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Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
Myles Mattila is used to skating
circles around hockey opponents.
On Sunday, June 22, he’ll be
putting his legs to work in a different
kind of circular motion, cranking
the pedals of a bike to bring
awareness to mental health issues
and raise funds in the third annual
Ride Don’t Hide event.
Mattila is heading Team Mind-
Check PG for the ride, to help
promote the MindCheck website
set up last year following the
August 2011 suicide of Vancouver
Canucks forward Rick Rypien.
The mindcheck.ca website Mattila
promotes in Prince George
high schools is geared to youth
and young adults.
“I’m trying to get some teams
together and do what I can to
join my group or make their own
group,” said Mattila.
“I just want to raise awareness
for Ride Don’t Hide and raise
awareness for mental health.
Hopefully we’ll get 150 people.”
Mattila, 15, has just about finished
his Grade 9 classes at Duchess
Park secondary school and has
been trying to round up his fellow
students for the ride, which starts
at 10:15 a.m. on June 22 at the CN
Centre south parking lot.
There’s a short obstacle course
for the kids and older riders will
have a choice between a flat sixkilometre
course or a hilly 20 km
ride.
The Ride Don’t Hide movement
was started by Vancouver teacher
Michael Schratter, who completed
a 40,000 km, 15-month global
bike ride in 2011.
Schratter’s trip brought worldwide
attention to his lifelong
struggles with depression and
anxiety and helped tear down
some of the stigmas attached to
mental illnesses.
Ride Don’t Hide has expanded
beyond the B.C. border for the first
time and is being promoted in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Ontario.
The national goal is to attract
3,600 participants and raise a total
of $800,000.
“All the money raised in Prince
George will stay here and will
be going towards mental health
education,” said Maureen Davis,
executive director of the Prince
George branch of the Canadian
Mental Health Association.
“We’ve basically gone national
with the event and the whole
thinking behind it is you don’t
need to be ashamed.”
The Prince George ride is being
sponsored by Shoppers Drug Mart
and Cycle World.
The top local fundraiser will win
a Norco bike worth up to $400.
Register at ridedonthide.com.
• Mattila, a native of Quesnel,
moved to Prince George last year
to play hockey and was captain of
the Farr Fabricating bantam Tier 1
Cougars hockey team.
The team went on to host the
provincial championship and Mattila
was selected by the Vancouver
Giants in the WHL bantam draft
May. 1.
The Giants picked him in the
ninth round, 183rd overall, and
he’ll report to his first Giants camp
on Aug. 22.
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On Sunday, firefighters, police officers, military service members and others from Bexar County — 300 to 350 people — took part in a regional race of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to the Towers 5k Run/Walk in New York.
Of those, 50 or so area firefighters and San Antonio police officers ran with 30 to 60 pounds of added weight from their fire gear or police uniforms and bulletproof vests.
Beginning and ending at Alamo Plaza, participants ran past two San Antonio fire ladder trucks hoisting a large American flag. Beneath it, members of the Texas Army National Guard stood watch over a piece of the World Trade Center.
The winning firefighter, Marcos Muñoz, and police officer, John Seaton, will represent San Antonio in New York on Sept. 30, when the run retraces Siller's last journey.
The annual event is put on by the Stephen Siller Tunnel to the Towers Foundation.
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Myles Mattila is 15 years old, Captain of the Farr Fabricating bantam Tier 1 Cougars hockey team, a mental health advocate and the top fundraiser for Shoppers Drug Mart Ride Don’t Hide – Prince George. So how did Myles become so involved in speaking about and promoting mental health?
There are two major factors in Myles’ life that brought him to this point.
One was when Myles’ friend went through a tough time with mental illness. Myles wanted to help, but didn’t know how. The struggle and uncertainty surrounding this experience left a lasting impression on Myles.
The other started with the 2011 suicide of Canucks hockey forward Rick Rypien. Last year, in honor of Rypien, www.mindcheck.ca was set up to help youth and young people in BC connect to mental health services and support. As a hockey fan, Myles heard about mindcheck.ca and recognized it as something that could have been a resource not only for his friend seeking help, but for Myles to have learned how he could help.
Seeking to promote mental health in his community, Myles spearheaded a Shoppers Drug Mart Ride Don’t Hide team called MindCheck PG. The team of around 20 raised nearly $2,000 for mental health programs in Prince George.
As the top fundraiser Myles won a $400 bike from Cycle World, which he donated to a boy who has been heavily impacted by mental illness in his family. Cycle World was so overwhelmed with the generosity, they turned around and nearly doubled the value of the bike – letting the boy choose a bike worth $700.
Myles’ mental health advocacy doesn’t just stop here. He goes to local schools and talks about mental health, mental illness and the importance of opening up the conversation. Since becoming an advocate, Myles says he’s received amazing feedback. At his own school, classmates will walk up to him and congratulate him on his hard work. A lot of students want to get involved, but not everyone knows how.
According to Myles, high school students are not always comfortable talking about mental illness. He feels that one of the biggest reasons resources like mindcheck.ca are important is its role in providing anonymous guidance for those with mental illness. It also arms people with ways to help, something he wished he had when his friend was experiencing mental illness.
One day, Myles hopes that we will have more easily accessible programs and treatments that are geared towards specific issues that people may have. He also wants to see mental illness being openly talked about. “Right now, it’s hard to talk about what’s going on inside.”
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) branches offer innovative mental health programs in communities across Canada. Donate to Ride Don’t Hide before the end of July to help support CMHA’s mental health programs in your community.
Congratulations to the 127 of you who completed our course today. Your results are online!
⏱ Results: www.parkrun.com.au/coburg/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNu...
Your event report is also online. It contains important reminders about returning your finish tokens (we lost one today, despite Simon mentioning this in his pre-event briefing) and about children participating at parkrun (be sure to subscribe to junior parkrun Australia for news of this new programme).
📝 Event report: goo.gl/PWmoEH
While you're here... check out this week's photos on our photos page: goo.gl/z8pxFh
Photographers: Erina Stacey and Scott Stacey
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PULTE HOMES BILLBOARD
Let's Get a Move On Sales Event, Now thru Feb. 22 at Sun City Anthem by Del Webb at Merrill Ranch in the East Valley.
The Santan Freeway Loop 202 is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers the only billboards along a 23-mile stretch of the Santan Freeway Loop 202. This billboard is between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in Chandler, AZ.
Ben Howard zette zijn optreden in beweging op een pontje in Amsterdam op 11 april 2012. Veel 3FM luisteraars kwamen aan boord en beleefden een bijzondere overtocht.
Was je erbij? Laat weten hoe het was op www.3fm.nl/getmoved
After a long morning of dilly dallying around, I decided I need to put some intention into getting out the door and to the bookstore to study for my licensure exam. Somehow, aiming the camera at myself in the mirror and telling myself to move my lazy butt really seemed to help! It was like I could now really see myself screwing up, and I couldn't shirk my responsibility another minute.
It's getting easier every day... at least a little bit.
Is there a way the camera can help me learn about the roles of all the different neurotransmitters? Because I could really use some help with that.
This is a video clip. You can watch it on Vimeo:
Ben Howard zette zijn optreden in beweging op een pontje in Amsterdam op 11 april 2012. Veel 3FM luisteraars kwamen aan boord en beleefden een bijzondere overtocht.
Was je erbij? Laat weten hoe het was op www.3fm.nl/getmoved