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Oakville Beaver, 17 Feb 2011, p. 15

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Golf for kidsKickathon for Kids SaturdayThe fifth annual Kickathon for Kids will a bone marrow transplant at Sick Kids,be held at the Oakville Taekwondo Academy relapsed and then died in August 1994.on Feb. 19.Victor, who was born two years later, hasThe academy is located at 364 Kerr St. made it a practice to do fundraising for theFor information, call 905-844-5377 or visit renowned children's hospital through itswww.oakvilletaekwondo.com. Kids Believe in SickKids program. The annual fundraiser is held in support Victor, his mom Kim, dad Walter andof the SickKids Foundation for Toronto's sister Lian have lived in Oakville since 1991.Hospital for Sick Children.They opened the Oakville TaekwondoThe popular kickathon will take place Academy in 2007. from 11 a.m. to noon with a silent auction to The Kickathon has raised more thanfollow. $10,000 over the past few years with all pro-Fifteen-year-old Victor Lo never knew his ceeds going to the Hospital for Sickolder brother, Erik, but keeps kicking on his Children.behalf. Victor has annually hosted the Students at the academy participating inKickathon for SickKids Hospital at his fam-the kickathon have, over the years, boostedERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVERily's Oakville Taekwondo Academy. their number of kicks in an hour from 5,000AND ANGELS:From left, Kristin Horrell, executive director of the Darling Home for Kids, KieranErik had AML (acute mylenous leuke-to more than 20,000. Last year the eventYoung, Heidi Blackburn, Laurence Applebaum and Jennifer Young, development co-ordinator of themia). When he was nine months old, he had raised $3,500.Darling Home are pictured recently as a $7,800 cheque was donated to the Milton home in thewake of a fundraising golf tournament that made a total $15,600. The remaining $7,800 wasdonated to an agency well-known to Blackburn of Oakville the Canadian Angelman SyndromeFree DEIPP clinic at Parent-Child CentreSociety (CASS), a small national charity supporting families and caregivers who are coping withParents concerned about the hearing, clinic Saturday, Feb. 26 at the OakvilleAngelman Syndrome. The Darling Home for Kids provides paediatric hospice care and respite ser-speech, behaviour or development of a child Parent-Child Centre, 481 North Service Rd.vices to families within communities in Ontario who have children with life-limiting or life-threat-under five years can attend a free W., Unit 25, from 9-11 a.m. Arrive early asening illnesses requiring complex care and/or technology-dependent care. Two years ago,Developmental Early Identification consultations are first-come, first-served.Blackburns best friend created a YouTube video about Blackburns son Callum who has AngelmanPrevention Program (DEIPP) consultation For information, call 905-849-6366.Syndrome. In the summer of 2009, two colleagues of Blackburns from business school, Applebaumand Young, saw the video and were inspired to help. They later held a reunion golf tournament,which was so successful that last year they hosted a larger tournament at Coppinwood Golf ClubCommunity IB Information Nightin Uxbridge and raised the funds recently donated. Applebaum and Young are now hoping to launchthe Childrens Impact Foundation, a foundation dedicated to raising money for childrens charities.St. omas Aquinas Catholic Secondary SchoolForum on parenting exceptional childrenThe Oakville Parent-Child Centre will Gorvan will discuss the services available host Parenting Exceptional Children on at ErinoakKids.February 23, 2011 Thursday, Feb. 24.The Oakville Parent-Child Centre is at 7:00 p.m.The event will run from 7:30-9 p.m. and located at 461 North Service Rd. 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