The Need to Help

It seems lately that every time you open up a newspaper, especially the weeklies, there is a story of yet one more community fundraiser, at which people rally together to raise money to send one of their own MS sufferers to receive the Liberation Treatment. People living with MS are overwhelmed as their communities put on fund-raising events and local halls fill with attendees. Incredible amounts of money are being raised and handed over in the hope that this new treatment will give people back their lives. I am amazed at the generosity shown by people across our province. Perhaps it is because so many of us have friends and family who suffer from MS. Perhaps it is simply because we believe that everyone deserves to have the best life possible. There is no doubt that our province is inhabited by people with a social conscious that never allows them to ignore a person in need. I think this social conscious and our belief in the greater good is what makes our province so unique. We are descendants of people who had to work together and take care of each other through long cold winters and hot unpredictable summers. The "need to help" must be in our genes! Helping each other because it's the right thing to do . . . it's a good thing!