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thursday nov 29 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 9 28 pages1 including gst santas visits headlines our list of things to do in stouffville opinion 6 community 11 sports 22 classified 24 stouffville s own king of philanthropy the latcham legacy arthur latcham built bought land and built golf courses he also did a lot to build communities- especially stouffville from many amenities in memorial park to the land for markham stouffville hospital his giving shaped the town his love of magic was honoured at a festival in the 1980s full reportpage 3 give a day campaign gathers momentum for 2007 event by michael power staff writer ever think about doing something to curb the worlds aids epidemic but are discouraged because the problem seems so vast a stouffville doctor may have a solu tion for you dr jane philpott a family physician at the stouffville medical centre and markham stouffville hospital who prac tised medicine for 10 years in west ern africa developed an idea to raise money and awareness of the pandemic in 2004 she spoke to colleagues about aids suggesting doctors donate a days pay to the stephen lewis foundation an orga nization that fights the disease in africa the doctors responded very enthu siastically she said as soon as people hear about what is happening they want to be able to help that first year the hospital raised 33000 for a hospital in zambia in southern africa since then the idea has grown in popularity not only around the hospi tal but with other organizations what we didnt anticipate was that other people would hear about it and want to participate dr philpott said doctors from other facilities started calling to ask about the fundraiser in 2005 physicians from eight hospitals started give a day campaigns helping the project raise more than 100000 it was kind of wordofmoufh she said that wordofmouth has now spread beyond the medical community last year about 10 law firms par ticipated after attorneys heard about the give a day campaign through the stephen lewis foundation the number of participating firms has grown to 16 and now at least 14 hos- dr jane philpott stouffville physi cians aids fundraiser picks up steam with lawyers and hospitals pitals are involved teachers and those in the business community are starting their own ver sions of the campaign representatives from the university of calgary recently contacted dr philpott about give a day to world aids it has continued to spread and i see suntribune carriers challenge colleagues to give a days paypage 9 that as a reflection of canadians see ing what is happening and are struck by the inequities she said canadians are concerned about this and want to respond stephen lewis kicked off the cam paign at markham stouffville hospital nov 14 he addressed the importance of combating the aids pandemic and how health care workers in ontario can make a difference his speech was broadcast at 22 hospitals that speech dr philpott said helped put into perspective the extent of the pandemics reach in africa see 750000 page 10 spectaurvs in volkswagen audi pofsche european asian hybrid 13ssanonjrxuret5 90s6g2886 1s774kmuto wvvttuioauca moilxeir insu1amci personalized insurance service 9056422745 64 sandiford drive unit 1 stonfmll mouerinsura chi rartliau ewehers xf 6312 main st stoufmbe 9056404646