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Rotary Club gifts to Bluewater Health now up to $600k with latest payment

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The Rotary Club of Sarnia has now written its sixth cheque for $100,000 to the Bluewater Health Foundation, with the combined payments toward a $1 million pledge for the new hospital now amounting to $600,000. Pictured st the club's Monday luncheon meeting are, from left, Rotary Foundation President Johnna Johansen, Bluewater Health Foundation Executive Director [...]

Cliff Erickson holding benefit for Bluewater Health Foundation Monday at Central United Church

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Cliff Erickson, a well-known musician who has frequented the area, will be at Central United Church Monday night for a benefit concert in support of the Bluewater Health Foundation. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $10. Erickson will also be playing this week at Jack Doyle's Irish Grille and Sports Bar (located in the [...]

World Children’s Day recognized by Bluewater Health Foundation and Best Start Program

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Children are a big part of everyone's lives. Maybe it is because you have your own child, you volunteer around children, or you are a child. In 1989, the United Nations proposed a convention on the rights of the child to protect the rights of all children in the world. There is a full list [...]

Bluewater Health Foundation celebrates first National Philanthropy Day

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Yesterday (November 15) was the first time National Philanthropy Day was recognized in Canada. In fact it was the first time it was celebrated anywhere in the world. National Philanthropy Day is a special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy- and those people active in the philanthropic [...]

Bluewater Health Foundation plans to auction several art pieces

  Bluewater Health is working with Van Klaveren Auctions Inc. to coordinate an online art auction from November 1 to 20. Among the offerings will be framed photography and watercolour and oil paintings, clocks, a hand- woven Oriental rug, and stained glass, by professional and local artists. During Bluewater Health’s recent construction project, a lengthy [...]

Bluewater Health previews new MRI facility

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Potential contributors and those who will not only benefit from but work on a new Siemens MRI machine at Bluewater Health got their chance on Friday. The $2.8 million machine will allow health care professionals to complete a wide range of medical imaging, including breast imaging that patients had to travel out of Sarnia to [...]

Bluewater Health will spend $6 million on new equipment this year

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  Bluewater Health intends to invest some $6 million in medical equipment and information technology in its next fiscal year, the cost for which will come from a combination of hospital funding and a $2.8 million capital fund raising campaign from the Bluewater Health Foundation. The proceeds from next year's Dream Home Lottery will be [...]

New area physician recruitment coordinator has insight into what doctors want

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Chances are Andrea Hynes has a pretty good idea of what prospective local doctors might be looking for in a community, an insight she'll be applying to her new job as the area's physician recruitment coordinator. The insight comes at least in part from the fact that Hynes is the daughter of a local physician, [...]

AMAZING project raising funds for Bluewater Health Foundation and local Cancer Society

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An AMAZING 111 artists are part of a compilation e-album containing 121 songs – a record-breaking number for a single release. This AMAZING compilation is now selling for just $10. Proceeds will go to the Canadian Cancer Society (60%) for research and prostate cancer awareness, and Bluewater Health Foundation (40%) for the hospital’s new Cancer [...]

“Wright to the Point” tonight (Wed, Oct 5) on TVCOGECO

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Two prominent Lambton County residents, both with new jobs, will highlight tonight's (Wednesday, Oct 5) edition of “Wright to the Point” on TVCOGECO. Jim Burns will look back on his political career and look forward on his time as Chief Administrative Office for the village of Point Edward and Kathy Alexander , the new Executive [...]