The Roxie Douglas Scholarship Foundation & Learning Institute is having their 27th Scholarship Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at the W.S. Gibbs Conference Hall, 1402 19th St, Huntsville.
Second World War veteran Margaret MacDonald had a tumour the size of a hamburger on her forehead, bladder cancer, congestive heart failure and chronic antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections when her daughter's request for hospice was turned down by a nurse working for Vancouver Coastal Health.