By Cheryl Jahn

Kordyban Lodge turns ten

Dec 21, 2023 | 2:07 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – It was eleven years ago that the Kordyban Lodge began to take shape, offering a total of 18 rooms with 36 beds for people with cancer and their caregivers. It opened its doors to clients in 2013 who travel to Prince George to get cancer treatment. And today – a decade later – it still plays home to the likes of Jack Sebastian of Hazelton.

“They have the most amazing staff,” he says. “Yeah, I always helpful. Always talking to people. Oh, I think without them, a lot of people won’t have.”

Lodge Manager Simmy Parhar says the Lodge sees about 800 people come through each year. And for each and every one the first visit is a trying one.

“And if they’re newly diagnosed, they’re very, very nervous and rightfully stressed out. So I always say accommodate should be the last thing that they should be worried about.”

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he Lodge caters to out-of-towners and avoids the extra-strenuous trip farther south. “Being situated in Prince George allows many people not to have to go for their radiation or chemo treatments to like Vancouver or Kelowna.’

Sebastian says, when he gets back to Hazelton, he wants to fundraise for the Lodge but also become an advocate for the lodge to help people who may feel scared to make the trip and often succumb to their illness.

“So with this place, you come here and they give you hope and and you’re not going to die. So I really think we need some kind of counseling back home cause we’ve lost a lot of people to cancer.”

The hope is that with the cancer research going on today, even as close as the Centre for the North, 18 beds at the Lodge will be more than enough.