Get your shine on
Get ready North Bay, students at Nipissing University are ready to put the shine on the city to stamp out Cystic Fibrosis.
The Nipissing University Student Union (NUSU) are gearing up for the annual Shinerama campaign. This year’s theme is 8-Bit Shine 2014. Students will be set up at a variety of sites across the North Bay community on Saturday, September 6, washing cars, shining shoes, helping carry groceries and whatever else they can do to add some shine to North Bay and its citizens while raising money for research to defeat cystic fibrosis.
New this year, NUSU has organized ShineFest 2014, an open-air concert taking place downtown North Bay, outside at the Discovery North Bay Museum. Featuring three bands — Teenage Kicks, The Glorius Sons, and The Trews — ShineFest opens its doors at 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 6. Tickets cost $20 for students with a Compass Card; $40 for students; and $50 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the NUSU office at the North Bay campus.
Click here for more information on ShineFest.
Nipissing alumni are also getting in on the shine, with a carwash at 1350 Fisher Street at the Investors Group building, so be sure to take your dirty old car or truck for a visit.
Last year the North Bay students raised more than $30,000 through Shinerama and are hoping to match that mark again this year.
This year marks the 50th anniversary for Shinerama, Canada's largest post-secondary school fundraiser. Each September, over 25,000 college and university students at over 60 campuses across Canada raise funds by shining shoes, cars, windows and anything else they can think of for cystic fibrosis research and treatment. Since 1964, students have raised over $24.8 million.
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a fatal inherited disease that affects mainly the lungs and the digestive system. About one in every 2,500 children born in Canada has CF. Thanks to the advances in research and clinical care, more and more kids with CF are surviving into adulthood. In 1960, children born with cystic fibrosis rarely lived four years; today, in Canada, people with CF live into their thirties and beyond.
Nipissing University has been participating in Shinerama since the inception of its Charter in 1992, and, has helped raised more than $300,000.