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“An inspiration to others”: Ric Suggitt honoured for selfless organ donation

December 3, 2021

LETHBRIDGE, AB – A Lethbridge man has been given a special honour, even after his death.

Ric Suggitt received this year’s Logan Boulet Award, and was recognized nationally earlier this week at an annual event hosted by Canadian Blood Services.

Ric was the coach of the University of Lethbridge women’s rugby team, and he was also Logan Boulet’s trainer for a period of time.

Sadly, Ric died in 2017 after suffering a brain hemorrhage, however before he passed, he made the decision to donate his organs. That selfless act helped save a number of lives.

Canadian Blood Services says Ric continues to be an inspiration to others, especially with the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Lethbridge plasma donation centre coming up on December 22.

Patrick Siedlecki

Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!