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DD Gets a Facelift
PORT PERRY, Ontario -- The bust of D.D. Palmer traveled some 100
miles from "Old Dad Chiro's" birthplace, Port Perry, to the town
of Orilla (both in Ontario), where the Sanderson Monument Company,
Ltd. performed restoration wizardry, sand blasting the bronze
sculpture down to the bare metal, and then carefully refinishing
it to a lovely bronze glow.
Authorized by the Canadian Chiropractic Association, the project
was carried out by the Durham Region Chiropractic Society, a
branch of the Ontario Chiropractic Association. Durham Society
President Dr. Diane Lott organized an exhaustive fundraising
campaign to raise the $10,000 necessary for refurbishing not only
the statue, but its base and the surrounding grounds of Palmer
Memorial Park on the shore of Lake Scugog.
The Durham Region Society sent out two rounds of fundraising
letters, and formally requested donations at a meeting of all the
Ontario society presidents. There, Dr. Peter Amlinger challenged
the presidents not only to donate $250 from each society, but to
make a personal donation of $100 each. Dr. Lott also asked Durham
region members to donate $100 a piece. One member, Dr. Dave
MacAskil, created a "before and after" poster of the monument, and
managed to raise over $3,000 in personal donations.
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