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It started years ago when Vander Velde’s mom, Lorna Parkinson, read a newspaper story about a police officer out west who showed kindness to a five-year-old boy who was undergoing chemotherapy and had lost his hair.

According to the Canadian Cancer Society’s website, Gary Goulet, while working his shift as a police officer, visited his sister, who told him about a five-year-old boy, Lyle, living across the street. Lyle was undergoing chemotherapy treatment and the other children were te

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