New helipad project launched at the Ponoka Hospital

New helipad project launched at the Ponoka Hospital

It won’t be long before Ponoka and area residents will again benefit from having access to a helipad at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre. There hasn’t been a functioning helipad at the hospital for about a decade. “It’s been decommissioned for close to 10 years,” said Cam Rice, chair of the helipad committee, adding that Transport Canada decommissioned it due to helicopters simply getting bigger. And so having been born and raised in Ponoka, …