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CRH Foundation Christmas Tree Festival raises more than $160,000

Another hugely successful Christmas Tree Festival for the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation.

The annual gala and auction took place Wednesday night at the ENMAX Centre. This year, over $160,000 was raised.

CRH Foundation Executive Director, Jason VandenHoek says once again they are blown away by the support shown by individuals and businesses in Lethbridge and surrounding area. “There was a great deal of excitement around this year’s auction and we had an amazing evening.” A listing of all tree buyers, sponsors and decorators will be published in the Lethbridge Herald in the coming weeks.”

In total, more than 5,000 people visited the Festival, with 24 trees on display.

All the funds raised by this year’s Christmas Tree auction are earmarked to support the ongoing renovation and redevelopment of the Mental Health area at Chinook Regional Hospital.

Patrick Siedlecki
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!
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