The Elliot Lake Waterfront Owners Association (ELWOA) made a $500 donation to the growing fund for a $1.5 million CAT Scan at St. Joseph’s General Hospital.
Members of the association made the donation to St. Joseph’s Foundation chairman William Elliott, charged with the fundraising for the scanner and St. Joseph’s General Hospital CEO Pierre Ozolins.
Several members of the ELWOA acknowledged the CAT Scan may one day be required by its members and the donation also showed the group’s emphasis on community support.
“ELWOA (established in 2007) is a group of property owners from Dunlop, Quirke and Popeye lakes, who originally bonded together to share common information, concerns and ideas centred around the trials and tribulations uniquely related to establishing this new waterfront community,” a news release from the group stated. “Twelve years later – and a membership of 136 active property owners – this group is turning their primary focus away from home design, building bylaws and paint color, and onto subjects such as fair taxation for all, transportation safety, snowmobile/ATV trail usage and maintenance, lake stewardship and fisheries, arts and culture, campfires and community friendship.”
The group also emphasized pride in the community they call home.
“This is the Elliot Lake they’re proud to be citizens of,” the release stated. “That small-town city with a hospital, multiple banks and grocery stores, small boutiques selling crafts and clothing, a top-notch library and many groups of concerned, caring citizens who all share the same goal.”
The group was thanked for its donation. The fundraising effort continues to grow with a fundraising barometer set up outside the hospital to track that effort.