Teamsters
Care - April is Cancer Awareness Month
March
25th, 2007
Brothers and Sisters,
April is Cancer Awareness Month in Canada and to kick it off,
the Canadian Cancer Society sponsors Daffodil Days.
I don't know anyone who has not had cancer take a family member
or friend over the years. My own Mother succumbed, much too young,
22 years ago.
Young, old, men, women... this killer attacks without prejudice,
destroying lives and devastating families.
Many breakthroughs have been made in cancer research, but there
is still such a long way to go.
Please take the time to read the following and give what you can,
whether in money or in time.
Thank you. Because with time and money and caring .... cancer
can, and will, be beaten. Remember, Teamsters Care.
Bill Brehl
President
TCRC MWED
Daffodil
Days
Every
April, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers are busy delivering
and selling bright, yellow daffodils to help raise money in
support of the fight against cancer.
The daffodil is the Canadian Cancer Society's symbol of hope.
The bright, cheerful blooms are sold every year and mark the
beginning of Daffodil Month.
Daffodil sales raised more than $3.2 million for the Canadian
Cancer Society in Ontario in 2006.
Volunteer
just three hours of your time selling daffodils and you’ll
be helping us fight cancer by funding life-saving cancer research
and vital community support services. Contact your local Canadian
Cancer Society office to join today.
Sell
Daffodils at work: Go to this link
to find out how.
Organize
and promote daffodil sales in your office or workplace and you
could win a Samsung 32" LCD TV!
This
April thousands of dedicated volunteers will be asking you to
help make cancer history by purchasing daffodils. Bunches of bright
yellow daffodils will be on sale across the province from Mar
29–April 1, 2007, for $6 per bunch or $10 for 2 bunches.
Money raised through daffodil sales helps to support cancer research
and community services.
Brighten
your day and support the Canadian Cancer Society by purchasing
daffodils in your community. Watch for our “Daffodils
save lives. Buy a bunch.” posters promoting local sales
locations.
The
history of Daffodil Days
The
Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days began in Toronto
in the 1950s. A group of Canadian Cancer Society volunteers
organized a fundraising tea and decided to decorate the tables
with daffodils. The bright, cheerful flowers created an atmosphere
that seemed to radiate hope and faith that cancer could be beaten.
Soon these gatherings came to be known as Daffodil Teas.
Jackie
Brockie, a volunteer who also worked at Eaton's, supported the
idea of Daffodil Teas and arranged for Lady Eaton to host a
Tea in the store. Seven hundred women attended.
Another
volunteer, Lane Knight, arranged for restaurants to give part
of their receipts to the Society on the opening day of the residential
canvass in 1956. Canadian Cancer Society volunteers were on
hand at local restaurants to give patrons a daffodil when they
paid for their meals as a token of appreciation. The sight of
so many daffodils being carried around the city created interest.
When some recipients tried to pay for the flowers or make donations,
the Society quickly realized that the sale of daffodils would
generate additional revenue.
Canadian
Cancer Society volunteer Fran Shannon headed the team that planned
the sale of daffodils on the streets of Toronto the following
year. An anonymous donor paid for 5,000 blooms to be flown from
British Columbia where the growing season starts earlier than
in Ontario.
The
daffodils were an instant success, raising more than $1,200
the first year. The idea was adopted by other provinces across
Canada as well as the American Cancer Society. Today the Canadian
Cancer Society is the world's largest purchaser of daffodils
and the growers in British Columbia must arrange their plantings
to accommodate the Society's spring demand for live blooms.
2007
Canadian Cancer Society. All rights reserved.
