We run because we can
The Streetfront/Street2Peak family is happy to see that Brandon has been recognized for his incredible work with youth. In October Brandon was surprised to receive the 2016 Canaccord Genuity Community Champion Award recognizing all his volunteer work with our program and others. Well done Brandon and congratulations from all of us at Streetfront!
Follow this link to see all the beautiful pictures taken by Mark Bates of this years SHLF run.
On the morning of October 14th Trevor along with Blythe Hartley sat down with The Early Edition radio host Rick Cluff to discuss the Strachan Hartley Legacy Foundation annual run and its partnership with Streetfront. The 10th Annual SHLF Run happened on Oct. 16th
Click here to listen to the interview that starts at 51:20 minutes into The Early Edition show.
Our main tasks today in the garden was to aerate the compost, pull weeds and dead plants for composting, seeding cover crops and nitrogen fixing plants, adding leaves for winter protection and erosion control, harvesting potatoes and leeks, and planting garlic. This week we will make potato salad and potato leek soup with our bounty!
After our return from the bowling tournament we had our annual visit from Vancouver Canucks Rod Brathwaite (Manager, Community Partnerships & Hockey Development). Rod was joined this time by Alfred De Vera (Media Relations) who was eager to meet and speak with our students.
They left us with a gift of box seats for Dec. 26th game against the Edmonton Oilers. Thank you Canucks for this great opportunity!
We had 16 youth (of a possible 28 for the Seattle Marathon) running the 19 km Deep Cove route today – and in record time too! Well done gang!
Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids (CLICK) is a community-based, non-profit foundation that was initiated to help inner city children and youth in Vancouver. They are a great supporters of the students at Streetfront. They have produced this touching story highlighting a former students journey. Jessie does a great job in representing many of the challenges our student’s have and do face in their lives. Well done Jessie and thank you for representing your peers so well and sharing your story!
On Thursday our students had the fantastic opportunity to try their hand at the sport of cycling on a velodrome track. There wasn’t anyone in the Streetfront class (students and staff included) who could say they were not intimidated by this sport that sees one cycling around a track that had up to 47 degrees in pitch! We would like to thank Nikki from Urban Native Youth Association and Michael from Burnaby Veldrome for giving us this opportunity and expert guidance. We hope to return soon to this wonderful sport.
We had our first session in the garden this school year with Ian (Britannia Food Security Co-ordinator) and Matthew (Environmental Youth Alliance) who guided us through the importance of seed collection. We learnt many cool facts about seeds like the majority of our food plants require human intervention for propagation and have lost the capability of doing it naturally; the existence of heritage seed banks; how to harvest and store seeds for planting the next year to name a few.
Today Streetfront students (current and former), staff, family and friends participated in the annual Strachan Hartley Legacy Foundation run. SHLF is our single biggest financial supporter of Streetfront and we always look forward to their 5 km and 10 km fundraising run. If you want to support a Foundation that supports youth through sports then ple
ase consider a donation at http://shlf.ca/
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