Founder's Day Celebrations
Thu, Feb 17
|PEIWI Founder's Day Celebrations
Listen to speakers: Santina Beaton-MacEachern with her heart health story, well as a session by the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute (GWBI) Nuns.
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Feb 17, 2022, 10:00 a.m.
PEIWI Founder's Day Celebrations
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About the Event
As February is Heart Month, Founder's Day celebrations will feature speaker presentations from Santina Beaton-MacEachern on heart health, and the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute (GWBI) Nuns.
Santina Beaton-MacEachern is the Manager of Events and Membership with Farm & Food Care PEI with the PEI Federation of Agriculture. She grew up on a family farm, playing sports and riding horses without any indication of heart disease. At 28-years-old on November 7, 2020, Santina had a heart attack and was brought to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Charlottetown by ambulance. She spent the next two weeks, as well as her 29th birthday, at the QEH and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (QEII) in Halifax to receive a diagnosis of having two forms of Congenital Heart Disease. On February 5, 2021, Santina underwent Open Heart Surgery at the QEII in Halifax. It has been a year and Santina is…