Mike Gee has been keeping a careful eye on the weather forecast for Sunday, June 2 as the Langley City resident prepares for the third annual Seamus’ Stroll for a Stronger Community to honour the memory of his late son by raising funds for youth initiatives.
“It looks like it might be raining, but we’re hoping that won’t deter people,” Gee told the Langley Advance Times.
”We’re still going to be there. We have a picnic shelter. We’re going to have coffee and snacks, and a [by-donation] barbecue afterwards.”
Hosted by the Seamus Gee Legacy Project in Campbell Valley Park, at the Old Orchard picnic shelter by the 8th Ave. and 204th St. entrance, registration opens at 10 a.m. and the walk starts at 11 a.m.
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Money raised will go to help support the youth in the community and Foundry Langley, operated by the local Encompass Support Services Society which provides health care, mental health and drug counselling, and social services to teens and young adults..
In its first two years, the stroll raised $6,000 while attendance doubled from 50 the first year to more than 100 in the second.
Supporters are invited to collect donations and pledges from friends and family ahead of time. More information is available online at the Seamus Gee Legacy Project Facebook page.
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After Seamus died in 2019, at the age of 16, his dad began holding fundraising events for the recently-opened Foundry.
Mike also established the non-profit Seamus Gee Legacy Project to help local students access trades programs, as well as community and school sports programs.
An online memorial described Seamus as “a kind, gentle soul with a massive heart [who] was courageous and delightfully brilliant, a lover of all animals and nature, he was adventurous and had a very curious mind.”
