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By Melanie CummingsSPECIAL TO THE BEAVER

The annual battle for beds among the localbanks begins.

Over the next month branches all over town will unleash a bevy of fundraising bake sales,barbecues, raffles and auctions in an effort tooutdo their counterparts.

The deadline is Sunday May 1, when theytake their battle to the streets.

That’s when teams from BMO, CIBC, HSBC,RBC, Scotiabank and TD put their mettle to thetest on Lakeshore Road in the sixth annual Birmingham Bank Bed Challenge.

Renamed to posthumously honour the race’s founder Bruce Birmingham, who died July2010, the family is matching every donation,dollar for dollar, made to this year’s campaign.

On May 1, the team that pushes its decoratedgurney and passenger posing as patient acrossthe finish line first claims the coveted title asthe fastest.

“It’s not about winning market share, it’s about the community,” said Brian Wood, man-ager of the downtown TD bank.

Wood faced the sobering reality of the needfor new hospital beds last year, when his 12-year-old son, who was the team passengerlast year, faced emergency surgery for appendi-citis.

He is personally determined to outdo TD’sown record haul of $33,000 last year, which isenough to buy three hospital beds — andunseat the Bank Bed Challenge race championsfor the past two years, and top fundraisers forthe past five years, Scotiabank.

There were plenty of light-hearted barbsflowing back and forth among the teams that

Banks to battle for beds by May 1

RIZIERO VERTOL-RIZIERO VERTOL

SUITING UP: The Oakville Hospital Foundation has launched the sixth annual Birmingham Bank Bed Challenge to take place downtown May 1. From left, in back, Gareth Hales, RBC, Patrick Keyser, HSBC, Brian Wood, TD, and Kerith McLeod, ScotiaBank. Front row Tabitha McDow, CIBC, Tina Triano, Oakville Hospital Foundation, Deanna Delbel, ScotiaBank, Danielle Zeran, BMO.

gathered for Wednesday’s kickoff.gWhistles, pompoms, clappers

and balloons buoyed the spirits of aeach of the six teams vying to raiseethe most money for the OakvilletHospital Foundation.H

Over the past five years localbanks have contributed more thanb$600,000 or 40 beds to the cause. $

While one of the most basicitems in health care settings, hospi-ital beds are also one of the mosttimportant pieces of equipment, saidithe hospital’s CEO Dr. JohntMcFadden.M

The high-tech beds are certainlynot cheap, but have made bedsoresna thing of the past, and improvedapatient comfort, safety, indepen-pdence and recovery, he added.d

The money raised for additionalbeds in this year’s race will benefitbthe new 457-bed hospital at thetnorthwest corner of Third Line andnDundas Street, which is slated toDbreak ground this summer, addedbMcFadden.M

To make a donation to theBirminghan Bank Bed ChallengeBhead to a local bank branch or gohonline to www.bankbedchallenge.ocom.