{"id":13099,"date":"2019-12-17T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:00:28","slug":"my-interview-with-pat-healey-super-community-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13099","title":{"rendered":"My interview with Pat Healey, Super Community Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Sam Lirette<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning Centre student at G.P. Vanier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FALL RIVER:<\/strong>\n Last week I met Pat Healey for an interview. I wanted to interview a \nreporter because I want to be a reporter. I shared my ideas with Georges\n P Vanier principal Mrs. Amaral. Then I wrote eleven interview questions\n and showed them to her; hoping she could set up an interview for me. I \nwas so happy when I found out he was coming to the school to meet with \nme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, December 5, Pat Healey came to GPV and we sat down to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n first thing I wanted to learn from Pat was about how he became a \nreporter. I learned about when Pat was about my age he used to bike to \nthe newspaper to see if there was anything he could help with. Pat knew \nhe wanted to be a reporter when he was young too. He became a reporter \nby going to Holland College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to know what it is like to \nbe a reporter in my community, so I asked Pat about it. I was surprised \nto learn that he doesn\u2019t work in an office. Pat writes for \u201cThe Laker\u201d \nand \u201cThe Weekly Press\u201d on the road. He works on his stories at home or \nat places like Good Day Cafe; he said he was heading to Tim Horton\u2019s \nafter our interview to do some work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat Healey has been a \nreporter for 18 years, in the beginning he was a reporter in \nNewfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Pat has been a Super Community \nReporter for the last 11 years. He says that there are great stories to \ntell every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat is really happy to tell stories about young \npeople in the community, like me. Some of his favorite stories to tell \nare good news stories. He says,\u201dI like the good news stories, the ones \nthat warm your hearts, especially here, given that it is the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\n I asked him about sports reporting because I love sports and I want to \nbe a sports reporter. He just went to Lockview to cover basketball. \nBasketball is my favorite sport. Pat said he would try to cover one of \nmy teams basketball games. He even invited me to watch a basketball game\n he will be reporting in January. I was so excited about the chance to \nwork with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I next asked him about his cat. He said he got his \ncat at the Halifax Cat Rescue Society. Her name is Asha and she just had\n a birthday. She is six or seven, he has had her for five years. Asha is\n his therapy cat because he talks to her and cuddles her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was \nhappy that Pat Healey came to my school.. It was good to talk to him \nbecause I want to be a reporter too. I would like to thank Pat Healey \nfor coming to my school, and also inviting me to go with him to a future\n basketball game at Lockview High School. He will be reporting the game,\n and I get to see him doing his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sam Lirette Learning Centre student at G.P. Vanier FALL RIVER: Last week I met Pat Healey for an interview. I wanted to interview a reporter because I want to be a reporter. I shared my ideas with Georges P Vanier principal Mrs. Amaral. Then I wrote eleven interview questions and showed them to her; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,8],"tags":[2,368,950],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-community","tag-fall-river","tag-georges-p-vanier-junior-high","tag-sam-lirette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}