“Unexpected Guests Warm Hearts in the Frozen North.” One woman must have put her life on hold and was constantly checking on us. The first scholarships were awarded in 2002 to graduates with an average of 85 per cent or higher over their three years of high school. The actors play multiple roles, switching from character to character and accent to accent. “No question it will be a complete sellout,” Elliott said after tickets went on sale in Gander on Aug. 17. In particular, the kindness shown to the passengers of Delta Flight 15, which was headed to Atlanta, Ga from Germany, has not been forgotten. But there's always been something about this area that's drawn me to it," Eveleigh said. Sorry you must be at least 19 years of age to consume this content. Others were driven to the eatery of their choice and fed. Got a tip? The gentleman who started all this turned out to be an MD from Virginia. Also in the plot: the romance of a British man and a Texas woman, who fell in love in a bar in Gambo. 30 September 2001 (p. G5). As for Curlew, she remains especially connected to the scholarship because of her work as an educator in the town. After that we were isolated from our passengers and were taken in a caravan of vans to a very small hotel in the town of Gander. As soon as I got there I noticed the crew had one of those “All Business” looks on their faces. For the citizens of Gander, a town of around 10,000 at the time, however, the answer was simple. The scholarship fund is now valued at over $1.5 million and has helped more than 150 students from Lewisporte Collegiate get started on their post-secondary education. The fund is now worth more than $1.5-million, and 28 students —a third of the 2015-16 graduating class — qualified to receive it. As it turns out, Kirby was one of the first recipients of that scholarship when she graduated in 2002. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. We found out the total scope of the terror back home only after getting to our hotel and turning on the TV, 24 hours after it all started. They were swapping stories of their stay, impressing each other with who had the better time. "It's kind of impacted me as a teacher," Curlew said. We took REALLY good care of her. Clothing, pharmaceuticals, everything was given out to the small town's American guests for no charge. “I can’t believe sometimes that we’re still together,” Murray said. When their stay was over, some returned home missing a loved one, others were still in a state of shock from what happened. “Every person we meet, eventually, if we get to know them, we have to tell them the Newfoundland story.”. “It’s done Gander proud, done this community proud, done this whole province proud,” said the mayor, who saw the show in Seattle, during a sold-out run there. Gander, a town of about 10,000 people (and 550 hotel rooms) in Newfoundland, Canada, lies in the northeastern tip of North America and has long served as a refueling stop for trans-Atlantic flights and a temporary haven for flights diverted from their destinations. When passengers came on board, it was like they had been on a cruise. And yes, a Gander Flight 15 college scholarship fund was established for high school students in Lewisporte, Newfoundland, by passengers, crew members and friends of Delta Flight 15. Other towns in Newfoundland and Labrador (and across Canada) also took in temporarily displaced passengers with hospitality that day and are equally deserving of our gratitude. Absolutely incredible. You've probably seen the short clip of what air traffic over the United States looked like after the attacks on the morning of Sep. 11—there wasn't any. “Our world today is in turmoil,” he said. Cramm has no memory of the days that followed 9/11 since she was only month old at that time. He further stated that he would like to do something in return for the good folks of the town of Lewisporte. True to their word, at 6 PM, Gander airport told us that our turn to deplane would come at 11 AM, the next morning. It was quickly decided that the nearest airport was 400 miles away, behind our right shoulder, in Gander, on the island of New Foundland. Raie Lene Kirby joined many community volunteers who helped out when 800 passengers were bused to the town after their flights were rerouted to Gander. They had homes, they had food, and they had beds. Sankoff and Hein wrote the book, music and lyrics after interviewing scores of Newfoundlanders and plane people during a month in the province in 2011. We found out that Gander and the surrounding small communities, within a 75 Kilometer radius, had closed all the high schools, meeting halls, lodges, and any other large gathering places. Her parents were in Gander and volunteered there. We told them that an instrument problem had arisen on the airplane and that we needed to land at Gander, to have it checked. The people of Lewisporte and the Salvation Army fed us three meals a day and provided countless blankets, toothbrushes and toiletries for the passengers on that flight. There were many unhappy passengers but that is par for the course. She even came to the airport when we finally left to make sure we all were fine. Watch CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg’s report on the Early Show to see how this small community banded together to help those displaced. We made it to the airport by 8:30 AM and left for Atlanta at 12:30 PM arriving in Atlanta at about 4:30 PM. But most important, Hein said, was to “do justice to the Newfoundlanders. An academic scholarship program established in Lewisporte following the community's heartwarming response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks continues to touch lives. We were grounded in Gander, Newfoundland, at 1:30 p.m. on that day and then informed of the events that had taken place in New York, at the Pentagon and “outside of Pittsburgh.”. As a result, thousands of bewildered passengers were thrown into turmoil. Many passengers were forced to stay in the town for as long as six days, meaning many would've had to live out of their carry-ons if not for the generosity of the Newfoundlanders. An academic scholarship program that was established in Lewisporte following the community's heartwarming response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks continues to touch lives. This story was originally published in The Record in 2016. Lowe, Ed. We did have a young lady who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy. If you’re a regular traveler, you know that weather can have a big impact on your flight. We knew it was a serious situation and we needed to find terra firma quickly. So, when I'm talking to them now, it's an insignificant event in their lives, that becomes significant when they see the picture and say, 'Hey, miss, you're on that picture!' The town and airport were built by the U.S. military during World War II … There were DDS on call and they had both male and female nurses available and stayed with the crowd for the duration. The show of community displayed by Lewisporte during that time is perhaps the most important aspect of the scholarship. Gander occupies the busiest ocean airspace in the world and falls within the shortest distance between North America and Europe. “Little Canadian Town, But Big Hearts.” This year, he’ll do it in Washington, D.C., with the cast of “Come From Away,” where he’ll participate in an audience talkback session on Sept. 11.
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