The Corning Centre has rung in the new year with its first major monetary gift. At the end of December, the organization received a cheque for $1,300 from the Armenian Nurses of Ontario, a division of the Armenian Canadian Medical Association. The generous donation was made in commemoration of the centre’s namesake, Sara Corning, a Nova Scotian nurse best known for saving 5,000 Armenian and Greek orphans during the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922. She served as a relief worker in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey during 1919-1922 and 1927-1930.

The funds were received with excitement and will be invested into growing the variety of topics covered in the centre’s work and developing new educational resources.