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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-03-26, Page 33HOPE Page 4 Each April the Goderich Kinsmen Club sponsors a bike-a- thon to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society and each September Goderich residents take part In the Terry Fox Run which also raises funds for cancer research. The communities of Clinton, Exeter, Seaforth and Wingham also hold fund-raising events for the Canadian Cancer Society. (Photos by Joanne Buchanan) • County fund raising objective is '80,000 for 1984 The 1984 fund-raising objective for the Huron County Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society is $80,000. This represents a four per cent or $3,000 increase over the 1983 objective. The break -down for each Branch is as 'follows: Goderich-$21,300; Exeter -$19,750; —` iiiii►am-$1'7; - -000; Citnt ii . T5,D50; --`_ and Seaforth-$6,750. The biggest money maker for the Unit is the door-to-door campaign which commences April 1. Volunteers from each of the five Branches within the Unit conduct this campaign. Other 'money makers include bike-a- thons, daffodil teas, a fashion show and the selling of daffodil blooms. A total of 54,000 blooms will be sold throughout the county by various service clubs and groups at the end of . March. Goderich will have 17,000 blooms to sell; Clinton, 15,000; Exeter, 11,000; Wingham, 6,000; Seaforth, 4,000; and Wingham rural, 1,000. The blooms will sell for $2 per bunch of 10. Bike-a-thons are set for Clinton, Goderich and Wingham on Sunday, April 29 and for Exeter on Sunday, May 27. Daffodil teas will be held in Goderich at St. Peter's Church on Wednesday, April 4 from 2-4 p.m. and in Clinton at St. Joseph's Church on Friday, April 6 from 24:30 p.m. A fashion show will be held at the Recreation Centre in Exeter on, Wednesday, May 2. Fashions will be supplied by Merry Rags of Grand Bend and the emcee will be Peter Garland of CFPL Radio. - LAST YEAR'S FUND RAISING The Huron County Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society raised $81,578.07 during last r gear's -campaign --for r-el= + se. -€un s% This was $4,000 more than the county campaign objective. A break -down of money raised by each branch in the county shows Goderich with $21,669.23, Exeter with $20,768.78, Wingham with $16,582.71, Clinton with $14,::0.35 and Seaforth with $7,692. The County Unit also received a total of $21,561.31 as In Memoriam contributions and $743.10 from other sources for total of $103,897.48. Expenses were $41,522.55. The break- down of these expenses shows that $11,353.42 went toward distributable items, $280.75 toward publicity, $96.75 toward commemoration funds, $1,969.19 toward education, $20,732.19 toward patient services and $7,090.25 toward campaign. ONTARIO DIVISION of public education and cancer patient services." The money raised during the Society's annual April campaign will fund existing research programs as well as the Society's on-going education and patient services programs. The latter two programs Moneyaised bythe Huron Unit is sent to represent 14 and 16 per cent of the Society's the Ontario Division of the Canadian Cancer income respe eavmg useime per Society. This year the Ontario Division cent for administration and fund raising needs to raise $13.2 million across the costs. province to meek its ongoing commitments The ciety's 1984 theme, "Cancer Can Be in cancer research, patient services and Beate 1" reflects the belief that a cure will education. f d for this disease. "Due to the Terry Roberts, Ontario Division su po received in past fund raising efforts, Volunteer Campaign Chairman, says, we are making headway in the fight to beat "Without the generous support of the cancer. There are many types of cancer for Canadian public, our support of cancer which we have made tremendous advances research would not be possible. Nor would in treatment," Mr. Roberts said, "but we the Society be able to continue its programs have a long road ahead." Terry Fox funds committed to research the research team. None of the funds being Kingston, Toronto, Edmonton and raised in Terry's name are being directed to Vancouver. support the Canadian Cancer Society's programs of Public Education and Service to Patients. The following are the cancer research programs to which the estimated $26.2 million dollars has been committed. An estimated $26.2 million of the $28.6 million total raised by Terry Fox's "Marathon of Hope" Run and the 1981 and 1982 Terry Fox Runs have been committed to the funding of cancer research programs by the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the research wing of the Canadian Cancer Society. In response to the specific wishes of Terry Fox himself, all funds being raised in his name are being directed to the National Cancer Institute. The primary consideration when making grants for the "Marathon of Hope" Research Programs is the emphasis on innovation and excellence on the part of 1) SPECIAL INITIATIVES PROGRAM - The National Cancer Institute has received more than 30 applications for Special Initiatives grants, and to date have allocated $1 million over five years to each of five studies being undertaken in Halifax, 2) THE TERRY FOX TRAINING CENTRE ESTABLISHMENT GRANTS - Under the Terry Fox Training Centre Establishment grants, five groups have been awarded up to $1 million each over a period of five years. These grants will bring groups of professors and trainees together in research training programs whereby MDs and PhDs will be trained to co-operate in the solution of each group's scientific problems. 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