Linda Rowe

This is an interview with one of our own Members of the Canadian Transplant Association.
Linda Rowe

The Original Interview can be found on the Trans Canada Trail Web page. Many thanks to them for the permission to reprint this interview.

Way to go Linda!

IMPORTANT NEWS RELEASE. MONDAY, JULY 24, 2000

AN OFFICIAL CARRIER PROVES A POINT IN A POWER WALK CELEBRATING LIFE

When Relay 2000 arrives in Hunstville, Ontario on Friday, August 4, Linda Rowe will be one of the Official Water Carriers. Linda is a lover of the great outdoors and the Trans Canada Trail, but she has an even more personal reason for participating in Relay 2000. Linda has had three kidney transplants during her life and she will be power walking 3 kilometres to prove that life can still be lived to the fullest.

As a founding member of the Canadian Transplant Association (CTA) and president of the Ontario Division, Linda is walking proof that people with any kind of transplant can enjoy the Trail and a healthy active life if they have a positive outlook. She devotes a lot of her personal time to public speaking and to promoting the vital importance of organ donations.

Linda has represented Canada at six World Transplant Games in Austria, Singapore, Budapest, Vancouver, Manchester and Sydney, bringing home medals in running, swimming, badminton and lawn bowling.

"Transplants work", says Linda. "I am hoping that when people see me out there as an Official Relay Carrier, they just might consider signing their organ donation card."

Linda's participation in Relay 2000 is also toughening her spirit and her body for keen competition in Canada's Transplant Games to be held in Sherbrooke on August 9. Huntsville will be celebrating Relay 2000 with a range of impressive and exciting activities, highlighted by an impressive flotilla of vintage wooden canoes, Ontario Provincial Police boats and a variety of boats from Huntsville's antique boat club and local summer camps. And as the flotilla passes, Linda will be there, enjoying their sights and sounds and proving that because others gave a part of themselves, people like Linda can enjoy life to the fullest.