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Russell community comes together and help
Le souper de sensibilisation à l’hypertension pulmonaire du 1er avril dernier au Russell High School a été un franc succès. Près de 250 invités, y compris conférenciers et bénévoles, ont travaillé ensemble pour sensibiliser le public à l’hypertension pulmonaire et à d’autres maladies rares incurables. Les fonds recueillis, estimés à plus de 31 000 $ serviront entre autres à la recherche et une partie sera également destinée à la famille de Jonathan Pitre de Russell. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
Keynote speaker Harry Kingston (right) and his wife, Teri, were the special guests of honour for the evening. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Canadians in general. “Life is about the opportunity to engage, hand in hand, to help others,” Kingston said. “When called up, we (Canadians) will be there, and this community is bound together by its people.” Kingston was diagnosed several years ago with PH, a disease which affects the lungs and, by extension, the heart also. But at the time, he noted, he was still verymuch
Party, a gala event with two goals in mind: to boost the public profile of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and other rare diseases which at present remain incurable, and to raise money to support research to find a cure. Kingston knows all about PHbecause he suffers from it, but he does not suffer it in silence. Now semi-retired from his top- security work for the Canadian government, Kingston sits on the PHA Canada board and
is becoming a well-known and vocal ad- vocate, not just for more federal and pro- vincial support for research on pulmonary hypertension, but also for other rare diseases which afflict Canadians and people around the world. It’s the way Kingston was raised as a boy. To help others and that is the same kind of spirit he sees in the people of the village of Russell and the rest of the township, and in
Harry Kingston received a standing ovation before he said so much as a single word Saturday night. And he received another standing ovation when he was finished. Kingston, a long time former resident of Russell village in Russell Township, was the keynote speaker for The Awareness Dinner
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