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Market Wire, December, 2009
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Montreal Alouettes’ Quarterback Anthony Calvillo, winner of the Gibson’s Finest Most Outstanding Player Award, will donate the $10,000 award provided by Gibson’s Finest Canadian Whisky to The Cedars Cancer Institute at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Calvillo chose Cedars in honour of his wife, Alexia, who was recently treated at the MUHC for B-cell lymphoma and is now in remission.
The money will help renovate the Family Room on the oncology floor of the Montreal General Hospital. The renovation project will include new furniture, a computer and television among other improvements.
“My wife battled cancer at the Royal Victoria Hospital and we used the family room a lot when people would visit us. It was the only place you could go and not think about the treatments,” says Calvillo. “When my wife was in remission and healthy we decided to do something special. The family room needed to be updated so we decided to take this on as a project. Now we want to make sure patients and their families at the Montreal General Hospital have a comfortable and welcoming space too.”
Alexia went into remission last February, and Calvillo says he was “blown away” by the charity donation amount given to him by Gibson’s Finest.
“There are so many charities out there and to be able to be part of one that touched our family’s hearts is really overwhelming. We hope that other families join us so that together we can complete this project for the benefit of cancer patients and their loved ones,” says Calvillo.
The cheque presentation will take place on Tuesday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m
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