IT’S NO secret: hospital walis are usually
pretty drab, and the patient rooms at
Mills Memorial Hospital are na excep-
tion.

Painted in dull, institutional colours
like beige or grey, it’s enough to make a
sick patient feel worse — especially if
you're achild.  *
ti Fortunately, somebody at the Royal
: Canadian Legion decided it was time for
a facelift at. Mills Memorial, where two
rooms used for pediatric patients are go-
ing from blah to beautiful:

“J just thought that the kids needed
something nicer to look at,” said legion
member Keith McAra, who is spearhead-
ing the repainting project. “Its bad
enough being in the hospital.”

Hospital administration and nursing
staff agreed..So when McAra and Branch
13 offered to repaint two rooms for child
patients, the hospital said yes - cven
though the rooms are temporarily out of
commission.

While Mills. doesn’t have a separate
pediatric ward, “These, we hope, will be
kept more or less for children, if they can
do it,” MecAra said.

He and two other legion members,
John Dewacht and Doug Misfeldt, did the

KEITH MCARA, left, from the Royal Canadian Legion and Mills Memorial Hos-
pital’s Choily Boland examine one of two hospital rooms for children which
have been repainted to make them more appealing. This room has taken on a
safari motif thanks to Gail Turner-Sears and Marg Skead.

Rooms spruced up

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They patcted and primed the walls in
both rooms - a bigger job than it might
sound. Over the years, hospital beds had
gouged some fairly substantial dents in
the walls. ,

Now, gleaming under fresh coats of
bright paint, the once-drab, pitted walls
are as good as new.

The paint job itself is being left up to

the experts - visual artists Lynn Nord-

strom and Gail Turner Sears.
Nordstrom is painting room No. 205
into a vibrant, undersea fantasy, complete

with cartoon-friendly. creatures like fishes,

and a whale.
Turner-Sears, with the help of Marg
Skead, has turned dingy old room No. 215

into a vivid African safari. A tall giraffe
towers over a black and white-striped ze- .

bra on a bright blue wall. A lanky monkey
painted against an orange wall swings
playfully from a curtain rod.

And it turns out the transformation
May just be the beginning.

The Kinsmen Club of Terrace is join-
ing forces with the legion to repaint two
more rooms. “We're hoping other organi-
zations might jump in and do the same,”
McAra smiles,

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