Remembering Moira- Massel and Cruickshank family & Dave Kahlil’s Take a Break Concert

Moira was a very strong woman who did not deserve what happened to her.  She was an extraordinary wife, mother, daughter, sister(in-law), aunt and friend.  On June 1, 2005 she was taken far too soon.

Moira was an amazing physician, co-worker and colleague. The hospital’s flag was half-mast the day she died. We look at her needlework and knitting. We remember her storytelling, great sense of humour and talents (like cooking and drinking both out of (I) a glass and  (ii) a bottle of beer without using her hands). We miss her terribly.

The year before she died she made another difference.  Notwithstanding her prognosis, she considered herself lucky — she had no financial issues. Moira established a fund in London to help women with breast cancer make their lives a bit easier by providing wigs, prosthesis, child care, parking and anti-nausea medication which, but for the fund, they would do without. The fund was the first of its kind in Ontario. Thanks to her vision thousands of women and their families have been helped over the last 17 years.

We are writing to ask a favour.

On Saturday June 5^th at 7:30 (ET) please log on to Dave Kalil’s Facebook page Dave Kalil | Facebook “Take a Break” and join us for 90 minutes of great entertainment.   Dave is known as “Ottawa’s Piano Man”.  He has played a virtual concert pretty well every Saturday night during the pandemic.  This will be number 58.  People log in from across Canada and around the world, are entertained and reconnect.  Since November over $120,000 has been raised for local Ottawa charities — all have struggled financially during the pandemic.  Oh yes, Dave went to Laurentian and lived in Copeland Park.