Once upon a time there was a young mother of three who had just moved back to her hometown with her husband and kids after living away for 13 years. The oldest child, a boy, was 7 years old the second child, a girl, was 5. The youngest, another girl, was 2.

Once they were all settled and school had begun, the mother noticed an advertisement for City Wide Registration and decided to take the two older kids there to see if they'd like to sign up for any activities. The mom gave the little girl different options of activities she could do and the girl decided she would like to try dance. 

The little girl fell in love with dance right away. She would go to her half hour ballet class once a week and practice her steps at home. The mother had absolutely no idea about anything to do with dance. The whole first year was a big learning experience.

As the little girl got older, she began taking more classes and her dance exams. When her little sister was old enough, she began to dance as well. The mother would take the girls to dance competitions across the province, to convention's all summer, and would support them wherever their dance journeys took them.

At sixteen, the girl began teaching in small towns around the community, growing the clubs and sharing her love of dance. Her students became very successful at competitions and would win numerous awards each season. While in university full time, teaching thirty hours a week, cheerleading, and hanging out with friends, the girl studied for and obtained her teachers in jazz, tap, and acro. She still attended many workshops and competitions throughout the year as well.

The girl convocated from university at the age of twenty-one with a Bachelor of Commerce and a GPA of 4.0. She had a job lined up to be a Town Administrator and was trying to find towns nearby where she could still teach dance, not wanting to say goodbye to that portion of her life. The day after she wrote her last final, the opportunity came up to take over her old dance teachers studio, back in her hometown. The girl was ecstatic and knew this was meant to be since it happened the day she was about to sign the contract for that other job.

With a lot of help from her family, the girl opened her studio two months later under the name A-List Dance & Acrobatics.

Today the studio is, has around one hundred students, and continues to grow exponentially. The girl has her Masters in Dance Education, ADAPT Jazz, Tap, & Ballet, PBT, AA1, AA2, ADTA Junior, Intermediate, and Advanced, CDTA Associate Jazz and Tap, IDTS 1 & 2, PBT and YPAD certifications.

It was magical, the way that one small decision of the mother taking the little girl to pick an activity and starting off with a half hour ballet class once a week, not knowing a single thing about dance, turned into something so amazing that positively affects many other little girls and boys today.

That little five year old girl, wearing her first ever dance medal, had no idea how much it would mean to her and the rest of the Community of Humboldt