Family donates $34,000 to Penticton's new oncology clinic

The Schellenberg family has made a $34,000 donation to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation that was ten years in the making. The donation will support the new oncology clinic at the Penticton Regional Hospital.  Donna and Harold Schellenberg set up a term endowment fund with the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen in 2013, according to a press release from the medical foundation. The fund was supposed to be reserved for establishing a performing arts centre in Penticton but there was a contingency. The Schellenbergs decided if there were no plans for an arts centre by the end of 2023 the donation would go to the SOS Medical Foundation. READ MORE: Penticton hospital's oncology department getting $22M upgrade https://infotel.ca/newsitem/penticton-hospitals-oncology-department-getting-22m-upgrade/it94652 “Harold Schellenberg, Donna's late husband, was a pivotal early board member, who believed in advancing healthcare in our community. These funds will support the new oncology clinic, impacting one in four lives in the South Okanagan Similkameen affected by this disease,” medical foundation director of development Lissette Little said in the release. The community foundation was in charge of the Schellenberg Family Fund as one of 150 funds in its care for a variety of causes. To contact a reporter for this story, email Jesse Tomas mailto:jtomas@infonews.ca  or call 250-488-3065 or email the editor mailto:news@infonews.ca . You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom mailto:tips@infonews.ca  and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above. SUBSCRIBE to our awesome newsletter here https://infotel.ca/newsletter .