Goodsir looking for volunteers this winter

Good who has spent years maintaining the park is now asking for the public’s help as the winter quickly approaches. It was over two years ago when Good fell ill and was discovered to be suffering a heart attack. Since then he has been taken to St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver where he had a quadruple by-pass surgery, where he says had a second heart attack on the operating room table.

Photo Courtesy: CKPG News staff

“They told me I almost died,” said Good in an on-camera interview with CKPG News. “I was supposed to start getting well after this operation,” said Good, who adds that unfortunately, that has not been the case.

“I’ve had some wonderful, wonderful volunteers in the last two years or so, and I credit them to the fullest. If it wasn’t for them I would’ve had to close the park down.”–Jim Good, Developer, Goodsir Nature Park

Good says that this year he will primarily need volunteers for snow removal and firewood detail. “I am hoping and praying that with my second operation I’ll be able to get back on track and do most of my chores in keeping this place up,” said Good.

Not only is this Good’s passion project, creating the park was his childhood dream.

“People sometimes laughed at me for being a little kid with such a big idea who wanted to do something different, but I never gave up.”–Jim Good, Developer, Goodsir Nature Park

The park includes staple pieces of Canadian nature all throughout the trail, along with two museums holding nature artifacts from the west coast all the way to the east.

Visitors to the park are able to explore by donation. Those looking to volunteer can reach out to Jim at: 250-971-2337.

by Veronica Beltran

Goodsir looking for volunteers this winter

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