Grace Voisey lost her life to leukemia last summer, but friends and family say her spirit lives on in the Labrador town where she grew up.

“Grace was probably one of the sweetest people you’d ever meet,” said her lifelong friend Cassandra Keefe. 

“She had this fire to her. She would do anything for anybody. She would be friends with anyone who came up to her.”

The 16-year-old, who battled cancer until her death at the Janeway Children’s Hospital in St. John’s in July, had been attending Mealy Mountain Collegiate, a high school in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

Despite her illness, the teenager left