“Folks may think, ‘OK, yeah, but what does my participation do? Like, how can I really make a difference?'” she said. Ziegner says this year’s event comes at a time of significant need in the community, citing ongoing issues surrounding homelessness, mental health and addictions, and poverty in the city. Unions express solidarity with education workers planning strike, OPSEU plans walkout What is great about that is everyone’s really together in one room to capture all that excitement of being reunited again.” “Climbers … they’ll be doing sort of ‘ Rocky-style‘ all around the stadium, up and down, up and down, throughout the stands. “We know the stairwell at One London Place is a little cramped from a social distancing point of view, so we started looking around at our community and thought, what can we do to make this TD Stair Climb a success? And Budweiser Gardens was our natural fit,” Kelly Ziegner, president and CEO of the United Way Elgin Middlesex, told Global News last month. Earlier in the pandemic, climbers took part from their own homes. until 6 p.m., a change from previous years when the climb was held at One London Place. Participants are making the climb at Budweiser Gardens from 8 a.m. Londoners are climbing for a good cause on Thursday as the TD Stair Climb in support of the United Way returns in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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