A special transparent box has been placed in the reception area of the Assiniboine Valley Medical Centre in Kamsack containing the Saskatchewan Municipal Award the community received at the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities (SUMA) convention in February.
At the convention, Kamsack Mayor Rod Gardner accepted the first-place trophy in the ninth annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards.
The award had been presented to Gardner in recognition of the community’s doctor recruitment and retention strategy and for having developed the community’s health and wellness foundation which constructed the medical centre.
“We’re very proud of this award,” Councillor Claire Bishop said last week when she was photographed with the plaque and when she discussed the recent placing of six glass plates in the building’s foyer.
The names, which were placed on the six glass plates by The Edge Signs, are of persons and businesses that have donated fewer than $5,000 to the project, and it includes memorial donations.
“We’re always adding more names,” Bishop said after estimating there to be more than 200 names already placed on the plates.
Bishop, who is chair of the Assiniboine Valley Health and Wellness Foundation, was eager to remind everyone of the Smoke on the Water fundraiser being held at Madge Lake on July 29 because proceeds from the event have been committed to the medical centre via the foundation.
Money from the Smoke on the Water will be used for the next phase of the project, which would include finishing a portion of about a third of the building that has been reserved for other health professionals. Bishop said that there is a possibility that a dentist will be setting up a practice in the building.
“We also want to pave the parking lot,” she said.
