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This summer we will be participating in the ALS Canada Walk to End ALS. Now more than ever, the ALS community needs our support to provide hope and help to families affected by ALS. That’s why we're joining thousands of others, a part of a passionate and motivated community to “walk” in celebration of hope and a world free of ALS. Please consider supporting our team and donating towards this important cause.

Your support will help to:

• Create a better day-to-day reality for people and families living with ALS by providing community-based support throughout Ontario – like home visits and support groups – as well as necessary medical equipment like hospital beds, wheelchairs, stairlifts and other items that increase safety in the home, at no cost to those who need them.
• Further scientific progress by investing in the ALS Canada Research Program, which funds promising ALS research. The ALS Canada Research Program is the only national dedicated source of funding for ALS research across Canada. This program provides peer-reviewed grants to researchers whose work has the greatest potential to advance the field of ALS. There’s been more progress made in ALS research in the last five years than over the last century – we need to keep building on this momentum.

Join our team in making a difference. Please consider donating to our team fundraising page as we work toward a world free of ALS.

Your support is needed now more than ever – we are stronger together!

Hello Everyone,

My apologies for taking this liberty.  It is my first time and I hope you will consider donating what you can.  You are all either family or my closest friends and I know some of you are sensitive to your email being shared – I ask for your forgiveness in advance.

My story is below and I’m asking if you can please consider donating whatever you can for this cause (ALS).   It is breaking my heart as it is quickly taking a life-long friend of mine, someone I hold near and dear to my heart.

Archie Robinson is one of the most genuine people I know, is kind AND he taught how to play horseshoes and euchre.   Two things I’m trying to get back into…but that will come later.

About Archie (and Kathy)

I met Kathy when working for Drake International when I first got out of college.   I had studied business with a major in finance but we all know that was a mistake.  Kathy took a chance on me and brought me into the work of Human Resources.   We became close-friends and that was over 35 years ago.  

Not long after meeting Kathy, I met her husband Archie.  Archie owned a back hoe and was very dedicated to his work.  This guy could build and do anything he wanted, his talents were unlimited.   He welcomed me into their lives and we all became the best of friends.   They had many, I did not.  They shared their life.

That many years ago, I was down on my luck and Kathy and Archie took me in – similar to my cousin Donna.  I was irresponsible at the time (some would argue I still am) but they gave me a place to live and shared their lives with me.  I met some of the greatest people God put on the planet.  Yes, I wrote that.  

Archie’s physical abilities hinder him and have robbed him of almost all physical things.  Thankfully he can still eat and on June 1, a walk in his honor is taking place in Chesterville, as an extension to Ottawa.

Please donate what you can.   I’m sending the email by Facebook so am not exactly sure how it works but if you decide to donate and that option does not work for you, please let me know.

Much love,

Andrew