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THE ERA INCLUDING GST 32 PAGES April 25 2010 PARK AVE gets 1st digital billboard Only local businesses allowed to advertise on 0foot sign BY TERESA tlanhfordyrmgcom The along Davis Drive now includes Newmarkets first fully digital billboard Erected on the property of Persechini Fitness the 20-by- 10- foot billboard features full motion high resolution video facing westbound traffic The new advertising tool owned by Telecast Media and operated by Media Magex Inc is meant to allow local businesses to com municate with about 2 1 000 con who pass by each day as well as allow die Town of New market to post public sendee announcements when needed Digital media is really becoming a way of business Media Magex Kent Green said We first saw digital adver tising inside businesses but now it is appearing more and more on streets in the form of digital SUNDAY PEOPLE The full motion RGB display showing a 10- second digital advertisements that each play at least times per hour is the first outdoor LED digital sign avail able only to local businesses STAFF Tanis Hargrave who operates a catering and event planning company from Tuscany Event Centre is continuing her campaign to educate people about organ donation Her son Dan just underwent his second doublelung transplant Monthly Special WE PAY THE GST DEALS OF THE MONTH I I Vflr Mawumerint I Dr Organ donation blitz beginning to net results Man thriving after receiving 2nd doublelung transplant TERESA LATCHPORD com A mothers quest to educate you on organ dona Don is paying off especially during national organ donation week which wraps up today In January York Region Media Group featured the story of and her son Dan who lives with cystic fibrosis a genetic multiorgan disease affecting the lungs and digestive system In 2002 his only hope for survival was a double- lung transplant and at the critical moment a donor supplied him with the organs he so badly needed The catch was the lungs were to big for the body of the thenteenaged boy and had to be trimmed to fit When he turned 24 his body began to reject the transplant and his health took a turn for the worst last November Again Mr was placed on the transplant list awaiting a match He was matched and had his second transplant last month Ms said adding he is doing very well This time annuls the lungs fit Mr graves body and the surgery that was expected to take up to hours because of the difficulties associ ated with second transplant procedures only took 7- 12 to complete After the first transplant he was in the hospital for two months Ms Hargrave said This time he out in days Set he wis FINANCE OR LEASE ENOUGH SAID ZDX HON MV mmim iini IS I Man K 18796 St Aurora