YELL News
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Rowena Capacit: Gold Medal Wrestling Champion! - May 27, 2010
Rowena Capacit: Gold Medal Wrestling Champion! John Oliver Wrestling Team finished its longest season ever and proved it was a force to be reckoned with at the 2010 Canadian Cadet Wrestling Championship held April 9-11 at Simon Fraser University. John Oliver's student athletes competed in their age groups against top competitors from across Canada and came back with the school's best results ever. Defying all odds, Rowena Cacapit, a Grade 12 YELL student from John Oliver Secondary earned the school's first gold medal …...
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Volunteering This Fall - Nov 18, 2009
Fall 2009, has seen a lot of new faces volunteering in the Hastings Hub. We are proud to announce that most of our volunteers are from Templeton and Vancouver Technical Secondary. We thank our returning program leaders for your constant support and commitment. We are also looking forward to our new volunteers to get enough experience to soon be able to lead their own programs! You guys are all awesome!!!...
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Andrew Leung: Making Every Minute Count - Apr 9, 2009
Shy, soft-spoken, serious and sincere: That's 15-year-old Andrew Leung at first impression so you wouldn't expect him to lead you down the garden path right out of the gate.... See our profile on Andrew in our profiles section....
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Patricia: An Ideal Olympic Torchbearer - Feb 10, 2009
It started out as an ordinary day for Patricia Moreno. She was volunteering at Ray-Cam Community Centre and performing her usual responsibilities. Then a team of representatives from Coca-Cola Canada appeared at the information counter. Patricia knew them from an event where weeks earlier she'd given a speech about how she wanted to be a torchbearer for the 2010 Olympics, but she didn't know why they were there. They were there because they wanted to talk to Patricia. Ray-Cam …...
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Sivansh: Working Like a Dog in His Community - Feb 9, 2009
They say that dogs are great judges of character, that when a dog rejects or accepts you it indicates how trustworthy you really are. If that's true (and a consensus of canine-lovers says it is), 16-year-old Sivansh is a keeper, an authentic soul, someone with whom you can connect, someone with whom you feel safe, and someone you'd appreciate having as your two-legged best friend. Visit his profile on our website....
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New Inner City Hub Developer - Jan 23, 2009
MoreSports is pleased to announce Kris Hildebrand as our new Inner City Hub Developer. Some of his previous work experience include: engineer working in inside sales, industrial engineering, estimating, plant engineering, and planning and manufacturing within the corporate world. For the past 20 years he has coached swimmers and triathletes of various age and fitness levels, from recreation to national champions. He is currently employed as a Triathlon Coach at Templeton Pool with Exceleration Jr. Multi-Sport Club. He has a strong passion for …...
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New YELL Community Youth Worker - Jan 21, 2009
MoreSports is pleased to announce Tennyson Wong as our new YELL Community Youth Worker. Previously employed at Riley Park Community Centre, he served for 3 years developing programs for New Immigrant Youth in the Cultural Buddy Program. He first began working as a Youth Leader with MoreSports 4 years ago, and has since been actively involved with youth programs at various community centres throughout Vancouver. He has a strong passion for working with inner city youth to enable leadership through mentorship, and for …...
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Disability Awareness Course Postponed to Saturday, January 17th, 2009, 9a.m. - 4:30p.m. - Jan 17, 2009
In light of several contributing factors, MoreSports Yell officially announces the postponement of our NEW Disability Awareness Training program to its new date and time; Saturday, January 17th 9a.m. - 4:30p.m. (venue to be announced) This first time training opportunity to be provided by Yell was to debut this coming Saturday but has been pushed ahead in an effort to maximize participation from youth interested in working with children of various special needs including those who are autistic and/or have physical …...
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Patricia: Carrying a Torch for Fitness - Dec 12, 2008
Patricia Moreno is our latest MoreSports personality profile. Patricia volunteers in the MoreSports program out of Ray Cam Community Center. Quoting from the profile: Patricia's the kind of person who feels the fear and does it anyway, and that's what makes her special and successful. Check out the full story on Patricia's profile page....
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Job Opportunity: Yell Community Worker - Dec 1, 2008
The MoreSports Yell program has a Community Worker position available. The job is approximately 20 hours per week and is a pay grade 16 position. The primary resposibilities for this position are as follows: Overall liaison for Yell community program for inner city youth at risk. Recruiting youth into leadership program (YELL) Assist in the development, coordination and implementation of volunteer leader training activities key areas associated with player, coach, officials, administrator and league development primarily targeting the MoreSports …...
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