{"id":36477,"date":"2017-08-28T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=36477"},"modified":"2017-08-29T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T01:02:34","slug":"sixth-annual-swim-for-hospice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/sixth-annual-swim-for-hospice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth annual Swim For Hospice raises more than $20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful day to be in and on the water. Raising money for a great cause made it that much better.<\/p>\n

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Early on Sunday, August 28, distance swimmer Joy Jarvis waded out into the Muskoka River to begin a 12-kilometre swim in support of Hospice Huntsville. Her annual route takes her up the Muskoka River, across Hunters Bay, around Centreview Island in Lake Vernon and back again. On her return trip, she is joined by swim challengers who complete the final 3km, 2km or 1km of the route, all of them having raised pledges for the cause.<\/p>\n

Jarvis began the Swim for Hospice in 2012 after having completed Swim for the Kids in support of Camp Oochigeas for 11 years. When a friend was battling a second round of cancer in hospital rather than in a hospice facility, where she wanted to be, Jarvis decided she wanted to help Hospice Huntsville raise funds. “Every swim, I think of her,” she told Doppler following last year’s swim.<\/p>\n

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