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Oakville Beaver, 29 Sep 2017, p. 11

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Family pays it forward to LLSC My name is Steve Osborne and I am coordinating the Oakville Light The Night Walk on Satur day, Oct. 14 this year from Coro nation Park. The walk, which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) will start at around 7 p.m. Registration will start at about 5 p.m. This is my first year taking on such a role. I decided to do this after being asked by the LLSC because last years coordinator had prior commitments helping to organize another fundraising campaign. I wanted to make sure that there was a walk orga nized for 20f 7. On May f, my famify and I lost my wife Vicki to acute myeloid leukemia after a 3 f-month battle. Vicki was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in Sep tember 2014. It was quickly determined that Vickis only path to survival would be through a blood stem cell transplant, which she received in March 2015. Unfortunately, she relapsed in August of 2015. Throughout that entire time, from September 2014 to May 2017, Vicki herself was the recipient of many acts of kindness, from familiar faces at Juravinski Hospital, but also from hundreds of complete strangers. Since her initial diagnosis, Vicki has received: 13 bone mar row biopsies, six rounds of chemo therapy, seven bursts of radia tion, a stem cell transplant and hundreds of blood transfusions. She participated in two clini cal drug trials and was the first patient in the world to receive a second round of a phase 1 clini cal trial drug, in pursuit of a cure. Vicki' s stem cell donation came from a gentleman in Ger many. It' s been said that 1,250 is one estimate of the number of On The Spot!® C a r p e t C le a n in g S p e c ia lis ts www.onthespotcleaning.ca PU R PO SE Ol c n "O C D C D 3 cr C D P KD KD -v l Voted #1 carpet cleaner O h * E C D C C H S M .- .if o C A R P E TC l E A N I I G iK lilL iS lt O r i e n t a lB itG t o f f c ) > m n n n J liftr s r FREE spot lifter with every cleaning 73 m 905.825.4256 1446 W allace Rd. Oakville ON SAVE 25% OFF with loose rug drop-off w r-H ci C D m o o o 3 Vicki and Steve Osborne | Steve Osborne photo donors required to provide all of the transfusions Vicki received, since her original diagnosis. All complete strangers. All anony mous acts of kindness. This community is a really fantastic community. Very giving. Very selfless. Vicki and I agreed that help ing this community needed to become a focus. Going forward, it is a way for me to continue investing in and celebrating my relationship with Vicki, while at the same time helping the two of us pay it forward to the next patients and family members to encounter blood cancers. The LLSC is a very important organization for people in the blood cancer community to ob tain resources and support, but also the LLS Canada provides funding support for important research and development to help find a cure for these dis eases. I would like to encourage people from the Oakville and the Halton area to join us on October 14 to walk in support of patients and families affected by blood cancers. In Canada there are an estimated 138,000 people affected by blood cancers in Canada. On average, a new case is diagnosed every 23 min utes. Please come and walk with us You can register or consider making a donation at https:// tinyurl. com/OakvilleLightT heNight2017. DiSPOSAL SERViCES Mention Promo Code AAA All Commercial and Residential O a k v illeB e a v e r and receive 10% OFF the Price of Your B I NR E N T A L * i© % O FF Serving Oakville. Burlington. Milton & Mississauga 5 8 6Third Line. Oakville 905-337-8686 w w w .aaadisposal.org I w ill pay $15 fo r the kettle Make it $20 and its yours. Steve Osborne, Oakville Jp JO HN P A LA D IN O L A W O F F IC E w w w .jp la w .c a · REAL ESTATE · WILLS & ESTATES CO M M ERCIA L LEASING · CORPORATE 447 Speers Road,Suite 200B,Oakville,ON L6K 3S7 | Phone: 905.842.3311 Fax: 905.842.7433 | COUNTER SPACE? Tradyo is a m obile app th at connects you with buyers and sellers th at are nearest to you. Snap photos and post item s you w ant to sell or chat with th e sellers of things you w ant to buy. Really, it's th at sim ple w ith Tradyo! S o - W h a t's in your Tradius? Kettle · 13 s 30 « 2 km tradyo.com m e tro la n dm e d ia tradye

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