Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Good Things Are Happening
Students fulfill Lonnie's wish
On Friday, May 4 at 11:15 a.m., the students and staff at Avalon School (5425 - 114 Street), will present a cheque of over $105,600 to the Stollery Children's Hospital, to honour a request made by a dying classmate. Lonnie, a Grade 8 student at the school, passed away in October 2006. He was diagnosed with adult lung cancer and despite lengthy chemo and radiation treatments the cancer spread rapidly. Only eight children in North America have been identified as having this type of cancer.
Representatives from the Stollery, McDonalds and the Edmonton Oilers will be attending the event.
Before he passed away, Lonnie told friends to remember him by raising money for the Teen and Family Care Centre at the Stollery Children's Hospital. To fulfill his request, Avalon School set a goal to raise $100,000 for the Teen Centre. The Edmonton Kinsmen Club has donated DVD players, CD players and DVDs for the centre and one of Lonnie's best friends gave up a year of hockey and donated the $500 registration fee to the cause.
This spirit exemplifies the type of youth Lonnie was. According to those who knew him, Lonnie was "very kind and considerate," "he enjoyed a good time," "there was never anything bad you could say about him, never," and "he was just good."
For further information, contact:
Bill Bagshaw, Teacher
Avalon Junior High School
5425 - 114 Street
Edmonton, AB
T6H 3M1
(780) 434-8402
bill.bagshaw@epsb.ca
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