Owen Sound - An energetic group of staff and volunteers of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) climbed the CN Tower in Toronto in support of the United Way yesterday, raising over $300 for their annual campaign.
Five volunteer puppeteers and the program coordinator of the Friends and Neighbours (FAN) Club participated in the climb, an annual fundraising event hosted by the United Way of Toronto. The fastest member of the group, a fifteen year-old student of WHSS, ascended to the top of the tower in an astonishing 17 minutes and 19 seconds while the rest of the group completed the climb in less than an hour.
The FAN Club, a children's mental health puppet program of the CMHA is a funded agency of the United Way of Bruce Grey.
Volunteers of the FAN Club felt this was a way they could do their part to support the agency that supports them and challenges residents of Grey Bruce to do what they can as well to help the United Way meet it's fundraising goal of $280,000 by the end of the campaign on December 1. Pledges for the Tower Climb are still being accepted at the CMHA office until the end of the week.
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