​​On Wednesday, June 14, representatives from the Selkirk & District Lions Club (District 5M11), Stonewall & District Lions Club (District 5M13) and Lions Club International Foundation presented a $130,000 cheque to Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Foundation for the new Selkirk Regional Health Centre’s MRI fund.Dr. Dan Lindsay, director of diagnostic services in Selkirk recognized the community’s long standing support for staff and patients at the hospital. “Community partnerships are an important part of our hospital and a big reason we are able to offer these services closer to home for our patients,” Dr. Dan Lindsay said at the event, “Thank you for the difference you have made in the kind of care we can offer our patients with the addition of the MRI.”

Front (l-r): Lion Gérald Fontaine (Past District Governor of District 5M 11 representing Lions Clubs International Foundation), Lion Louise Kernested (Past District Governor of District 5M 13), Lion Julie Dubowits (Treasurer of the Selkirk and Area Lions Club), and Lion Herb Dubowits (Selkirk and Area Lions Club)

Back (l-r): Pamela McCallum (Executive Director, Interlake-Eastern Health Foundation), Lion Dale Hiscock (President of the Selkirk and Area Lions Club), Bozidar Modrcin (Technical Director, DSM), Jeff Beresford (Diagnostic Services Director, IERHA), Dr. Daniel Lindsay (Medical Director of the Selkirk Regional health Centre and Interlake-Eastern Health Foundation Board Member), and Petr Kresta (Chief Operating Officer, DSM)