Editor, The Times:
Last year Heart and Stroke in Clearwater were very close to reaching $5,000. Here is my challenge to donors and volunteers; let’s see if we can meet or exceed this goal.
We are still in need of volunteers for many areas of Clearwater. Volunteering for Heart and Stroke does not mean your are committed to life for one cause. It is one or two afternoons, mornings or evenings, within the month of February. You pick your days.
Heart and Stroke has many volunteers that come and go and come back again. Most volunteers love coming back each year. We have volunteers in Clearwater that have canvassed for 20 years.
I will phone and ask if you wish to volunteer each year and you do not have to feel guilty, to say, “No.”
Most volunteers come back in future years. It is understandable that certain years we get busier than others.
If you would like to try canvassing this year, I would be glad to help you get started. It is easier to tell you the neighbourhoods that to date will be covered, than those that do have a door to door canvaser. Currently we only have coverage for Kershaw, Greer, Jenkins Rd, Birch Island and Sunshine Valley. So you can see the need is great.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation also is set up for on-line donations and if you wish to raise funds in this matter you may contact myself, Wendy Grimm at 250-674-6806.
Most donors like to have a canvasser come to the door and be issued a receipt when they give. Reaching these donors is crucial and results in a greater number of donors giving, resulting in more money raised for the cause.
Buy-Low Foods has allowed the Heart and Stroke Foundation to set up for the first time in Clearwater. This will help our volunteers reach those donors who live rural or just like the convenience of making a donation during your daily routine.
Please feel free to stop by our table and pick up some literature and learn how to help prevent heart attacks and stroke, learn the symptoms and what to do next. Come to Buy-Low Foods and enter your name in our draw.
Watch for the paper hearts, red mittens and heart pins for sale at various locations around town.
Wendy Grimm, Clearwater team captain
Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and the Yukon
