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50th
Anniversary Coming Up!
The Community Clinic and
medicare are almost 50 years old! We invite you,
our members, staff and clients, to a member forum to provide ideas
on our celebrations on Thursday, August 4th 2011, 7 to
9:30 p.m., 424 1st Avenue North Registration begins as
6:30 p.m. Hope to see you there!
Click here for the poster.
Annual
Meeting 2011
The 70 members in attendance at our
June 21st
Annual Meeting elected 5 new board members: Dalton
Cameron, Sheena Rowan, Elizabeth Scott, Lisa White and Derek
Wilkinson. Ron Wheeler was re-elected for a second term. Wendy
Wilson was elected to the Focus Editorial committee. Three
resolutions were passed on the following topics: affordable housing;
federal anti-smoking policies; and the Comprehensive Economic Trade
Agreement. Thank you to the following outgoing board members for
their valued service and commitment to co-operative values: Don
Bear, Nancy Carmichael; Kathy Cram; Jason Cruickshank and Wendy
Wilson. To view photos of the annual
meeting click here.
Fitness, Food and Fun
Celebrates its Fifth Birthday!
Participants, peer leaders
and partners in Fitness, Food
and Fun (Triple F Program) celebrated the fifth
anniversary of the program at a ceremony on June 28th.
The program, offered in partnership with several agencies addresses
the well-being of members of the urban Aboriginal community who
are at risk of developing diabetes or who have diabetes.
Congratulations everyone on your very successful program which is
now being used as a model for other chronic disease programs in our
health region.
The Birthplace of Medicare: A
Historical Walking Tour of Saskatoon
Having visitors from out of
town this summer? Looking for an interesting historic walk? Print
out
Saskatoon: The Birthplace of Medicare and take the tour!
As you take this historic self-guided walk through Saskatoon’s
downtown you can almost hear the fiery debates that took place that
took place in 1962 and the voices and hope that established medicare
and Community Clinic in our province.
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