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March for mental health awareness gathering in the downtown core, which fea- tured student-initiated songs and dancing, and also presentation from the CAMH of the Hope Award to Véronique Portelance, a local resident who has dealt with her own problems with help from local counsellors and now assists the local CMHA agency’s family needs programas well as volunteering time as amotivational speaker in the region for the association.
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Young and old, more than 150 people took to the streets in the Town of Hawkesbury Friday morning for a march to the centre of town in celebration of National Mental Health Awareness Week in Canada. The Canadian Association for Mental Health-Champlain East chapter (CAMH) organized the Oct. 6 event to finish off the week-long celebration of mental health ser- vices and awareness both in the Town of Hawkesbury and throughout the Prescott- Russell region. CAMH representative Line Lapensée described the event as a “great finish” for the week-long campaign. “People are getting more aware of it (mental health),” Lapensée said during an interview following the walk. Marchers gathered at Le Centre Viens et Vois onMary Street inHawkesbury for a pre- walk orientation session. Waving placards, singing and dancing to recordedmusic, and with an OPP patrol car to lead the way as escort, marchers made their way downtown to join in a flashmob gathering at the village centre in a show of support for mental health and counselling programs available to resi- dents of Hawkesbury and other communities in the Prescott-Russell region. Students from several local high schools took time out frommorning classes to take part in both the march and a “flash mob”
Lapensée noted that statistics show one in five Canadians experience some kind of emotional or psychological problem, ran- ging from severe stress to deep depression or any one of a number of mental health issues. Besides raising the public profile of good mental health, Lapensée noted that another goal of events like theMental Illness Awareness Walk (MIAW) is to help erase the stigma of mental health problems. “We want to take the shame away,” she said. “We want people to be able to come in and say ‘I’m not feeling good, I need help.’ So they can live a more productive life. More information on the CMHA and the services it provides are available at www. cmha.ca or by phone to 1-800-493-8271. Plus de 150 personnes, les jeunes et les personnes âgées, ont participé à la marche sur la sensibilisation auxmaladies mentales, le 6 octobre àHawkesbury, dans le cadre de la Semaine nationale de la santé mentale. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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Ariane Hotte , one of the educators at the Maison de la famille in Hawkesbury holds up one of the new snowsuits already purchased as part of this year’s annual Snowsuit Fund Campaign. Now in its eleventh year, the annual campaign goal is help ensure that children of families in need have a new snowsuit to allow them to play outside safe and warmduring the winter season. This year’s goal is to raise $10,000 to purchase 150 snowsuits for later distribution in Hawkesbury and the townships of Champlain and East Hawkesbury. Similar campaigns are underway in Russell Township and Clarence-Rockland. Families who wish to be on the snowsuit distribution list must register by Oct. 20 at theMaison de la famille centre, online at www.groupeaction.ca , or phone Ariane or Amanda at 613-632-6959. Distributionwill begin Nov. 4. The Hawkesbury campaign includes an Oct. 26 breakfast fundraiser at Restaurant Carole. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
Hawkesbury
4 novembre 2017 5 novembre 2017
8 h à midi 8 h à midi
Hawkesbury
November 4, 2017 November 5, 2017
12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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For further details or to register, please visit our website at www.prescott-russell.on.ca (at bottom of Home Page - Recent News section) or call (613) 673-5139, Ext. 226.
Pour plus d’informations ou pour vous enregistrer, veuillez visiter notre site web www.prescott- russell.on.ca (au bas de la page principale - section dernières nouvelles) ou composer le (613) 673-5139, poste 226. NOTE : Cette formation n’est pas reconnue par les employeurs
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