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Prominent dignitaries who were at the Hike:
- Tamie
Axelson, Mayor of Gimli
- Michael
Harding, Mayor of
Woodstock
- Jim
Brownell, MPP & Executive Assistant
- Richard
Patten, MPP.
- John
Brodrick, Mayor of High Prairie
- Councillor
Ian Findlay
- Stampeder
Defensive Lineman Randy Chevrier
Some
activities that were hosted:
- Pizza
party, barbeque, muffins and refreshments
- Draw
for prizes for hikers
- Community
band playing during the Hike
- Lion
Dance,
Plum
Blossom Martial Arts
- A
Memorial Tree Planting
- Family
picnic, wrap up parties, music
- Speeches
prior to Hike event
- Face
painting, magician
- Memory
Stone ceremony
Sharing
some special moments:
- A
grandmother walking with her grandson of 4 years old
- A
5-day old baby “hiking”
- A
kick off breakfast which raised approximately $10,000.00. The
breakfast consisted of a silent and live auction and a palliative
care physician as guest speaker.
- High
team spirit with a large number of teams walking
- A
cancer survivor raised $1,470
- A
couple went to many businesses and challenged them to match each
other and collected $4,000 in donations
The
Hike site in
Kelowna
,
BC
, Hike also offered a barbeque, face painting, origami crane making, and
a performance by Kelowna Secondary School Jazz Musicians. Participants
in
Peterborough
,
ON
, were called by drummers to a huge circle in the park to participate in
a memory stone ceremony, acknowledging the many participants hiking in
memory of a loved one or in honour of a loved one currently living with
serious illness.
Support
for the 2007 Hike for Hospice Palliative Care was strong at all sites.
In
Woodstock
,
ON
, a team of over 30 individuals, “Hawk’s Angels”, raised more than
$13,000 for Sakura House, in memory of their friend Ron Fewster, who
died in November 2006 without the benefit of hospice. In
St. Pierre-Jolys
,
MB, MLA Mavis Taillieu volunteered time to run the barbeque at a post-Hike
picnic. Finally, in Quesnel,
BC, city councilman Ron Paull went so far as to
shave his head for the cause.
“If
we had raised half the money we did, it still would have been a
wonderfully successful day, simply because of the positive energy
generated by all the volunteers and hikers,” stated Libby Harmer, Hike
organizer in
Woodstock
,
ON
.
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The following sites
raised $10,000 or more:
| 1. |
Stedman
Community Hospice, Ontario
|
$61,178
|
| 2. |
Hospice
of Maycourt –
Ottawa,
Ontario
|
$60,000
|
| 3. |
VON
Oxford,
Ontario
|
$50,000
|
| 4. |
Crossroads,
British Columbia
|
$49,000
|
| 5. |
Hospice
Peterborough,
Ontario
|
$43,375
|
| 6. |
Central
Okanagan Hospice Association, British Columbia
|
$43,000
|
| 7. |
Perram
House Hospice, Ontario
|
$40,000
|
| 8. |
Friends
of Hospice, Ontario
|
$40,000
|
| 9. |
Dorothy
Ley Hospice, Ontario
|
$33,000
|
| 10. |
Alliance
Hospice, Ontario
|
$31,000
|
| 11. |
Hospice
Niagara, Ontario
|
$28,483
|
| 12. |
Vancouver
Hospice Society, British Columbia
|
$28,000
|
| 13. |
Hospice
Calgary
Society, Alberta
|
$20,000
|
| 14. |
Nanaimo
Community Hospice Society, British Colombia
|
$20,000
|
| 15. |
Maison
“La Paix” House, Ontario
|
$19,338
|
| 16. |
Carefor
Health and Community Services-Eastern Counties,
Ontario
|
$19,000 |
| 17. |
Hospice
and Palliative Care Manitoba
|
$16,400
|
| 18. |
Hospice
Toronto,
Ontario
|
$16,200
|
| 19. |
Hospice
Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
|
$16,000
|
| 20. |
Hospice
Society of Greater Halifax,
Nova Scotia
|
$11,389 |
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