Supporting the sweetest gift of all

Supporting the sweetest gift of all

Cupcakes and community: NICU “graduates” and co-owners of Jenna Rae Cakes, twins Jenna Hutchinson (centre, left) and Ashley Kosowan (centre, right) chose St. Boniface Hospital’s NICU as the bakery’s community initiative of the month for August....
“More than classmates, they were like sisters”

“More than classmates, they were like sisters”

August 17, 2021 It was August 1958 and Ethel Hook – then a young woman of 18 – had just left the family farm and her small, tight-knit community in rural Manitoba to enrol in the St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing in Winnipeg. “My mother, father, and aunt had...
Sister Gauthier’s Challenge

Sister Gauthier’s Challenge

August 17, 2021 Standards were high in the late sixties at the St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing. Students enrolled in what was then a three-year diploma program were expected to put in the work, and no one made that clearer to them than Sister C. Gauthier,...
150 for 150!

150 for 150!

(From left) Carmine Militano, Chair, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation Board of Directors; Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Director, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences; Eric Lafreniere, Vice President & Head of Commercial Banking, National Bank; Ross Feldman, Medical...
Ready for Anything

Ready for Anything

July 9, 2021 One wants to travel, and one wants a dog. Registered nurses Stephanie Lajoie and Jeanelle Ramos are this year’s lucky recipients of the Wyrzykowski Family Graduate Nurse Endowment Fund. Both recent graduates – Lajoie from Université de Saint-Boniface and...