The City of Prince George will be accepting a gift of a a Structural Protection Unit for wildfire mitigation from the Prince George Community Foundation and Miracle Theatre from their next production.
Miracle Theatre will be producing another play with performances beginning mid-March 2024, and would like to donate the proceeds from this production to purchase a trailer that contains contain gear such as pumps, hoses, sprinklers and water delivery attachments and tools.
The hopes of Miracle Theatre and the community foundation are to both jumpstart and augment the city’s plan to obtain its first fully equipped Structural Protection Unit over the next four years.
“We wish to accomplish this by providing an additional Protection Unit within one year. Any funding raised over the purchase price of the Structural Protection Unit would go to the foundation’s emergency response fund to help future crisis’ that may happen within our community,” said Mindy Stroet, the foundation's director of development in a letter to city council.
“It is our understanding that having two of these units could provide several benefits: the most crucial being significant added protection for our community.”
Prince George city council accepted the gift proposal at its Monday night meeting.
“We have got some tough years ahead and some of the issues around wildfire mitigation are not just important they are becoming evermore critical. We are a city in the middle of a forest,” said Coun. Garth Frizzell before moving that council confirm and accept the terms of the gift.
Under the banner of Miracle Theatre, theatre practitioners Anne Laughlin and Ted Price, with the assistance of a group of dedicated supporters, annually create professional productions for the enjoyment of the region and then contribute to the financial welfare of local non-profits.
Since 2019, Miracle Theatre has worked with the Prince George Community Foundation, establishing the Children of Prince George Endowment Fund, the Prince George Hospice & Palliative Care Society Endowment Fund and the Refugee and Hope Endowment Fund.
Over $500,000 has been donated through these four most recent productions.
