilot version of this three week reading intervention program to Grade two and three students in the school...
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Catherine Green
Eleven-year-old Catherine Green colours pictures of houses for four our more hours a week. She’s working to help her family become the next Habitat for Humanity homeowners in Nanaimo...
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Coal Tyee Elementary School - Grade 5 Class
As part of our school-based Hidden Heroes Project, Paul Grey's Grade 5 students at Coal Tyee Elementary School recently became Secret Hidden Heroes both at home and at school...
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Vanessa Dubord
Christmas seems to have snuck up on me this year but last week I was reminded that it was coming, and coming soon. I got a last minute phone call from a friend asking me to play Santa Clause and faster than I could say "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer," I found myself wearing the famous red costume along with knee length black rubber boots and a mouth full of white cotton as I prepared to have my picture taken with business people across the city...
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Mrs. Keen's Class
We piloted the latest edition of our Hidden Heroes WebQuest, a direct descendent of this column, in seven classrooms last spring including Mrs. Noreen Keen's class. One of her assignments was to have her students read at least two of our columns and comment on things they have in common with the people who were featured...
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