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The Poster Boy KOOL FM‘s Brian Bourke helps raise funds for cancer care centre he stories are more personal this time around as people stop by the KOOLâ€"FM Poster Boy campaign at its rew Grand River Hospital location to either donate some money, or to sign the Wall of Hope in memory of a loved one. And Poster Boy Brian Bourke, now on his third trip to the top of the charity pedestal, admits it also means a lot to him to have the Waterloo radio station support the new cancer care centre at the hosâ€" pital. The radio newscaster lost both his parents to the disease more than 25 years ago, and doesn‘t mind giving up 10 days of his life during Cancer Awareness month to raise the profile of those battling the "big C," and the fundraising efforts needed by the new centre to treat them. "I don‘t really see this as much of a sacrifice at all," said Bourke. "This is just something we should all do. "We have the opportunity to get this centre, and it‘s nice to do a litâ€" tle something, no matter how small, to help out." Bourke talked about a man named Hank who stopped by the other day and thanked the radio station for its efforts. It was a humâ€" bling experience. "He was told that his leukemia has gone into the first stage of B icick here) Cw 8 K Motors Authorized BMW Retorles â€" 5Z7 King St. N. Wat Telephone (519) 885 5090 E. mail inlo@b kmotors.com he healing process has I started for those close to murdered Waterloo teenager Jimmy Stanley. Though difficult, with all of the rumours and speculaâ€" tion around what led to the attack on the 19â€"yearâ€"old over two weeks ago still cirâ€" culating, family and friends are now working towards putting the pieces of their lives back together. Community rallies behind family of murdered teen The first step came last week when a group of memâ€" bers from the Sunnydale Community Association, the Looking For a New By Anprea Batey Chronicle Staff _ By Bos VrBANAC Chronicle Staff area in which Stanley lived, as well as area churches, schools and police gathered to share their emotions, as well as coordinate a process on how to best provide supâ€" port to those whom Stanley touched most. "The outpouring of supâ€" port from the community for his family and those close to him has been just overâ€" whelming," said _ Laurie Strome, coâ€"chair of the Sunnydale Community Association. "I‘m sure it gives his family strength knowing there are so may people out there who care." Strome said the commu remission, and he came up here and said he liked what we‘re doing â€" he really admired it," said Bourke. "I told him he‘s the hero. I‘m just sitting here while he‘s going through all that." Bourke said that‘s the real focus of the campaign. The people who are battling the disease and the efforts being taken to get them betâ€" ter treatment closer to home. "Those are the real stories that get to you because those people come up and say thanks, and I tell them don‘t thank me," said Bourke on day four of the campaign that kicked off last Friday. "It‘s not about the station; it‘s quite simply about trying to help out the community. "One in three of us in our lifeâ€" time will be touched by cancer, and donating to the centre might help you someday. If you can‘t do it for somebody else do it for yourself." Bourke was 17 when he lost his dad Tom to cancer, and 20 when he lost his mom Kathleen to the disâ€" ease. "L understand what it‘s like to go through that with a family memâ€" ber," he said. "You shouldn‘t have to drive an hour to go through that kind of treatment â€" it just doesn‘t make any sense. "Let‘s do it here where people are at least comfortable and we can get them in and out. No one wants to spend anymore time than they have to in that treatment centre, so let‘s make it as palatable as possiâ€" ble." Bourke will be broadcasting nity is still in shock over what happened to one of its Stanley died shortly after midnight April 8 as a result of stab wounds he received during an altercation after an allâ€"ages dance outside the Phoenix Rollersport in Waterloo. He walked from his home to the dance after receiving a call for help from his younger â€" brother Shane Calderwood, 17, who, along with their sister Rachel Calderwood, 14, was being threatened by bullies in the parking lot. Shortly after his arrival, PAGE 3 from his King Street location in front of the hospital until the camâ€" paign wraps up April 30 at noon. He has all the comforts of home in his little geodesic tent atop the 10â€" foot perch, including wireless Internet and satellite T.V. The only thing Bourke said he misses is being at home with his wife and three daughters, and the routine of daily life. The longtime girls softball enthusiast will also miss the openâ€" ing season tournament of his daughter â€" Heather‘s Waterloo Bantam Ghosts team. "Over the span of seven years, I‘ve missed one game and one practice," said the head coach of the Bantam team. "In the space of a week, I‘ve missed four practices and four or five games. "I‘m really suffering from withâ€" drawal from that because that‘s usually what 1 do at this time of year." But Bourke said it‘s all for a good cause, well worth the couple of weekends he‘ll spend entertainâ€" ing the generous guests who stop by to visit the platform, like memâ€" bers of the Elmira Legion who came by Monday morning. "If I die tomorrow and this is the only thing I get remembered for, by even one person, then it‘s all been worthwhile," said Bourke. "So few of us get a chance to do anything that makes any bit of a difference. This is just great as far as I‘m concerned â€" 1 love being the Poster Boy." two youths, ages 14 and 15, pushed Stanley to the ground and slashed his throat in front of a crowd of horrified teenagers. He was later pronounced dead at Grand _ River Hospital. â€" Both assailants, who canâ€" not be identified under the Young Offenders Act, have been charged with firstâ€" degree murder. "Our goal right now is to continue to strengthen the partnerships _ that â€" have formed, and continue to support the family in their time of need," Strome said. IRONICH Stanley‘s former high KOOLâ€"FM‘s Brian Bourke holds out a bedpan used as a collection plate during the Waterloo radio station‘s annual Poster Boy campaign in supâ€" port of the Grand River Regional Cancer Care Centre. school, Waterloo collegiate institute, is also going to great lengths to ensure its students, as well as Stanley‘s two brothers, Shane and John Stanley who attend the school, _ have _ adequate means of dealing with their feelings. "We have met with all of our staff to reassure them of our focus on the healing process," said school princiâ€" pal John McCarthy, adding that counsellors have started working directly with stuâ€" dents who attend classes with Stanley‘s brothers. "We expect a wide variety of responses from students who were close to Jimmy, students close to his brothâ€" ers, and even those who knew of him through other people. "We are using the opporâ€" tunities given to us by the students to do everything we can to help them heal." Contributing greatly to that process, McCarthy said, has been a group known as Lighthouse, a school organiâ€" zation which provides a forum for students to disâ€" cuss their feelings and find ways of dealing with whatevâ€" er is bothering them. Continued on page 4