Summary information
| Repository: | South Peace Regional Archives |
| Title: | Heart Healthy Support Group fonds |
| Reference code: | 0283 |
| Date: | 1990-1997 (date of creation) |
| Physical description: | 2 cm textual records
6 photographs |
| Dates of creation, revision and deletion: | Processed by Karen Burgess March 2008 Added to new database October 2023 – TD |
Administrative history / Biographical sketch
In 1990, after her husband had suffered a heart attack, Pat Schneider sensed the need for the formation of a group to provide support and rehabilitation information to heart patients and their families in Grande Prairie. An initial steering committee made up of Pat Schneider, Janet Ophus, and Gord Astle met on Dec 23, 1993, and organized the first meeting of what became the Heart Healthy Support Group. January 19, 1994 saw thirteen people attend that first meeting in a room provided by the QEII Hospital. The vision of the group was to provide spousal support for heart patients, to provide dietary and medical information through handouts and speakers, and to encourage exercise through walking. They formed a group known as the “Mall Walkers” who met in the Prairie Mall on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:00 am to walk the corridors of the Mall for up to an hour. An initial 24 people registered for the walking program, but by their spring wind-up in 1996, 135 people had accumulated 6500 miles in that season’s six months of walking. The group disbanded after 1997 but by the example they set, many people still “walk the mall” early in the morning.
Custodial history
The records were donated to the South Peace Regional Archives by Patricia Schneider in 2006.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of minutes and meeting handouts (1993-1997) , correspondence (1990-1995), and their Mall Walkers program including news clippings (1994-1996). There are also two photographs of the Mall walkers in 1994 and 1996.
Notes
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title of fonds based on contents.
Access points
- Textual record (documentary form)
- Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)
- Health care (subject)
Series descriptions
| Reference code | Title | Dates | Physical description |
| 0283.01 | Item – Mall Walk Group | 1994 | 1 photograph : colour ; 4 x 6 in. |
| Scope and content:
The Mall Walkers from the Heart Healthy Support Group in the Prairie Mall, 1994 |
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| 0283.02 A-E | Item – Mall Walk Group Meet for Coffee | 1996 | 5 photographs : colour ; 4 x 6 in. |
| Scope and content:
The Mall Walkers from the Heart Healthy Support Group meet for coffee after their walk in the Prairie Mall, May, 1996. |
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