Even as she was fighting cancer, Julie Burke wanted Father Henri Voisin school to be a community where no-one was without a friend.
She dreamed of a ‘friendship bench’ at her Red Deer school. It’s place where any student who was lonely could sit, and others would rally around them and ask that student to join them at lunch or in activities on the playground.
Now, a year-and-a-half after the 10-year-old died of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer, it’s become a reality.