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Kimberley schools Terry Fox day event

On Thursday, Sept. 28 Selkirk Secondary and Marysville Elementary schools came together to participate in the Terry Fox run.
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On Thursday, Sept. 28 Selkirk Secondary and Marysville Elementary schools came together to participate in the Terry Fox run.

Both of the schools put together fundraising initiatives and Selkirk’s included the goal of $1000, which they surpassed by more than $800. There were approximately 650 students and teachers in the Platzl to celebrate their fundraising victory.

Leadership student at Selkirk, Violet Mcphee says this year the leadership committee decided to do something different for the Terry Fox run.

“We usually have the event in the field at our school,” Mcphee said. “This year we wanted to do something different so we decided to get Marysville school involved and hold the celebration at the Platzl. Our goal was to raise $1000 and we have already passed that. For every few hundred dollars raised, a teacher and a leadership student will get a pie in the face.”

“We decided to include Marysville because, as a leadership committee and a school, we want to be good role models for them and show them that we can have a lot of fun,” said Mcphee.

Leadership student Madi Amy said, “we’re holding the pie in the face event to celebrate our [fundraising] victory. There’s a great community here and we want to show them that we are doing good things for the community.”

Maddy Clubly, who is also a leadership student, says that the leadership committee is responsible for organizing all kinds of events throughout the school year.

“We organize dances, assemblies, the year book, the pep rally, the green committee which has a recycling program,” said Clubly. “We’re basically a student council; we do it all.”

Huw Miller is also on the leadership committee and he is in charge of photography and videography for events at the school.

“I’m part of leadership and our role at school is to set up fundraisers and events, this one is our biggest one, our first one so we wanted to get it done right,” Miller said. “Being a part of leadership, there are so many aspects that we have to cover and we feel that alongside of yearbook that we usually do, we want to have videos and a bunch of films to actually have real memories of the past year. I’m in charge of leading the film team so I go around and film videos, edit videos and having other people alongside me doing the same thing.”

Teachers and students from Selkirk were good sports, getting a face full of whipped cream as students chanted, “pie face, pie face,” along with Principal Quigley from Marysville and Constable Payne from the Kimberley RCMP.

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