Walk for Hearts helps local cardiac care initiatives (Canada)

Walking will benefit local residents with heart disease in more ways than one during the Walk for Hearts. The walk, which is the major fundraiser for the Comox Valley Chapter of the First Open Heart Society, (British Columbia) raises money to support local cardiac-care initiatives. "It's very simple and easy to do a walk, and it does so much, it really does," said Anne Poole, chairperson of the Comox Valley Chapter. "This is First Open Heart, not Heart and Stroke, so our money is local. It stays here." The third annual Walk for Hearts will be held April 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., beginning at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Participants walk along the river walkway and around the Courtenay Airpark and back. - Comox Valley Record