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Penticton service club pledges $250,000 to hospital project

Penticton service club pledges $250,000 to hospital project | iNFOnews.ca
Members of the Rotary Club of Penticton have pledged more than $250,000 towards the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s campaign. Credit: photo contributed

PENTICTON – The South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation took a leap forward toward their fundraising goal of $20 million this week.

Penticton’s Rotary Club pledged $250,000 towards the foundation’s Patient Care Tower campaign, beginning with member John Rankiw’s individual donation of $100,000, according to a media release.

Club spokesperson Ben Amos says the group originally planned to raise $250,000, beginning with Rankiw’s individual donation and supplemented with $100,000 raised within the membership. An additional $50,000 was to come from fundraising initiatives.

The original goal set by club members of $100,000 has already been exceeded.

Amos says the Rotary club sees the hospital project as the most significant project the city will see in a long time.

Construction of the new patient care tower is expected to get underway in the spring of 2016, with a completion date of late 2019.

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I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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