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Retired talk-show host Larry King is a featured speaker at
We Day Alberta at the Saddledome on Wednesday.
Photograph by: Paul Morigi
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Students flock to Calgary for
celebration
By Eva Ferguson,
Calgary Herald
October 23, 2012
CALGARY — A year’s worth of coin drives, bake sales,
donations and volunteer hours helping those less fortunate have led 18,000
Alberta youths to a massive one-day celebration.
Students and their teachers from across the province will
converge on the Saddledome for Wednesday’s We Day Alberta event, searching for
more strategies and inspiration around social activism and how to continue to
make their world a better place.
As part of the Free the Children charity’s cross-Canada
tour, students from grades 6 through 12 were individually selected to attend as
a reward for unique global and local actions that made a difference in their
communities.
“We are amazed at the level of involvement in Alberta, from
Cold Lake, to Edmonton, to Calgary, to Lethbridge,” said James Lombardi, We Day
director.
“Our mission continues to be to teach kids that caring is
cool, that they can make a difference in the world right now. They don’t have
to wait until they’re older.”
Participants will hear from an impressive list of
world-renowned speakers and performers including former CNN talk-show host
Larry King, actor Martin Sheen, former NHL player Theo Fleury, Paralympian Rick
Hansen, pop-punk band Hedley and TV personality Jessi Cruickshank.
Read more here:
We Day
Free The Children
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