Left to right are: Pat Cook, VP of Corp. Affairs for SIGA, hospice committee member Marina Mitchell and Richard Ahenakew, general manager of the Northern Lights Casino, with a $30,000 donation for the hospice. (Susan McNeil/paNOW Staff)

By Susan McNeil

Rose Garden Hospice

Hospice building takes shape, donations continue

May 3, 2022 | 1:00 PM

Donations are still coming in even as the Rose Garden Hospice building takes shape.

Hospice committee member Marina Mitchell said the group is happy to see the results of over a decade of effort.

“It makes us so happy and proud to see it come to fruition, to see it being built, to see an actual building on the site,” said Mitchell.

The frame of the building is nearing completion with some of the roof trusses put up last week.

With $4.3 million already promised or given, the Hospice committee is still a little apprehensive about the increased cost of construction and the construction that did happen over the winter

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Yesterday, the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Commission, which runs the Northern Lights Casino in Prince Albert, gave the final installment of a promised $30,000 donation.

“It’s a facility we’ve needed for quite a long time so it feels good to be able to support it in such a way,” said general manager Richard Ahenakew.

It can be difficult to understand the difference in the end of life experience and the difference a hospice atmosphere can make.

“It’s one of those things that you can’t explain unless you’ve been through it. When people are at the end of life and looking for that dignity and looking for a place where they can be comfortable, it’s tough to do that in a hospital,” he said.

“The hospice is a perfect setting for that and PA has needed one for a while. I’m very, very thankful for the board and the group that got together to come up with the idea and do all the fundraising.”

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