At that time, Al was CKYL\u2019s Sales Manager and Sports Director. During the initial years, many fundraising events<\/a> were held including one which Al and Joe Zinselmeyer raised over $1,000 throwing a baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few years later, he ran for and was elected as the region\u2019s MLA and when the official Grand Opening of Sunshine House<\/a> was held, Al attended as the elected official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n His wife Joyce later became the organization\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMom and dad were always super involved in the community. Mom was a nurse and dad ran for politics in \u201972. I was young, I was five when dad entered politics,\u201d remembers Rob Adair, son of Joyce and Al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI specifically remember when they opened Sunshine House in Peace River. We went down for the grand opening of it and I ended up playing, running around the house with all the other kids. It was a big deal for mom and dad to help, be a part of getting Sunshine House in Peace River because it was such a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rob tells ASLS \u201cit meant a lot to them to be a part of the community of Peace River. Dad passed away in 1996 and mom passed away in January (2019) so it is nice to have a lasting legacy that goes on.\u201d He adds \u201cfor them it was just being part of the community, and helping, doing what they could to help the society and the community cause these kids are part of the community.\u201d The first president of our organization was Al \u2018Boomer\u2019 Adair, a former minor league baseball player. Al was elected to the role in 1968, at the first organizational meeting in Peace River. At that time, Al was CKYL\u2019s Sales Manager and Sports Director. During the initial years, many fundraising events were held including one which … Continue reading Our 50th Stories: Al and Joyce Adair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-50th-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/8a1303_d83d0a0c09bf4ac0a3dbcb7667093979~mv2_d_2524_3938_s_4_2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_450,h_702,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/8a1303_d83d0a0c09bf4ac0a3dbcb7667093979~mv2_d_2524_3938_s_4_2.jpg\")
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