Smelter workers ensure Mimmo isn't fighting cancer alone

A feature on the website ValeNews.ca focuses on the story of how workers at Vale's Copper Cliff Smelter stepped up when one of their co-workers, Domenico “Mimmo” Tullio, needed it most.

In late 2013, Tullio — a main aisle crane operator at the smelter and husband of Sudbury Catholic District School Board communications officer Gina Tullio — was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

He had been feeling back pain for some time. But one morning he awoke to find he was paralysed from the waist down. A tumour and eight inches of his spine was surgically removed, and he went through chemotherapy and radiation, as well as a stem cell transplant.

His co-workers at the smelter banded together to help, forming the MCAT — Mimmo Care Action Team. They hosted a barbecue fundraiser and raffle in June, raising $5,000. They then installed supportive signs on Tullio's lawn.

Read the website feature for the whole story.