A few members of the Just Giver team and friends attended the 5th annual PSBC Gala Event.  An Affair to Rememeber was held last night and once again we all had a great time for a great cause.  I think Rob got the best silent auction deals collecting a nice $300 Cactus Club gift card for 1/2 price along with a large gift basket and Stella picnic box loaded with goodies!  Can't wait for that feast!  Mark "Squirrel" Huggan left with a set of 3 nice art pieces of fruit for his mothers kitchen while I managed to come away with a great Jazz Trumpet painting.  Also a big thanks to the staff and volunteers of PSBC for putting on such a great event!

Ron and Monique arrive and get a little extra use out of their Oscar Outfits!

Mark, George and Nadyne of AA Advertising and Rob and Monique enjoy the evening

Mark, Rob and myself had to get a pic with the Mounties!

A quick hello and picture with Diane Robinson, CEO of Parkinson Society British Columbia

A post event cocktail before heading home!

Just Giver Team member Marc Bowles has been training hard and is using a climb called "The Wall" to test his legs.  "The Wall" climbs 5km out of OK Falls with a very steep last few km's to take you up to See Ya Later Ranch Winery.  A few pics of the climb both on the ascent, descent and at the top!

Elevation Chart of "The Wall"

a little more on the subjest of exercise and its relation to helping those living with PD cope with this devastating movement disorder. 

But the man told Dr. Bloem something amazing: he said he was a regular exerciser — a cyclist, in fact — something that should not be possible for patients at his stage of the disease, Dr. Bloem thought.

“He said, ‘Just yesterday I rode my bicycle for 10 kilometers’ — six miles,” Dr. Bloem said. “He said he rides his bicycle for miles and miles every day.”

“I said, ‘This cannot be,’ ” Dr. Bloem, a professor of neurology and medical director of the hospital’s Parkinson’s Center, recalled in a telephone interview. “This man has end-stage Parkinson’s disease. He is unable to walk.”

But the man was eager to demonstrate, so Dr. Bloem took him outside where a nurse’s bike was parked.

“We helped him mount the bike, gave him a little push, and he was gone,” Dr. Bloem said. He rode, even making a U-turn, and was in perfect control, all his Parkinson’s symptoms gone.

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