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Jonathon Naylor Editor A needy overseas orphanage continues to benefit from the mountain-scaling efforts of an ambitious Flin Flonner. This past January, Colleen Arnold climbed Africa's tallest mountain, raising $3,700 to help renovate an orphanage, and build a new one, in Nairobi, Kenya. More recently two local service clubs _ the Rotary Club and its sister organization, the Inner Wheel _ added $799 to that total. A smiling Arnold attended an Inner Wheel meeting to accept a $300 pledge and a Rotary meeting to receive another $499. Surmounted Arnold, along with seven other big-hearted climbers from around the world, surmounted the nearly six-kilometre high Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania during five trying days beginning Jan. 8. They also visited the orphanage _ Happy Life Children's Home, as it is known _ and the site of the future orphanage their efforts aided. For Arnold, it was as much about helping a worthy cause as it was opening people's minds to positive possibilities. 'I'm not the one in the gym, it's not like I don't have an ounce of fat on me,' Arnold, 48, told The Reminder after her climb. 'And that's what people think you have to be _ that super woman or man _ to be able to do things like this. And so I just wanted to show that everyday people like myself can, if you believe in yourself and have the passion or the desire, can do it.'
