By Veronica Beltran

two years later and still living on

Students maintain trail dedicated to secretary who passed from cancer

Sep 25, 2019 | 1:19 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–Wednesday morning students from Cedars Christian School (CCS) were out and about cleaning up areas throughout the city.

However, there was one specific spot that needed to be maintained and it’s one that holds a bit of meaning to the school’s community–a trail, located behind the Hospice House. The trail was dedicated to the students favourite, former secretary, Jolene Crosina. “You would walk into the office and her smile would just make your day. You could be having thee worst day and just seeing her and hearing her jokes, and her sarcasm, and her laugh…it was just the most amazing thing,” said Hailey Gilkerson, a grade 11 student at CCS.

Crosina passed from uterine cancer two years ago, at the age of 43 and spent her last few weeks at the Hospice House.

The trail is maintained several times throughout the year by the students and is decorated by them as well, with painted rocks laid out throughout the trail. “Jolene was…a rock at our school, she was quite the foundation,” said Gilkerson coincidentally. Although she does mention that the rocks on the trail and Jolene being like a rock in the community wasn’t done on purpose.

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The coulourful rocks were made by the elementary school students at CCS.

Frank Crosina, Jolene Crosina’s brother who works at the school as a PE teacher says that it is awesome to see the kids looking after the trail that would have meant so much to his sister. “It’s funny I think she’d probably be saying something like, ‘Well it’s about some time they’ve actually done something for me–all the stuff I’ve been doing around the school for them’–but you know, just joking…she just loved the kids,” said Frank Crosina on an on-camera interview with us.

Frank hopes the trail will continue to be used by those at the Hospice House as a place to find some peace, tranquillity and enjoy time with visiting family and friends.