In Memoriam

Leach and Robinson Remembered

The Board lost two key members in 2009: Dr. Rex Leach and Conrad Robinson. Both were very involved from the Foundation’s inception and both played key roles in its ultimate growth and success.


Rex’s strength was fundraising. He was the first treasurer and spent countless volunteer hours setting up the initial program… which is still used today. He also took the message of the Foundation’s work out into the community, encouraging people to become involved.

Conrad Robinson brought his expertise to the granting committee. He steered them through the ups and downs, determining the merit of the different applications and who should get money. This was no mean chore when people from all over the valley were asking for financial support, but Con had the knack to make things run smoothly.

Donations from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2021

Lew Taylor/Lew Taylor Memorial Fund
Jessie Butterfield
Vivian Barrow
Fred Woodward
Joey Eggie Fund
John A. Staniland Estate
Diane Sakal
Joe Stadnick
Alistair Campbell
Joel Campbell/Joel Campbell Ed. Fund
Fred Lasiuk
Irvin Hiebert
Jessie Shearer
Amara Campbell/Amara Campbell Fd.
Jud Scales/Jud Scales Education Fund
Kevin Schmigel
Jack Thompson
Hugh Van Patter
Melba Parker

Angela Christine Mullin
Nick Bobick
Barb Holms
Bonnie Cowan
Iona Kozak
Edith Playford
Stan Foster
Tracy Houston
Ray Seib
Joseph Martin “Marty” Brocker
Michael Trevor Hofford
Murray Van Kleek
Danny Bulycz
Ken Gardner
Andrew Kozak
Alex and Elsie Kreshewski
Darwin Graham
Emma Gillespie
William “Bill” Zebinski
Margaret Lysack

Cori (Hunt) Guenther
Brent William Hunt
Jane (Fedorchuk) Perrick
Karen Minish
Willard “Bill” Brooks
Ron Yaskiew
Diane Sylvester
Lorne “Smitty” Leonhard
Donald Crocker
Billy Campbell
Atli Jonsson
Gloria Anne (Filuk) Nemez
Hugh Earl Carmichael
Rev. Ivan Glen Fulford
John Cotton
John “Jack” Eisner
Kori Dale Hrycyk
Helen Prieston
Alvin Wiebe
David Izon

Donations from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020

Margorie Fulton
Phyllis Hodgson
Sonia Filuk
Jud Scales
Joanne (Barrett) McGrath
Irene Hrappstead
Calvin Watson
Melba Parker
Dr. Samuel Klack
Phyllis “Bid” Barker
Gloria Barkovics
Anne Makichuk
Phylis Devlin
Marlene Soura
Annie Zinchuk
Doreen Terekoff
Gloria Barkovics
Roy Minish
Thomas McCrea
Lynda Phillips
George Church
Ellen Kennedy
Angela Christine Mullin
Adena Henkelman
Thomas “Bert” Pearson
Annie Hinchliffe
Anne Assoignon

Leland & Marlene Soura
Andrew McCleary
Gloria Barkovics
Mel & Lynda Phillips
Doreen Terekoff
Delmarie McMillan
Gaylia (Watts) Sewell
Joe Jersak
Lorainne Gunter
Nancy Dow
David Henkelman
Grace Sturhahn
Ellen (Martinussen) Omeniuk
Terry Doak
Glenn Lambert
Freda Neely
Bill Musey
Isabelle Davy
Bill Davy
Mary Waroway
Roberta Ribalkin
Frank Lucan
Ruth Matinussen
Ed Baskier
Frank Gornik
Lorne “Smitty” & Muriel Leonhard
John & Marg Cotton

Ken Gardner
Bertha Minish
Stan & Illa Fothergill
William Holowachuk
June Lamb
June Hunt
Joel Campbell
Kenneth Mitchell
Barb Holms
Authur Beals
Bonnie Cowan
Fred McKim
Bill Terekoff
Ruth Schroeder
Bethe Peloski
Gladys Wyatt
Betty Harris
Leone (Mitchelson) Langan
Lt./Cdm. P. David Ross McNab, RCN
Greg Shaw
Lew Taylor
Beth Brown
Wallace & Charlotte Gabrielle
Jessie Shearer
Esther McQuarrie
Frances McCleary
Jessie Butterfield

