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NEWS photo Nell Lucente

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Chelsea Reeves (left) and Rachel Hewitt, 4,
enjoy the music at Deep Cove Daze in Panorama Park on

Saturday.

Labor Day telethon brings
in funds on cable network

THE 1992 Labour Day
telethon for muscular
dystrophy, carried for the
first time on a ‘Cable
Cares” network .of local
cable TV systems across
British Columbia, generated
$1,025,382 in pledges
toward the work of the
British Columbia and
Yukon region of the
Muscular Dystrophy
Association of Canada
(MDAC).

The total received major boosts
from firefighters from across Brit-
ish Columbia — one of whom,
Captain Terry Erskine of Saanich,
is the national president of
MDAC — and from Southlands
Canada’s 7-11 stores, Harley-
Davidson motorcycle owners from
Delta, Vancouver Island and
Kamloops and the ladies auxiliary
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Vancouver Canuck Ryan
Walters was a two-time star on
the show, appearing in person as a
special guest, then adding his
name to a lengthy list of gold star
donors ($100 or more). The
‘sale’ of gold and silver ($50)
Stars generated both interest and
several thousand dollars in con-
tributions.

Mayors Lou Sekora of Co-
quitlam, William Copeland of
Burnaby and Murray Dykeman of
North Vancouver District, Coun-
cillors Art Wilkinson of Port
Moody, Margaret Gordon of Port
Coquitlam and Judy Higgin-
botham of Surrey added a lively
municipal challenge-matching
element to the televised fundrais-
er.

Even inmates from a provincial
institution joined in the cause,
with their cheque among many
presented at the Delta Pacific
Resort Hotel and Convention
Centre in Richmond, production
centre this year for the B.C. part
of the Jerry Lewis telethon for
muscular dystrophy.

The funds will be used to serve
MDAC clients — including the
provision of wheelchairs and other
equipment to assist in mobility,
breathing and other physicai activ-
ities impaired by neuromuscular
disorders -—~ and to support
research seeking a cure for such
disorders.

The firefighters — with
departments from communities
across the province having worked
year-round to generate funds for
MDAC’s important work —
brought in a total of $501,823,
presented on air to Saanich
firefighter Terry Erskine, who also
is the national MDAC president.

The Harley Owners Group
(HOGs) of Kamloops raised near-
ly $45,000 for the telethon and the
HOGs of Vancouver Istand
brought in $17,000.

The Eagles’ ladies auxiliary
presented $21,095 and Southlands
7-11 stores raised nearly $90,000
for B.C. out of a national total of
more than $287,000.

Inmates from the Ferndale In-
stitution in the Mission area of the
Fraser Valley raised $2,500 in a
unique walk for MDAC.

Another significant contribution

came from

“Bust and Bail’’ pro-

jects held at Bental! IV under

Canada Trust’s sponsorship and

at the Richmond Shopping Cen-
tre.

Norma Saltzberg, B.C. region
director, said the telethon is a ma-
jor fundraising function for
MDAC, formed 38 years ago as a
national voluntary agency com-
mitted to eliminating
neuromuscular disorders and
alleviating the associated distress.

The Jerry Lewis telethon origi-
nated in Las Vegas. The B.C.
segment came from Richmond
under direction of producer Carter
Zygmunt.

Pledges and contributions to the
telethon may be sent directly to
the Muscular Dystrophy Associa-
tion of Canada, B.C. and Yukon
Region, 4303-1338 West Broad-
way, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1H2.

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