A volunteer organization that helped raise funds at the Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson, B.C. for over 90 years has been forced to stop operating because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kootenay Lake Hospital Auxiliary has been in operation since 1931, with volunteers raising an average of $40,000 per year doing tasks like running the hospital gift shop and gardens, conducting bake sales and raffles, and servicing the hospital ATM and televisions. She says her favourite memory of the auxiliary was seeing women in their 90s staff the gift shop. All of its remaining funds will be donated directly to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation.

Source: CBC News September 25, 2021 18:56 UTC