A Calgary-area school's student body and staff gathered Wednesday to remember the seven students who died in a 2003 avalanche along the Connaught Creek Trail in Rogers Pass.
Carol Grant-Watt, the head of school at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School in Okotoks, says the focus of the annual event is to inspire the school community to live their best lives.
"I come here so that I see their faces and make a quiet promise to them that we will continue to honor their memory." "It's probably time for somebody to take a step back and say 'okay, what do we do for the next 20 years?," she said. "Because complacency is the worst thing you can you can do when it comes to safety for children, I mean safety for anybody but safety for children in particular, which is our area of interest."
"We are continually contacted by schools from all over the world who want to learn more and understand what we do," Grant-Watt said. "So we're happy to share. We collaborate. We want every student who participates in these types of activities to be safe, to have an enjoyable experience and to make this a lifelong pursuit."
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