Diane Ganong receives Humanitarian award

Diane Ganong of St. Stephen has been selected by the Canadian Red Cross to receive its Humanitarian Award for New Brunswick. Ganong has demonstrated a spirit of humanitarianism through her nursing career, global involvement with UNICEF Canada and engagement with many projects and organizations. She is also a director of Ganong Bros. Limited, a chocolate and confectionary manufacturer based in St. Stephen. She will receive her award Wednesday evening, Nov. 18 at the Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian Awards dinner at the Delta Brunswick hotel in Saint John.

Tour for the Cure

Updated Aug24/09

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Tour for the Cure is here in Charlotte County. As part of its five-month trip throughout Atlantic Canada, the Tour will be in the St. George today at the Day Adventure Centre Off Riverview Avenue at 1:30pm – 8pm. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation has set a goal to have 85 per cent of eligible women in Atlantic Canada screened for breast cancer by 2010.