HUNTSVILLE, ON – A local distance swimmer has helped raise funds for Hospice Huntsville.
It is called Joan’s Long Distance Swim for Hospice. On Sunday Joy Jarvis along with a handful of friends, swam 12 kilometres on Lake Vernon and the Muskoka River. The amount of money she has raised are still being totalled.
“The conditions were a little rough going around Centreview Island,” she contended. “But had a surprise in the last two kilometres I had 21 swimmers come in with me.”
It is her eighth swim for Huntsville Hospice. She said despite what a large effort it is she would do it again.
“I’ll do it again, as long as I can possibly do it,” Jarvis said.
The swim took just under five hours and ended at the Boston Pizza docks in downtown Huntsville.
Hospice Huntsville provides quality end of life care for members of our community who are dying with a terminal illness. Hospice Huntsville has many robust programs providing palliative care support to our community for 28 years.
With files from Brock Cunningham
