While the new Estevan Regional Nursing Home committee is still waiting for some action from the provincial government, some community members decided to take proactive steps and approached the board to make another donation.
Shelley and Reynold Bert participated in fundraising for the new Estevan nursing home when the campaign started in 2015. And five years later their family decided to donate another $10,000 towards the project that hopefully one day will come true.
“Like a lot of other people, we donated the first time raising money. This is the second… Now maybe we need to raise more to up our share, that might be the look of our future maybe. If that’s the case, then we’d better do some more,” said Reynold.
The committee has over $4 million under their care, which is invested wisely. However, the main thing everyone in the community wants to see is the new nursing home that will comply with contemporary standards and allow dignified life for the patients.
“It is really important that the community understands that the stewardship of these donations is very important for us. And we recognize that this money is safe and waiting,” noted new nursing home committee member Tania Hlohovsky-Andrist.
With economy at its peak in 2015, the community managed to quickly meet the 20 per cent funding requirement for the building, and since then they’ve been trying to get the provincial government on board offering different ways to construct the new building. But there have been no results yet.
“We are trying to get the government of their stools, and we’ve been working with them and trying to get them to move on it. And we understand the frustration of the people in the community because it hasn’t happened within five years since we reached our goal,” said new nursing home chair Don Kindopp.
The last dialogue with the government happened in December.
