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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. September 20, 2021...
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,...
“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...
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
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...
Join us in support of a vital (C)PET Project
Over the next few weeks, Voice Logic, a well-respected firm with an excellent reputation, is making telephone calls to our valued donors on our behalf. We want you to know these calls are genuine and that all gifts support St. Boniface Hospital. June 11, 2021 St....
Meet the Foundation’s New Leader
All artwork in photos by Susan Turner, courtesy of the Buhler Gallery at St. Boniface Hospital. May 4, 2021 As St. Boniface Hospital Foundation’s new President and CEO, Karen Fowler says she wants to see more of the visible differences that donor support makes in the...
A Nurse Once and Always
May 3, 2021 St. Boniface Hospital Foundation donor Barbara McGregor is quick to share memories from her career as a nurse – many fond, some sad, all with the keen perspective of her 96 years. McGregor entered St. Boniface Hospital’s School of Nursing in...
A Plateful of Grateful
March 9, 2021 “Food equals gratitude.” Though not the official slogan for the partnership between MITT’s Culinary Arts and Design program and St. Boniface Hospital, the phrase captures the essence of a collaboration to support health-care workers on the front lines....
Memories for life, a career in caring
January 13, 2021 Rob Guderyan will always remember his grandparents. A health care aide at St. Boniface Hospital, Guderyan, 42, lends credence to the expression The Child is father of the Man. In Guderyan’s case, the bond he formed as a child with his grandparents...
Farewell to a friend
What makes a man? And what drives him to give selflessly to his community? For Conrad Wyrzykowski Sr., who passed away November 7, 2020, the essence of giving was found not only in financial contributions, but also in the devotion of his time and seemingly limitless...
New mag helps kids understand COVID-19
When COVID-19 started to spread around the world, information was scarce. Today the flow of facts and figures can be overwhelming. For concerned parents and curious kids, it can be extra hard to know which sources are trustworthy. Thankfully, families now have a...