Q98 staff and a number of project sponsors deliver dozens of fresh poinsettia plants as a gift to patients at Battlefords Union Hospital Friday. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

By Angela Brown

Early Christmas

Project Poinsettia brings cheer to those in care over holidays

Dec 14, 2019 | 1:40 PM

Many care homes and health care centres enjoyed a special early Christmas gift Friday.

In the spirit of the season, radio station Q98 and dozens of local businesses gifted them with beautiful red and white poinsettias.

It was all part of Project Poinsettia.

Sandra Semeniuk, of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, helped coordinate the delivery at the Battlefords Union Hospital, remarking the poinsettias are a welcome gift for all the patients over the holidays.

“A lot of them don’t know they are coming either, so it is a nice little surprise for them,” she said.

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Q98 partnered with Discovery Co-op; Anderson Pump House; Holm Raiche Oberg (HRO) Accounting; the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) and more than 20 other sponsors for the initiative.

The poinsettias are provided by Milbanke Flowers and Home Decor along with Christmas cards by Ultra Print.

Nic Fransoo, host of The Early Show on Q98 and program director with Jim Pattison Broadcast Group in North Battleford, said each year hundreds of poinsettias are given to hospitals and care homes in the area, in what has now become a holiday tradition.

“For the last number of years we have been going out to deliver poinsettias to bring a little extra Christmas cheer to those living in long-term care,” he said. “We wanted to make sure that everybody knows that they are thought of and loved at Christmas time.”

Plans are for the poinsettias to be delivered to various health facilities on Dec. 13th and 20th in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake area.

Patients also receive a Christmas card with the festive gift.

In total close to 1,000 poinsettias were to be delivered for the project to residents at the Saskatchewan Hospital, Meadow Lake Hospital, Northland Pioneers Lodge, Caleb Village, Harwood Manor, River Heights Lodge, Battlefords District Care Centre, Villa Pascal, and Battlefords Union Hospital and Battlefords Mental Health Centre.

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