“It was awesome, seeing them coming in on their machines and with their flags flying,” Val Morozoff, secretary of the Canora Lionesses, said last week.
Morozoff was referring to the 10 Prairie Women on Snowmobiles (PWOS) on their first day of their 2017 Tour.
Prairie Women On Snowmobiles is a non-profit organization whose annual missions are provincial awareness events that are designed to focus attention on breast cancer and the recreation of snowmobiling as well as raise the much-needed funds for breast cancer research, said information from the PWOS Tour.
Last year, the Tourraised a total of $159,057, including $81,389 for Canadian Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research and $77,668 for the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency that will be used for the purchase of equipment, the information said.
In the last four years PWOS have contributed over $128,000 to purchase equipment for medical facilities throughout Saskatchewan, it said. Prairie Women On Snowmobiles have contributed 100 per cent of the funds raised in the past 16 missions to the Canadian Cancer Society, providing more than $2.3 million for support of breast cancer research.
The group was in Canora for about an hour, Morozoff said. The women were led into the community by about a half dozen members of the Canora Trakkers Snowmobile Club, which also led them out of town into the direction of Kamsack where they were to spend the night.
During the reception, a representative of the PWOS presented special survivor’s pins to three Canora cancer survivors, she said.
The Canora Lionesses made a donation of $500 to the group.
Gateway Co-op and Crossroads Credit Union helped fund the afternoon coffee party, Morozoff said.
Members of the 2017 Tour are: Heather Mohr of Clavet; Candace Blair of Star City, Wendy Stevenson of Saskatoon, Arlene Lockinger of Humbolt, Joan Phinney of Kindersley, Karen Wudrich-Mattock of Leask, Estelle Sowinski of Candle Lake, Lori Fontaine of Prince Albert, Elma Fischer of Saskatoon and Karla Gervais of Yorkton. Kelly Kim Rea of Pelly is the current president of PWOS.
Persons wishing to make donations to the PWOS Tour 2017 are encouraged to go to the website www.prairiewomen.ca. The tour wrapped up in Star City on day six, which was Friday.
