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FOOD, FUN & FUNDS – Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cut for Cancer and Yorkton’s Boston Pizza teamed up this year for an inaugural event to raise funds to help continue the fight against cancer. On the Monday evening the very first “Speedghetti” event was held, pitting participant against participant in a messy spaghetti eating contest. Over $5,200 was raised as a result, which will be put towards the Palliative Care Department at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre through The Health Foundation. Pictured above are contest winners: 1st Place Speedghetti Champion - Brian Gammon; 2nd Place - David Johnson; 3rd Place - Paige Kashmere (also pictured in the inset photo). The award for most money raised went to Kris Norberg. Plans are already in the works for a follow up event in April of 2015! Anyone interested in getting their name on the list to participate next year is asked to email their request to closecuts@sasktel.net
Another successful year for The Health Foundation By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer The Health Foundation held its Annual General Meeting last week. One of the orders of business at the meeting was a presentation of the audit by Collins Barrow. Again this year the opinion of the auditor
was that financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan, Inc. Ross Fisher, Executive Director of the Health Foundation says that it’s a priority to handle the dona-
tions the Foundation receives in the most efficient manner possible, so people know their money is going to the equipment and service expansion they want to see. “We try to be as efficient as we can be, we are among the most efficient charities in the country in terms of how much
money we raise goes towards our purpose of buying medical equipment. That’s what we want to do, and people want to know that if they donate $100, that you’re spending $90 of that on medical equipment, and overhead costs don’t eat all of their donation.” The financial reports also
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reflect a year which saw the Health Foundation raised $1,441,973, an increase of about $250,000 over 2012. That increase was thanks to Farming for Health, which was a new program last year and made up the difference. Continued on Page 2.
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Foreign worker program under the microscope – investigation underway By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer The federal government has suspended the use of the temporary foreign worker program for the food service industry, pending investigation into alleged abuses of the system by restaurants in the country. Yorkton-Melville MP Gary Breitkreuz says that for the time being the measure will be limited to the food services sector, and will be in place until an investiga-
headlines. A restaurant employer in Weyburn has been accused of replacing long-time local employees with temporary foreign workers, and Breitkreuz says while this did initially prompt the investigation, it also revealed that the abuses of the system appeared to be more widespread than initially thought. Breitkreuz says that is why a closer look is necessary to see what is happening within the food services industry and how the program
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