(submitted photo/ Sherry Buckler)

By paNOW Staff

Significant Donation

Jenkins donates $25,000 to Carlton Crushes Cancer campaign

Jan 29, 2020 | 3:28 PM

Canadian Tire Owner Malcolm Jenkins has donated $25,000 to the Carlton Crushes Cancer campaign.

According to a media release from the Victoria Hospital Foundation, Jenkins’ donation helped launch the campaign in December.

His donation led the community to follow in his footsteps to help raise over $100,000 for the campaign for palliative cancer patients in Prince Albert and its surrounding area. The total funds raised will go toward hospital grade beds and air mattresses, wheelchairs, walkers, pain pumps, ceiling lifts, and more. All of the funds will stay in the community.

The Victoria Hospital Foundation, Kelsey Pearson from Carlton Comprehensive High School, and representatives from the home care and palliative team in Prince Albert were all there to accept Jenkins’ donation.

“We are so grateful to Malcolm Jenkins with Canadian Tire for his immense generosity toward helping our terminal patients during such a difficult time in their illness,” Sherry Buckler, the CEO of Victoria Hospital Foundation said. “The collective efforts of our community will enable our foundation to make a significant investment in the best equipment and furniture for palliative cancer patients who want to remain at home for as long as possible.”

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The campaign was organized by the students, volunteers and staff at Carlton High School. They helped the Carlton versus Melfort tournament reach their final total, which was announced at the event on Jan. 23.

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