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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2004-04-14, Page 3News Price raises $5,500 (so far) for cancer Food bank donations helping, even as recipients continue to increase By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor During the first night of his weeklong Campout for Cancer last Saturday, Bill Price says the weather made him wonder if sleeping in a tent in April was such a good idea. "It was so windy that the tent was shaking and I didn',t know if it was going to stay up. It was snowing and at 3 a.m., I had to get up and gather some rocks out of the flower beds to fix the tent's fly, which had broken loose in places. But, it's been fine ever since," says Price, pointing to the rocks that still line the tent a week later. But, at $5,500 in donations and counting, Price is looking at the campaign as a positive experience. "I made a lot of new friends," he says, pointing to a book of letters he received from Ms. Spillane's Grade 6/7 class at Seaforth Public School and a card from the Seaforth Beavers. While he continued to work afternoons and evenings at his custodial job at Seaforth Public School, Price spent the mornings during his campoutsitting in front of the tent talking to visitors and watching the traffic go by. "People would bring coffee and we'd sit and chat a bit or the truck going by would give me a toot. The mornings went by very quickly," he says. One morning, a Seaforth woman who runs a home daycare business walked down to Egmondville United Church and her young charges made their donations of a looney or tooney. Price says he explained to the children who asked that he was raising money for the Canadian Cancer Society for his mother, two uncles and aunt who died of cancer and for the various members of his church who are fighting the disease. "It doesn't matter who you are. Eventually, there's Susan Hundertmark photo Bill Price shows off the tent he lived in last week to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society to Lindsay and Sarah Dolmage and Austin Henry in front of Egmondville United Church. going to be someone close to you who's affected by cancer," he says. Price made the announcement Sunday at church about the total raised as the congregation took over the tent and filled it with food for the Seaforth food bank in their Fill a Tent for Lent campaign. "Pastor Steve (Hildebrand) says they filled the back of a' pick-up 'truck and all the shelves of the food bank were full when they dropped off the food," says Price. Angeline Swart, volunteer coordinator of the Seaforth food bank, says Egmondville United Church's donation was one of many the food bank received from local churches •and schools over the last 10 days. "We're going into a tough time because people remember us at Christmas and Easter but don't always have us in mind the rest of the year," she says. Swart says the usage at the Seaforth food hank is continuing to-olimh chis+year with 230 individuals using the food hank in February. compared to 213 last' February and 204 individuals using the food bank in March. compared to 165 last March. Local ATV found in Bayfield One of four all - terrain vehicles reported stolen Huron OPP from the Mill Road area in Tuckersmith, was recovered April'8 in Bayfield. A red Honda Fourtrax 300 c.c., stolen from a driving shed sometime during the night on April 4, was found behind Lorne's RV on the Square in Bayfield. The night the ATV was found. Huron OPP also received calls about four ATVs racing on the streets of Bayfield. The unit that was found had broken down and was abandoned. Anyone with related information is asked to call the Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers. 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