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River dance: Shimmy for the Soul performs at this year’s Hyack FraserFest, which ran this past weekend at Westminster Quay. The sun shone brightly for the festival, which included three days of entertainment and kids’ activities, plus Saturday night fireworks and the traditional Mascot March and Lucille Johnson Workboat Parade. For more photos from FraserFest, see page 10 and visit our website at www.royalcity record.com. Larry Wright/THE RECORD
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City considers memorial to Markvoort Former Miss New West inspired people around the world with her blog about life with cystic fibrosis
BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
The city is exploring the possibility of creating a memorial to a young woman who dedicated much of her life to raising awareness about cystic fibrosis and the need for organ donation. Eva Markvoort passed away March
New Westminster resident 27 after a lifelong battle with cysDiane McQuade has written to tic fibrosis. A lifelong friend has the city’s parks department askrequested that the city consider ing that it consider naming a naming a garden in Queen’s Park garden in Queen’s Park after in her memory – Eva’s Garden of Markvoort. While she recognizHope. es that the city likely receives Markvoort, a former Miss New a lot of requests for memoriWestminster and a graduate of New als, she believes such a tribute Westminster Secondary School, is warranted for “an extraordiwas the subject of an award-winnary person” who opened her ning documentary, 65_RedRoses. A struggles with her disease to short version is scheduled to be re- Eva Markvoort the world and let people know aired on the Passionate Eye on CBC Memorial exactly what life with cystic on July 26. Markvoort’s blog about life with cystic fibrosis is like. “Upon Eva’s airing of 65_RedRoses on fibrosis inspired people across the world.
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CBC in October, the Canadian organ donation saw a surge of registrants triple in a matter of days,” she wrote. “This is not something easily done, but the documentary of Eva’s struggle made the whole world stand up and realize that everyone has a choice to help, it wasn’t something that wasn’t already known by the world, but it seems Eva’s struggle jump-started the world to realize the difference that choice would make to someone else.” Markvoort’s efforts earned her the Summerhayes Award, which is given to someone who has done outstanding work ◗Eva Page 9