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Madena Reimer, centre, of Athabasca expresses her feelings after her name is drawn as the winner of a free trip for two to Hawaii. Reimer was one of 10 people who, since Christmas, have been nominated in a contest by two Stettler-area residents, Cody and Eva Borek (pictured), and Aspen Ford. Reimer called the experience like a “eulogy for the living,” since she’s around to hear what people truly think of her -- and it’s all good. Other nominees didn’t go away empty handed, walking away with trips and excursions.
Athabasca woman wins trip to Hawaii as Alberta’s Most Loving Person
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Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Madena Reimer has survived two bouts with cancer and just recently lost her best friend and mother to the disease, so when her name was drawn from the hat as Alberta’s Most Loving Person, she was reduced to tears. “After a year of bad things, this light is needed,” she said. And it has been a very tough 2014 for Reimer, who has been long undergoing the ordeal of breast cancer. Reimer explained that she
was diagnosed not once but twice with the disease, and has had several lumpectomies and a double masectomy. Then, last January, a friend of her daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer. During the last two months of that girl’s life, Reimer was by her side. “I was there when she drew her last breath,” Reimer said of the 19-year-old cancer victim. Then, just four months later, Reimer’s mother was also diagnosed with cancer. “I flew right back to New-
foundland right away,” Reimer said, and over the next few months watched her mother lose her battle. “It’s really tough,” Reimer recalled. “It’s still tough. Seeing her suffer and knowing you could do nothing? It was devastating.” Returning home, Reimer then lost a friend from the Athabasca Breast Cancer Support group at the end of the year. Without the efforts of her children, there would have been little joy over Christmas, she said.
Then she found out she’d been nominated as Most Loving Person in Alberta by friends. The contest was dreamed up by Cody and Eva Borek who, after purchasing a vehicle from Aspen Ford in Stettler, were given a free trip to Hawaii in March. Deciding they’d rather give it to someone else to brighten their day, the Boreks got Aspen Ford on board (since the tickets were officially non-transferable), and then launched the contest on Dec. 25, 2014. continued on page 4
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