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JASON HALSTEAD / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS L-R: Suzanne Jolicoeur (Young Humanitarian Awards committee chair and Manitoba Teachers’ Society executive member), Jayda Hope (River East Collegiate student), Charles Apolinario (West Kildonan Collegiate student), Arjay Certeza (Collège Garden City Collegiate student), Lorna Aquino (mother of Loizza Aquino, a student at Institut Collègial Vincent Massey Collegiate) and Brandi Bartok (H.G. Izatt Middle School teacher) at the 20th annual Manitoba Teachers' Society Young Humanitarian Awards, on May 24, 2017 at the Fairmont Hotel. The students were honoured with at YHA Group Award for their Peace of Mind 204 group which works to erase the stigma of mental health issues and has organized Youth Against Mental Illness Stigma events. The group is now a registered charity. (See Social Page)