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Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell, second from right, and cancer survivor Kim Lapshinoff, second from left, drop the ceremonial first puck between Peninsula’s Reece Costain (left) and Saanich’s Evan Horvath (right) at the Saanich Braves Pink in the Rink game last Friday. The event raised $1167.45 for the BC Cancer Foundation in Victoria and will be earmarked specifically for breast cancer research. Read more on Page A17. Christian J. Stewart / ISN
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The Gift Everyone can Like many of his classmates, Grade 11 newcomer Santiago Mazoy’s path to studying and living at St. Michaels University School has an inspiring story. But the 17-year-old, from Los Cabos, Mexico, is unique as the first to win the SMUS Best School Year Ever contest,
which earned him a $50,000, two-year scholarship that began in September. “I was actually (visiting) here five years ago and saw the campus when we picked up a friend who studied (at SMUS),” Mazoy recalls. “I knew then that I wanted to come back and study, so
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when I heard about the contest, I couldn’t wait to enter.” Entrants are judged on a video and the contest is open to Canadian and American high school students (locals included). Mazoy qualified as he was studying at a private school in San Diego, Calif. last year;
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this year’s runner-up winners, Silke Kuhn and Alessandra Massa, hail from Abbotsford and Texas respectively and both received $10,000 scholarships.
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