{"id":8625,"date":"2015-12-21T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2015-12-21T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:18:00","slug":"shoppers-drug-mart-raised-almost-10000-for-huntsville-hospital-foundation-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/shoppers-drug-mart-raised-almost-10000-for-huntsville-hospital-foundation-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers Drug Mart raised almost $10,000 for Huntsville Hospital Foundation this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many generous Huntsville business owners, Shoppers Drug Mart owner and lead pharmacist, Dana Murdy, believes in giving back to the community. She and her staff have chosen to support the Huntsville Hospital Foundation for the past eight years, and this year donated $9,326 to bring their total amount donated to more than $30,000 targeted at women&#8217;s health issues.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong> <broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Those funds have been raised through a series of store-level campaigns and a Shoppers Drug Mart grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When local people pass through our store for a few weeks in September and October, we ask if they will donate two dollars,&#8221; said Murdy. &#8220;We always support a charity that has something to do with women. For the last few years, the money has gone to the mammography suite at Huntsville Hospital.&#8221; In 2015, that campaign raised $4326.<\/p>\n<p>At a corporate level, Shoppers also designates a pool of money for charitable donations. Murdy requested and received a $5000 grant which was presented to the Huntsville Hospital Foundation at Golf Fore the Girls in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past five years, most of Shoppers&#8217; corporate donations have gone to women\u2019s health issues,&#8221; said Murdy. &#8220;Shoppers was the lead sponsor for One Walk to Conquer Cancer (previously known as The Weekend to End Women\u2019s Cancers) for five years and now they are focusing on women\u2019s mental health issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The store has also supported Chrysalis in the past and is open to helping other women&#8217;s charities in the future. &#8220;If someone came forward with a women\u2019s charity that could use some support, then we would look at it to see if there was somewhere we could find money in the Shopper\u2019s organization to support it.&#8221; They will continue to support the Huntsville Hospital Foundation because &#8220;the breast screening suite is always being updated and has a new digital mammography machine that needs to be paid for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murdy, who has also been a member of the Huntsville Hospital Foundation board since 2012, believes that all local businesses should support the community in some way. &#8220;The hospital is my passion because without it we don\u2019t have a vibrant community. 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