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Residents walk to make Cystic Fibrosis history

The local walk is close to its $10,000 goal and walkers can continue to collect pledges through June

THUNDER BAY – Over 50 people came out to show their support and help raise funds to end Cystic Fibrosis. 

The 19th Annual Walk to Make Cystic Fibrosis History was held across the country on Sunday to help raise funds for research and clinics. 

Karen Danelisky, walk coordinator for Thunder Bay, said that funds raised go to the clinics for local Cystic Fibrosis patients that bring clinicians up from Toronto to help treat patients in Thunder Bay. 

“This walk has been very important, it's raised a lot of money over the last, this will be 19 years for the walk, so we've raised about $40 million over 19 years. The money that's raised at the walk is used to fund the clinics and the research,” she said. 

“And with the money that we've raised from the walk, they've made significant strides in drugs that can control or help to control cystic fibrosis symptoms and help our CF patients live longer and have more quality of life.” 

This year’s local goal was $10,000 and Danelisky said that so far, the walk has raised over $8,000. 

“Hopefully by the end of the day, we'll get a little closer to that,” she said. 

“Our walkers can still collect pledges until the end of June and get those put online and those totals go to our walk, so we encourage our walkers to continue to raise money even after the walk is over today.” 

Danelisky said that last year's walk was the first year back after a few years of COVID and that it’s fabulous to see so many people out showing their support. 

We've got 50 walkers and it's so great to see everybody's faces back and all the enthusiasm and the support for our local CF community,” she said. 

Thunder Bay and area residents who would still like to show support can donate online by visiting the Walk to Make Cystic Fibrosis History website



Justin Hardy

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