During tough times like these, Margaret Hill is always happy when Weyburn residents can set aside their personal challenges and open up big to agencies like the Canadian Cancer Society.

The Southeast Unit just wrapped up its annual door-to-door Cancer Blitz, April 17-20, the agency's one and only residential fund-raising campaign of the year. Hill says canvassers collected around $16,000 this year, nearly identical to last year's blitz total, an amount she's very impressed with.

"I'm very pleased with what we brought in for residential, with the times the way they are," she said, and adds that coming at the beginning of the busy cancer fundraising season, she's happy the canvas was able to measure up to last year's.

The Canadian Cancer Society just wrapped up their daffodil sales campaign, and they are presently preparing for the Relay for Life on June 3-4, Drive for a Cure golf tournament in Carlyle June 18, and the "Cancer Jam" country music jamboree the weekend of June 25-26.

The Relay for Life raised $59,000 for the Southeast unit last year, which was an enormous total for the overnight affair, Hill said.

Volunteer Night, held for the volunteers of six different health agencies at Legion Hall on Thursday night, drew a rather small crowd, though with all the other events going on in and around Weyburn, Hill wasn't surprised attendance was sparse.

"Volunteer night was very good, and whoever was there and whichever volunteers came out, we appreciated it."