Bolton Legion supports Headwaters

Kathy Armstrong, board member, Headwaters Health Care Foundation, accepts a from Johnnie Walker, chair of the Legion's Poppy Fund.

The Bolton Legion presented a donation of $6,000 to Headwaters Health Care Centre April 10.

The donation will be directed towards the purchase of a pain pump for Headwaters Health Care Centre. The pump provides intravenous pain control for patients. Pain pumps are patient controlled and provide immediate delivery of medication resulting in prompt and effective pain management.

Because the government does not provide funding for most hospital equipment purchases, on an ongoing basis Headwaters Health Care Foundation relies on the generosity of individual donors, community groups, service clubs, corporate partners and fund-raising volunteers to raise more than $1 million each year to meet the hospital's clinical equipment needs.

The donation was made through the Poppy Fund campaign, which is conducted during the two weeks before Remembrance Day (November 11). The Royal Canadian Legion is the largest veterans' organization in Canada with 400,000 members and affiliates.

It is also one of the country's largest community service organizations with programs touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens every year. Because of its grass-roots origins, the Legion has always responded to the needs of communities.