As the sun rises on Monday, Aug. 29, a special parade will be making its way through Pickering and then Ajax, and a major milestone will be reached by the Image is Everything campaign.
That’s the day the massive magnet, the heart of the MRI machine, arrives at Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering hospital. So the campaign team is pulling out all the stops to make the occasion a special one.
“We want this to be a community celebration,” says Lucy Stocco, Chair of the Image is Everything campaign. “We have been dreaming of this day for more than a year now and it’s so exciting to know the most important part of the machine will actually be in place before the summer is out!”
The community will be encouraged to come out to two different locations to cheer on the flat bed tractor-trailer carrying the massive magnet as it makes its way slowly from Toronto, through Pickering and then to Harwood Avenue in Ajax and its new home at the hospital, with a Durham Regional Police escort. Pickering residents can cheer the arrival at Pickering City Hall at approximately 8 a.m. In Ajax there will be a cheering section on Harwood, from Bayly Street all the way to the hospital as it arrives at about 8:30 a.m.
To learn more about the big event and how to get involved, keep an eye on the Rouge Valley Health System Foundation website, www.rougevalley.ca/rvhsf/ or call 905-683-2320, ext. 1501. Learn more about the campaign at www.rougeMRI.ca.
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