Re: SHAVA needs new home, Gazette, Oct. 21).
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers who provide their service and smiles in the operation of the SHAVA (Sturgeon Hospital Auxiliary Volunteer Association) bookstore.
I look forward to my bi-weekly visits to the store to purchase and/or donate books and have always been impressed by the volunteers’ efforts to organize and maintain the books in such a systematic library fashion. This non-profit, volunteer-run bookstore is to be commended for all the monies it has raised for the Sturgeon Hospital for the past two decades.
I am saddened to hear that the bookstore has been given notice and will close on Nov. 28, yet I would also like to thank Amacon and the previous developers who allowed SHAVA to operate all this time, rent and utilities free.
I sincerely hope that a new home for SHAVA is on the horizon so that it will be able to continue its great service to the St. Albert community, but mostly to the Sturgeon Hospital.
Oksanna Dawson, St. Albert
