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3 Young Marine's receive life-saving awards after stepping up during an incident during National Cherry Festival
TRAVERSE CITY - During a ceremony at the ‘Michigan Army National Guard Armory’ in Traverse City, They were honored for the actions they took when a pedestrian was hit by a car on July 6th during the National Cherry Festival. “Your first instinct is to move even when it’s coming towards you, even if it’s not on the sidewalk. But i think it was just move. Get people out of the way. Survival,” says YM/Pvt Wyatt Humphrey. Wyatt Humphrey was with two of his friends from the young marines enjoying the national cherry festival when the unexpected happened. Their training in CPR and emergency situations gave them the confidence to step in and help. “I looked around, I scanned my scene, make sure that like scene safety and make sure no one else was going to try to pull a gun or something. And afraid of that, I looked down. There was a guy sitting. I looked around. No one else was hurt, checked my friends, and I pointed down and I’m like, he’s the one that’s hurt,” explains YM/LCpl Patience Moore.
Real life captain of Disney’s ‘McFarland, USA’ team visits GT Academy
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse Academy hosted motivational speaker Thomas Valles today. You may remember the name from the 2015 Disney movie “McFarland, USA”, about the cross-country team at McFarland high school in California. Thomas captained and led his school to the first ever state championship California had held in the sport and came out victorious. Thomas has been traveling and sharing his story to kids across the country to try and inspire and motivate those who may have similar familial issues to what he had, or challenges he faced.
Bellaire Youth Initiative offering students a wide-range of after school activities
BELLAIRE - The Bellaire Youth Initiative in Antrim County started in 2005, when the only after school activities were sports related. Now, there are dozens of after school programs to choose from throughout the year. “We have a garden at the back of the elementary school where the students raised all of the producers all summer long, and now we have cooking classes. We made, salsa a few weeks ago. We give it to the shut ins. Monday of this week, we made applesauce. It goes to the shut ins,” says Dee Lynch, President Bellaire Youth Initiative. With more than 28 different year-round programs from guitar lessons to babysitting the students who participate in the programs are learning several skills. “It’s all with their hands chopping and really the raw things that grandma taught us, our mothers taught us and mothers now,” explains Lynch.
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