The donation is managed through the Niagara Community Foundation with the establishment of a named fund in honour of her parents. Deb Allerton has named the fund for Heart Niagara as the John and Lillian Clark Fund.

Doctor Lillian Clark was a loved and respected Paediatrician in the Niagara Region who supported Heart Niagara's concept of Primary Prevention of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), through early years intervention in schools, from its onset in Niagara in the mid-1980s.

Doctor John Clark was a Niagara surgeon who was held in the highest regard by his patients and his peers and was a long time Heart Niagara volunteer as a Cardiac Rehabilitation Physician.

Deb's ground-breaking gift provides an opportunity to honour the memory of two remarkable Canadians who played a pivotal role in the medical and social communities of the Niagara Region.

The John and Lillian Clark Fund has been established through a large capital investment whose annual distributable earnings will be used to facilitate the delivery of the Healthy Heart Schools' Program.