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Shoppers Drug Mart Tree of Life Campaign Awards First of Four Weekly $10,000 Prizes to Newfoundland Charity
Virtual Tree of Life names Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre Women's Diabetes Awareness Pr...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nVirtual Tree of Life names Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre Women's\n Diabetes Awareness Program as recipient\n\n\nTORONTO, Oct. 4, 2011 /CNW/ - Shoppers Drug Mart has awarded the first\n of four weekly $10,000 prizes to Newfoundland's Baie Verte Peninsula\n Health Centre Women's Diabetes Awareness Program as part of its annual\n Tree of Life campaign. In celebration of the campaign's tenth\n anniversary, Shoppers Drug Mart has planted a virtual tree at www.shoppersdrugmart.ca with an ongoing contest to award the province raising the most funds\n each week.\n\n\n\"We're honoured to be the beneficiaries of this significant gift from\n Shoppers Drug Mart's Tree of Life campaign,\" commented Tracey Comeau,\n Director of Health Services for the Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre.\n \"Serving a rural area of Newfoundland, with 21 communities in a vast\n geographic area can certainly be challenging. This donation will allow\n our healthcare professionals to bring their educational programs\n directly to the communities we serve. We will be able to help women\n coping with Diabetes through increased access to walking programs,\n health eating initiatives as well as increased nutritional counseling\n for women and their families.\"\n\n\nAt the end of each week of the four week-campaign, which runs from\n September 17th, 2011 to October 14th, 2011, Shoppers Drug Mart will award $10,000 to a women's charitable\n organization in the province that has the highest contributions per\n capita, combining online and in-store donations. The beneficiary is\n then chosen through a random lottery.\n\n\n\"We are thrilled to hear that our local women's charity of choice, Baie\n Verte Peninsula Health Centre Women's Diabetes Awareness Program was\n selected to be the beneficiary of this incremental donation from the\n Tree of Life Campaign,\" said Trevor Pope, Associate Owner, Shoppers\n Drug Mart. \"Through the incredible support and generosity of the people\n in our community, we are together able to create positive change for\n women's health right here at home.\"\n\n\nThe Tree of Life campaign is one of the leading partnership programs of\n the Shoppers Drug Mart WOMEN platform - the Company's commitment to\n improving the health of all Canadian women in body, mind and spirit. \n Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacist-owners identify and ...