HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2001-12-26, Page 1December 26, 2001
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Walton
woman
wins car,
`gift'
comes
at perfect ,
time
Karen Hoegy, of
Walton, bought a
$100 lottery ticket
from the Canadian
Cancer Society the
same day she sold
her old car because it
needed too many
repairs.
This week, she
found out she is a
grand prize winner of
a 2002 Volvo S40,
valued at $37,571.
"I usually buy -
lottery tickets but
I've never won
anything before.
We're quite happy
because we needed a
car," she says.
She bought the
ticket through the
mail, received it six
weeks later and
telling no one, she
stashed it away under
the plates in the
kitchen cupboard.
"If I'd told anyone,
I probably woultln't
have won," she says.
Her husband Barry
was diagnosed with
cancer last winter
and Hoegy says she's
glad her money went
to "such a
worthwhile cause."
"My husband had
good report from the•
doctor recently and
he's looking and
feeling good," she
says.
The Canadian
Cancer Society
lottery sold 97 per
cent of its 200,000
tickets and awarded
50 vehicle prizes and
9,952 cash prizes.
Proceeds will go
towards cancer
research.
Five of the grand
prize winners live in
Huron and Perth
Counties, including
Marcia Campbell,
Arthur Eglinton, Jane
Moore and Toni Van
Ravenzwaaij.
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Laura DeKroon and Katie Lang sing in St. Columban School's Christmas concert held Dec. 18.
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Blood keeps
woman going
after cancer
treatments
Sutherland will be at local clinic
to personally thank donors
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Don't be surprised if a young woman in a wheelchair who's
lost her hair and eyebrows to chemotherapy wants to shake
your hand after you give blood at the Seaforth blood donor's
clinic at the community centre on Dec. 28.
Andrea Sutherland, 23, of RR 1 Fullarton, plans to attend
the Seaforth clinic - if she's well enough - to express her
gratitude for the blood that helps her continue her four-year
fight with cancer.
"I feel compelled to thank
blood donors because their
blood makes such a difference
in my life. It might be just a
little pint of blood for you but
for me, it's my survival," she
says.
She needs a few blood
transfusions each week during
the nine months she's
scheduled to undergo
intensive chemotherapy and
radiation treatments.
Because cancer treatments
wreak havoc on her body,
destroying good cells along
with the cancer cells,
Sutherland says blood
transfusions are essential to
keep her body, especially her
immune system, functioning.
In fact, she says blood transfusions can make the difference
of whether she has the energy to get out of bed in the
morning, feed herself or be able to walk up a flight of stairs.
"Before I get blood, my boyfriend's carrying me up the
stairs and I sleep most of the day. When I get blood I can get
to the mall, even if I still have to get around in a wheelchair
when I get there," she says.
Sutherland, who grew up in Sarnia, is now living with her
boyfriend Clinton Burkholder's family near Fullarton because
it's closer to London where she goes for cancer treatments.
She was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of skin
cancer when she was 18 and despite a three-month remission
at 19, has had the cancer spread to her stomach, cervix and
left breast since then.
"They were only planning on me doing a couple of weeks
of chemotherapy but the cancer keeps spreading so they
bumped up the treatments," she says.
She recently began radiation treatments for the breast
cancer.
Sutherland says most people don't realize that 90 per cent
of cancer patients need regular blood transfusions and is
angry that only catastrophesrlike the Sept. 11 terrorist attack
prompt most people to give blood.
"Because of Sept. 11, everybody donates and that just
Quoted
'When I get
blood I can get
to the mall,
even. if I : still
have to get
around in a
wheelchair
when I get
there' --
Andrea Sutherland.
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Successful Seaforth blood clinic sees new holiday clinic added
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
After one of the "best ever"
blood donor clinics in
Seaforth on Aug. 2, a second
clinic is being held on Dec.
28.
"Both Clinton and Mitchell
have two clinics each year so
we're going to try that in
Seaforth," says Tim Hamilton,
of Canadian Blood Services.
Because donors can
make a donation of
blood every 56 days,
Hamilton says Canadian
Blood Services hopes to offer
at least six clinics in the
Seaforth area a year to allow
for maximum donations. If
Seaforth's Dec. 28 clinic is a
success, it could become an
annual event.
"During the holidays we
lose days of donation but the
need for blood is the same or
more than usual," he says.
Canadian Blood Services is
currently most in need of Type
O blood since the increased
number of traffic accidents
over the holiday season
creates a need for blood from
Type 0 universal donors, says
Elena Aggalopoulos,
communications specialist.
"Sometimes blood is the
best gift you can give anyone
because one unit can
potentially help four people,"
she says.
The Seaforth clinic will be
held at the Seaforth and
District Community Centres
on Friday, Dec. 28 from 1-
3:30 and 5-8:30 p.m.
A Boxing Day clinic will
also be held in Stratford Dec.
26 at the Army Navy Hall on
Lome Ave. from 1-4 and 5:30
to 8:30 p.m.
Those wishing to donate
plasma (used mostly by burn
victims) or blood platelets
(used by cancer patients) need
to travel to the London clinic,
whose Christmas hours are 8
a.m. to noon Dec. 24, noon to
7 p.m. on Dec. 27, 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. on Dec. 28 and 29 and 8
a.m. to noon on Dec. 31.
Donors can also make an
appointment at the Landon
clinic.
Lawyer seeking council's approval to collect affidavits from parents
Affidavits would tell what students would go to Catholic school system
By Simon Hundertmark
E ositor Sluff
Support for a proposal by
Seaforth lawyer Fred Leitch
to collect affidavits from
parents of Seaforth District
High School students
planning to enrol in the
Catholic school system if
SDHS closes was tabled
Tuesday night by Huron East
council.
But, council will ask the
Avon Maitland District
School Board for a copy of a
"line by line detailed budget"
for the 2000-2001 school
year.
McKillop Coun. Ferg
Kelly said he wanted to hear
Leitch address council to
expand on a recent letter
informing council that while
"there are bases upon which
a court application for
judicial review can be
commenced," he hopes a
collection of affidavits might
preclude the need to go to
court and "the costs of court
proceedings may be
avoided."
Brussels Coun. Joe Seili
said he wanted to see the
board's detailed budget to
understand how the board
hopes to save money by the
proposed closures of Seaforth
District High School and
three other district schools.
"I want the whole kit and
caboodle, a breakdown of
each and every school in the
district line by line," he said.
Seili said that while
superintendent Bill Gerth
told him at a public meeting
that an average person
wouldn't be able to
understand the hoard's
budget, "I have an accountant
that will," he said.
Mayor Lin Steffler
cautioned Seili to word his
request carefully so that he
will get the exact information
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