Rick Stiebel/B次元官网网址 Gazette staff
The seeds for a fundraiser with deep personal roots organized by two Metchosin teens were planted during a youth leadership camp they attended this summer.
Nolan Sievert and Keegan Small, both 16, are selling lavender from SievertB次元官网网址檚 family property to raise money for the B.C. Cancer Agency.
ItB次元官网网址檚 just one of the projects to come from the two-week Global Leadership Academy camp at Brookes School at Shawnigan Lake.
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Sievert added, B次元官网网址渨e share common interests and are good friends, so we decided to work on the project together.B次元官网网址� He is documenting the project. B次元官网网址淢y passion is making video, so IB次元官网网址檓 making one chronicling the whole process,B次元官网网址� he said. Sievert expects to complete the video within the next couple of weeks.
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It took about 10 days to harvest, dry and bundle the lavender, which they are selling in downtown Victoria for a minimum donation of $3 a bundle. They also started a Go Fund Me page July 25, which raised $170 in 17 hours.
Sievert, a former Belmont student, will attend Grade 11 in Seattle this year with the aim of working toward a career in business, possibly stock investment. Small has set his sights on becoming a commercial pilot.
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