Grey-Bruce Kids Winter 2021/22
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COOL KIDS<br />
WHERE ARE<br />
THEY NOW?<br />
CHECKING IN WITH SOME OF OUR ‘COOL KIDS’<br />
THEN<br />
NOW<br />
EDEN BABBITT<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> 2019/20<br />
Over the past two years Eden, now 15<br />
and in Grade 10, has continued her<br />
work with Eden for Our Environment.<br />
Her Instagram page features tips on<br />
greener living as well as updates on her<br />
projects. Last Christmas, Eden sold<br />
tickets and raffled off a gift basket filled<br />
with environmentally friendly goodies,<br />
raising over $500 for the Jane Goodall<br />
Institute of Canada.<br />
This is also around the time the idea for<br />
her summer <strong>2021</strong> adventure was born.<br />
After chatting about her family’s annual<br />
trip to the cottage, Eden was thinking<br />
about how she could get there with as<br />
little environmental impact as possible.<br />
She has always loved biking and decided<br />
she would embark on a mission to ride<br />
to Tobermory from her house in Lurgan<br />
Beach, near Point Clark.<br />
Eden began working with her trainer Vy<br />
Waller, as well as three other women, for the<br />
190 km ride. The team consisted of Eden,<br />
Vy, Sandy Elston, Terri Rintoul and Jen<br />
Bedford. Together the five of them built up<br />
18 GREY-BRUCE KIDS • WINTER <strong>2021</strong>/<strong>22</strong>
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