The newspaper announcement of the 1993 McDonald’s B.E.S.T. scholarships (the certificate above): the B.E.S.T. program — the “Basketball Education Scholarship Team,” funded by McDonald’s Restaurants in British Columbia and Yukon and administered by the B.C. High School Boys’ and the B.C. Secondary School Girls’ Basketball Associations — awarded forty scholarships of $500 each to graduating seniors who had lettered for their basketball team and planned a post-secondary education. The winners list names “Brian Benjamin Seebaran” in its middle column; Bret Wallace Anderson of Terry Fox is also among the forty.
Transcription (as printed) — heading and program note:
CONGRATULATIONS. / To The Winners Of Our 1993 McDonald’s B.E.S.T. Scholarships. / Fraser MacKay, Terrace — and the forty winners, among them Brian Benjamin Seebaran and Bret Wallace Anderson.
“McDonald’s congratulates the winners of the 1993 B.E.S.T. scholarships. B.E.S.T., the ‘Basketball Education Scholarship Team,’ is a program funded by McDonald’s Restaurants in British Columbia and Yukon and administered by both the B.C. High School Boys’ Basketball Association and the B.C. Secondary School Girls’ Basketball Association. Forty scholarships of $500 each are awarded to graduating seniors who have lettered for their basketball team and who plan to pursue a post-secondary education.” (The full winners list is in the photograph above.)
Source: The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 7, 1993, p. B3 (via newspapers.com).