For anyone confused because you were interviewed by a very young reporter, no, you have not fallen for some type of scam.<\/p>\n
As part of their annual Stampede celebrations, BMO hosted their junior reporters program on Wednesday morning. The reporters, 10-year-old Ryder and nine-year-old Malti, spent the morning doing interviews and exploring the grounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done a lot of interviews, I\u2019m excited for the rides after this,\u201d Malti told LWC.<\/p>\n
The pair both said that in the first half of their day, they\u2019d interviewed the CEO of BMO and this year\u2019s First Nations Stampede Princess and served food at BMO\u2019s pancake breakfast, among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Above all else, while sipping a blue-raspberry lemonade, Ryder reiterated his co-reporter\u2019s excitement for some afternoon rollercoaster riding.<\/p>\n
Aside from their direct experiences as Jr. Reporters, Malti and Ryder are each set to receive $2,500 towards a BMO RESP, $1,500 towards supplies for their school, park entry for four, Calgary Stampede evening show tickets for four, and a western outfit, four ride passes, and food vouchers.<\/p>\n
Leah Marrington, the Regional Vice-President of BMO\u2019s Central Calgary Market, said that the Jr. Reporter position is highly coveted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe junior reporters are the highlight for us at the Stampede. Each spring, we put out a call to kids 13 and under in Alberta, and we ask them to write a story and tell us why Stampede is important to them and what it looks like to be a reporter for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get hundreds of submissions, we narrow it down to our finalists, and they get the opportunity to sit in front of some BMO executives and our sponsorship team and tell their story, and from there we pick two.\u201d<\/p>\n
As applications and demand have increased for the positions, adding more winners to the junior reporter program has been discussed, according to Marrington.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s really fluid. It\u2019s just super exciting for us to expose kids to the world of reporting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had one (Jr. Reporter) in the past, we have had two this year, so it\u2019s an ever-changing evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the coming years, BMO\u2019s goals are to get as many people interested in the program as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make sure everybody gets the opportunity to submit their submission to us and we\u2019ve been working really hard on doing that through our social media networks, through our branch networks, through our employees sharing the word,\u201d Marrington said.<\/p>\n
For now, Ryder and Malti have their sights set on a certain dragon-themed Midway ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For anyone confused because you were interviewed by a very young reporter, no, you have not fallen for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,202360,48,279308,32146],"class_list":["post-790930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-stampede","tag-canada","tag-malto-language","tag-spare-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}