AidsWalk

AIDS Walk / Walk For Life

pic BarbaraRumscheidt was an early promoter of the Halifax AIDS Walk.

October 3, 1992
date from LouisCaissie fonds
October 1, 1995
date from newspaper clipping dated Sep 29/95, "... annual AIDS Walk on Sunday"
2000
Event moved from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night; drawing ~650 participants; organized by Gwen Atkinson, Fund Development Coordinator 1
2007
roughly 600 participants2
2016
"about 90 people (including sponsors and media)"3

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Footnotes:

1. ‘Put your sole in it’ by Jonathan Diele Colburn in the Gazette, Volume 133, Issue 4, September 28, 2000 http://hdl.handle.net/10222/52302
2. March 23, 2017 Coast article, "Fraying At The Edges" https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/fraying-at-the-edges/Content?oid=6609394
3. Coast ibid