STARS Fund Raiser Rewarding For KAP VP

This year’s STARS Air Ambulance fund raising program included the vice president of Keystone Agriculture Producers.

Rescue on the Island is the flagship fundraising event for STARS in Manitoba, and with the support of colleagues, businesses, friends and family, participants have helped to raise more than $1.8 million dollars to support the work of STARS.

On September 9th, a group of community leaders traded in their business attire for flight suits, and climbed onboard the STARS air ambulance helicopter for a unique mission. Each participant worked to raise as much money as possible to earn a flight back to civilization, using the only their cell phones.

Jake Ayre raised close to $60,000, and was pleased with response to his fund raising efforts.

“Our group raised $203,000, and it seemed like such a large and unreachable goal. I didn’t think it was an achievable goal but I want to thank everyone who reached out to support an organization that saves lives in rural Manitoba every day.”

The group was taken to a remote island near Pinawa and had to take on several challenges and do the fund raising to get off the island.

“First thing we had to do was a signal building challenge. We had a Hercules bomber plane flying over us and we had to try and flag them down. Once we did that, there were two search and rescue techs who parachuted out and landed on the water which was quite a feat.”

The participants also took part in some medical type challenges while on the island.