As you know, The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is in Thunder Bay until this Sunday.  Every year, The Scotties hosts a one day telethon on the first Sunday of the tournament.  That happened on January 30th.

It supports The Sandra Schmirler Foundation.  Sandra was a Canadian curler who won 3 Scotties;  3 World Championships and a Gold at the Olympics.  She passed away in 2000, at the age of 36 from Cancer.  In her honour, the telethon supports the foundation, which goes to buying life-saving equipment for premature and critically ill babies.

Sunday’s “one-day telethon” was a record breaker.  It raised over $770,000.  If you donated….THANK YOU!  Her legacy lives on through the babies that have been saved in her name through the foundation.  There’s still time to donate / and to learn more about this amazing foundation, and this amazing woman.  See below:

BREAKING: You helped us exceed our goal and achieve a new Telethon record!

$771,638!

THANK YOU CANADA, @TSNCurling, @CurlingCanada, IKS Media, @net2phoneCanada and all Scotties participants!#ChampionsStartSmall pic.twitter.com/2OOLUszHYA

— Sandra Schmirler Foundation (@SandraSchmirler) January 31, 2022

 

https://sandraschmirler.org/en/home/