ALL AUXILIARY SERVICES ARE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE (MARCH 2020)
Due to the ever changing situation with the Coronavirus, the Auxiliary has suspended all of our services until it is deemed safe for us to return to the work we love to do!
BONNIE WALBERG BURSARIES
The Auxiliary to UHNBC would like to acknowledge and thank the family of Bonnie Walberg, for their very generous ‘in memoriam’ gift. The $10,000.00 donation will be given, in Bonnie’s name, as Bursaries to CNC and UNBC students enrolled in a medical program. Both educational institutions will each get $1000.00 for five years. Bonnie…
2019 BCAHA ‘Then & Now’ Photo Contest Winners
Here are the winners of the BCAHA AMG Then and Now photo contest held in Prince George in April 2019. Also check out the fabulous 100th Anniversary Photo Album put together by our Historian Sue Lorrie!! It’s in the Auxiliary room! First Prize – Auxiliary to the Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver): An Auxiliary volunteer…
BCAHA BURSARY 2020
The British Columbia Association of Health Care Auxiliaries offers a bursary to deserving students who have volunteering experience. If you have someone in mind, please direct them to the following application below. Application here.
PENTICTON CONFERENCE 2020 CANCELLED
Members, please contact Lindy Steele if you’d like to attend. pgauxiliary2020@gmail.com CANCELLED DUE TO HEALTH CONCERNS OVER CORONAVIRUS
NEW BOARD MEMBERS 2020
The executive of the auxiliary is pleased to announce the addition of Debra Paige and Carol Bukowski to the board as our newest directors. Karin Esslinger will be leaving for the south in the near future to be near to her family. We wish her well in her new location.
IN MEMORIUM
At our February AGM the membership held a moment of silence for those we lost in 2019 April: Ingaborg Andrade October: Shirley Adele Clay May: Barbara Dudley February: Martha Cook In late February we lost Ruth Sullivan All of these dedicated members will be missed.
OUR LATEST DONATION TO THE HOSPITAL
At the February Annual General Meeting, the membership voted to fund $90,000 for the purchase of 25 rentable Staxi wheelchairs and 2 mobile ECG machines.
AUXILIARY EDUCATIONAL AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR 2020
Hayden Molcak-recipient of our $10,000 100th Anniversary Scholarship for Medical Studies at UNBC Casey Richert- – recipient of our $1000.00 Bursary for UNBC Katarina Lewis- recipient of our $1000 Bursary for UNBC.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTH DAY 2020
May 7th has been designated as Spirit of the North Day! The Auxiliary will assist the foundation’s fund raising efforts by manning the phones as we have done in the past. If you’d be interested in taking a shift, please contact Lindy Steele, president.