Media Release

For Immediate Release

January 23, 2008

Popular CBC radio host raises over $15,000.00 for good Santamarian

Jaime Hawkins is being hailed a national hero.

The finance major in the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s has certainly earned this stature.

He’s the student who found $10,000.00 in cash next to a RBC bank machine in the Student Centre a year ago (January 9, 2007). He turned the money in right away to staff at the Information Desk. Staff then immediately contacted Group 4 Securicor, the company that services the RBC bank machine.

Stuart McLean from CBC Radio’s The Vinyl Café has awarded Hawkins with the 2008 Vinyl Café Arthur Award of over $15,000.00. McLean raised the money for the SMU student last year by passing around a bucket and collecting loonies and toonies during live tapings of his show across the country.

The popular radio host recently presented Hawkins with the cheque on his show.

Group 4 Securicor also awarded the finance major at the Sobey School of Business at SMU with $500.00. And a woman from Toronto, ON, who wishes to remain anonymous, has sent Hawkins a cheque for $1,000.00.

Hawkins is elated with all this news.

"I knew right away to turn the money in," he explains. "It was the right thing to do," he adds.

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For More Information:

Paul Fitzgerald
Public Affairs Officer
Saint Mary's University, Public Affairs
(902) 420.5514
E-mail: paul.fitzgerald@smu.ca
www.smu.ca