ROTARY ROCKS AGAIN WITH MPP SMITH TO ATTEND HEALTH HUB FOR BIG UNOFFICIAL DONOR ‘GROUNDBREAKING’ WEDNESDAY JAN. 28
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
GRAVENHURST — They’ve done it again. The little service club that can and does.
After tipping their fundraising scale at $1 million on Jan. 1, the Gravenhurst Rotary Club is “breaking ground” Wednesday morning — if they can first chip through the snow and ice outside for a photo-op for the much anticipated indoor renovation upstairs the Cottage Country Family Health Team offices next to Town Hall.
About 40 major donors have been invited to the town council chamber for a celebration.
Work is to be begin next month on a 12,000-square-foot reno in the first of three phases, which should be done this spring.
This unofficial project start — to be followed by a similar spring public occasion — includes attendance by large and major donors who have already pledged or who were being solicited including Rotary, the Town of Gravenhurst, District of Muskoka, CCFHT and MPP Graydon Smith.
Cottage Country FHT has applied for funding from the province (through the Integrated Primary Care Team application process) to bring new services and providers to our severely underserved community with 6,000 unattached residents.
They expect to hear sometime in the spring about the response to that application — if not maybe say even sooner.
It all comes after Rotary recently raised $450,000 in public funds for its popular 85th anniversary Rotary Gull Lake Park concert amphitheatre seating project.
Their latest Health Hub project is expected to make room for more medical and doctor recruitment efforts to combat a major crisis in the small town’s ability to take care of its patient population, which claims to almost one in two are without a primary care physician or related medical personnel.
The club’s monumental effort that has taken the club about 10 months of fundraising has resulted in a huge outpouring of support from the hundreds to tens, and hundred of thousands of dollars.
With still more to come — possibly sooner than later they are about to find out.
Attending along with Smith are Rotarian Bruce Hemphill, Health Hub steering committee chair, Rotary fundraising chair Barb McCabe, Dr. Tina Kappos, CCFHT project chair, Mayor Heidi Lorenz and District chair Jeff Lehman.
Invited guests will also see a virtual tour of the finished project.
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