{"id":1902,"date":"2013-05-07T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:03:07","slug":"hundreds-hike-for-hospice-raising-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/hundreds-hike-for-hospice-raising-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Hike for Hospice, raising thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s perfect weather and a good cause had participants out for The Doane House Hike for Hospice to raise money for the important community service.
\nIt was the first year Doane House hosted a Hike for Hospice, which is an annual event across Canada every May 5. Early counts said roughly $7,000 was raised at this year\u2019s hike.<\/p>\n

With substantial support and interest from the community, Doane House executive director Juliet Irish said the event will continue each year.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to grow it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe had 94 people registered this morning and we\u2019ve had lots of people coming in now. This has just been perfect, especially with the weather today. New Roads Auto Sales sponsored the event and put in a team of about 35 people to take part in the hike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in partnership with them and at the end of the year we\u2019re going to be doing a car raffle and you can win a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze, so that\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also a large contingent of clients who brought out their family and friends for the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe participants are made up mostly of clients who use the services, whether it\u2019s from diagnosis all the way through to bereavement. We support the whole family and 90 per cent of clients have cancer and the other 10 per cent have ALS, Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, cardiac and multiple sclerosis,\u201d Irish said.<\/p>\n

The services of Doane House Hospice centre on peer support for those dealing with different conditions. They offer yoga, relaxation, visualization and Brain Frog, which can help with memory loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are part of the wellness program and then we have the Oasis Day program, which is where they come and spend the day with us and it gives people who are isolated with the disease process an opportunity for us to walk them through their chemo, radiation and for some on the road to remission, back to a new norm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doane House currently serves roughly 539 clients and has 157 trained and dedicated volunteers, which underlines the need for this type of service in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only have a staff of four, so we couldn\u2019t do what we do without our volunteers and we are always desperate for more,\u201d Irish said.<\/p>\n

As always, there is a need for funding and the Hike for Hospice is going to become a big part of that from now on for Doane House.<\/p>\n

Looking for a way to help and get involved in the community, young volunteers Zameer Mukri, 15, and Muhammed Mukadan, 14, said they were glad to help out with the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy older cousin has volunteered at the Hospice for a long time and she told me about this event, so I figured it would be a good idea to help out because it\u2019s for a good cause,\u201d Zameer explained.<\/p>\n

Added Muhammed: \u201cShe told us to get involved and it feels good helping out. Just meeting new people here in the area and being out for this is for a really good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Taylor, Newmarket\u2019s Regional Councillor, said the services Doane House provides is essential to the community and its surrounding areas.
\n\u201cBeing here at the Hike for Hospice [is important] because they are providing an incredible support to our community,\u201d he said. \u201cOur community is about more than just buildings and roads, it\u2019s about people, a community that cares and takes care of one another. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen somebody faces an incredibly challenging moment in their life around health and life and death, they need their loved ones, friends, family and community members to gather around and support them, but there\u2019s a support that a lot of us can\u2019t give and that\u2019s the professional support that Doane House provides. We need to support them to they can support us.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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