Roughriders educate, spend time with local students
Saskatchewan Roughriders Brayden Lenius and Peter Godber spent the last two days in the tri-communities promoting literacy and mental health to local students.
The professional athletes arrived in La Ronge on Wednesday evening and spent Thursday talking with students from Air Ronge’s Gordon Denny Community School and La Ronge’s Churchill Community High School. They then spent all of Friday at La Ronge’s Pre-Cam Community School.
“We do two things. So, for the kids from Kindergarten to Grade 4, we do the Rider Reading, so we like to promote reading and all the education about it, and then for Grades 5 to 9, the smaller schools we will get up to Grade 12, we talk about mental health and mental wellness,” Lenius said.
“It’s called the Win with Wellness Player Presentation Series, so that’s on mental health and mental wellness and things how they can cope with stress, anxiety and different things that they go through in life.”