Former Calgary councillor Jeromy Farkas returns from journey on Pacific Crest Trail
“I had to confront some things about myself in a really uncomfortable way and I had to learn to work together as a team.”According to Lima-Coelho, Farkas’ journey has inspired more volunteers with the organization as well as provided a lesson for the kids they serve.
“The guy didn’t win the mayoral election, that’s a pretty big public defeat, but he didn’t take his ball and go home, he said, ‘I’m going to do something different, I’m going to do something remarkable,'” Lima-Coelho said. “That’s a really good lesson for the littles that we serve — to show that adversity doesn’t have to be the whole story. You can move through it and you need help to do that.
“I might’ve walked every single one of those steps, but what you don’t see are the people who went out of their way to help. The people who assisted and went out of their way in such incredibly kind ways to make sure that I would be successful,” Farkas said. “That’s something I want to continue to pay forward whether that’s in politics, whether that’s in charity, whether that’s in community building.
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