TOGETHER. SHAPING THE FUTURE OF NIAGARA KIDS.
Heart Niagara is both excited and gratified to announce
the donation of one million dollars by Deb Allerton to the Healthy Heart Schools' Program.
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.
Deb's ground-breaking gift provides an opportunity to honour the memory of two remarkable Canadians who played a central and pivotal role in the medical and social communities of the Niagara Region throughout the latter half of the 20th Century and whose influence has remained pertinent up to the present day.
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