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A five-kilometre walk, dubbed The Walk of Love, raised almost $7,500 this year for the Bay d Espoir Cancer Benefit.(Roberta Buffett Collier/Facebook)
It took a big community effort and a lot of ticket sales but one volunteer group in Newfoundland and Labrador has managed to raise thousands of dollars, and flout a pandemic that shut down their traditional fundraising efforts.
Volunteers with the Bay d Espoir Cancer Benefit group raised $80,000 this year, enough to rival past performances, and they did it all without the annual concert that s been the centrepiece of their charity.