It’s as rare as seeing a Yeti. Your faithful social scribe does not ‘do’ mornings. Yet, when the cause is prostate cancer, the I don’t ‘do’ becomes an ‘of course I will’. The annual Wake Up Call breakfast, held recently at the Petroleum Club, was an SRO success and raised more than $80,000- half for the Prostate Cancer Centre here in Calgary and the other half for the U of A, Edmonton. Under the leadership of committee chair Kevin Gregor, this was the most successful Wake Up Call breakfast to date. Keynote speaker Arlene Dickinson spoke passionately as to the importance of men getting a PSA test. Prostate cancer took Dickinson’s father. Village Brewery’s Jim Button, himself a cancer survivor, did an admirable job as emcee. Prostate Cancer Canada CEO Rocco Rossi presented the Local Hero Award to medical oncologist Dr. Dean Ruether for his amazing work at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre.
All smiles at the Wake Up Call Breakfast-a fundraiser in support of prostate cancer in Alberta held Oct 8 at the Calgary Petroleum Club are event emcee Jim Button of Village Brewery fame and Calgary Prostate Cancer Centre executive director Pam Heard. Heard accepted the Local Hero Award on behalf of medical oncologist Dr. Dean Ruether.
