The hospital gardens at the Drumheller Health Centre are a lot brighter thanks to the Drumheller Area Health Foundation’s (DAHF ) Be a Light! fundraiser. The community purchased solar lights, donated by Drumheller Canadian Tire to be placed in the hospital gardens to brighten the days of our Continuing Care residents and hospital patients while raising funds for the foundation. The Be a Light! fundraiser raised approximately $2,325 to fund the greatest need hospital equipment for the Drumheller Health Centre, and a few more lights can be purchased. Installing the lights are (l-r) Drumheller Canadian Tire owner Justin Lamoureux, DAHF treasurer Gary Krabsen, DAHF chair Susan Schmidt, and DAHF secretary Jackie Watts.
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September 11, 1934 - February 18, 2021
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of James William Neill. He was born September 11, 1934 and passed away peacefully with family by his side on February 18th, 2021 at the age of 86 years.
Jim grew up on the family farm where he farmed with his father and brothers until health issues made it necessary for him to move to Continuing Care in Drumheller. He has resided there for the past 25 years and called it home. He enjoyed all recreational activities. He liked playing crib, singing and dancing. He also enjoyed his church activities a lot. He received wonderful care there from all the staff and Dr. Mpisi, who were all very kind to him.
28 July 1933 - 11 December 2020
We are saddened to announce the passing of our Dad, Ralph Gutwald, after a long struggle with health issues. Throughout the past few years, he was the epitome of strength, courage, grace, and of course, the stubbornness of his German heritage.
Dad was born in Brux, Republic of Germany in 1933, which later became part of Czechoslovakia. When World War II broke out in 1939, his family was shipped on trains to internment camps with nothing but a suitcase, where they lived in squalor for over a year. There were many years of hardship living in Nazi Germany, including a period living in another camp post-war. The horrors he witnessed left an indelible impression, yet he managed to find ways to be a typical boy, with stories of stealing “artifacts” from sleeping Russians and digging underneath the internment fence into the forest to explore much to his mother’s consternation and worry. And worse, collected and disassembled grenades and other acquir