Eighteen students from Lloydminster and area pursuing a variety of health care studies have been recognized with scholarship awards from the Lloydminster Region Health Foundation (LRHF).
The list of recipients this year includes 10 registered nurses under the Kitty Goodfellow RN Scholarship, each receiving $1,000 and must have completed their first year of nursing before applying. There were two awardees under the Crude Master-Cutter Rally for Cancer Scholarship valued at $2,500, which is open as well to applications from high school students.
The Jane Ruptash Nursing Scholarship, valued at $5,000, saw one recipient. The Sunrise Scholarship for mental health studies had two beneficiaries, and the Pat Redden Memorial ($5,000 for 3rd-year nursing), the Ken & Donna Arnold Family ($2,500) and, Dustin McConnell ($1500) scholarships had one awardee each.
The recipients are:
- Jane Ruptash Scholarship
- Avery MacDuff
- Pat Redden Memorial Scholarship
- Wyatt Roach
- Ken & Donna Arnold Scholarship
- Ella Wingert
- Crude Master-Cutter Rally for Cancer Scholarship
- Abby Bergquist
- Kadence Ball
- Dustin Cody McConnell Memorial Scholarship
- Laney Younghans
- Sunrise Scholarship (mental health studies)
- Jonas Hunt
- Konnor Hennigar
- Kitty Goodfellow RN
- Joel Davidson
- Payton Benjamin
- Paige Brost
- Piper Carnell
- Kaibrie Lumbard
- Lauryn Miller
- Raygen Moore
- Makenna Ryan
- Stephanie Ukrainetz
- Shelby Van Metre
The Lloydminster Region Health Foundation offers these scholarships each year with key awards named after significant contributors to the region’s healthcare. Pat Redden was “a pillar of Hillmond and Lloydminster communities involved in nursing and sports. Jane Ruptash led a long career in nursing at Lloydminster Hospital. Kitty Goodfellow was briefly a patient at Lloydminster Hospital in 1985. She was “impressed with the nursing care she received and bequeathed a significant portion of her estate” to the LRHF.
Ruptash Scholarship recipient Avery MacDuff is in her third year of nursing studies at MacEwan University and wants to continue the Ruptash legacy in her future nursing career.
“I hope to honour Jane’s legacy by providing the same kindness and commitment to my future patients,” says Avery on the LRHF social media.
The scholarship deadline to apply was July 15, 2026. More details are available on the LRHF website. The LRHF will open the application process again next year around April/May.
