Fundraising History

It has been going on for years. Marathon hockey games, door-to-door canvasses, a crop project, a house construction project, barbecue after barbecue, a bike ride from one end of the country to the other, and every other imaginable fundraising event.

Fundraising for Moosomin’s Integrated Health Care Facility has been going on for so long, it’s hard to think back on the last few years in Moosomin and surrounding areas without thinking of at least a few health care facility fundraisers.
The fundraising effort has done the impossible, and more than $7 million has been raised for the local share of the new facility.

But it’s not over yet. With the building now under construction and $1.1 million to be raised for furnishings and equipment, Integrated Facility Finance Chair Larry
Miskiman says one more big push is needed to finish paying for the project. The remaining money to be raised is mainly for furnishing and equipping the new 85-bed facility, which will include acute care and long term care. Miskiman says that, to raise the remaining funds, everyone in the region
will have to pitch in. “Up to this point we have had incredible support from people right across the region,” Miskiman said. “Some people have contributed. Some people have contributed, and volunteered, and contributed again. Now we need everyone to contribute in some way.

“If anyone has been thinking about contributing, this is the time. The building is under construction, and funds are being
paid out. A lot of people have said they would make their contribution when they see the new facility under construction, and now it is. I would really encourage those
people to make their donations now.”

He said the health care foundation is hoping those who have made pledges and not yet fulfilled them will do so by the end
of this year. “We are now making ongoing disbursements as costs start to come in, so anyone who has made a pledge—this is the time to honor it.”

story by Kevin Weedmark
originally published in The World-Spectator, December 11, 2006