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Greetings!
We're just a few days away from Christmas now and despite the lack of snow, I really do feel like we've enjoyed a festive holiday season so far. In fact, based on the generosity of our donors and the volume of personal messages we have received in recent weeks, the spirit of giving is alive and well in East Toronto and West Durham. Posted in our Centenary lobby and Ajax and Pickering cafeteria, the messages are drawing a lot of attention from hospital staff, volunteers, patients and their families, who can be seen stopping to read them all, each day as part of the Gift of Health campaign. Thank you to all of our donors for making 2011 a spectacular and successful year. Please know that the Rouge Valley Health System Foundation truly appreciates your support and recognizes the significance of every gift we receive. Together, you and the Foundation are a great team and we are making a difference for patient care at our two hospitals. If you haven't had a chance to make your holiday gift and would like some advice on where the greatest need is, please contact foundation@rougevalley.ca and we would be happy to provide ideas. Whether you would like to support our Heart of it All campaign, to raise funds for new echocardiogram machines, or you would like to help meet other much-needed equipment needs at your community hospital, we would be glad to discuss the possibilities. As this is our last Community Giving eUpdate for the year, allow me to wish you a safe and happy holiday and I look forward to connecting with you again in 2012.
Sincerely,
Chad Hanna, President & CEO Rouge Valley Health System Foundation
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Best Buy makes
Centenary fun
for kids
A hospital appointment is not often fun for children, but a visit to Rouge Valley Centenary (RVC) won't be boring from now on, thanks to a donation from Best Buy of the Scarborough Town Centre, with new video games, TVs, and more available in the hospital's Galaxy12 Unit and Paediatric department. To read more and see all of the photos from the event, click here .
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ClBC brings Santa
and smiles to young oncology patients
Families celebrated with their children at Rouge Valley Centenary as Santa and his helpers brought many smiles to the faces of children in hospital on Dec. 16. Many families and their children, who are patients in the paediatric oncology program, came for a party at Rouge Valley Centenary's third-floor conference room. CIBC brought gifts for all the kids and made a donation of $25,000 to the RVHS Foundation. Read the full story at our blog, Foundation Chat. |
Tree of Life helps
bring new tool
to surgical unit
Thanks to the generosity of Shoppers Drug Mart customers and employees in eight West Durham locations, more than $15,000 has been raised for women's health equipment and programs at Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering hospital in this fall's Tree of Life fundraising campaign. Four local Shoppers managers visited the hospital Dec. 14 to make the presentation and tour the hospital's surgical and lab departments. Read the full story and see the pictures of the tour by clicking here.
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TCN makes it a 
beary Christmas
for infants, kids
On Dec. 20, the Toronto Community News generously donated a large collection of teddy bears to Rouge Valley Centenary. The bears were given to the children in the Paediatrics, Emergency, NICU, and Birthing and Newborn departments bringing smiles and making the holiday season brighter for our youngest patients. Members of staff, Laura, Leema and Jeremy personally delivered the bears and visited with parents and children in the different departments. Read the story and see all of the pictures here.
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Whitby Legion
brings gift to
Image is
Everything
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #112, Whitby, made a donation of $6,000 this month towards the Image is Everything campaign. This gifts means that Durham Region branches of the Legion have donated more than $60,000 to the campaign as a whole!
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Prepared for 
the polar bears
For the 7th year in a row, a New Year's Day tradition will take to the Lake Ontario shoreline at Paradise Park in Ajax, ON with the carrying out of the annual Ajax Polar Bear Swim. At 1PM on Sunday, Jan. 1, swimmers will welcome the New Year, by jumping into the frigid waters. Both participants and spectators are encouraged to offer donations while at the event as a show of support to those who participate. Proceeds from this year benefit the Heart of it All campaign. See pictures of the Tuesday's dip in the lake here.
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Your messages are 
piling up under
Gift of Health treesMessages like this one, pictured, are pouring in from our wonderful donors!
The Gift of Health campaign reminds our community residents and local businesses about donation options that support the purchase of urgently-needed medical equipment and the building of new and renovated spaces at both hospital campuses of Rouge Valley Health System. You can give The Gift of Health. Your gift will impact the lives of our patients and their families. To contact us to learn more, email foundation@rougevalley.ca.
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Firefighters bring
Christmas gifts
to kids in hospital
Three members of the Pickering Professional Firefighters Association visited the Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering hospital, Dec. 21, to bring some of the toys they collected in their Christmas toy drives in the past month. Neil DeLory, Adrian Kentish and Sean Simmonds, brought children in the paediatrics department toys to brighten their stay and left many more gifts for other kids who will be in hospital over the coming days. Read more and see all of the pictures by clicking here.
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V O L U N T E E R S T O R I E S
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Holiday music a
big hit for patients,
visitors and staff
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The National Post's Financial Post Tech Desk editor, Matt Hartley, is collecting new and used video games for children's hospitals and  pediatric centres across Canada, in his annual Hartley's Video Game drive for Kids. Last year he collected more than 500 games and consoles, which were donated to child's life departments from coast to coast. This year the drive will also support the Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering hospital and Rouge Valley Centenary hospital. To learn more or to find out how you can donate your video games or console, click here.
Boston Pizza in Ajax and Bowmanville, and two Scarborough locations (Scarborough Town Centre and Morningside) are offering a special deal to support the Rouge Valley Health  System Foundation. When you visit one of these locations, just write the words 'RVHS Foundation' on the back of your receipt and Boston Pizza will donate 10 percent of the bill amount to the Foundation. For more information, contact the Foundation at 905-683-2320, ext. 1501 or email foundation@rougevalley.ca.
 Looking for a great Christmas gift for family, friends, teachers etc.? Spa Sedona in Pickering Village is offering you the chance to save more than 60 per cent on spa services, PLUS support the Image is Everything campaign at the same time! Normally valued at $210, choose from any three retreat packages for just $79 plus HST. $20 of each certificate goes toward Image is Everything campaign. To purchase your certificate, please call 905-686-4955. To see all of the deals, click here.
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