Dedication of high school organizers a highlight for Corey

On most weeknights, the Moose Jaw Times-Herald newsroom is a brightly-lit quiet place full of empty air and a couple or three pecking computer keyboards and the occasional mouse click, overlaid on top of the hum of the building's ventilation system.
It's also the place I've called home.
Tuesday, I left my key on managing editor Lesley Sheppard's desk, as I head off to Fort McMurray later this week to work for the Fort McMurray Today in their sports department.
It is never an easy decision to move with a young family in tow, but the reality of this business is that rarely anyone stays at the same place for very long. Since I joined in November 2000, I haven't had much if any desire to move. Having gone to elementary school here, I know what kind of community Moose Jaw is and I appreciate everything the community has done for me.
Since I've moved back, it was strange to see many of my old elementary school teachers and principals and vice principals still active in the community making a positive difference.
Through the years, who wins what sport becomes less important than the quality of people that have come through the system. Scott Schultz played on a super-young 0-6 Riverview Royals football team. A little over a decade later, he's hoisting a Grey Cup for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Someone on that 0-6 Vanier Vikings team last year could be walking down that exact same path.
That's why you keep trying, whether you're an athlete, a coach or a reporter. The person that you work with or cover now might be the person dozens hound for autographs in a short time.
The teacher's and administrators' hard attempts to get kids better at everything is a constant reminder of what really is most important about high school and other levels of sport - the development of the athlete and the person as they strive for their best inside and outside of the realm of athletics.
In this city, there are high school sports commissioners, who, on top of their already hectic job schedules, find time to schedule a preposterous amount of regular season games, tournaments and playoffs - and they make sure to get results sent in from every one of them. It's normally a thankless job, so I'll thank you as a Times-Herald reporter looking for those late-night faxes on weeknights.
I've sat here in this newsroom most evenings, well into the night, thinking of the right way to tell people who weren't there what happened, and to tell people who were there how and why it happened.
Thanks for letting me do that.