Lucille Eaton is on a mission.
Her expansive, well-manicured garden will have to wait as she begins canvassing this month for the Canadian Cancer Society’s annual door-to-door campaign.
Eaton, who moved from North Delta more than eight years ago, has canvassed for the Nanaimo Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society for the past seven years.
Eaton had never done any volunteer work before she moved to Nanaimo, as she was too busy working. A neighbour asked her to get involved.
“I was a bit reluctant at first when my area captain, Sally Ramsay, asked me to. I wasn’t sure about knocking on strangers’ doors, but Sally talked me into it.”
Eaton is now glad she agreed. She says it was a great way to meet her new neighbours and actually met a good friend that way.
She volunteers every year because she would like to see cancer eradicated and believes that the money collected from the campaign has made a difference in the fight against cancer.
Because it is such an important cause to her, Eaton is persistent when canvassing, which might account for the fact she is one of the top collecting canvassers on her Breona/Schooner Way route in Nanaimo’s north end.
Throughout April, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers will be knocking on doors throughout Nanaimo wearing their bright yellow daffodil pins collecting donations.
All canvassers carry an official receipt book labelled with the Canadian Cancer Society logo and will provide tax receipts for donations upon request.
The Canadian Cancer Society is a national community-based organization of volunteers dedicated to the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of quality of life of people living with cancer.
For more information, please go to www.cancer.ca or call the toll-free, bilingual Cancer Information Service at 1-888-939-3333.