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Winner Donates $11, 000

Tuesday, 11 November 2014 at 17:52

Irene Ede donates $11, 000 to Autism Dog Services, the result of selling her Chevy Spark, won from Heart FM's Code for the Car contest, back to Andersons GM.

(WOODSTOCK) - Irene Ede has sold her brand new car back to Andersons GM, and donated the $11, 000 cheque to Autism Dog Services.  

Ede won the Chevy Spark through Heart FM's Code for the Car contest, and decided to donate the vehicle to a familiar cause.  "Wade and Autism Dog Services are providing my 6-year-old son with a service dog, which he greatly needs.  The service dog is $18, 000, but there's no money required from us; the only thing they request was that we help with fundraising.  So I thought: what a great way for fundraising."

Wade Beattie, Director for ADS, was on-hand to receive the cheque.  "As soon as she won the car I think she thought about us first, so I can't thank Irene and her family enough."

Beattie says the story of Ede's son Jaden isn't unique.  "We have over 50 children on our wait list, and the wait is about 2 years.  We work with kids from 4 - 18 throughout the autism spectrum, so every child and every family needs are different."  Beattie says they are a fairly small organization, and this funding can help them with "placing about 20 dogs per year.  We have a fairly small staff, so we're trying to increase our staff and develop our own breeding program and increase the numbers of dogs that we can place a year."

Ede says she's glad that they were able to get the funding that they need to help with the dogs, and "so any which way they could do that I think is wonderful.  So it's worked out very well, I think, for them."  Once Jaden receives his dog, it will mainly be used for calming and for public safety.  Ede says this is absolutely huge, as her son is not able to attend even larger family events "because it's too much for him."

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