Community

The Friends of the Prince Rupert Wildlife Rehab Shelter got together at the Oceanview Hotel in Prince Rupert this past Sunday to make the draw for the raffle that the shelter was holding. The winners were as follows:

On April 14 the Prince Rupert Chinese Association presented a $1,250 cheque for the hospital. The money will go to medical equipment.

Prince Rupert Special needs athletes got a step ahead in April when Kaien Island Lions’ President Archie McLaine presented a $500 check to the Community Enrichment Society members Don Reynierse and Mackenzie Hubbell. The money will go for special needs children and youth to take part in local athletic programs.

From now on May 1 will be Cemetery Day in Prince Rupert.

Several members of the community came out on April 17 to help beautify Prince Rupert as Civic Pride hosted their annual spring clean-up at locations around town.

Volunteer members of the Prince Rupert Marine Rescue and Lax Kw’aalams Rescue units of the Coast Guard Auxiliary pose with some of the trash collected from the beach at Lucy Island after a shoreline clean up. The vessels in the background are the venerable “Rainbow Responder” (dark tubes with aluminum cabin) and a 27 foot (red and yellow) newly built Titan vessel from Lax Kw’aalams. (Port Simpson).

The Prince Rupert Indo-Canadian Sikh Association presents a cheque for $2,000 to the Red Cross. The money comes entirely from donations from members. In photo: Kouwenhoven and Josie Mackay from the Red Cross; association president, Mohinder Nanan; treasurer Gurvinder Randhawa, and Gurmail Sidhu.

The Prince Rupert Sikh Missionary Society donated $1,000 to School District 52

Grad Fashion Shows have become known over the last 50 years as a hilarious and extremely entertaining way for graduating students to raise money for their prom celebrations.

Craig Smith and Nancy and Odd Eidsvick of Eidsvick and Associates present Scott Farwell with the inaugural Walter Smith Memorial Paul Harris Fellow for his work in promoting tourism in the city. The $1,000 donation to the Rotary Foundation is made in honour of the late Walter Smith, a tourism pioneer, community ambassador, Freedom of the City and Rotarian.