Donations from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019

Erna Betcher
Jud Scales
Andrea Paul
Gordon Sadler
Leona Dahl
Helen Russell
Carol Milroy
George Hunt
Con Robinson
Vivian Rasmussen
Betty Riddell
Sheila Kelbert
Simon Mark Olsen
Diane Minish
Agnes Stevenson
Brent William Hunt
Bob Feere
Darlene Bordian
Lorne “Smitty” Leonhard
Edith Marek
Mitch & Darlene Bordian
Allan Staniland
Walter Beals Jr.
Frances “Francie” Yanick
Laura TerHorst
Cecil Ames
Muriel Makurchuk
Linda Wiebe
Marjorie Fulton

Jud Scales Education Fund
Verne Vopni
Dell Grace Wyatt
Andrea Walker
Cherban Estate
Lloyd & Betty Bertram
Rex Leach
Roy Minish
Jim Reich
John & Emilie (Millie) Rasmussen
Phyllis Hornbeck
Marilyn (Woodward) Jackson
Murray Wenstob
Helen Russell
Gordon & Beth Jeffrey
Kay Christensen
Helen Shadbolt
Anthony Novak
Mitch Bordian
Doug Glasscock
Peter Watts
Lorne “Smitty” & Muriel Leonhard
Molly Gornik
Boyd McLure
Jack Coulthart
Leila Barker
Delilah Macooh
Bill Musey
Sonia Filuk

Fred Henkelman
Mel Phillips
Violet Sutherland
Queenie Trumbley
Joey Eggie Fund
Ralph Cook
Beth Hunt
Orville Minish
Elsie Crocker
Ronald & Natalie (Dolly) Liebrecht
Mervin Alexander
Delbert Taylor
Sam Kowalko
Keith & Betty Riddell
Cori (Hunt) Guenther
Albert Woloshyn
Gary Hunt
Thomas “Bert” Pearson
Nellie Herd
Grace Sturhahn
Annie Humenuik
David Kowaluk
Henry Fenski
Eva Signarowski
Harold Tulman
Gary Stacey
Al Berkan
Phyllis Hodgson

Donations from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018

Ruth Terhorst
John Cotton
Ron Schuweller
Melba Parker
Ervin Parachoniak
Monnie Harris
Jacob Wohlgemuth
Stan Robertson
Ben Betcher
James Alexander Pyott
Bill Chegwin
Walter Oberlin
Jason Moshenko
Alexander Bruce Filuk
Ruby Anderson

David Henkelman
Stuart Harris
Victor and Muriel Spicer
Charles and Annie Spicer
Jeffrey Hawkins
Sheila Cotton
Elsie Kreshewski
George and Gladys Russenholt
David Dick
William Oleksy
Bill Davy
Tomas Peden
Elizabeth “Betty” Riehl
Ernest Behrmann
Jack Elenko

Jim Reich
James Haggarty
Joey Eggie
Charlie Leung
Jean Donaldson
Isabel Watts
Gord Hardy
Alex Filuk
Andrew McCleary
Lyle Cook
Linda Hanson
Carrol Milroy
Lloyd Shaw
Glenn Lambert
Melvin Phillips

Donations from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017

Kristen Rooks
Victor Kopecky
Louis Delaurier
Dave Robinson
Albert Hanke
Jim Basso
Mike Leung
Garry Mills
Shannon Taylor
Helen Atkinson
David Terekoff
Dr. James Terekoff
Janet Shakotko
Peter Naydiuk
Gordon Stich
Larry Prieston

Evelyn Bateman
Gordon Clarkson
Emily Stadnick
Bruce Henderson
Anne Nemez
Candice Gordon
Earl Fullerton
Basil Ashcroft
Francie Baird
Fred Fuchs
Teresa Dutchak
Bill Chegwin
Floyd Hickman
Sherry Clarke
John Cotton
Wayne Kushniryk

