Brady's the best

L'Anse au Loup's Brady Belben is going to Ottawa on July 7.

The Grade 6 student from St. Paul's Elementary won best overall display, entitled 'The Great Discovery of Voisey's Bay', during the Northern Heritage Fair, held at Mountain Feild Academy (MFA) in Forteau on May 2.

Mr. Belben received the news during class last Thursday, when Heritage Fair co-ordinator and MFA principal Terry Casey made the announcement.

"It's exciting," he said, red-faced. "My stomach's got butterflies.

"I had fun with the project, I wasn't shy or anything, I looked the judges in the eye and I just told everything about it. They only asked me a couple questions because I told them everything."

When asked what he learned about Voisey's Bay during his research, Mr. Belben rhymed off some interesting figures:

"It was the second biggest discovery in the world (of nickel, cobalt and copper); there's enough nickel in Voisey's Bay to fill five million tractor trailers for what they got so far; there's only 1.6 per cent (nickel), all the other bit is rock, and then 0.2 per cent was cobalt and 0.4 per cent is copper. I found that pretty amazing."

He said the Heritage Fair is a good opportunity to learn about history all over the province - which all the students there had down pat, he added.