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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 25 Mar 2015, p. 3

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' .-f ft student at Wilfrid latllfll'l Universitt sions for two first-year economies Courses at § 4;- lhe t’Xt‘t’ttlI‘st‘ Llll’t‘t'lllf of Students Utter latirier for groupsof two to five students. we ‘ ‘9 7 3- ing support ‘s( N is seeking his sui i essor they tittored 200 students that year and (3, -~ . W after he ftas helped raise more than St lintl donated the $5,500 the) rolleeted to the g 451“ if?“ lion in build st hools. i Iiiiii s and Minutes in tsunami relief fund to help those impacted " _7 , ‘ latiri \inerii.i b\ tlte Jilin earthquake and tsunami in the f “a; "It s tlte perfeit time were at siii h a sia liidiaii (heart that lulled 2 $0,001) people i i at}? a . __ . hie and sustainable plat e and l lei-i realls for his efforts tlverholt was nominated ' ' _A ._ , good the orgaiii/aiion is going to ll\t' iii Ior the l.rttst g lining Ontario intrepreneur v 7 \e.iis trout non,” said (lserholt, J't iii an of ihel'ear award iii 20“! and won ii iii 20114 i ‘ ’ interste“ last “trek ‘Ihi' people are [lit rt'dt Nittie Jill;| he‘s also ser\ed as a lodge for the ' , i â€" , lilt' and i lei-I reallt l oinionahle ahlfui some award Greg Overhoft, in a photograph from a 2009 trip to Silico Creek, Panama, is stepping down one else a tie“ leader t ointng in to pros tile it you told (lkt'rltiill a dot ath- ago that from his role as executive director of Students Offering Support (505) later this year, SOS. tt(‘\\ ideas and fresh ideas to the otgatit/ti N4 is would grow tittti what it ls hid-nu he like Wh'Ch “no“ Ufl'VQVS‘fY students m ”Ofth America afld rolled; “in“ for humanitarian trips "" W,” p “Wm,” M“. |,,.|,(.\Ni you Latin America, has raised more than $14 million in the past decade wmnm‘, ihe goal ot st is is to raise marks iiione\v "i think ”embody int hiding lll\\l‘lli and roots Ihet at lllt'\t' this goal by helping underestimated the power of the model" he Part of the reason for its success is and humanitarian reasons first, the more to raise the marks of tinnersits students iii said “llatk then it was lllsl a buittli of hitsi Overholt himself. she added, focused an aid orgasm/ration ran be the more ( anada and the llitited states ht offering ness and (oinputer st tente students tits! try “ to begin mth, it‘s Greg's innate ability to effective their work becomes. 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