Recipient Charity

Amount

Money used for...

Allied Arts Council [Lethbridge & District]

$ 10,000

50th anniversary celebration activities [to enhance the council significant contribution to the vitality of our arts community]

Canadian Mental Health Association

$ 6,300

Lethbridge & Southwestern Alberta suicide prevention history project, with part funding from a field-of-interest endowment fund, to document the leadership role of Lethbridge and area in suicide prevention.

Cardston & District Health Foundation

$ 5,500

Glidescope laryngoscope purchase

Cardston Community Theatre

$ 4,200

Storage building for theater sets

Cardston Public Library

$ 2,500

Public use networked photocopier

Chinook Lifeline Association

$ 1,448

Replace aging equipment used by clients

Foothills Fetal Alcohol Society

$ 5,000

Family & community response project, supporting pregnant women so they can have healthy, alcohol-free pregnancies

Fort Macleod Historical Association

$ 5,000

To support the development of the innovative The Red Coats are Coming school education program

GB Probe School

$10,000

School playground development, to help build a barrier-free, community-use playground for children of all ages

Galbraith School

$ 7,500

Lighting & sound equipment replacement (to assist the many community-based programs offered by the school)

Girl Guides of Canada (Chinook Area)

$ 5,000

Camp Okeekum grounds upgrade

Great Canadian Plains Railway Soc.

$ 2,500

Historical lighting restoration of Coutts/Sweetgrass 1890's train depot

Jet's Stadium Society (Vauxhall)

$ 5,000

Expansion of Jet's baseball stadium [building of a storage facility]

LCI Band Program

$ 3,500

Band instruments [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]

Lethbridge & District Horticultural Society

$ 5,000

Horticultural Society's 100th Anniversary in 2009 X-eriscape demonstration garden, Galt Museum, Leth

LT Westlake Community Enhancement Society

$ 6,462

Playground enhancement, LT Westlake school, Taber

WR Myers High School

DA Ferguson Middle School

$ 5,995

Shared instruments for band programs, Taber [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]

Mosquito Creek Foundation

$ 5,000

Assisted living addition (assisted bathing tub) to Silver Willow Lodge in Nanton

Municipality of Crowsnest Pass

$ 1,000

Crowsnest Pass youth forum day

Noble Central School

$ 3,500

Musical production equipment

Picture Butte High School

$ 500

Achieve nutrition project, to help purchase kitchen equipment for the Achieve Nutrition Project at Picture Butte High School.

RI Baker Middle School

$ 7,500

Band instrument inventory upgrade [partial funding through the McDonell Music Endowment Fund]

Southern Alberta Epilepsy Association

$ 2,000

Community education program

Stavely Golf Club

$ 6,000

Artificial greens project

Wheat Country Special Needs Society

$ 5,000

Development of a new Program center facility in Vulcan