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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2009-06-17, Page 10Pogo 10 The Huron Expositor • June 17, 2009 News Ring toss tournament sells out with 160 teams, raises $15,000 for childhood cancer research and treatment Susan Itundertuiark IMENIIMMOMINO Playing the favourite game of their 19 -year-old friend and relative Nick Van Dyk, who lost a bat- tle to childhood cancer last summer, a sold -out tournament of 160 ring toss players raised over $15,000 recently towards research into a cure for childhood cancers. "(Nick's parents) Ken and Margie lived every parent's nightmare. I'm sure we'd want everyone to do anything they could to put an end to can- cer," said Sharron Poole, who is cycling across Canada in the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride. Nick, who grew up in Woodstock, was celebrat- ed at the event at the Van Dyk farm just out- side Seaforth on Mill Road as family members remembered his zest for life and his love of the game his family played at annual get-togethers. 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