Wednesday, January 14, 1959

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THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

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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

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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

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