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Getting Back More Than You Give

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WHEN VOLUNTEERING WITH THE RUNNING & READING CLUB, YOU GET BACK SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU GIVE.

I volunteered with the Running & Reading Club about 11 years ago at North Kipling Junior Middle School and loved it. I had some knee issues, and then I was transferred to Hamilton, so I lost touch with the Club, but I never forgot the kids and how much I enjoyed working with them.

I became involved in local hockey in Oakville with my daughter and son and spent eight years behind the bench with the Minor Oaks Hockey Association, the Oakville Hornets (House League and Rep) and the Rep Rangers. I loved it and loved working with the players!

With my children are all in university now, I felt I needed to get back into community volunteering. I saw the notice in the Oakville Beaver that Oakwood Public School was looking for volunteer coaches. The rest is history! I asked my good friend and former volunteer hockey coach Frank Gougeon to come out and help too. We worked many years together in the RCMP and know that now more than ever - we need to invest in our youth.

We are blessed at Oakwood to have some truly dedicated and caring coaches and teachers! The safety, well-being, and success of the kids is paramount to all of us. We are equally lucky to have some great kids who are enthusiastic about the program. Our focus is on being part of something bigger than yourself - be it Running & Reading Club, or part of the community.

(Cathy, Oakville ON)

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge the land on which we work, and which Start2Finish operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular, we acknowledge the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.

We welcome you to acknowledge the land you are on https://www.whose.land/fr/

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