BEAR HUGS
A Tri-City middle school student appearing in the CBC-TV drama series Heartland showed some love to the kids in High River, AB, which was devastated by recent flooding.
Alisha Newton, 12, spent some of her hard-earned cash to buy more than 80 teddy bears at a Build-A-Bear store in Calgary for the children at the High River Daycare.
Newton, who is currently in her second season playing a foster child named Georgie on Heartland, which is filmed in High River, was evacuated from her Calgary home during the floods; however, she managed to safeguard her own teddy bear.
Newton also portrayed Young Annabeth in the feature flick Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, which is now showing in movie theatres.
TUITION $
Two Coquitlam graduates have won scholarships from Envision Financial.
Terry Fox secondary's Shehan Wijeyagoonewardane and Liam St. Louis, of Gleneagle secondary, each earned $2,000 towards their post-secondary studies.
Both young men have been active in the community. Wijeyagoonewardane will attend Western University to major in business administration while St. Louis plans to major in international relations at the University of Toronto.
CADET PRIZES
Port Coquitlam petty officer Bryan Hui was presented this month with a bursary aboard HMCS Quadra. Hui, a coxswain of the RCSCC Grilse in Port Moody, won the Lt. Cdr. Keith Kohanzo bursary for his post-secondary studies at SFU in behavioural neurosciences. Hui was given the accolade from Kohanzo at the cadet summer training centre in Comox.
And Vernon Mayor Robert Sawatsky stopped by the Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre this month to present a Port Moody cadet with a prize. Hyuk Park of RCACC 2877 was named the best cadet on the three-week basic fitness and sports course. This summer, 1,200 army, sea and air cadets from western Canada spent up to six weeks at the OK facility.
LITTLE HEROES
Two Coquitlam girls were commended last week for their quick thinking.
Eight-year-old Ella Townsend and Olivia Ingrid, 11, alerted a neighbour after a grass fire started on his front lawn. The homeowner didn't know he had a fire outside until the girls knocked on his door. The girls were recognized the Town Centre firehall last Thursday by Chief Wade Pierlot and assistant fire chief Rob Gill.
SO SWEET
Maillardville resident Jessica Kruger - the winner of the Lise Watier model search for the frangrance Something Sweet - joined company spokesperson Rachel Ladouceur last week in Vancouver for a sneak peek of the fall line. Kruger (left), an SFU student and rugby player, is one of the world's first quadriplegic models.
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