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C omm .i _ [rames, weanesday, sune 7, 2000 WR _ _ e a e es _ w ols T0 . o Wt -- k 2 ce 0 L -- _ . k s ie s 5 [ % . ¢ fg_:\:;§ s fes e <_ \}g)'f% -5;5,:@;,-_, Wmm O e Bruce--Grey MPP Bill Murdoch announces $100,000 in provincial funding for E. coli victims at a press --conference in Walkerton Friday. Behind Murdoch are, from left: Brockton Response Centre Co--ordinator Barb Fisher, Bruce-- > Grey MP Ovid Jackson and Brockton Mayor Dave Thomson. ____ > atelile Tuesday, July 4, 2000 + 21 ' Catholic teachers help Walkerton _ ege .. _ e u. citizens stricken with E. coli Members of the Ontario . tion:" ment." English Catholic Teachers' Recently, _ association Teachers requested the Association across the . vice--president Cathy -- money go to Walkerton's Erovmce opened their McVean handed over children and youth by way earts and wallets after $51,000 from the Catholic _ of the trust fund estab-- thearing about Walkerton's <teachers to a trust fund for lished b{ the Walkerton water crisis. Walkerton's E--coli victims. _ Kinette c lub, Bruce--Grey association _ She said the fundraising _ Kinette Cindy Ernewein representatives Bob was _ unique because . said the donation brought Richards and Jim Zettel -- money came from associa-- . that fund to $200,000. described »the impact of . tion 1%cal units in "each _ Over $20,000 a week is the crisis at a recent meet-- and -- every. community -- being allocated to families ing of presidents of the around the province", as . of children in out--of--town association. well as the . provincial hofpltqls- "When _Jim and I organization. f It will cover their cost of expressed some of the sto-- We didn't realize the traveling, their food and ries, a child dying in the extent of the problem until lodgiDg. It will also help hands of a parent, those we heard those stories," after the children come are feelings that people . McVean said. "It's a wake-- home with extra ex%enses start to | relate to," _ up call for all of us, how those families will have," Richards said. "We started _ much we take for iranted Ernewein said about the to concentrate on the com-- _ and how much we have to -- Catholic teachers' dona-- munity and not the isola-- --take care of the environ-- . tion.