Toronto, Canada - Fund Set Up for Family of Missing Boater

Toronto, Canada - A volunteer committee has established a fund to help support the family of a Toronto man who is presumed to have drowned on Lake Nipissing.

It’s been more than a month since Eli Horowitz, 30, and his father-in-law Heine Mondrowitz, 56, went missing during a fishing trip near North Bay.
Although Mondrowitz’s body was found a week after their rented, 19-foot boat drifted ashore empty near the lakeside community, Horowitz’s body has yet to be found.

David Stein, a good friend of Horowitz and a fellow paramedic with Hatzolah, has been instrumental in keeping the search going. He and Hatzolah, a volunteer emergency medical service that Horowitz helped found in Toronto, have offered a reward of $10,000 for the recovery of his body.
Stein said the search by air, land and water is continuing and that he is still in touch with the Ontario Provincial Police.

Meanwhile, Horowitz’s wife and three children, all under age five, are relying on the community to help them through this difficult time.
Horowitz supported his family by running a small paint business, but because he had cystic fibrosis, a respiratory disease, he was not able to get life insurance. So a 20-person committee consisting of friend’s of the family and “concerned people in the community” was set up to try to provide Horowitz’s young family with a modest income.
Mark Rosenblatt, Horowitz’s friend and one of the volunteers who helped establish the Eli Horowitz Fund, said he wanted to make sure the family will be looked after. “We’re trying to put together a fund that will be administered by a group of trustees, and hopefully we’ll raise enough that they can live modestly on the income,” Rosenblatt said, adding that the goal is to raise a lump sum within the next two months and invest it.

Contact information can be found at www.ehfund.com and tax-deductible donations can be made by credit card on the site.