Jim Pattison's net worth has risen dramatically in recent years. But there's only so much you can give to hospitals, short of paying the salaries of doctors and nurses, something philanthropists don't seem to go in for, the biggest obstacle being, Where to put the plaque?
The Jim Pattison Group is a highly diverse outfit, yet Pattison's pattern of giving is narrow. Unlike many philanthropist, he has no interest in visual art and its museums. But he is a religious man, and it is his church -- Glad Tidings on Fraser near Kingsway -- that he has been spiffying itself up of late.
Among the more recent tidyings the building's staff might be glad for is a filling-in of the gap between the upper parking ramp and grade. Now the lepers that once sheltered there are gone. But where to? And did anyone at Glad Tidings thank them for their patronage?
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