Following Donna’s death from Lung Cancer on 2 January, 2009, her husband, Dana Schmidt, and son, Brian (2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics), established the Donna Schmidt Memorial Lung Cancer Prevention Society. In 2010 the Society was organized as a tax exempt charity and receives donations in support of the Society’s objective to reduce lung cancer from home and workplace radon exposure.
The Society has donated electronic detectors to the Castlegar Community Library in 2018 and to public libraries in Nelson, Trail, Nakusp, Kaslo and Creston in December 2020. In 2022 the DSLCPS placed electronic detectors in Fernie, Castlegar, Beaver Valley, Nelson, Salmo, Grand Forks, Greenville, Chemainus, and the Ladysmith libraries. Please visit your library to check out these detectors. This program is supplemental to a program initiated by the BC Lung Association and other organizations at these and other libraries in British Columbia.
If you have a library in British Columbia that would like to receive detectors from our Society, please contact Dana Schmidt at dschmidt@dsradonprevention.org or call 250 304-8837.
These detectors can provide short term readings that can be used for determining relative risk from radon and are useful when you need to have immediate results. Our data has indicated they provide similar results to the puck detectors that are recommended by Health Canada. This program is replacing the puck program that was maintained from 2009 to 2020.
If you check out a detector from a library, please provide the data to the Society so we can determine where to channel our Society’s resources to best reduce lung cancer from radon in our region. Directions on submitting the data are provided when you checkout the detector. Please consider a $20 donation to support this program.
The data that are submitted to the Society are kept confidential; Data collected from the program are summarized to provide both geographical and statistical summaries of the hazard radon in the West Kootenays. Presentations are made upon request to interested organizations.
For More information about the Society, please contact Dana Schmidt at:
250 304-8837
or email him at:
dschmidt@dsradonprevention.org
If you need your home mitigated you can find a certified professional mitigator at https://c-nrpp.ca/find-a-professional/
Donations to the Society can be made at :
Donna Schmidt Lung Cancer Prevention Society,
Account #839.01315.25, CIBC World Markets,
CIBC Wood Gundy, 502 Victoria St., Nelson, BC V1L 4K8
A Tax Deductable Receipt will be issued to all donors at the end of the year.