CORNWALL, Ontario – This weekend, close to a hundred people gathered for the Walk to End Cystic Fibrosis at Lamoureux Park in Cornwall along with 60 other communities across Canada, including Ottawa, Kingston, and Brockville.
Kim Baird organized the event with the help of the Kinettes and the Kinsmen club.
“I originally joined Kinettes 32 years ago, and our national project was Cystic Fibrosis, so I reached out to the local chapter then and I met many of the families over the 30 years,” explained Kim.
The annual walk has been operating for almost 30 years with the goal of making Cystic Fibrosis history.
It is estimated that 1 in every 3600 children born have CF, which means more than 4000 children and adults in Canada have the fatal disease.
The Walk expects to raise around 7 to 8 thousand that will go to research and treatment of Cystic Fibrosis.
