Teen swims Lake Ontario to aid hospital
CBC News
Posted: Aug 6, 2011 12:40 PM ET
Last Updated: Aug 6, 2011 6:50 PM ET
Rebekah Boscariol is congratulated by friends and family after completing the lake swim on Saturday. (Kimberly Gale/CBC)A Markham teen has swum across Lake Ontario in aid of a Toronto hospital.
Rebekah Boscariol, 17, touched shore at Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park, on Saturday afternoon, a little over 15 hours after starting off from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The young swimmer undertook the 52-kilometre swim to raise funds for the Hospital for Sick Children, her way of thanking the hospital for the July 19 surgery that repaired a hole in the heart of her sister Sophia, 4.
So far Boscariol's swim has raised approximately $10,000 for the hospital's cardiac care unit.
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