[Four adults holding cheque][“The Yellowknife Association for Retarded Children [Jack Adderley] is being presented with two cheques. Heidi Hoeffer (Hoefer), treasurer of the D.M.S. (Daughters of the Midnight Sun) with a cheque for two hundred dollars, and John Millen, secretary-treasurer of the Discovery Mine Rec Club – donating the proceeds of a Klondike Night- three hundred and forty dollars. Dennis Mackie is publicity chairman. These two cheques bring the total money raised during the past three weeks to close to one thousand dollars, all money being earmarked for a new school for retarded children.” (News of the North, Nov 7, 1963)]
[Please note that original title and News of the North caption includes an outdated and pejorative term used historically to refer to persons with intellectual disabilities. For reasons of historical authenticity, captions and titles accompanying archival records, especially photographs, are shown in their original form.]