Tammy Petford ( center left), Speech and Language Pathologist at Whitewood School and Colleen Umpherville, principal, were more than pleased to accept the donation for an audiometer which was given on behalf of the Whitewood Elks’ Lodge by Wolfgang Sawatzki (left) and Everrette Thompson (right).

The Whitewood Elks Lodge provided funds to the Prairie Valley School Division for an audiometer, a machine used to evaluate hearing loss. The audiometer will allow Prairie Valley School Division speech-language pathologists to screen a student’s hearing to ensure each meets a minimum threshold. Saskatchewan does not currently screen all infants/children’s hearing so when many […]

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