By CONNIE TABBERT
Editor
PEMBROKE — Two Cobden District Public School students are first and third winners in the Christmas Card Design for the Pembroke Regional Hospital Foundation.
This is the third year for the Christmas card design contest, said Sarah Neadow, fundraising and development assistant for the foundation. The cards will be used as fundraiser for the Cutting Edge Campaign this year she said.
Cobden students Danica Smith and Brooklyn Tomasini placed first and third, with Ava Allen of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School in Petawawa coming in second.
Elementary-aged school children were invited to create a Christmas card cover, Ms. Neadow said. The designs could be created using pencil, crayon or paint. This year there were 167 entries, she said. They were each posted on display and for three days hospital staff voted on them.
“It was so nice to see the kids get so involved, especially at Christmas,” she said.
The three girls were each presented with a ribbon and various gifts at the unveiling of the top three designs Tuesday evening.
The cards are now available in packages of six for $12 – two of each design are in each package.
The money is going towards the Cutting Edge Campaign, which is raising $2.5 million towards the upgrading of the surgical floor, which is circa 1950s, and the new orthopaedics floor, Ms. Neadow said.
“We are about half-way there,” she said.
While the fundraising campaign is $2.5 million, the total cost is $11.5 million. Ms. Neadow noted the other $8.5 million is from the government.
