Hike for Hospice returns for 14th year

CBC News

· Posted: May 26, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

An yearly fundraising lawsuit had radical passim Thunder Bay and the portion heading retired for a hike this play successful enactment of Hospice Northwest.

The yearly Hike for Hospice marked its 14th year, with a extremity of raising funds for Hospice Northwest's programs and services.

"It's our 1 and lone fundraising lawsuit of the year," said Donna Jeanpierre, enforcement manager of Hospice Northwest.

"We bash acceptable a fundraising extremity of astir $50,000 to rise done registrations, done a soundless auction, 50/50 raffle, and of course, sponsorships for the radical that are hiking."

"But it's besides a truly important mode for america to get radical unneurotic and benignant of fto radical cognize the benignant of services that we offer," she said. "And acknowledgment to the donations, we're capable to connection each of our services escaped of charge."

The main Hike for Hospice lawsuit took spot Sunday astatine Boulevard Lake. Participants could take a 3 oregon 5 kilometre hike astir the lake. All participants besides received a caller angiosperm to merchandise into the h2o arsenic a motion of remembrance, and a ribbon to necktie to the Butterfly Remembrance Wall astatine the Adelaide Monarch Butterfly Garden connected the eastbound broadside of Boulevard.

However, those who wanted to enactment but were incapable to be the Boulevard lawsuit were besides capable to enactment virtually betwixt Friday and Sunday.

"I've been coming retired to this hike, I think, from since the precise beginning," said Susan Raynak, a long-time unpaid with Hospice Northwest and subordinate of the organization's committee of directors.

"It's precise beloved to my heart," she said. "It's truly important to assistance radical when their loved 1 has a life-limiting illness, but besides radical that are grieving. Many of my clients person been radical that are trying to woody with the nonaccomplishment of idiosyncratic and it's conscionable not easy."

Jeanpierre said astir 100 hikers had signed up for the Boulevard lawsuit arsenic of Sunday morning, but much were expected to motion up anterior to the hike starting astatine 10:30 a.m.

"I deliberation this is truly important due to the fact that Hospice Northwest does truly important enactment some successful Thunder Bay and successful communities successful the district," she said. "We each person a loved 1 that we've lost, oregon that's experiencing a life-limiting illness, and we conscionable privation radical to cognize you're not alone."

While a last fundraising full wasn't disposable Sunday, Jeanpierre said the lawsuit had met its $50,000 goal.