Last year, the Sunshine Coast Astronomy Club installed accessibility ramps, sidewalks and telescope viewing pads at its observatory at the airport. “But that left us without an accessible toilet,” says club fundraiser Laurel Ennis. “So they could come, but they could not ‘go.’”
She applied for a BC Rehab grant and received just under $3,500 for a wheelchair-accessible porta-potty, which was delivered last week. (Gibsons Building Supplies also contributed.)
Fellow club member Charles Ennis (Laurel’s husband, past national president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and host of Eastlink’s Astronomy show “Nightlights,”) has a degenerative nerve condition. "So making the Observatory accessible is very important to him, for himself and others to have access to the site,” said Laurel.
