Leanne Tucker
Richer, MB
To help show their support for the Canadian Diabetes Association, 14-year-old Samantha Tucker and her family hosted a pig roast for their Diabetes Summer Surge.
When Samantha was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, her mother Leanne began researching everything she could about her daughter’s condition and the diabetes community.
As she searched through the Canadian Diabetes Association website, Leanne was excited to find information about the Diabetes Summer Surge campaign. It piqued her interest as a way to get involved and give back to the diabetes community. “It was a challenge, and I like a challenge,” she says. “We’d been looking for something to do, and it seemed like a really good idea, especially last summer when we were able to get more people involved.”
The Tucker family had hosted a pig roast in Richer, Manitoba, for a few years. In the past, they have collected donated items for Winnipeg Harvest. In the summer of 2009, they added the Diabetes Summer Surge to their pig roast to increase diabetes awareness and raise funds for the Canadian Diabetes Association.
