Have you heard? A new hearing-testing centre opened this summer in Citadel Mews in St. Albert.
“The new St. Albert clinic is the eighth Living Sounds Hearing Centre in the Edmonton area,” said hearing practitioner Jan Parker, who explained the clinics are jointly owned by Tim Goshulak and Greg Nedelec of Edmonton. The company is nine years old.
Comprehensive hearing tests and counselling services are offered at the new clinic.
“We do testing and when the need is there, we provide hearing aids,” said Parker.
Living Sounds Hearing Centre also offers free peer-support classes for its clients provided by Cindy Gordon, of the Canadian Hearing Association.
Gordon helps people with new hearing aids learn to adjust. She also invites the new clients’ partners to the classes and provides them with strategies such as where to sit in a crowded room, so there is less hearing distortion and confusion of sounds for the person wearing the hearing aids.
The sun shone on the 10th annual Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club’s charity golf tournament held Sept. 24.
The tournament, held at the Sturgeon Valley golf course, raised approximately $15,000 with proceeds split between the Cross Cancer Institute and the Charles Gale Centre Society.
“This year’s tournament raised slightly more than $15,000,” confirmed Vivian Leland, of the St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre.
The tournament began a decade ago after the death of Bernie Giesbrecht, whose wife Cathy is a trainer at Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club. The funds were initially in honour of Giesbrecht and were donated to the Cross Cancer Institute, but since then the tournament has gone on to commemorate the lives of others who have died of cancer.
In 2006 the tournament expanded to include support for the Charles Gale Centre, which houses the three non-profit agencies: St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre; St. Albert Parents’ Place and St. Albert’s Children’s Theatre.
“It helps all three non-profit groups with our operational needs,” said Leland, who is the office manager at CIVC.
Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club manager Christine Rawlins said the joint effort of staff from her club and the staff members from the agencies housed within the Charles Gale Centre, serves to strengthen the community.
“The same St. Albert people and businesses come to the tournament every year and they are very supportive of us both. It’s our way as a club and as a business to give back to the community. I believe those that come to the tournament see it that way too,” she said.
Over 10 years the Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club golf tournament raised $96,000 for the Cross Cancer Institute and since 2006 has raised approximately $50,000 for the Charles Gale Centre.
