The Malakwa Community Centre Association is determined to maintain Malakwa as a vibrant, close knit community, whose citizens have access to all the basic services and recreational opportunities available in any community, while at the same time enjoying a rural lifestyle. To that end, the association has been instrumental in reviving the Community Park, located on Malakwa Station Road close to the old ‘downtown core’ of Malakwa.

A strong, volunteer-based community organization, the Shuswap Hospice Society has been offering compassionate care for the dying and bereaved in and around the Shuswap for 25 years. Included in its services are: grief counselling with an accredited Grief Counsellor, palliative care, care for caregivers, holiday support, a parents bereavement support group, a young widows’ support group, a men’s support group, and compassionate care for the terminally ill, to name a few.

A $5000 grant from the John & Ingrid Monk Endowment Fund was used to purchase and install new state of the art stoves, an upright fridge/freezer combo, a microwave/convection oven combo, and a regular refrigerator in the centre’s kitchen, replacing those in use since the centre’s inception 30 years ago.

In May of 2010, twenty five cadets, ranging in age from 12-18, participated in tours of CFB Esquimalt, 443 Squadron, the BC Legislature, and Royal BC Museum thanks in part to a $1,500 grant from Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union Youth Endowment Fund.

It’s important to ensure that medical equipment is properly cleaned and disinfected, and the new wash bay at the Salmon Arm Red Cross Loan Depot allows volunteers to do just that in an efficient manner. Funds from the Lloyd and Dorothy Askew Family Endowment Fund and the General Fund made the building of the new wash bay possible.