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Name game in vogue for Stettler graduating class John MacNeil
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Kennidy Fisher (left) and Kennedy Fisher were among 127 graduates who received diplomas at the William E. Hay Composite High School graduation ceremonies last Saturday night at the Stettler Recreation Centre. ECA Review/J. MacNeil
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Prairie Land school board ��������� 3 Lacombe County ���������������������� 3 Castor prom night �������������������� 4 Stettler town council ���������������� 5 Hanna charity walk ������������������ 7 Golf Guide �������������������������������� 9 Coronation town council ������� 10 Classifieds/Careers ������������11-13 Stettler history ����������������������� 14 District 4-H shows ������ 14, 15, 18 Sports ������������������������������������� 20
SCHOOLS Gus Wetter salutes class of 2014 Page 4
Thursday, May 29, 2014
This year’s graduates from William E. Hay Composite High School in Stettler were still in elementary school when they learned an important life lesson — to read the fine print. Students — and teachers, too — had to pay close attention to notice that there was just the slightest difference in spelling the names of classmates Kennedy Fisher and Kennidy Fisher. It’s been that way since Grade 5, when Kennidy moved to Stettler from Sexsmith (near Grande Prairie) and joined Kennedy and company at Stettler Elementary School. Seven years later, the Fisher girls are among 127 graduates in the William E. Hay class of 2014, and it’s still necessary to distinguish between those two 18-year-olds with virtually the same name. At the graduation exercises last Saturday night at the Stettler Recreation Centre, they were introduced as “Kennedy Fisher with an E” and “Kennidy Fisher with an I.” Although the similarity piqued the interest of the full house in the transformed arena Saturday, the name-game oddity has been the reality for the Fisher girls for most of their school years. It caused confusion, and more than a few laughs, they said. Students, of course, don’t always communicate with correct spellings in mind, especially in a social-media world that promotes shortcuts, and at a high school that routinely abbreviates the first
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name of its namesake. The Fisher quiz might have been more of a challenge for the girls’ teachers. “Oh yeah,” Kennedy confirmed after the grand march. “I can’t even count the number of assignments that I got back where I would say, ‘This isn’t mine. It’s hers. Get it right.’ Even our report cards, one time, got switched. I was, like, ‘This isn’t mine.’ “And even I find sometimes in the newspaper, they’ll spell my name like her name, or vice-versa, and I’ll be, like, ‘What? I didn’t do that.’ Our teachers, they’ll call the wrong Kennedy (or Kennidy) down to the office. Just little things like that. It was so cute. “It’s so rare that you have (matching) names like this and you’re not related, but it’s so cool, because now we’re best friends and it’s really awesome. All of it.” Hair colour was one way that students and teachers verbally distinguished between the Fisher girls — the blond-haired Kennidy and the brown-haired Kennedy. “Since I moved here in Grade 5, we’ve always been known as Kennidy with an I or Kennedy with an E, or Kennidy with the blond or Kennedy with the brown,” said Kennidy, this year’s student union president. “She wasn’t in the same class as me (and) we didn’t really talk to each other, at first. In Grade 6, we were running for the student convenor for the middle school student council, so we didn’t really like each other then, because we were going against each other. But we’re actually really close
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friends now, going into the end of high school.” Kennedy said it might have taken the girls a while to get to know each other, but they eventually became buddies. “I know we ran against each other for social convenor in Grade 6, and she won and I lost, but that didn’t make me hate her or anything,” Kennedy said with a laugh. “But no, there’s never been really any rivalry, because we haven’t really been in the same class, and we both do different sports, so it’s separate lives kind of thing. “I knew more of her, in the beginning. Like, we’d cross paths and say, ‘Hey, we have the same name.’ But as we got older, we kind of grew closer. It was cool to grow closer to her, not just for the name thing, but because she’s an awesome person, as well.” The Fishers and their fellow graduates radiated enthusiasm as they posed for photos on a crowded floor after the formal ceremonies Saturday. The girls with the same name don’t play the same games — it’s mostly soccer for Kennedy and hockey and school sports for Kennidy — but their differences mirror the diversity of the class of 2014. “We were kind of exact opposites, actually,” Kennidy said. “She hates hockey and I play hockey. And I hate soccer and she plays soccer. “It’s always been different sports, but we’ve always been the same academic kind of way. We both liked English and social. That’s kind of where we met. In Grade 10, we became better friends when we shared science class together.” Turn to Two sets, Pg 2
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