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Campaign helps out Massey Centre MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com For a second year, an East York pharmacy and its customers are helping a place that gives a lifeline to young women. The Shoppers Drug Mart at Pape and Cosburn avenues is supporting the Massey Centre for Women with its Tree of Life Campaign, which continues until next Friday, Oct. 26. This week, Ekua Asabea Blair, the charity’s executive director, said she’s grateful for the partnership. Tree of Life
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Canadian Blood Services phlebotomist Virginia Saqui, left, keeps an eye on Miriam Heavenrich during the Northlea Elementary and Middle School community blood donor clinic held Tuesday in memory of former student Emmy Duff, who died of leukemia last month.
Blood donor clinic remembers Emmy Duff ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Emmy Duff continues to inspire people to donate blood. The Leaside resident helped start blood donor clinics at her elementary school after she was diagnosed with leukemia at age 13 in November of 2002. Duff passed away last month. But
the blood drives she helped initiate continue. Clinic at school The 20th blood donor clinic at Northlea Elementary and Middle School on Rumsey Road was held Tuesday. A total of 136 people attended, and 121 units of blood was collected.
“I’ve been coming since I was 17,” Duff’s high school friend Miriam Heavenrich said while donating blood. “She (Duff) would always be here, talking to the blood donors and handing out snacks, and definitely had a big presence at these blood donor drives.” More than 2,400 units of blood have been collected at Northlea over
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the past decade, potentially saving thousands of lives. Duff lived by her favourite quote: “If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.” Area resident Anne Murray, who helped organize the clinics, described Duff as an “incredible” >>>eternal, page 11
Last year, when pharmacist Frank Hack and his staff took up their cause, the Massey Centre started a Maternal Infant Mental Health Program with Tree of Life donations. “We’re a place where a pregnant mum can get shelter and find support,” Blair said of the facility located on Broadview Avenue at Pottery Road. Last year, Blair said that the Massey Centre served 2,700 clients. But while its focus is on teens who are pregnant or parents, the Massey Centre is also a resource for families living in the community, housing an Ontario Early Years Centre many rely on, she said. The Massey Centre also offers mentoring programs and young parents can develop life skills there while they continue to go to school.
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