Myles’ story entered in A&E biography contest
By Brian Cleevep
Chatham This Week
November 09, 2005
Aspiring journalist Nicole Gall hopes to win $5,000 and improve her writing skills in an essay contest.The 17-year-old Chatham resident has entered A&E Canadian Biography of the Year essay contest.
Gall is writing a 250-word essay about Myles McLellan, a Chatham child who has cancer.
“I spent 45 minutes with Myles and Susan (his mother) Tuesday night.”
She planned to finish the work by Wednesday and get it in the mail, before the Nov. 10 deadline.
“I’ll have to make it as powerful as I can, and pack in basic information.”
The Grade 12 student at Ursuline College Chatham said she heard about Myles at school.
“We pray for him every day.”
She also read media reports about the Chatham child who is battling brain cancer.
Gall said she wrote about Myles as a person who made a contribution to the community in 2005.
“He’s accomplished a lot. He’s raised a lot of money and he and his mother have been involved in cancer mapping.”
Gall had hoped to take part in the contest last year but missed the deadline.
She’s written essays for the Ayn Rand Institute based on the novel the Fountainhead, writes newspaper editorials, and has won a poetry contest.
The essay about Myles McLellan, that was submitted for contest.
The original article by Brian Cleevep
