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Air Canada and Dreams Take Flight Edmonton Celebrate 30 Years of Helping Children Make Magical Memories
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Air Canada and Dreams Take Flight Edmonton Celebrate 30 Years of Helping Children Make Magical Memories\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n First Dreams Take Flight trip departing\n \n Edmonton\n \n since 2019\n \n \n \n \n Fourth flight of 2023 taking off from across\n \n Canada\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MONTREAL\n \n \n ,\n \n \n Sept. 19, 2023\n \n \n /CNW/ - Early this morning, 104 children from  Alberta and the\n \n Northwest Territories\n \n , many of whom have never stepped foot on an airplane, took off on the trip of lifetime. Departing from\n \n Edmonton\n \n International Airport the children from Dreams Take Flight jetted off for a theme park in\n \n California\n \n , marking the 30\n \n th\n \n anniversary of the\n \n Edmonton\n \n chapter of Dreams Take Flight. Today's flight is the first Edmonton Dreams flight since 2019, and the fourth of eight Dreams Take Flight trips planned across\n \n Canada\n \n for 2023. Over the past 30 years,\n \n Dreams Take Flight\n \n and Air Canada, as the exclusive carrier, have given more than 42,000 Canadian children a Dreams flight.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n With the support of devoted Air Canada employee volunteers, the Air Canada Foundation and the\n \n Dreams Take Flight\n \n organization, these trips take children from across the country on a trip-of-a-lifetime and help them create magical memories. That was the case for Naomi, who took part on the 2011 Dreams flight from\n \n Edmonton\n \n and would have celebrated her 19th birthday last week.\n \n \n \"Through she was still recovering from the effects of fighting cancer, she threw off all hindrances and partied from before the sun came up until well after the sun set. The stories she came back to us with filled our hearts and the photo book we received in the mail a few months later is still something we cherish to this day,\" Naomi's mom recalls fondly.\n \n \n \"After 30 years, stories like Naomi's only add to our belief that, one child at a time, we are making a difference,\" said\n \...