That’s where you’re born and that’s many time where you leave this earth from. Like the Good Samaritan of years ago, together we can unite as one and breath a care of yes! Absolutely yes! Down with the old and up with the new. When you are lower than low you don’t want to be looking for a place as in some Bethlehem to lay your weary body with your loved one for the night.

From a chemo chair I’ve peer out large glass windows and saw the rain, ice, snow and fog that others have to travel in before the day ended in some other town or city. A cancer lodge is needed right now, not six years from now! We also don’t need to chew up more of our park to see it through either.

This house is no different than those torn down on the other side for apartment buildings. I demand that this city support Mr. (Chuck) Powers in his conquest to bring about a safe, comfortable, clean, modern facility to take care of cancer victims in for the night. Those folk speeding around our hospital, those folk in love with old buildings, those people who don’t like change have no comprehension of just how desperate you can be when sicker than sick.

Three cheers for the hospital foundation! Three cheers for the staff in our oncology ward! Let’s together get on with it, I say and together not kill, not wound, not shun, not hesitate but do something for the betterment of mankind locally and be happy in your decision of support on their behalf.

Bob Hooper
Oshawa