Pitt River middle Grade 7 students Ethan Fukuhara and George Plesu are best friends who enjoy sports and have the same sense of humour.
The boys are also patriotic and, just in time for Canada Day, have been assured that a missing flagpole at their school will be replaced.
“It’s a small detail but it’s something important to us,” Plesu said.
The two noticed their school didn’t have a flagpole — a detail that appears to have been missed when the school was rebuilt four years ago — and so they did some research and found that theirs was the only middle school in the district not flying the national flag.
It was a project they did on their own time, studying Google images of every middle school in School District 43.
“I thought why don’t we have a flagpole, we should have a flagpole,” Fukuhara said. “I think the pole shows who we are, it shows we’re Canadian, it shows our pride.”
They sent the research proving theirs was the only middle school without a flagpole flying the flag to PoCo trustee Michael Thomas, who investigated the situation.
“They did their homework, and collected photos, put together a report and presented it to me in an email,” said Thomas, who said he was proud of the boys’ initiative.
Plans are now in the works to transport an unused pole from Moody middle school to Pitt River over the summer and by fall when the boys return to class, they will see Canada’s flag flying once more in front of their school.
“It shows we are unified, no matter where you come from, you are always a Canadian,” Plesu summed up
