Cindy Miller, Kellogg Library Document Delivery Clerk, will be part of a team of proud Olympic torch-bearers in Nova Scotia later this month. How did it happen? Here’s her story!

“Last winter, I nominated my 83 year old Dad through RBC for a Hockey Leadership Award. This is awarded yearly to one person per province in Canada. He was selected this year as the Nova Scotia recipient in honor for all the years that he has contributed to hockey in East Hants as a volunteer. His prize was to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as an honoree. He also received $10,000 for our local minor hockey association, an autographed Team Canada Hockey Jersey and–since this year was the year that Canada hosted the Olympics–he and I and eighteen others have the honor of running with the Olympic Torch. My brother and I attended the induction in Toronto with Dad at the Hockey Hall of Fame. I was never so proud of my Dad in all my life as he so deserved this award.

Now it’s my turn for some fun! Dad and I got together and selected family to be on our team: my brothers Craig and Jeff, my wife Judy, my sons Brad and Brock and my sister-n-law Carmelle. We then selected two minor league hockey players and then 11 others in the surrounding communities that did volunteer work as well. On November 17th, we will travel to Antigonish and each of us on our team (called “Miller Time”) will walk or run 50 meters each. This is very exciting for us all. We run from the StFX Student Union Building to McDonalds. If you want to skip off work for the day, we should be on the road by 1:30 pm!”