Colette Daelick told students about the trip Wednesday morning (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)

By Michael Joel-Hansen

WE Day

P.A. area students to take big trip

Oct 9, 2019 | 3:30 PM

Some students from Wesmor Public High School in Prince Albert are set to travel to Winnipeg for a special event.

Fourteen students from the school will be attending WE Day in the city. The event, which is put on by the WE Organization, aims to get young people interested and engaged in activism.

Colette Daelick, a teacher at Wesmor said the kids who are set to make the trip were picked based on a variety of factors.

“They’re part of our student council, they’re part of a leadership 30 class, or they’re just kids who when we’re doing an event they just show up and help out,” she said.

Daelick explained the opportunity for the trip came about when she ran into a representative from the WE Organization who told her about how sponsors would be willing to cover the cost of the trip for the students. In the past WE has put on events in Saskatoon, but has not done so in the past few years.

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Daelick said the chance to make the trip will give some of the students a new opportunity.

“A lot of our students probably have not been to Winnipeg, possibly have not flown on a plane,” she said.

Along with new life experiences, Daelick said the WE Day event will also give the kids the chance to be around some of their like-minded peers.

“We’re talking about thousands of kids who have the same drive to want to make the world a better place,” she said.

Arlen Sewap, one of the students set to make the trip, said he was looking forward to hearing from speakers at the event.

“I am feeling pretty excited, it’s my first time going to WE Day. In the past I’ve never had a chance to go,” he said.

Tanis Crain, who will also be making the trip to Winnipeg, said she was looking forward to attending the event with her classmates. She added the trip will give her a new experience.

“This is my first time going on an airplane and I am kind of scared too,” she said.

In a media release, organizers said through the WestJet WE Day Experience students and educators from rural and remote communities across the country will be flown to a WE Day in a Canadian city where they will experience the greatest classroom in the world for a full day, live event. For the sixth consecutive year, WestJet and WE are working together to give deserving students the chance to join tens of thousands of like-minded youth to experience a WE Day event for the first time ever.

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