LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Pricey Editor,
I’m a current breast most cancers survivor who, in September 2023, was launched to Dragon Boat Paddling with the Gray Bruce Dragon Boat Membership (GBDBC).
The GBDBC at the moment has two places (Owen Sound and Eugenia), and whereas it was began by a breast most cancers survivor, it’s now not a breast most cancers survivor membership. Dragon Boating for Breast Most cancers Survivors is a world motion that was impressed by the analysis of Canadian sports activities drugs specialist Don McKenzie.
Survivors of breast most cancers come collectively to paddle dragon boats to the advantage of their bodily and social well-being. In the course of the winter months of 2024, I labored to assemble sufficient breast most cancers survivors from Gray and Bruce counties to kind a group of breast most cancers survivors. It didn’t take a lot effort!
As of February 2021, The World Well being Group declared breast most cancers essentially the most identified most cancers worldwide.
This yr alone, that’s ~28,000 Canadians who can be identified with the illness, in line with Breast Most cancers Canada.
Our group, known as Bernie’s Boat, is called after the girl who began the GBDBC, however who handed away from metastatic breast most cancers earlier than she was capable of notice her plans of forming a ship of breast most cancers survivors. For our group no earlier expertise with dragon boat paddling is required, neither is any athletic expertise or muscle power.
To date, there are 37 of us, all breast most cancers survivors, who’ve embraced paddling with Bernie’s Boat. There isn’t a cap to the quantity of people that could be a part of so we’re always welcoming extra breast most cancers survivors. As we prefer to say, “Most cancers is the worst membership with the very best members!”
Please contemplate this an open invitation for any breast most cancers survivors to affix our group. We apply weekly on Wednesday nights from 6:15 pm – 8:00 pm on the Sydenham River within the Owen Sound Harbour and can proceed till the tip of September.
Our aim for 2025 is to buy a dragon boat and moor it within the Saugeen River in Southampton for the summer season.
If you want to affix us or require extra info, be happy to contact me at your comfort.
Thanks!
Geordie Farrell
farrell@bmts.com
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