Basement Dug, Foundation Ready To Pour
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Cottam United Church sold T-shirt’s and gave out information about the Murchadha House. The youth and scouters of 2nd Cottam Scouting worked hard at our car wash which raised $411.25. Kingsville Fire Department held a boot drive raising $4745. I want to thank everybody who participated in the fundraising events as well as those that
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A charity trying to attack the 25-year wait list for supported living housing broke ground Saturday in Cottam at the site of its first first house. Murchadha House for Those with Exceptional Needs, is the non-profit charity dedicated to building group homes for people in Essex County with intellectual disabilities. Construction is expected to begin
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A 25-year wait list for supported living housing was unthinkable for Sandy and Darrin Murphy. Their son Joshua is only 12 years old so the Kingsville couple decided to start a house-building charity now so people with an intellectual disability like Joshua will have a chance to move out of their parents’ home. “If there’s
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Original Article and Image Credit: ctvnews.ca Image Caption: Deane Daprato when he was six-years-old and a day student at what was then called Bloorview MacMillan Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. When Deane Daprato was born in Toronto in 1998, his parents Mark and Ijeoma were given a frightening diagnosis: Spastic Quadriplegia, a type of cerebral palsy. “You’d
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