Thank you to everyone who shared their photos with us, taken during a variety of events and activities in September 2019.
Maybe you’ll see yourself, or others you know. If you have photos from an event or activity, taken in September that want to share (and have the permission to do so from the people in the photo), please send them to Sharon@cpff.ca. We’ll post them on this webpage and/or our Facebook page.
Blowing Bubbles
You can find more of these photos, as well as videos, on our Facebook page.
There’s also a great media photo of the Calgary City Council blowing bubbles for PF with Abbie Clarke, here.
Calgary
Hamilton
Kamloops, BC
Thompson Rivers University baseball team spent some time between exhibition games blowing bubbles. The WolfPack were blowing the bubbles to bring attention to pulmonary Fibrosis after one of their alumna brought the disease to their attention. See more here.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Nova Scotia
Toronto
Winnipeg
Clarke Walk for Pulmonary Fibrosis
Watch the video of Abbie Clarke’s speech at the Walk.
Check out media coverage about the Clarke Walk.
The following are just a sample of hundreds of photos taken by Photos with Finesse at the Clarke Walk. You can view all of the photos here. Our thanks to Photos with Finesse, for allowing our visitors to view them all.
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- Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, left, takes a moment out to congratulate 12-year-old Abbie Clarke, who started the Clarke Family Walk for Pulmonary Fibrosis four years ago.
Proclamations, flag raisings and landmarks
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- Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti holds up the Markham Proclamation with CPFF representative Heather Davidson.
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- Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley presents Sharon Lee, CPFF Executive Director, with a Proclamation from the City for Pulmonary Fibrosis Month.
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- Holding up a flag in recognition of Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month are, left to right, Winston Younker, Doug Archbell, The Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island and Mike MacLean. The flag was raised on August 30, 2019 for September.
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- The Calgary Tower is lit up for Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month in September 2019
Education events
Burnaby, British Columbia
Edmonton, Alberta
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- MLA David Shepherd, right, with CPFF President Kirk Morrison at the Edmonton education event.
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- MP Ziad Aboultaif, centre, with his wife, right, and Sharon Lee of CPFF at the Edmonton education event.
PEI
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- Minister of Health James Aylward addressed the audience at the PF forum in PEI.
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- PEI MLAs Cory Deagle and Michele Beaton attended the PF forum in PEI.
Other
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- CPFF volunteers in PEI are interviewed for a spot on the local CBC affiliate program Compass.