A beloved Halifax educator, coach and mentor has died after a battle with stomach cancer. The principal of Citadel High School was a basketball star in high school and university who became an educator and passionate advocate for Africentric education. He received the 2017 Sport Nova Scotia Chair Award on May 29 for an "extraordinary contribution" to sport in the province. Sport Nova Scotia past chair Barb Pike told the sold-out gala Smith was a "shining example for all of the value of hard work and education." Days before Wade Smith's death, Halifax councillor Lindell Smith remembered his own encounters with "Uncle Smiss."

Source: CBC News June 03, 2017 01:18 UTC