Lyme Awareness Day in Brampton will be held on May 18, 2013 (long weekend). It will be in Chinguacousy Park again, at the North Pond area. MAP Gather from 9:30 am to register, talk to sponsors, look at Silent Auction. Walk starts at 11:00 am, smooth, flat path to walk and not very long. Notice the green footprints on the map.
The address is Chinguacousy Park, 9050 Bramalea Road, Brampton, ON L6S 6G7, Canada
Buses run regularly close by and there is lots of parking. Driving yourself, enter from the west side, off Central Park Drive (red arrow on the map).
Registration forms can be downloaded and brought along or emailed (address is on the first page). Donations are appreciated and can be cash or cheque or online — see link below.
The event actually starts on May 17, in Niagara Falls. Green lights will illuminate these world-famous falls for blocks of 15 minutes at 9:00-9:15 pm; 9:30-9:45 pm, and 10:15-10:30 pm. In between there will be rainbow lights as usual. The Peace Bridge between Canada and the USA will be illuminated with green lights from dusk to 1:00 am that night!
A bus is being arranged to take people from Brampton the Niagara Falls and back to witness the event. Wear green and be seen! Bring glo-sticks to share if you like.
Please register for the LymeWalk by downloading the waiver and forms from the Events Registration page. Complete and mail or scan to send back. A pledge form will then be sent to you to collect donations from friends and family. Email address is on the paperwork.
More informal information is regularly posted on my blog, if you want to follow along.
To make online donations, or to ask your friends to donate, go to the link below and choose one or more of the three Lyme charities listed:
If people make donations on the awareness day itself, or send cheques or money orders before the time, those will be donated to the Canadian Lyme Disease foundation.
The tabs at the top of this page deal with the 2012 event, but might answer some of your early questions.
LIST OF MUNICIPALITIES PROCLAIMING MAY AS LYME AWARENESS MONTH, 2013
- Town of Caledon, Ontario (meeting on Feb. 12, 2013)
- City of Brampton, Ontario (meeting in April)
- Town of Whitby, Ontario
- Niagara Falls
- Town of Orangeville (meeting in April)
- City of Hamilton will formally acknowledge Lyme Disease Awareness Month
- City of Vaughan
- City of Markham
- City of Kingston
- Your town? Let us know by sending Email
Awaiting replies from Municipalities about proclaiming May as Lyme Disease Awareness month / week / day:
- Request sent to Mississauga
- Request being prepared to send to Kingston
- Request sent to Newmarket
- Request sent to Aurora
- Request sent to the County of Prince Edward
- Your town? Let us know by sending Email
WORLDWIDE AWARENESS IN MAY 2013
Did you know a Worldwide Awareness or Protest is being planned for May 2013?More information and links can be found on this blog page.
Link for Facebook page with announcements about Canada’s Lyme Awareness in May is HERE and includes the logo below:
More than 30 countries have already signed on to take part in May 2013, to raise awareness as widely as possible. Events will vary according to what people plan to do. Most of these events will happen on the weekend of May 11 and 12, 2013, if the organizers can find a suitable venue in their specific town or city for that date.
