LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Expensive Editor,
I’m a latest 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 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 crew 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 probably the most recognized most cancers worldwide.
This 12 months alone, that’s ~28,000 Canadians who will likely be recognized with the illness, based on Breast Most cancers Canada.
Our crew, known as Bernie’s Boat, is known as after the girl who began the GBDBC, however who handed away from metastatic breast most cancers earlier than she was in a position to notice her plans of forming a ship of breast most cancers survivors. For our crew no earlier expertise with dragon boat paddling is required, neither is any athletic expertise or muscle energy.
To this point, there are 37 of us, all breast most cancers survivors, who’ve embraced paddling with Bernie’s Boat. There isn’t any cap to the quantity of people that might be part of so we’re continuously welcoming further breast most cancers survivors. As we prefer to say, “Most cancers is the worst membership with the most effective members!”
Please think about this an open invitation for any breast most cancers survivors to affix our crew. We observe 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 top of September.
Our objective for 2025 is to buy a dragon boat and moor it within the Saugeen River in Southampton for the summer season.
If you need to affix us or require further info, be happy to contact me at your comfort.
Thanks!
Geordie Farrell
farrell@bmts.com
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