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Penticton retail employees provide donation to hospital campaign

Penticton retail employees provide donation to hospital campaign | iNFOnews.ca
Staff at the Penticton Walmart Supercentre are directing $30,000 in charitable funding to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s campaign to provide medical equipment for the new tower at Penticton Regional Hospital. Credit: photo contributed

PENTICTON – A Penticton retailer's entire staff are the latest contributors to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundations’ hospital campaign.

Penticton Walmart’s 300 store employees are directing $30,000 over four years to the foundation’s campaign.

Store manager Rory Williams announced a donation of $18,000 now, with a further $12,000 coming over the next three years. He said discussions with the employees revealed the hospital campaign to be one of the local charities most important to them.

The employees have raised the funds through staff barbecues and other events. Part of the donation was matched by Walmart Canada’s head office.

Williams gives all the credit for the donation to the store employees.

“They raised that money and it was important to them that it stays in their community,” he says.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Steve Arstad

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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