we ran a story about cottager Tim Dodd, who died suddenly from a heart attack at his Panache Lake, subscriber Robert Braiden reached out to us. He was moved by the account, and he wanted to do something to help other cottagers who might find themselves in the same situation. “It’s a shame people should die just because they are visiting or living outside of the city,” Robert wrote in his letter. He told us he was purchasing an automatic external defibrillator from safety equipment supplier Rescue 7, and asked us to help him find a suitable lake association as the recipient. We put Robert in touch with the Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations; turns out, the cottagers on Eight Lakes in the Sudbury area were in need. “It was the right thing to do,” says Robert. “I hope it inspires other people to jump on the same bandwagon.”
