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Cochrane and friends hope to raise sponsors for World VisionContinued from page 23The primarThe Put Your Heart Into It per-child-sponsors, Cochrane said. Cochrane knows full well they objective is to that had three generations of formance is part of the WorldTheyre trying to increase that importance of child-sponsors andraise more sponsorswomen and girls living in it. TheVision Campaign for Children thatawareness and raise a little bit of the work it helps do in impover-grandmother was blind, the moth-aims to find sponsors for 5,000money at this concert, although ished countries. He first gotTom Cochraneer and one daughter were dying of children.that wasnt the primary objective. involved in helping World Vision inAIDS, andhelp of a World Vision caregiver, another daughter wasWorld Vision has been hit hardThe primary objective is to raise 1988 when he promoted the orga-takingnamed Mercy. care of them all with theover the last few years, in terms of more sponsors.nization on a radio show. Fromthere, the partnership grew andhes travelled to various parts of theworld with the organization to seeits work first-hand. Furthermore,he helps raise the organizationsprofile with events such as this oneand is proud to do it.Even though they do a lot of front line relief work in areas of war zones and natural disasters,their primary way of dealing withworld poverty and disease and sup-port of communities is throughchild-sponsorship and its veryeffective, he said. Ive seen it atwork.He adds there are numerousorganizations that do great workaround the world, and World Visionis among the best, which hes happyto support.Im very lucky Im in the posi-tion to help out and Im very proudof the work they do. They savehundreds of thousands of lives eachyear.Doors open at 7 p.m. and theshow starts at 8 p.m. Generaladmission is $25. The theatre islocated at 190 Princes Blvd. insidethe CNE Grounds. For tickets, visitwww.ticketbreak.com.What water means to us,depicted at exhibitOakvilles in2art gallery is hold-ing an exhibit of work by a collec-tion of more than 15 Canadianartists, depicting what water meansto us as Canadians.The exhibit, titledWater, opensFriday, June 3 and runs until June30.The artists are presenting theirinterpretations of water, and localartist Julia Mori has painted severalpieces of varying lake surfaces dur-ing different times of the day.The Friday opening receptionruns from 5 to 7 p.m. It will becatered.The gallery is located at 136Church St. in Unit 2A. For more information, visitwww.in2artgallery.com.www.insideHALTON.com OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, June 1, 2011 24