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I’d like to thank all my family in Ottawa, Calgary and Sturgeon Falls for your love, prayers and support.

Thanks to Home Depot in Ajax for the cards, fruit basket and barbeque donation to the raffle.

Thank you to ‘The Stitch and Bitch Friends’ in Nepean for the gas cards for my mom’s daily commute to Toronto, their visit to RAISE and their generous financial contributions.

Thank you to the Education Centre at the Durham District School Board in Whitby and all the Durham Schools that enthusiastically gave their support by hosting a benefit raffle, a concession stand at a soccer game, a make-over madness day, dress down days (with some serious challenges between schools) and for sending me at least 25 pounds of mint chocolate and beautiful cards and letters.

Thank you to East Side Mario’ s in North Whitby for contributing a portion of sales for the week of April 24th and hosting the upcoming golf day, June 29th.

Thank you to Shirley and to Nicole and Tim’s children, Jason, Kayla, Vanessa and Eric (ages 2-8) who wanted to help the fundraiser by selling all their toys and bikes. They were encouraged to keep their toys and they then created balloon animals to sell to their friends and family instead. They filled their Peanuts piggybank and provided me with a smile.