Health and Community Services
June 5, 2015

Media Advisory: Minister to Speak at Annual Walk to Fight Arthritis

The Honourable Steve Kent, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Community Services, will speak at the sixth annual Walk to Fight Arthritis on Sunday, June 7. The event will take place at the Paradise Rotary Youth and Community Centre on McNamara Drive at 11:00 a.m.

The Walk to Fight Arthritis is coordinated by the provincial chapter of the Arthritis Society. More than 25 cities across the country will lace up their shoes this year to walk, raise funds and increase awareness in support of the 4.6 million Canadians living with arthritis.

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Media contact:

John Tompkins Director of Communications Department of Health and Community Services 709-729-1377, 728-7762 jtompkins@gov.nl.ca

2015 06 05                              3:15 p.m.