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Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012
Towns issued organ donation challenge
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5 York municipalities commit to contest BY TERESA LATCHFORD
tlatchford@yrmg.com
You can help your municipality gain bragging rights when it comes to organ donation. The York Region Gift of Life Association has issued an organ donor challenge that pits the region’s municipalities against each other in a race to boost their communities’ organ donation registration numbers. Newmarket, East Gwillimbury, King Township, Georgina and Aurora have already accepted the challenge and are eager to take on their neighbours. The councils of York’s other municipalities have yet to receive the presentation. Bruce Cuthbert, an organ recipient and association advocate, presented the challenge to Newmarket and Aurora councils. “Our goal is to raise awareness and encourage people across York Region to become donors,” he said. He explained Canada has one of the lowest rates of registered donors in the developing world, Ontario lags behind other provSee 1, page 8.
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Cardinal Golf Club owner Dalt Hicks will be roasted at gala in his honour Thursday.
Hicks recognized for community contributions BY TERESA LATCHFORD
tlatchford@yrmg.com
Dalt Hicks has never sought recognition for lending a hand. Nonetheless, the Cardinal Golf Club owner will be honoured by friends, family and others at a gala in recognition of his kindness to others and devotion to the community. Mr. Hicks, an organizer of people, has touched the lives of many and deserves to be celebrated, said Bob Kilgour, a friend and Cardinal’s managing director. “He has done so much for others in his life-
For more information about the gala dinner, call Mr. Kilgour at 905-841-7378. time, a group of us thought it was time we do something for him,” Mr. Kilgour said. The gala is Thursday at LeParc Conference and Banquet Centre in Thornhill. Guests will be treated to cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and an entertaining roast of Mr. Hicks. Mr. Hicks was born and raised in York Region.
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He lived in Richmond Hill until 1993, when he decided to retire from his gravel business, Gormley Aggregates, and move into the golf industry. He now lives in King Township. He was 64 when he put the spade in the ground on Cardinal, something that speaks to his determination. “The community means a lot to Dalt and people in it mean even more,” Mr. Kilgour said.
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