Gas station re-opening helps Jack Ady Cancer Society raise funds

By Lethbridge Herald on June 17, 2023.

Herald photo by Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Kim and Trevor Campbell with the Jack Ady Cancer Centre, take part of the Gas King re-opening to collect donations by serving beef on a bun Thursday.

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman
LETHBRIDGE HERALD

The grand re-opening of a local gas station provided an opportunity for the Jack Ady Cancer Society to receive donations while taking part of the celebrations. 

President of Gas King Oil Co Ltd, Brent Morris said it was time to do some renovations in their flagship location located at 213 N Mayor Magrath Drive, which opened in 1985. 

On Thursday they celebrated a grand-opening of the newly renovated gas station store, where they offered those in attendance food samples from their new kitchen and cheaper gas. 

“We have a snacking kitchen here and we don’t have a kitchen anywhere else. We are able to offer our customers hot food in this location, some of our hot products include fries, hotdogs, taquitos, popcorn, mini-doughnuts, and chicken fingers,” said Morris. 

He said they have seven gas stations in total, with four Lethbridge, one in Picture Butte and two in Medicine Hat. 

During the grand re-opening celebrations they also took the time to honour one of their employees.

“We’re also having beef on a bun served by the Jack Ady Cancer Society for a minimum donation of $5, in memory of our long-term employee Brenda Biggar, who passed away about two weeks ago from cancer,” said Morris. 

According to her Linkedin profile, Biggar worked at Gas King for 26 years. 

Manager of the radiation therapy department at the Jack Ady Cancer Centre, Trevor Campbell said they are always humbled when a company,  organization or a group invites them to take part of a donation activity.  

“When Gas King reached out to us, they said ‘hey we’re having this fundraiser, we’d love to have some representation, and we’d love you to come out and talk to the people about the cancer centre,’ so we came out and meet the people, talk a little bit about the cancer centre and thank people for their donations,” said Campbell. 

He said donations are vital to their patients care and they get to see the results of those donations on their faces. 

“We see what the dollars do on the patients faces when they come and we can give them a warm blanket, how it would be easier to get the IV in their vein because we have a vein finder,” said Campbell. 

He said a lot of donations or fundraising events happen in memory of someone who either has won the battle against cancer, or who unfortunately has passed away. 

“We all know that almost everybody in the world is touched by cancer at one time or another unfortunately, and a lot of times we get a lot of donations that are in memory of a family member. There are also some people that are dedicated, we’ve had young ladies cut their hair for wigs and whatnot, and have a head shave in honour of family member or someone that’s lost their hair to chemo therapy or treatment,” said Campbell. 

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