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Smart Planning Information

So What Do You Do?

Free Parenting Seminar

Docs On Ice Successful

Early Detection of Cancer

G&M Golf Classic

Nosing & Noshing Event

Annual Dinner May 30th

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Welcome to our May 2010 Foundation Newsletter! Spring is in the air and as usual we are busy-busy working on all sorts of worthy and interesting activities and events to support the G&M Hospital and our communities. In this issue, you'll be meeting Linda Caron from the Foundation in our feature story on, "So What Do You Do?".

Please contact us at foundation@cgmh.on.ca if you want more information on an event or article, or have a suggestion for future issues of the newsletter.

Smart Planning = Wise Giving

Join us Tuesday, May 4th

As a reminder, we invite you to join us for lunch and to hear special guest speaker Malcolm Burrows as he shares with us valuable information on estate planning. This free luncheon seminar will be held at The Bear Estate (Cranberry Resort) on Tuesday, May 4th. Registration begins at 11:30am, with a luncheon buffet following at noon. RSVP is required; please call the Foundation office at 705.444.8645.

Malcolm D. Burrows is the Manager of Philanthropic Advisory Services for
Scotia Private Client Group. Mr. Burrows travels the country speaking about incorporating Planned Giving into your Estate Plan.

To find out more about how you can help your community Hospital and how estate planning can benefit you, click here.

So What Do You Do?

Profiling our Foundation Office Team

Meet Linda Caron!

So what do you do around here?

I am the Special Event Coordinator for the Foundation.

What is your role and what does it involve?

I help to organize and work with the many volunteer committee members who plan the events we host to raise funds to purchase equipment for the Hospital.

What is the most challenging part of your role?

The most challenging part is to keep our events unique and fresh. Many of the events are annual and we like to change them up year after year so those who attend do not see the same thing each year. Another challenge is to run these events on a very low expense budget. We work hard to ensure that the majority of every dollar raised goes to equipment.

What else should our community and donors know about your role?

I would like the community to know what a great bunch of volunteers we have! Without their dedication we would not be able to host these events and raise the funds we do.

Free Parenting Seminar May 11th 7pm

Collingwood Collegiate Institute

Sponsored by the G&M Hospital Foundation Education Endowment Fund, we invite you to join us for a free evening speaker event presenting expert Norbert Georget.

This event is perfect for anyone living with teens in today's complex world.

Call 705.446.0888 to reserve your seat to this popular event or forward this newsletter to those who may be interested. For more information on Speaker Norbert Georget, click here.

Docs On Ice Event Update
Popular Hockey Tournament Benefits G&M Hospital Foundation and Communities

*Collingwood Paradocs Hockey Team 2010*

What happens when 750 doctors, including 100 med students and six communities come together? A fantastic and "best ever" hockey tournament, that's what! This event was organized by the G&M Hospital Foundation, however what made it quite unique was the effort and coordination by six area municipalities to host and positively influence physicians in our area for three days in April. Physician recruitment and fundraising were two of the many goals of the tournament.

Teams came from all over Ontario and as far away as Austria. Six Ontario medical schools sent players. Participants played games in arenas in Elmvale, Stayner, Thornbury, Collingwood, Meaford, Wasaga Beach which gave these communities a great opportunity to showcase their area. At event headquarters at the Conference Centre at Blue Mountain, players also got the chance to learn about each municipality as well as our Rural Ontario Medical Program (which trains doctors for areas such as ours) and our G&M Hospital.

Heard in the locker room:

"Great tournament! I think this was the largest number of participants yet at our annual event."

"Thanks for all of the hard work and the work of your organizing committee."

"The senior tourney players who have come for close to three decades are a pretty tough crowd to impress and they said this was the best Docs On Ice tournament they'd ever been to!"

The event raised $110,000 which will go to purchase surgical equipment at the G&M. A hearty round of applause to sponsors Trial Management and Scotiabank as well as our dedicated volunteer organizers and staff, led by Foundation Event Coordinator Linda Caron.

Free Education Event: Prevention & Early Detection of Cancer

Wed. May 26th - 7pm