Theatre Volume 8 No. 50
Annaheim continues theatre tradition
Friday, December 8, 2017
Quill Plains health receives important start up donation The Quill Plains Health Care Foundation were the happy recipients of a $20,000 donation from the Fred and Louise Barker Fo u n d a t i o n . Pictured (L to R): Co-Director of the foundation Norma Weber, and health care foundation secretary Roxanne Bagnall. photo by Christopher Lee By Christopher Lee Journal Reporter
The Quill Plains Health Care Foundation received a large boost to their fundraising efforts on Dec. 2 as they were the recipients of a $20,000 donation from the Fred and Louise Barker Foundation. The foundation was started in 2000 in honour of Fred and Louise Barker, a pair of single people who had little to no family in the area. They set up the foundation as a way to help with student education, health care, and general projects within the community. “Louise was very interested in healthcare. She wants to see us keep health care in rural Saskatchewan as best we can and she was a resident at the Quill Plains Centennial Lodge here for about five years or so,” noted Norma Weber, one of three surviving directors of the foundation. The money donated was the kickoff to the fundraising efforts for the Quill Plains Health Care Foundation, who became incorporated earlier this year. The foundation’s plan is to renovate the east wing at the Quill Plains Centennial Lodge, as well as build a new wing. “We’ve had kind of a general look at this and the minimum would be a $6.2 million project and it probably won’t happen for five years or so. We’re looking for approval in three and to have our facility in five years so by then it could be around between $7 and 8 million,” says Weber, who is also the chair of the
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