A 10-year-old boy from Carlyle has been named as the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation Champion Child for 2025.

Blaze’s positive spirit has helped him persevere through eight surgeries for a variety of ailments such as bilateral club feet, strabismus, a tethered spine, and on top of it all, a life-threatening car accident.

In the summer of 2022, Blaze broke his femur and humerus in a vehicle accident. He was then airlifted to Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital to receive care in the only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the province.

As he recovers, he has raised over $75,000 through fundraisers in and around Carlyle to give back to the hospital that helped him heal.

Blaze and his will represent sick kids in Saskatchewan for the rest of the year and even get the chance to travel to Orlando this spring for Children’s Hospitals Week.