'Like a bolt of lightning': $250,000 gift pushes sisters' campaign for MRI to $370,000

Suzanne Halpenny was reading the newspaper over breakfast when she spotted the faces of two sisters who’d been diagnosed with breast cancer in the same, terrible week.
Rebecca Hollingsworth and Mary Ellen Hughson were fighting to raise the final $250,000 to bring a state-of-the-art MRI, a key tool for early detection, to the Ottawa Hospital Breast Health Centre.
“I looked at their faces — just smiling, beautiful women,” said Halpenny, a longtime supporter of local chariti