Wednesday, January 14, 1959 y THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Page 5 os : = SN & HEALTH CENTRE ENTRANCE Here is a close-up of the entrance to the new health centre. Roman tile and JAMES SHANNON newly appointed sanitar- TO OFFICIATE Dr. K. Benson, medical director of the Cariboo Health ‘Unit, who will officiate at the opening ian, who will be station- ed at Williams Lake. “Friendly Drug Service from the Heart of the Cariboo” Pharmacy J, Brace Magoffin, Ph.C. “'Dispénsing Chemist WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. EMERGENCY PRESCRIPTIONS — PHONE 335 Lumber and Building Supplies for the KIWANIS HEALTH CENTRE were supplied by GEORGE CARLSON LEN CARLSON || WILLIAMS LAKE WOOD PRODUCTS Phone 239 the good earth | is our business and we have peen much occupied in contri- buting to the construction of the new Health Centre. * Grading and gravelling the site in co-operation with the excavators have transformed a tiny hillside, which was form- erly topped with the big water tower, into a beautiful location for a beautiful building. Fred Mellish Williams Lake, B.C. ficer and health 2S “the generous use of glass combine to make the entrance an inviting one. Sanitarian moved from Quesnel to Williams Lake Headquarters for the provin- cial sanitarian has now moved from Quesnel to Williams Lake with the completion of the Ki- wanis Health Centre opening Saturday. Newly appointed sanitarian seen above is James Shannon who came to British Columbia from Alberta in 1945. Mr. Shannon was formerly employed in a similar capacity at the Selkirk health unit in Nelson for 18 months, Burnaby for a year and Kelowna and Pen- ticton for two years. While at Burnaby he was also rodent of- inspector for the Oakalla prison farm and Newhaven borstal home. Mr. Shannon is married and will be taking up residence in Williams Lake when he finds a Williams Lake | . house. |COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Chairman of the Kiwanis Club building committee Fred Waterhouse. committee has worked for the past year on the health centre pro- ject. Centre grew from idea for Centennial project How Williams Lake was favoured with a new ‘health centre starts back in 1957 when a public meeting was held to decide to a Centennial project. A lone voice at the meeting, that of Mrs. Bill Stafford of| consider Springhouse, suggested the | building. committee might consider a] Tenders were put out again health centre to replace the|but by this time it was August hopelessly inadequate premises|before a tender was submitted being used. The contribution was| anywhere near the target. Fur- well received but it was thought | ther reductions in specifications that such a’ project should be|were made and eventually, the undertaken by a service club. |task was awarded local builders About the same time, Dr. p.|*- and L. Carlson Construction was a = $39,000.00 G. Kettyls, then medical offi- |@2d Lake Block and Construc- cer of health for the Cariboo, | tion. _ had decided that his territory| Further approaches were centred on Prince George was|™ade for i grants and WE BUY OLD BATTERIES ~ € & S$ TIRE SERVICE LTD. Williams Lake Health Centre ARCHITECTS BRIGGS & FONSECA Prince George, B.C. and ___ New Westminster, B.C. both the T.B. and Cancer Soci- eties promised an extra $1700 between them. : There were the usual crop of problems in a project like this such as extra roofing insulation being necessary at a cost of a further $450.00 on contract price. Co-operation between the Kiwanis, the builders and the architects ironed out the dif- ferences amicably and opening day was set for December 20. Minor building problems through sickness made this impossible and the date of opening takes place on Saturday next, January 17 at 2 p.m. It has taken almost two years to get there but Williams Lake Kiwanis Club feel it was worth every minute of it... the com- pletion of their first really ma- jor task in the Cariboo. far too large to be practical, covering as it did the Williams. Lake area, the Chilcotin and points south as far away as Bridge Lake. Accordingly, he spoke to the local Kiwanis club on the subject and a meeting was arranged. Mrs. Stafford was invited to attend and it, was found that she had gone to a tremendous amount of trouble regarding procedure and had letters from the Minister of Héalth on the subject. TOOK ON PROJECT That summer in 1957 the Ki- wanis took on the project and club president Joe Borkowski appointed Fred Waterhouse to act as chairman and select his own committee. The committee comprised Dr. J. B. Ringwood, H. J. Gardner and J. Rowat, snr. At the first committee meet- ing, Mrs. Stafford’s correspon- dence which she had graciously handed over to the Kiwanis, in- dicated that the Minister thought a $19,000.00 building might well be the type which could be built in Williams Lake. Dr. Kettyls, on the other hand, asked if we might set our sights a bit higher and look at some- thing in the region of $30,000 with a view to future expansion. SEAL SALE UP Christmas seal sale through- out the province is up eight per cent over last year, according to an- interim report by the B.C. Tuberculosis Society. TB Society officials count on Chtristmas seals to support a year-round program of research, public education, free chest X-ray and tuberculosis testing services. Money raised this way also stimulates the building of health units throughout the province like the one at Williams Lake. Architects were appointed from Prince George so they could always be in close touch with Dr. Kettlys and the build- If only one child is saved from the dreaded scourge of polio by the work to be carried out by the medical staff of the new KIWANIS HEALTH CENTRE, then the building of it will have been worth while. We are pleased to have been given the chance of wiring this very fine building. W. E. HARDING —ELECTRIGE Cariboo Heights Sub-Division PHONE 320 ing committee submitted an outline 6& whet they required. gotiations were started b3 committee to ob- from various out- | and by 1958 the buildin: tain donation: side sources | B.C. Tuberculosis Society, | B.C. Cancer Society and the B.C. Red = Cross had promised mg grants. Tenders were put out with a view to commencing building in the spring of 1958. The Kiwanis were overwhelmed, however, when tenders resulted in a high bid of $61,000.00 and a low bid $50,000.00 a far ery from target of 000.00. SECOND CALL Specifications were cut here and cut there but there seemed no reasonable way of getting ‘down to size. Eventually, with federal and provincial help, it was decided that the very maxi- Kiwanis could amount mum PREVENTION. is better than the new Kiwanis top medical advice, school children, work and keeping We are glad to hav keeping the buildin viding the Car Home Furnishings LIMITED and there, in a nutshell, is the object of WilliamsLake. With its team of nurses and access to service preserves health by innoculating carrying out pre-natal general. cure Health Centre in Aa Open IJuuitation of the is extended to the citizens of Williams Lake and District to attend the official opening Williams Lake Health Centre | Next Saturday - January 17 at 2 p.m. (Official Opener — Dr, Ken Benson — Medical Officer for the Cariboo) the provincial health an eye on health in e been the means of g warm... by pro- heating. iboo Our motto — WE BUILD — has been truly carried out to the best of our ability in sponsoring this $40,000.00 building and we trust that it will be of lasting benefit to the citizens of the Cariboo. CLUB WILLIAMS LAKE KIWANIS The new Health Centre is located on 4th Avenue North, just behind War Memorial Hospital ee