Sussex, New Brunswick – Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) announced yesterday it has donated $100,000 towards a capital campaign to improve and expand a Cassidy Lake drug and alcohol treatment center that serves troubled youth from across Atlantic Canada.
After presenting the cheque to Portage Atlantic's "Making Miracles Happen" campaign co-chairpersons Dr. Frank Wilson and Dr. Roderick Nolan, PCS New Brunswick General Manager Mark Fracchia said PotashCorp believes in working to improve the communities where the company's employees live and work.
"Helping youth overcome their addictions so they can return to their communities and lead productive lives is an important endeavor that PotashCorp is happy to support," Fracchia said.
Portage is an internationally recognized non-profit charitable organization dedicated to addressing the serious problems of substance abuse. Since opening its Cassidy Lake facility in 1996, Portage Atlantic has treated hundreds of youth from Atlantic Canada. "Making Miracles Happen" aims to raise $1,250,000 to upgrade and expand the facility to meet the increasing demand for services.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. is the world's largest fertilizer enterprise producing the three primary plant nutrients and a leading supplier to three distinct market categories: agriculture, with the largest capacity in the world in potash, second largest in nitrogen and third largest in phosphate; animal nutrition, with the world's largest capacity in phosphate feed ingredients; and industrial chemicals, as the largest global producer of industrial nitrogen products and the world's largest capacity for production of purified industrial phosphoric acid.
For more information contact:
Mark Fracchia
General Manager
New Brunswick Division
Phone: (506) 432-8100
Fax: (506) 433-6617 Email Mark
