MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 5, 2011
Weagant Farm Supplies Supports Annual Appeal with $13,500 Donation
Brockville—Weagant Farm Supplies has donated $13,500 to the Brockville and District Hospital Foundation’s
2011 Annual Appeal, a generous donation that represents 10% of the total fundraising goal.
“We saw the call for support for the Annual Appeal in the newspaper,” explains Laird Weagant, co-owner of
the local business. “For us, it’s the very fact that it is for Telepathology, new technology for the lab.
We have 17 employees in this location alone. They and their family members will all need the service at
some point.
“It’s a very specific cause,” he adds. “It’s been a good year for us so we feel we need to share with the community.”
The BDHF Annual Appeal is supporting the Brockville General Hospital (BGH) Laboratory Services for 2011,
with a goal of raising $135,000 targeted for the lab’s acquisition of Telepathology—a system that uses
electronic imaging and information transfer to allow instant transmitting and sharing of digital images of
pathology samples or “slides.” Through the ability to share electronically, the system will enable faster
second opinion in support of diagnosis for patients, regardless of where they live.
The donation is a corporate donation, says Weagant. “Our staff does their own fundraising as well, and in
November alone supported Movember for Prostate Cancer, the Kinsmen Snowsuit Fund and local Palliative
Care.”
The Foundation’s Annual Appeal began in early November and runs to December 24th. With the Weagant
donation, the Appeal has already raised over $100,000 towards the final goal.
Weagant Farm Supplies has three locations and employs 61 people in the region. Laird and his wife Elise
moved to the Brockville area three years ago.
“Wherever we lived,” says Elise Weagant, “we’ve always supported local hospitals. When you support the
hospital, you support the community.”
BGH Lab Manager Susan Pugh (seated in tractor seat) gratefully accepts the donation of $13,500 from
Weagant staff (front row, l – r) Colin Tracey, Dale Somerville, Juliana Watt, Michael Harper, Giselle
Davies, (back row, l – r) Andrew McMullen, Laird Weagant (owner), Dale Countryman, Joe Vasey, Robert
Taylor, Bill Reed, Elise Weagant (owner), John MacDonald, Randy Washburn, Kasey Kinch, Greg Clark and
Elwood Giroux. Missing is Lorne Smith.
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