April
Social workers Dan Poulin, Lori McPherson, Frank McMullen and Angela Mercer receive the Copper Shield award to mark their achievements as social workers at a Social Work Week event at the UNBC campus. Copper shields were given as gifts in past cultures and were a mark of great respect and great honour.
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Fourteen Skeena Junior Secondary students get a taste of the east on a 10-day trip to China with teacher Caroline Faber and tour Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai.
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Aizlyn Auckland, 18, receives the 2011 Yes I Can! Award in community service from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) for her achievements in educating others about disabilities.
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Janna Olynick and Michelle Brown travel to Costa Rica to volunteer with underprivileged families and children as part of International Student Volunteers (ISV).
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The book Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers of Northern British Columbia features locals Gayle and Geoff Appleton, a nurse and a doctor, and paramedics Cheryl and Scott Spencer among others.
May
Matthew Daratha paints his design on one of the white walls of the washroom building at George Little Park after winning a contest put on by the city’s youth advisory committee.
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Jalynn Gibson asks her friends to donate to the city animal shelter instead of buying presents for her seventh birthday and collects a little more than $100 in supplies, food and money for the shelter.
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The Relay for Life raises more than $192,500, despite having fewer registered participants, fewer teams and a decrease in corporate donations from last year.
June
Friends of Soma, a local society organized by Terrace-born teacher Katherine Geeraert, who teaches in Soma, Japan raises $6,500 to help Japanese students affected by Japan’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
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Grade 6 and 7 Kitwanga students learn about careers in the trades at Youth Exploring Skills to Industry Training.
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To honour pioneers, the founders and past city leaders, four maple trees are planted as part of the Little Townsite Big Celebration a year-long series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the townsite survey.
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Tahltan chief Rick McLean embarks on a 112 km ride from Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek to raise money to help Tahltan people fight cancer – he rides in memory of Jodi Tashoots, a young Tahltan woman who lost her battle against cancer this spring, “but whose determination and fierce spirit was truly inspirational,” said McLean.