Flags being raised across C-K for Heart Month

Join us next week as we raise flags across Chatham-Kent to commemorate Heart Month. February is Hearth Month and the Foundation is celebrating all across Ontario with events, promotions, awareness and calls to donate to fund life-giving research.

Since 1956, The Heart and Stroke Foundation has invested $1.3 billion in research. In 2010, the foundation invested close to $60 million in research, funding almost 1,500 researchers in medical institutes, universities, hospitals and communities across the country. Heart disease and stroke take
1 in 3 Canadians before their time and Chatham-Kent is #1 for heart disease and stroke in Ontario. Our long-term goal is to reduce deaths due to heart disease and stroke by 25% by 2020. That represents almost 25,000 lives saved each and every year.

You’re invited to join us:

• Monday, February 6th at 11:30 am – Chatham Civic Centre (Mayor Randy Hope)
• Monday, February 6th at 1:30 pm – Blenheim Service Centre (Councilors Art Stirling and Karen Herman)
• Tuesday, February 7th at 11:00 am – Tilbury Service Centre (Councilor Brian King)
• Tuesday, February 7th at 2:00 pm – Ridgetown Service Centre (Councilors Jim Brown and Steve Pinsonneault)
• Thursday, February 8th at 11:00 am – Wallaceburg Service Centre (Councilor Derek Robertson)
• Thursday, February 8th at 2:00 pm – Dresden Service Centre (Councilor Joe Faas