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JEAN KO DIN scm@insidetoronto.com Twenty-five teams will be racing hospital beds at the Scarborough Town Centre this Friday to raise funds for a new operating table for Rouge Valley Health System’s Centenary hospital. Race teams of five — four runners and one rider — are running a 400-metre dash along Borough Drive, between Triton Road and Progress Avenue. The Rouge Valley Health System Foundation (RVHSF) originally created this event in 2011 to raise funds for the hospital’s Buy-a-Bed campaign.
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The Vordemberge-King family of Scarborough will be taking part in The Hospital for Sick Children’s Canaccord Genuity Great Camp Adventure Walk. For more on their story, and the walk, see page 6.
Money raised from the campaign helped the hospital buy 120 new hospital beds, which were then installed in February of last year. This year the hospital is looking to raise a total of $65,000 to purchase a new operating table for Rouge Valley’s Surgical Program. Rouge Valley’s surgical department will be defending their first place title this year. Festivities begin at 11 a.m. with registrations and opening ceremonies. The Hospital Cup starts at 11:30 a.m. and the community races start at noon. For more information or to sponsor a team, visit www.bedrace.ca or call 416281-7342.
Supporting SickKids Happy and Healthy Month Welcome to our annual Hospital for Sick Children – or SickKids – themed edition. While you will find your regular community stories and features in The Scarborough Mirror, the balance of stories are in support of Healthy and Happy Month at SickKids.
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������’� ���� Why do we do this? The health of our children is too important. There are far too many signs our children simply aren’t as healthy as we
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were during our own youth. For instance, in a recent SickKids Health and Happy Pulse Check survey, 79 per cent of adults 55 and older think children’s lifestyles are not as healthy today as compared to their own childhood. That belief – and actual-
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ity - needs to be reversed. The stories you see here are just a sample of the stories appearing today in community newspapers across Toronto. You’ll find them all, gathered at http://bit.ly/SeO3ai on the insidetoronto.com website. >>>TAKE, page 5
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