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Girl Guides Support CO Bill

Friday, 1 November 2013 11:45

Front: Ernie Hardeman, Ara Sackrider, Nikole Daltrey, Kaytlin Matthews, Back Row: Julia Widmer-Bailey, Amy Boddy. Photo Courtesy of Stacey Hanlon Photography

Girls from this Ingersoll troupe went to Queen's Park on Thursday to support MPP Ernie Hardeman's Bill 77

It's a proposed law that hits home for a group of Ingersoll girls.

Four girl guides, between the ages of 9 and 12 who had a run in with Carbon Monoxide earlier this year, went to Queen's Park on Thursday in support of Ernie Hardeman's Bill 77.

The girl guides had a CO alarm go off while they were in a camp in Princeton, as their stove had a leaky pipe. Luckily, they vacated the building before falling ill, but had to stand out on the cold.

Group Leader Amy Boddy says the girls understand the importance of making CO detectors mandatory in the province. "They learned that first hand and they're taking a stand and sharing their story so the word can get out there more and more. If one more family listens to their story and says 'Oh do we have a detector?'...and they check and get one, that's one more family we might have saved."

Yesterday, the girls got to tour Queen's Park, meet MPP's and sit in the gallery to hear Hardeman present his Bill for 2nd reading.

Boddy says it was a great experience. "I thing the biggest thing they learned is that there are people in all of our municipalities that are there fighting for us. Ernie is such a good role model and he's showing them that you need to stand up for the things that you believe in and even if it doesn't pass the first time you take it back, and take it back, until these things become law."

Hardeman has brought the bill back five times in hopes it will become law this time around.

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