North Battleford Comprehensive High School graduate Julia Marjoram wins RE/MAX Quest for Excellence bursary (supplied photo/Kayla Petersen)

By Keaton Brown

passion for the community

Local student wins RE/MAX Quest for Excellence bursary

Jul 10, 2020 | 12:59 PM

A Battlefords area student was one of sixteen students chosen from Western Canada to receive the RE/MAX 2020 Quest for Excellence bursary.

The annual RE/MAX Quest for Excellence program encourages graduating students from British Colombia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories to submit an essay detailing the contributions they have made to their communities.

“The 2020 Quest for Excellence bursary winners all show exceptional leadership qualities,” said Marie Sheppy, manager of corporate affairs for RE/MAX of Western Canada. “These individuals have all made a significant positive impact on their communities, which is amazing to see,” she added.

North Battleford Comprehensive High School graduate Julia Marjoram was one of this year’s winners. She said the focus of her essay was on the passion she had for her community.

“I wrote a little bit about the ways in which, in the last few years, I have devoted my time to the betterment of my community,” she said.

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In her essay, she highlighted some of the projects she did at Cheer Legacy North Battleford.

“I was a coach there and I put on a few different events there, for instance, we did an adopt-a-family program at Christmas time,” she said. “I just wrote about a few different things that I had done, just in a personal effort to make North Battleford a better place,” she added.

Marjoram said that the most important line in her essay was that ‘hurt people hurt people’. She explained that most of the people that do harm to others or commit crimes are people who are themselves hurt.

“I think it is very important to help the people who are hurting inside to stop the chain reaction of them going and hurting others,” she said.

Marjoram explained that she will be using the bursary to pursue a career in the medical field as an x-ray or laboratory technician.

“I am currently on a waiting list for a few different programs,” she said. “I’m just waiting for my spot to open,” she added.

Marjoram said that she was pleasantly surprised to find out that she had won the bursary because so many other applicants had applied throughout western Canada.

“I was just really happy that small-town North Battleford got that kind of attention,” she said. “So that was just really exciting to me to have that kind of spotlight,” she added.

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