Jack Greider
Melba Parker
Joey Eggie
Art Jeffrey
Marg Martin
Jamie Stephen
Roy Minish
Alma Kalinchuk
Sandra Cooke
Ida Kastrukoff
Derwyn Rooks
Bernice Anderson
Marie Clementine Cooper
Jean Shaw

Donations from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016

Ejnar Immerkar
Winnie Sparkman
Margaret MacLeod
Lisa Chan
Mary Kosolowski
John & Mabel Gryba
Darryl Belanger
Peter Zinkiew
George, Beth & Barb Hunt
Dorothy Eggie
Cameron Russenholt
Anne Yurkiw
Leona McKay
John (Jack) Lambert
Lorraine Lindy
Robert Campbell
Joseph Heiget
Robin Roberts
Christine Gray
Doug Harris
Floyd & John Hrappstead
Audrey Dauk

Leslie Formo
Robert Thomas
Nellie Sauder
Bertha Latimer
Dorothy Gilsoul
Adam Yaknovich
Alan Hinchliffe
Eunice Szlachtyz
Diane Foster
Glen Robinson
Audrey Dobbyn
Irene Schabert
Darlene Kobelka
Ernie Urbanowski
Doreen Hogg
John Hrappstead
Jean Dunthorne (Saseniuk)
Bob Lawton
Janis Keiller
Kirsten Nowlin
Vivian Lyons
Jeff Hawkins

Jake Buhler
Lois Shaw
Eugene Teslia
Fraser Vessey
Bill Fedorchuk
Jerry Zinkiew
Muriel Leonhard
Rae Harris
Dave Henkelman
Anne Macauley
Eugene Senchuk
Noreen Webster
Harold & Nellie Sauder
Arnold Staples
Toefel Sagert
Vena Parsons
Floyd Hrappstead
Brian Palmer
Rob Anderson
Larry Davidson
Gordon Brown
John Beasley

Donations from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015

Florine Campbell
Jake Reimer
Jake Martens
Katherine Babiuk
Leona Banman
Allan Brandson
Sylvia Skulmoski
Carol Hunter
Sarah Knispel
Marion Treasure
Edith Hanson
Laura Williamson
Shirley Neely
Gordon Alford
Cameron Russenholt
Eunice Brooks
Winnie Sparkman
Jack Gilsoul

Elsie Schroeder
Alice Nielson
John Provins
Jill Chegwin
Sharon Nielsen
Bert Watts
Darrel Lumax
Edna Harness
Ed Kulhavy
Elmer Bjornson
Margaret Potten
Robert Vopni
Bernadette Parthenais
Clarence Russenholt
Ejnar Immerkar
Jake Buhler
Isabelle Howdle
Lois Shaw

Joey Eggie
Bud Shadbolt
Ella Olsen
Ethel Kowal
Dick Walker
Gaye Bobick
Harold Bud Jackson
Fred Sigurdson
Keith Hay
John Dahl
Edna Gordon
Syd Vopni
Olga May
Winnie Russenholt
Leslie Formo
Ron Langman
Robert Thomas
Doris Buckwold

Donations from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014

Lenore (Tibble) Armstrong
Rhoda Iolean Bowen
Brian Garnet Hotel
Eldon Christian
Kelly Cowan
Isabelle Davy
Buddie Dixon
Mary Ethier
Jack Filuk
Wade Galloway
Tofeil Hart
Rilla Huff
Bruce Innis
Pauline Kisel
Hilda McKenzie
Arnold Minish
Menno Penner
Mary Prokopchuk
Clarence & Winnie Russenholt
La Don (Donnie) Stevens
Helen Swaiko
Ed Todarchuk
Leila Wills

