A Belmont Secondary student is the recipient of the second annual Const. Sarah Beckett Memorial Scholarship.
Seventeen-year-old Nathaniel Blondeau was awarded the $2,000 scholarship from the Capital Regional DistrictB次元官网网址檚 traffic safety commission to pursue a career in law enforcement outside of the West Shore RCMP detachment on Thursday.
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Blondeau will be studying criminal justice at Camosun College in the fall with hopes of transferring to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby to pursue a degree in criminology in the future. His goal is to become a police officer.
Blondeau was also captain of the Belmont Bulldogs football team, achieved academic excellence earning 98 per cent in Law 12 and 97 per cent in Criminology 12 courses, and works at ThriftyB次元官网网址檚 in Colwood.
Colin Plant, chair of the traffic safety commission, said Blondeau checked all the boxes.
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This is the second scholarship the traffic safety commission has given out in honour of Beckett. Beckett lost her life when her police cruiser was broadsided by a pickup truck in the Goldstream Avenue and Peatt Road intersection in Langford during the early morning hours of April 5, 2016.
Shortly after, the commission created the scholarship to raise awareness of traffic safety issues and highlight the community service provided by police.
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