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mary 21,1979 - Sunday News.

Telethon for new Children’s H
- Variety club pledges $5 million” ==

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NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPIT AL under construction to help British Columbia's handicapped children.

. Construction of the new pretty good idea of our $1,152,862 ‘during the 20-

‘Children’s Hospital - ability to do so once our hour telethon. Rosen said

complete with its Variety
Club Clinics -.is progressing

1979 telethon goes off the air
February 18.”

on schedule. So is the

Variety Club in its efforts to
meet a commitment to raise _ The telethon, broadcast
$5 million toward the live throughout British
hospital's cost. _ Columbia by the BCTV
: . network, is Tent 47’s major
fund-raising vehicle. The
show is produced in the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre in
Vancouver and goes on the

February 17.

Last year, British
Columbians pledged

”

CHUCK FINCH - Telethon
telephone set up chairman

Chief Barker Sam Rosen
of Tent 47, the B.C. chapter
of Variety, said in a progress
report issued on the eve of
the Feb. 17-18 Variety Club
Telethon on BCTV, that the
target of occupancy of the
new hospital by the end of
1980 is within reach.

The’ main structure is
taking shape on the
Shaughnessy site at Oak
Street and 30th Avenue in
Vancouver, where con-
struction began in
November, 1977. ”

Total cost, of, the new
hospital, which will serve
children from throughout
British Columbia with both
care for the acutely-ill and
sophisticated diagnostic and
preventive services, will be
about $30 million. Major
share of that is provided by
‘the provincial govérnment
with other funding coming
from Variety, the Greater
Vancouver Regional
District, the Health Centre
for Children at Vancouver
General Hospital and the
board of the _ present
Children’s Hospital.

Rosen said the generosity
of British Columbians in
their support for Varicty
Club work has enabled Tent
47 to increase by more than
$1 million the amount it now |
has placed in trust for
payment of its $5 million
commitment. to the new |
Children’s Hospital. + 7
. |

“We are hopeful that we
will be able to do as well
during the next 12 months,”
Rosen said, “and we'll have a

air at 8 p.m. -Saturday,

final receipts exceeded that -
reaching $1,157,000. The
club also received $182,000

. last year. from the Jack
Wasserman Tiny Tim Fund
campaign of the Vancouver
Sun and lesser amounts from
other projects.

In total, the funds enabled
Tent 47 to increase to $3.2
million the amount placed in

trust for the new Children’s .

~~ Hospital, while at the same
time providing assistance for
children in many other ways
and places.

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