'I am very proud': Manitoba grandfather and grandson graduate high school in same class
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A grandfather and grandson duo proudly graduated alongside each other at the same northern Manitoba school.
A grandfather and grandson duo proudly graduated alongside each other at the same northern Manitoba school.
Donning blue caps and gowns, John James Easter, 76, and Percy Knight, 19, graduated in the same class Tuesday night through the adult education program at Frontier Mosakahiken School.
"I'm very proud and I'm honoured that I graduated with my grandson. That makes me happy," Easter said in an interview with CTV News Winnipeg.
It was a day Easter never thought would come.
He left school when he was 16, and started working as a fisherman.
He envied his friends who got to graduate. When he got married and had kids of his own, he encouraged his family to get the education he was never able to.
Last fall, he drove Knight to enroll in the adult education program offered in Mosakahiken Cree Nation.
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