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. Organizers with the Bay d'Espoir Cancer Benefit group say it would be impossible to count the number of individual donations to the fundraising efforts this year. She lost her hair, and needed a prosthesis — and she says the cancer benefit group was there for her the whole time. Those personal stories are a big part of what makes the Cancer Benefit group so successful, according to Thornhill, who calls herself a cancer survivor. She helped begin the annual concerts that would become the Bay d'Espoir Cancer Benefit more than 20 years ago.

Source: CBC News December 18, 2020 10:30 UTC