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Ten years ago, if someone had told KPMG Ottawa office manager Deirdre Hendrick that she would one day speak at the Royal Ottawa Foundation’s Leaders for Mental Health Breakfast, her reaction would have been nothing short of incredulous. “I’d say, ‘What? Are you kidding me?’,” said Hendrick during an interview to talk about her participation in the major fundraiser set for Wednesday, Oct. 6th. “And yet here I am. This is a big step for me, but I want to pay it forward.”

Non-profit executive brings 15 years’ experience in fundraising, strategic partnerships and business development to his new role.

A DIARY item about cats destroying furnishings reminds reader Margaret Forbes of the time she adopted two moggies, a mother and son, who both arrived with a naughty sofa-scratching habit. After being forced to buy the gazillionth new sofa, Margaret’s husband came up with the cunning idea of nailing carpet tiles all the way round the side and back of the couch. The colour of the tiles matched the rest of the chair, and the razer-clawed ruffians decided it was an even better surface for mauling. And that’s how the humans, and their ferocious feline overlords, all managed to live happi...