Marjorie Goodfellow, a name synonymous
with health care services
for English-speaking Townshippers,
is spearheading a first ever Englishlanguage
radiothon to raise funds for the
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke.
Goodfellow has enlisted the support
of CBC radio and popular Quebec AM
host Tim Belford, as well as prominent
business and educational leaders in the
community and local media in a bid to raise
$50,000 for the regional hospital.
The radiothon will be broadcast live
from the cafeteria of the CHUS Fleurimont
on CBC radio, 91.7 FM, Nov. 7 during
Belford’s Quebec AM morning show,
Radio Noon and Breakaway in the afternoon.
“I learned of a similar effort by the minority-
language community in St. Bonifice
which was very successful,” said Goodfellow,
a longtime member of the CHUS
Foundation.
“According to recent statistics, there are
24,000 English-speaking people living in
the traditional Eastern Townships and another
30,000 within the regional network
who use the services of the hospital,” she
added.
Goodfellow said a second purpose of the
radiothon is to inform English-speaking
Townshippers of the new technology, research,
health care services and job opportunities
available at ‘their’ hospital.
“Out theme is ‘Make this hospital
yours’,” Goodfellow said.
CHUS Fondation manager Michel
Fortin pointed out that some 1,800 Englishspeaking
people have already made donations
to the foundation and he is hoping
they will contribute again to the radiothon.
Tim Belford said CBC has embraced the
opportunity to play a role in the development
and maintenance of the community’s
institutions.
“We will ask for money, but we will also
hear from staff, administrators, users,
reasearchers and others who will talk about
their experiences,” Belford said.
David McBride who is leading the radiothon’s
financial committee noted it is
easy to take the hospital for granted but we
should pause to realize how fortunate we
are to have a world class hospital like the
CHUS in our midst. “For this region to survive
and flourish, we must continue to support
our institutions,” McBride said.
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both the Quebec Community Newspaper
Association and the Canadian
Community Newspaper Association,
a federation of 700 community newspapers
across the country. “T he Townships Outletwill be about
the people of the Eastern Townships
and the issues and events that interest
them,” McCully said
With an office in Lennoxville and a team
of correspondents lined up throughout the
various towns and villages, the new paidcirculation
weekly will bring news of the
Townships to the door of subscribers each
Wednesday beginning in August.
McCully took over publication of the
monthly Outlet from Charles Catchpaugh
two years ago after retiring as editor of The
Record. White is a two-time owner of The
Record, first in 1969 when he purchased
the daily with partners Conrad Black and
David Radler and again in 1999 as a director
of Hollinger Inc. He recently purchased
the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph.
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