Woman killed in collision was environmentally conscious role model: friends

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Amy Gilbert, the 23-year-old University of Winnipeg student who was struck by a vehicle late Saturday afternoon on Broadway near Donald Street and died Monday, was a socially and environmentally conscious woman who was always there for others and a role model for her generation, according to her friends.

Even now, they say, when she’s gone.

Her best friend Kayla Prokopchuk said Wednesday that Gilbert’s organs have been donated.

“That is so her,” Prokopchuk said.

Gilbert and Prokopchuk attended Miles Macdonell Collegiate together and had been friends since Grade 7.

“She had such a beauty about her that was simple and elegant,” Prokopchuk wrote on an online memorial and tribute site. “She was beautiful inside and out and she loved her friends and family and anyone who walked into her life.”

Gilbert worked three jobs, including Stella’s Bakery & Cafe on Sherbrook, while taking environmental science and biology. At her other two part time jobs, as a box-office employee at Cinematheque in The Exchange and Generation Green at The Forks, she was known by the nickname “Granola Girl” because of her devotion to the environment.

On the afternoon she was fatally injured, Gilbert had worked at Generation Green until 2:30 p.m., according to owner Sherry Sobey.

Police reported that at about 5:30 p.m. she was struck by an eastbound vehicle as she was crossing the eastbound lanes of Broadway.

A 25-year-old male was arrested at the scene and later released without charge pending further investigation, according to police.

Members of the Central Traffic Unit are continuing with the investigation. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call investigators at 204-986-6271.

A celebration of her Amy Gilbert’s life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Hotel Fort Garry, 7th floor.