A local senior citizens group may have been unsuccessful in persuading senior Northern Health Authority officials to save the current Seven Sisters mental health facility from demolition, but its president reports they had the chance to state their case at a meeting Oct. 24.
The seniors at first suggested the building could be used as a hospice or for seniors housing before indicating that Northern Health employees told them it would make an excellent daycare centre thus helping to attract and then retain health care professionals. The seniors also presented two petitions of more than 2,000 names combined. One asked to save the current Seven Sisters and the other to save the current Mills Memorial building. The latter is also to be demolished when the new hospital is ready for occupancy and will be replaced by a parking lot.
Penner said the Northern Health officials told the seniors there was absolutely nothing they could do about the decision to tear down those two buildings.