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GUEST POST by Joe Barkovich, Scribbler-at-large

WELLAND – About 1,000 athletes are expected in Welland over the approaching weekend for the Rose City Triathlon.

Saturday’s races include Sprint Triathlon, Sprint Duathlon and the Give-It-A-Tri.

Sunday’s is the long course event.

If you contribute regularly to your Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and other retirement accounts, you might think you’ll be in pretty good shape when you retire. Yet none of us can predict the future. And if you were faced with a critical illness, the financial burden could threaten your retirement savings — so it pays to protect yourself and your family. 

Providing safe, quality healthcare to our patients is our top priority at Niagara Health, so it’s an incredible honour to be recognized nationally for our achievements in patient safety for our Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) program.

Four years later, twenty-year-old Madeline Leblanc has continued to turn her passion of stand up paddle boarding into a fundraiser to honour two friends lost to cancer. Madeline bought her first board and started paddling in 2012, after she fell in love with the sport at age ten. In 2011 Julia Turner passed away at fifteen due to a brain tumor, and earlier that same year Lynn Lambert passed at thirty-seven. They were two wonderful people that deserve to be remembered because of their legacy’s they left behind. They were always giving back to others in the community and putting others needs before theirs. They both taught all of Welland to treasure every moment of your life, and dedicate yourself to helping others when you can.