Vancouver Sun: Gift from Krall family...

[Bud]

A $360,000 grant from singer Diana Krall’s family with matching funding from the province will provide subsidized accommodation for out-of-town patients receiving bone marrow or organ transplants at Vancouver General Hospital.

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Gift ... story.html


Michelle Krall Wigmore (left) and B.C. Minister of Health Michael de Jong attend a press conference announcing funding for a patient-accommodation pilot projecton Friday, May 20, 2011.
Photograph by: GLENN BAGLO, VANCOUVER SUN

[Bud]

This article was posted on Diana's Facebook page:

http://www.vch.ca/about_us/news/media_c ... ng_program

If you'd like to make a donation to the cause, here's the information you need:

A donation check (or cheque as Canadians like to spell it) can be made out to the "VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation", with a notation on the check/cheque, or in a note or letter, that the donation is to be directed to the Krall Patient/Family Housing Program.

It can be mailed to:

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
855 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver BC V5Z 1M9
V5Z 1M9

Alternatively, you could go on-line to their website @ www.worldclasshealthcare.ca , click on the donate button and select the "other" priority, and type in Krall Patient/Housing Program.

[Bud]

http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Kra ... story.html



Diana Krall with her mother Adella and her sister Michelle in 2008.
Photograph by: ., Postmedia News

[scielle]

Times Colonist caption fail.
This couldn't have been 2008... Adella passed away in 2002.

[Coda]

Yes. But a great picture, and they have such nice smiles.

[Bud]

Good catch scielle. I just mindlessly copied and pasted the caption

I agree with Coda that it's a fine picture!