Local was the word on everyone’s lips at the inaugural Fork and Barrel last Friday night as over 140 gathered to celebrate the fall harvest at Natura Catering and Events by Verdicchios Ristorante Enoteca. Local farmers, brewers, wine-makers, chefs, business-owners and members of our community came together to eat, drink, network and even crush grapes…
The Northern Cancer Foundation (NCF) and the Luncheon of Hope Committee were very excited to welcome acclaimed documentary filmmaker, politician and breast cancer survivor Gerry Rogers from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her best known documentary “My Left Breast” chronicled her personal journey with breast cancer – she began filming when her hair began to fall out…
Gerry Rogers, filmmaker, politician, and breast cancer survivor, began filming her experience with breast cancer, from the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy, creating the Gemini-award winning film “My Left Breast.” Gerry speaks with humour and kindness to audiences that have gone through, or are going through similar ordeals, who are helping loved…
Each year the NCF teams up with BM Metals to run “Scrap Cancer” an initiative where BM Metals sets up bins in several locations in our community and the public can drop off their scrap metal and electronic waste. At the end of the campaign, BM Metals donates the value of the scrap. Check out…
Cancer research is one of the key pillars that the Northern Cancer Foundation (NCF) and Health Sciences North (HSN) is built upon – and the NCF is once again ensuring that research at the Northeast Cancer Centre (NECC) flourishes. Each year, the NCF accepts grant applications from the Health Sciences North Research Institute (HSNRI) Scientists.…
Starting today, you can Screw Cancer and Give Hope in your local community by purchasing the Screw Cancer™ screwdriver in support of the Northern Cancer Foundation. The Screw Cancer™ campaign is partnering with the Northern Cancer Foundation in Sudbury, as well as Prostate Cancer Canada, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre (Hamilton, ON), Thunder Bay Regional…
Today, at a press conference at Kivi Park, the Northern Cancer Foundation (NCF) put their first snowshoe forwad to announce the launch of the 2nd annual Trek for Cancer snowshoe fun run, which will be taking place on Sunday, March 5, 2017. This year’s ‘Trek for Cancer” snowshoe fun run will be a great day…
Congratulations to Milt Boren of Seagrove, Nova Scotia – the winner of the Hogs For Hope Motorcycle Raffle! We remember when Milt and his buddies from NS were joking with us that it would be funny if one of them won the bike – this is very poetic! What a way to kick off the…
There are a great many communities in Northeastern Ontario that pledged support for the Sam Bruno P.E.T. Scan Fund in the past several years to help the P.E.T. Steering Committee and the Northeast Cancer Centre acquire a P.E.T. scanner in Sudbury, and with the final funding announcement made last week, those pledges are starting to…
