THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR BONSPIEL A GREAT SUCCESS!

Hospice Lennox and Addington would like to thank the following people for making our 7th Annual Bonspiel such a great success:

All the participants:

The Co-operators: Patricia Dafoe Insurance Agency Inc.
Canadian Tire Gas Bar: Don Pearson
Woodcock’s Automotive & Tire Centre: Brian Woodcock
Lynja Injection Services: Jamie Bridge
Dr.Doug Alkenbrack
Kingston Frontenacs
Len’s Bakery
Metro Napanee
No Frills Napanee
Napanee Curling Club, Don Currier, All the volunteer bartenders
Cedar Crest Catering

Our wonderful volunteers:

Wendy Brockmeyer, Patti Bilow, Audrey Elliott, Marg Baldwin,
Shirley MacDonald, Jim Sunstrum, and Jeff Sunstrum

 

It was a very fun and successful day! Hope to see you all again next year!

Pictured: Scott Dickson, June Hicks, Jen Dickson, Paul Dickson
We were honoured to have a team with THREE GENERATIONS of
Dickson’s curl with us this year – and they won 1st Pace!

The article appeared in the The Napanee Guide in June 2011.

Dump the Plump Stuffs Hospice Coffers

 

Team Winners

 

By Stephen Petrick/Napanee Guide

The members of the Friendly Faces team didn't take up marathon running to win Hospice Lennox & Addington's Dump the Plump contest. They didn't take up mountain climbing, body building or any other extreme fitness activity, either. And they certainly didn't sign up for any miracle diets or bizarre weight-loss operations.

 

It was a simple effort to make healthier food choices and exercise regularly, that made the four-person team lose a combined 140.5 pounds, over six months, to claim top prize in the annual fundraising weight-loss challenge.

 

Jody Harvey, her daughter Kayla Harvey, Carol Corcoran and Stacey Maracle shared an $800 prize for winning at losing. That number represents half of the proceeds raised by the 16 teams who signed up for the contest. The other $800 raised from the team competition will go to Hospice Lennox & Addington, a charity that provides palliative care and support to families in the community dealing with a terminal illness.

 

The team's name derives from the place where three of the members work: the Friendly Manor long-term care home in Deseronto. Harvey is a cook, Corcoran is the administrator and Maracle is a nurse at the home. Kayla Harvey is a nurse at Lennox & Addington County General Hospital.

Corcoran said Jody Harvey was the team leader and she made sure all team members remembered their commitment to lose weight. "When we wanted a goodie, it was, 'no you're not," Corcoran said with a smile. Jody Harvey admitted, "I was hard on everyone." She attributed the team's combined weight loss to their efforts to get out and walk more. She said the biggest change she made to her lifestyle, during the course of the competition, was eating at home more. "Staying out of the restaurants," she said. "That was a big change of lifestyle because that's what I like to do."

Details on who lost what weight and current weight totals weren't discussed during the interview. Instead the woman focused on the fact they were supporting an important local institution. The Dump the Plump contest has been an important fundraiser for Hospice Lennox & Addington for more than 10 years. "It's nice to do something for ourselves, but it's also nice to help out a good cause," said Corcoran.

 

Teams of four had to pay $100 to enter the contest at a weigh-in on Jan. 5. They were given pocket size pieces of paper to track their weight on a month-by-month basis. There was also a separate individual competition, which raised even more funds. Eighty individuals signed up for Dump the Plump.

 

The individual winner was Wayne Uens, who lost 62.5 pounds The 60-year-old Strathcona Paper employee slimmed down to 274 pounds from 337. He took home a prize of $1,000. Each participant in the event contributed $25. With 80 individual entrants, that meant the pot was $2,000, with the winner getting half, and the remainder to Hospice. The $1,600 from the teams, and Hospice also getting half, meant, the total proceeds were $1,800.

 

 

Uens, also said there was no magic trick to his weight-loss success. He too dumped the plump by trying to reduce what he called "white foods" such as pasta and bread. "I just changed my eating habits," he said. "I still eat lots but it's the good stuff ... I still eat lots of meat and fish." Uens said he will use the money to "buy more groceries."

 

The Friendly Faces team members said they would use some of their money to go out for lunch. But all of them, said they plan to continue eating healthy. Hospice Lennox & Addington staff say this year's event was a huge success. The event not only raised $1,800 for the organization, it also led participants to lose a combined 1,263 pounds.

The article appeared in the June 9th, 2011 edition of The Napanee Guide.

 

McDonald's Helps Hospice

 

Stephen Petrick, Napanee Guide

Dan Doyle, owner of the Napanee McDonald's, presents a cheque for $3,029.90 to Hospice Lennox & Addington representatives, from left, Marg Baldwin, Virginia Thompson and Peggy Sunstrum. The money was raised on McHappy Day, Wednesday, May 11. One dollar from every Happy Meal, coffee and Big Mac sale at the Centre Street fast-food restaurant and the McDonald's inside the Napanee Wal-Mart went towards the fund. The money will be used for Hospice programs, including the Child & Youth Bereavement Support program.

This article appeared in the March 31st, 2011 edition of the Napanee Guide: