A Call for Help goes out to Islanders
Posted Jun 10, 2010 By Margaret Knott
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Tweet ThisEMC News- Anyone who travels to Wolfe Island knows Laurie Minton. In spite of her diminutive size or perhaps because of it, Laurie, a Ministry of Transportation employee, keeps traffic honest at the Wolfe Island ferry dock in Kingston as well as on the island where she lives with her husband Scott Minton.
Recently a devastating fire destroyed the island home they own on Road #95 and lived in with their daughter Jennifer, son-in-law Ian O'Coin and grandchildren Mackynzie, 8, and Madyson, 10. They lost everything in the fire.
Anyone who knows Laurie knows how proud she is of her grandchildren and the particular concern she has for he grandson Mackynzie who at 4 was diagnosed with leukemia. Now 8, he recently completed cancer treatment and it her hope that he is cancer free forever. (Islanders will remember the fundraiser he and his sister undertook for cancer research.) Tough years for the closely knit family. And now a fire....
A Fund Raiser is being organized by islanders Sherry Orr, Sharon Kane, and Angie Vaughan to help the Minton and O'Coin families. Volunteers will be knocking on doors in a call for donations during the week beginning June 13th to June 19th. Donations can also be left at Fargo's Store, Vaughan"s Building Supples, or Megaly's Market. Door to door fund raisers are a long standing Wolfe Island tradition.
If you would like to volunteer to help with a section of the island, call Sherry Orr at 613- 385-2486.
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