Here We Stand

“And it’s here we stand with memories made,
Feelings of warmth I never want to fade.
The laughs we shared,
The pranks we played.
With you by my side, summer never goes away.”
—Here We Stand by Colin Gillard, 14, of Mount Brydges, Ont.

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Colin Gillard, with guitar, and friends atop a sculpture of a tree and roots attached to a rock on the Brock University campus in St. Catharines, Ont.