Each year the Battlefords Rotary Club sponsors a number of leadership and enrichment weekends in Alberta for local high school students from North Battleford Comprehensive High School and John Paul II Collegiate.
One of them is called the RYPEN camp (Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment) and the other is called the RYLE (Rotary Youth Leadership Experience). The camps are designed to develop life skills and inspire self-confidence in the students, as well as hear from various speakers and take part in various outdoor activities.
They spoke of meeting many new people and called attending the camps a “life changing” experience.
A major amount of the money raised by Battlefords Rotary goes towards paying for their attendance at the camps. Those delivering their reports at the Rotary meeting recently were students Braden Friesen (NBCHS), Drew Beavers (NBCHS), Dakota Peterson (NBCHS) Ashley Wehrhahn (JPII), Alicia Piller (NB Comp), Victoria Winterholt (JPII), Kenecia Tootoosis (JPII), and Ericka Revet (JPII).
