2016 Fireman’s Ball fundraises for Stollery

The 2016 Fireman’s Ball, sponsored by the Tofield Fire Department Society, is an event held every three years as a fundraiser for the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

This was an especially poignant event, however, with the announcement that the funds raised – with the goal of $10,000 or more – would go towards the purchase of a specimen freezer for the Pediatric Gastro-Enterology and Nutrition Department at the Stollery.

Society President Kevin Moos told the crowd about the department’s personal reason for this choice as one of their own, firefighter Devon McCharles and his wife Theresa’s daughter, Claire, has been spending a great deal of time at the Stollery after being diagnosed with an Interleukin-10 receptor deficit.

Moos called them “one of our own fire family,” and Devon said Claire is “one of the strongest little girls you will ever know,” with the Stollery becoming their second home since she became sick at the age of five months.

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