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    2013 Stars 

     

    Barenaked Ladies  – Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart – Entertainment

    Christine Bentley – Community

    Dwayne Morgan – Arts and Culture

    Judie Oliver – Sports

    Gerry Phillips – Community

    Scarborough Historical Society – Lionel Purcell, Richard Schofield – Community

    Monika Schnarre – Arts and Culture

     

     

     

    2011 Stars 

     

    Peter Appleyard – Entertainment

    Dr. Vicki Bismilla – Education

    Lawrence Gowan – Entertainment

    Jay C. Hope –  Community

    Dr. Dhun Noria – Health and Science

    Dr. Harold Stein – Health and Science

    Ron Watson – Community

     

     

     

    2009 Stars

     

    Marilyn Denis – Entertainment

    Dwayne De Rosario – Sports

    Gordon Deval – Sports

    Lois James – Environment

    Debra McGrath – Entertainment

    Don Montgomery – Community (awarded posthumously)

     

     

     

    2008 Stars

     

    Dr. Sheela Basrur – Health and Science

    Earl Campbell – Education

    Deborah Cox – Entertainment

    Ben Heppner – Entertainment

    Rick Middleton – Sports

    John Wimbs – Community

     

     

     

    2007 Stars

     

    James Bamford – Community

    Johnny Cowell – Arts and Culture

    Dr. Ming-Tat Cheung – Community

    Bob Hunter – Environment

    Cindy Nicholas – Sports

    Anson Taylor – Education

     

     

     

    2006 Stars

     

    Dr. Lloyd Carlsen – Health and Science

    Dr. R. H. King – Education

    Dr. Charles C. Macklin – Science

    Jamaal Magloire – Sports

    Doris McCarthy – Arts and Culture  *new bio for McCarthy see below

    David Onley – Community

    Vicky Sunohara – Sports

    David Thomson – Pioneer

    Wes Williams – Entertainment

    Dr. Joseph Y. K. Wong – Community

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    Participants in The Robbie should be proud to take part in the world’s largest annual charitable youth soccer tournament. Since 1967, The Robbie has donated over $1 Million dollars to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Muscular Dystrophy.

     

    In 1967, a group of soccer enthusiasts met in John Wimbs’ living room to organize a small soccer tournament for boys. Upstairs, they heard three-year-old Robbie Wimbs receiving treatment for Cystic Fibrosis. CF is an incurable disease that in 1967 took most of its victims before the age of five. There and then the organizers decided to dedicate their tournament, not just to soccer, but to fighting the disease. The Robbie was born.

     

    Since 1967, youth teams from around the world have been coming to Toronto to play soccer and, through entry fees and various activities, raise money for children who suffer from CF. The introduction of the Girls’ division several years later prompted organizers to recognize another cause - Muscular Dystrophy. Thanks to the Robbie and other organizations, CF victims are living longer and with greater hope. Robbie Wimbs survived until he was 33. He lives on in the tournament he inspired.