Classmates create
transplant fund

A GROUP of North Shore high
school friends from the class of
1974 has set up a fund for a
fellow schoolmate’s seriously ill
child.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

North Vancouver resident Pat
Crowe and nine other 1974
‘Handsworth graduates have estab-
lished the. ‘‘Kaitlin Transplant
Fund’? at the Toronto. Dominion
Bank in Edgemont Village. .

Kaitlin is the 3%-year-old
daughter of Ontario resident Joan
Faulkner Atkinson. The child is
scheduled to receive a heart/lung
. transplant in Pittsburgh soon.

Although the Ontario medical
plan has agreed to pay for the
$300,000 operation, the parents’
expenses, including travel and ac-
commodation, are not covered.

The parents’ expenses are
estimated to be $60,000.

Atkinson grew up on the North
Shore, where her parents, Bob
and Gussie Faulkner, and sister,
Gail Faulkner, still live.

“IT think anyone who knew
Joan would really like to help her
out.in this time of need in her life.
I think she was such a giving per-
son and now is her time to receive
something back,’ said Crowe.

Kaitlin, who is a triplet, was
diagnosed with idiopathic
pulmonary hypertension when she
was three years old.

The little-understood condition
causes lungs. to deteriorate and
severely damages’ the heart as it
overworks to compensate for the
failing lungs.

Three trust funds have been es-
tablished for the Atkinson family.
They currently contain approxi-
mately $10,000.

Besides the North Shore fund,
another fund was set up by
Atkinson’s employer, the external
affairs department in Ottawa.
And a third fund was set up by
community members in Kemp-
tville, Ontario, where the family
lives.

Crowe said Kaitlin’s prospects
for finding a matching donor were
not a major problem at this point,
although doctors said the little girl
would have three months to live if
she did not receive a transplant
now.

Crowe describes Atkinson as
someone who has always been an
accomplished, busy and giving
person.

“This is exactly Juan. She
would have triplets,’ said Crowe.

The ‘‘Kaitlin’s Transplant
Fund’? is set up at the Toronto

Dominion Bank, 3190 Edgemont
Blvd.

For more
980-9025.

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FORMER NORTH SHORE resi-
dent Joan Faulkner Atkinson,
her husband, Weldin and 31-
year-old triplets Claire (left),
Emily and Kaitlin have had
friends and family rally around
them as Kaitlin awaits a heart
and lung transplant in Pitts-
burgh. Kaitlin currently re-
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ly’s Ontario home.

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