The Current24:27This Ontario mother graduated in her late son’s place, and other graduation stories
Shortly before Ben Algar died of cancer in 2021, he had a request for his mother: to finish the carpentry program he had enrolled in at Durham College in Oshawa, Ont.
“He just knew I needed a focus, and so I wasn’t going to say no,” Danita Algar told The Current‘s Matt Galloway. “There wasn’t a lot that he asked from us, so yeah, I just decided that I would have to do it.”
On June 15, Algar made his wish come true. She accepted the diploma from the school’s principal and dedicated
