Foundation Honours High School Grads Place Making Enhances
A4 your stories Thursday, June 19, 2014 THE CHRONICLE-JOURNAL Lessons deeply rewarding With their graduation now com- pleted, the 2014 Leadership Thunder Bay participants find themselves re- flecting on the lessons learned and achievements of the past 10 months. It has been, they agree, a deeply re- warding experience. Terra Lofts, a program manager at Children’s Centre Thunder Bay, explains the impact of the program from her point of view. “Leadership Thunder Bay has had a very positive impact on me. My understanding and definition of a leader has broadened, the impor- tance of relationships in moving is- sues forward have deepened and my own self-awareness has been PHOTO PROVIDED BY SANDI KRASOWSKI strengthened”, she says. Lofts decided to apply to Leader- The Thunder Bay Community Foundation recognized 26 graduating secondary school students from across the region for their academic ship Thunder Bay as she was in achievements this school year. Scholarships and bursaries worth a total of $80,000 were presented last week. Accepting awards were, from search of a way to become more en- left, McKenna Boeckner, Hammarskjold High School; Melissa Davidson, Superior CVI; Kelsey Franl, Sir Winston Churchill CVI; Carter gaged with the community as a Dumonski, Nipigon Red Rock District High School; Shelby Rooney, St. Patrick High School; Jak Lorree-Spacek, Churchill; Bonnie Donaghy, whole and did not know where to Superior; Wilson Poulter, Churchill; Abbey-Rose Arnold, St. Patrick; Ankur Shahi, Churchill; Shelby Malakoff, Manitouwadge High School; start. Matthew Jollineau, St. Patrick; Beatrice Kaiser, Marisa Curran and Ekora Oades, all from Hammarskjold; Hayley Krasowski, Alexis Penna, She wanted, she said, an opportu- Adrian Grebowicz, Montana Takalo and Nathan Ryan, all from St.
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