Cancer fighter gifts ‘healing bench’ to Coniston garden

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Kimberly Wahamaa-Deschenes founded cancer charity Trust Your Bust a decade ago. Today, she is cancer-free and still helping

A local cancer survivor who has raised more than $18,000 for breast cancer and to assist those fighting the disease has donated a “Bench of Hope” to accompany a healing garden in Centennial Park in Coniston.

“Ten years ago today at 2 p.m., I was diagnosed,” she told a small crowd of supporters on hand for the unveiling of the Bench of Hope. She recalls that when she received her breast cancer diagnosis, she was given a little pink bag containing a pillow, a poem and some treatment info.And so, her charity effort, which she called Trust Your Bust, was born. The first order of business was the Pink Bag Project — women receiving a breast cancer diagnosis deserve a better loot bag, she figured, “something to give [women] some empowerment, to give [them] strength.

She mentioned memorable fundraisers she held, her favourite being the Trust Your Bust Night at a Sudbury Wolves game that saw her skate around the ice in a special Wolves jersey, gifted to her by team owner Dario Zulich, sporting a pink wig.

 

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