Oyen Weekly Briefs, Mar. 3, 2021
By Diana Walker
We received word of the death of former Oyenite Lynne Baisley, 76, of Sherwood Park on February 26, 2021, following an aneurysm. Lynne began working at the Big Country Hospital as a staff nurse in 1983 and became LTC unit manager when Rita Torrence in about 1985. In 1993, she was manager for northern Medicine Hat when we became regionalized and had lost our administrator. She kept this position until she retired about 2006-2007 and moved to Lethbridge. Condolences to her family.The community, especially Oyen Lodge residents and staff, were saddned to learn of the death of Kimberly Ann Hope (Bryant) Stucki of Alsask in Big Country Hospital on February 27, 2021, at the age of 58 after a valliant battle with cancer.
Congratulations to Kalsey Fraser, shopper at Oyen Ag Foods who became the sixth and final online winner of 1 year of free groceries (valued at $5200) in the Great Grocery Giveaway 2021.
Congratulations to Chase Dziatkewich who won $2,000 and Colin Wilson who won $1,000 in the recent raffle held by the Oyen & District Curling Club.
The mobile units continue to be loaded and hauled from the pipeline camp on the west side of Oyen.
Residents of the Extended Care Unit, Oyen Lodge and life-leases have now received their first COVID shots. Watch next week for more details.