On Tuesday I was able to speak in the Manitoba Legislature to honour three young women from Manitoba, who have spent the last few weeks collecting grad dresses to be shipped to Fort McMurray, to be given to graduates who lost theirs in the wildfires. After seeing images of the devastation coming out of Fort McMurray earlier this spring Celeste Petrick from Sarto, Julia Plett from Bluemnort, and Mia Prenvault from Winnipeg selflessly decided to do something to help those in need and made it their mission to collect as many grad dresses as possible to send to Alberta.
It was very important to Celeste, Julia and Mia that the 17 and 18 year olds who lost everything in the fires, could forget their life altering challenges for a single night and just go back to being a normal high school student ready for graduation. Community support for what these young women have done has been outstanding and they have collected a total of 121 dresses. Steve’s Livestock in Blumenort has also offered to ship the dresses to Alberta.
I would like to thank all three of these fine young Manitobans for their generosity, kindness and compassion for those in need. Each of them truly demonstrates the best of Manioba’s future.
