JDRF says 'howdy partner'

Corporate Chair Angela Johnston and Fundraising Coordinator Denise Stanley kick off the JDRF Walk with the help of are helped by Walk Ambassadors Michael Aver and Darcy Rumble.

The local JDRF team launched the countdown to this year's Walk to Cure Diabetes during a thank you breakfast for their corporate event sponsors.

The event is scheduled for May 31st at Lee Park and as always JDRF walks have a theme so everyone is invited to saddle up, polish their spurs and dust off their 10-gallon hats and join in with the old west theme.

Walk Ambassadors for this year's walk are 9 year old Michael Aver a student at Ecole St. Vincent and 20 year old Darcy Rumble a student at Canadore College. Both Aver and Rumble have had to learn how to live as normal a life as possible while fitting in the day to day reality of multiple daily blood tests, insulin shots and living with a restricted diet.