More donations towards new hospital in PEC

Dec 20, 2023 | 1:56 PM

Pictured at ANDARA Gallery; Back row : Briar Boyce, senior development officer with PECMHF; Sally Cowan, Back the Build campaign cabinet member; Monica Alyea, PECMHF board member; Andrew Csafordi, co-owner of ANDARA Gallery. Front row: Tara Wilkinson, co-owner of ANDARA Gallery; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign chairperson; and Barbara McConnell, PECMHF board chairperson (Photo: Shannon Coull)

There has been more support for the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation and the new hospital.

Through their annual “ODE to Joy” Art Show and Sale, ANDARA Gallery artist-owners Andrew Csafordi and Tara Wilkinson presented the Foundation’s Back the Build Campaign with $6,700.

Donations were accepted during their month-long ‘Holiday Photo in the Barn” fundraiser which saw more than 500 guests take photos in their century-old barn with a stunning 18-foot Christmas tree from Skootamatta Tree Farm in Flinton.

Over four years, the Bloomfield Gallery has raised $30,000 with over 2,500 visitors (plus pets) photographed.

And two Wellings of Picton fundraisers brought in $4,775 for Back the Build.

One was an online auction which ran from November 17 to December 4 and the other was a Christmas Bazaar held in the Wellings of Picton atrium on November 25.

In the atrium at Wellings of Picton at the front with Mr. and Mrs. Claus are Briar Boyce, senior development officer with PECMHF (left) and Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMHF (right).
(Photo: Sue Vincent)