September’s Yellowknife mud run raised more than $100,000 as part of a broader campaign to purchase cancer-related equipment for the city’s hospital.
On Friday, the Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation and CIBC Run for Our Lives Committee said the provisional total from last month’s event was $116,000.
The target for the foundation’s latest campaign is $600,000, which it says will fund a breast ultrasound machine, two automated endoscope reprocessors – which clean equipment used to look inside the body – and a colposcope examination chair designed for colposcopy and general gynecology procedures.
“Ensuring leading-edge and accurate equipment is available to support the residents of Yellowknife, the Northwest Territories and the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut will help us continue the fight for prevention and early diagnoses,” the foundation previously stated.
“We couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you. From muddy smiles to generous sponsors and donations, you’ve helped make a difference,” foundation executive director Patty Olexin-Lang said by email.
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Meanwhile, CIBC Yellowknife branch manager Yanik D’Aigle raised a further $1,500 for the campaign last week by accepting pies to the face.
Mayor Rebecca Alty was sportingly on hand to deliver one of the pies.
Olexin-Lang and Run for Our Lives co-chair Stephanie Brinkworth smushed two other pies in D’Aigle’s face at a cost of $500 each toward the overall fundraising total.