John Banman
Jim Bowles
Florine Campbell
Louise Christian
Elmer Cutts
Jean Day
Lilian Dunn
Jeanie Fedorchuk
Glen Foster
Irene Glashen
Shirley Hay
Beth Hunt
Dennis Jenkins
Peggy Lowry
Dave McLauchlin
Joyce Nolan
Matthew Peters
Emil Rabashewsky
Al Spencer
Allen Stevenson
John Swaiko
Phyllis Webster
Lena Yaschyshyn

Monica Black
Jean & James Bowles
Les Cheslock
Stan Cooke
Gay Darroch
Vernon & Irene Denoon
Joey Eggie
Pauline Ferris
Boyd Fullerton
Marj Green
Jane Hayes
Bud Hunt
Merle Jones
Madeline (Kemp) McKellar
Orville Minish
Jean Orlukiewicz
Ture Peterson
John Rasmussen
Marg Steen
Alex Stupak
Pearl Taylor
Joshua Wills
Violet Zander

Donations from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013

John Solomon
Joey Eggie
Barbara Lynn Hunt
Doug Windsor
Doreen Storozuk
Mary Osatchuk
Bob Oliver
Kathy Wood
Gordon Finlay
Eldon Christian
James Dennis McLeod
Vernon & Irene Denoon

Eileen Bertram
Bill Mosiondz
Emil Rubashewsky
Omar Lamb
La Don (Donnie) Stevens
Ron Leslie
Tofeil Hart
Clarence & Winnie Russenholt
Alyce Mullin
Jack Filuk
Ed Todarchuk
Hilton Caverly

Jim Livingston
Danielle Richer
Elmer Minish
Lyle Watson
Mervyn Neely
Evelyn Suggitt
Richard Barteski
Mary Yakielashek
Florence Gray
Louise Christian
Margaret Cotton

Donations from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012

Nicholas Mullin
Peter Hoban
Frances Louise Cotton
Albert Woods
Geraldine Barker
Terry McLaughlin
Serge Richer Jr
Gladys Goltz
Pat Atkinson
Richard Barteski
Jack Bouvier
David Yuzek
Joe Makohoniuk
Frank Salm
Carol Bateman
Thomas Major Bateman
Robert McKay
Eric Martinussen

Bonnabelle Kooistra
Les Cowan
Derwyn Gabrielle
Glen Beals
Kay St. Laurent
Kevin Frazer
Susan Wiens
May Broome
Lee Dayson
Cliff Henderson
Mike Kissel
David Bezanson
Gwen Sakal
Muriel Stephen
Bill Windsor
Curtis Griffith
Allen Harvey
Peggy Bresky

Ken Filuk
Gayleen Harris
Vivian McMahon
Larry Yanick
Evelyn Clarke
Gordon Ferriss
Gordon McClintock
Glenn Riddell
Agnes Burton
Margaret Rose (Peggy) Horton
Metro Kobelka
Edwin Sigurdson
Linda Werenich
Ken Schenk
Robbie Pawlinsky
Jim Fulford
Dolores Broome
Florence Foster

Donations from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011

Walter Wood
Myrna Brandson
Mary Myszczyszyn
Carissa Kowal
Les Stilborn
Frederick Hiller
Hendry Hay
Pearl Fraser
Adina Dyck
Cameron Robb
Stewart McCleary
Boris Zenchyshyn
Bessie Sandborn
Ralph (Spike) Keiser

Brenda Playford
Noreen Webster
Nonie Martin
Audrey Maxwell
Don Bresky
Ed Dobbyn
Ernie Kindrat
Abe Giesbrecht
Olga Tomyk
Tyler Musey
Martin Woloshyn
John Freed
Bill Reich
Vivian Izon

Mike Brischuk
Bill Corbett
Shirley Kennedy
George Hunt
Dr. Hewitt Hornbeck
Calvin Goodman
Florence Highmoor
Jarret Terry
Mary Baskier
Linda Hrappstead
Melita Dahl
Una Reich
Jim Hogg

Donations from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

Conrad Robinson
Laurence & Patricia Mosiondz
Fred Hiller
David “Kimo” Kosolowsky
Gerry Werle
Kay Barrett
May Johnston
Ed Dobbyn
Henry Macooh
Margaret Yeo

