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Date Posted: 13:16:11 08/25/08 Mon
With 26 contestants from all across Canada, Meghan Price of Vernon, BC won top honours at the first annual Top Teen of Canada event on Saturday, August 23 at the Chief Sepass Theatre in Langley, BC. There were representatives from Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan present, but it was BC’s very own Meghan Price who took home the gold.
The event included both male and female participants with a focus on community involvement, fundraising, and charity. The first of its kind ever in Canada, the event was a week-long affair that included self-defence workshops, public speaking classes, gruelling rehearsals, a visit to Hell’s Gate, BC and a dinner cruise around the harbour of Vancouver. Perhaps what was most valuable for the youth that attended was the relationships and friendships formed during this time together. It was a chance for youth from across the nation to meet one another and share ideas on how they can better the world.
The Top Teen of Canada event held two nights open to the public. Thursday, August 21 saw the teens battle it out in the Speech Presentation and Personal Showcase competitions. The variety of presentations included painting, dancing, photography, fashion design, singing, playing a musical instrument, tai chi, and reciting poetry. Saturday’s Grand Finale featured a rousing opening number and of course, the Evening Wear and Regional Costume competitions. Filmed for television, the show brought the audience to its feet, applauding the young men and women, who collectively managed to raise over $20,000 through the Top Teen of Canada event for Cops for Cancer for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Seventeen year-old Price, who lost her best friend to cancer a year before, is now about to enter her first year at UBC Okanagan, and has already volunteered her time with Habitat for Humanity, with whom she went to Guatamala to help build a house for those in need. This fits with her platform of affordable housing. “I want to raise awareness for a need for affordable housing,” she told her local paper, The Vernon Star. “Canada’s a wealthy nation but there is still a lot of non-affordable housing in this country, and a lot of people are struggling.” Out of $5,000 in cash scholarship prizes distributed among the contestants, Price walked away with $3,000 to be applied to the school of her choosing.
Applications are already being accepted and processed for next year’s event. For more information on how to apply, visit www.topteenofcanada.com
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