Phyllis Pierrepont
Eldon & Marion Paull
Adam Gattinger
Dr. Hewitt Hornbeck
Jan Weppler
Kelly Neely
Clarence Krumm
Marion Powell
Alex Rooks
Margaret Paulson

Dorothy Koons
May Johnston
Tyler Musey
Carissa Kowal
Frank Nerbas
Isobel McKay
Peggy Corbett
Bernice E S Hrappstead
Gerald Vopni

Donations from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009

Wilson Johnston
Wally Mohr
Jean Peden
Doug Leslie
Lola Holtby
Cameron Scott
Victor Hodgson
Martha Thiessen
Glen Silverthorn
Betty Bertram
Lois Hinchliffe
Olive Didychuk
Lloyd Bertram
Bena Frazer

Doris Wray
Eileen Huff
Bill Wittmieier
Bill Bicknell
Brian & Jean Peyton
Rex Leach
Winston Lowry
Natalie Wilson
Mary Silverthorn
John Kastrukoff
Addie McLeod
Agnes Rusk
Caroline Skrypetz

Bob Russell
Stan Pawlinsky
Russell Soura
Cliff Mullin
Tannis Peden\Rutlege
William Reich
Baby Orosz
Wilf Cotton
Neil Metcalfe
Edna Cocks
Ken Baskier
Dennis Farguson
Murray Greig

Donations from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008

Russ Harder
Leone Banks
Edna Sims
Colin Roberge
Wes & Dorie Scales
Winston Lowry
Dick Sopotyk
Irwin R Harness
Annie Marek
Ernest & Nellie McCullough
Joe & Alice Soloway
Annie Elviss
Dan White

Jean Peyton
Robert Chabai
Raymond Scott
Robert Tigg
Dr. & Mrs Maharaj
Milton Mateika
Terry Carter
Olive Belton
Dorothy Minish
Ron Weselowski
Alice Gordon
Harness Family
Logan Scott

Betty Brandson
Blake Hunter
Duncan Bateman
Pete Leung
Lloyd Steen
Mervin Minish
Corrine Besselt
Polly Zlotoff
Archibald & Amy McCullough
Ray Holms
Wallace Tolton
Vincent Gulash
Gloyd Foster

Donations from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007

Winnie Bildfell
Ivan Dixon
Tim Huisman
Lew Matthews
Ted Shadbolt
Peter Pleziuk

Dorie Scales
Agnes Nastrasany
Elizabeth Brandson
Jim Tigg
Alice Stenberg
Wally Hockaday

Desmond Whyte
Alex Makarchuk
Rodney Hofford
Hila Helgasson
Jay Sullivan
Dorothy Bjarnson

Donations from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006

Alice Allen
Isobel McKay
Dorothy Evasiuk
Dave Lumax
Richard Griffen
Mary Kirkpatrick
Ethel Brown
Jim Hunt
Margaret Hohen
Buck Bowen
Keith Brooks
Bea Tibble
Noni Cawthra
Dennis McLeod
George Elliot
Nathan Medwid

Verna Schneider
Ken White
Richard Gamble
Mel Wenstob
Muriel Spicer
Jim Jones
Hazel Greig
Gary Woloshyn
Edith Pyott
Russell Hawrychuk
Marion Paull
Roy Alford
Herb Christian
Ollie Brandson
Ted Huff

Vi Cotton
Ellen Sigurdson
Ralph Brandson
Dave Thom
Bill Sanderson
Keith Riddell
Ebba Robinson
Robert Zell
Jean Weston
Tony Lewicki
Don McKay
Russell Shadbolt
Winnifred Russenholt
Evelyn Bateman
Elwood Affleck

Donations from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005

Barry Goodman
Wilmer/Anna Andrews
Bob & Mary Woods

Charlie Goodman
Dorothy Leach
Jim Butterfield

Kelly Neely
Eldon Paull
Philip Hamm