Keep it clean with room name

Hospital McHospital face? No, thanks. Jokers need not apply when the city opens up a public process to decide what to call its room at the new Penticton hospital tower.

The obvious choice is to name it after a former politician or some famous product of Penticton.

Think along the lines of Dorothy Tinning, the city’s first and only female mayor. Or perhaps Robert Lyon, the city’s first mayor, or Alfred Wade, the city’s first reeve.

Or, we could go rogue and honour failed political candidates like Benny Wolfe or Jukka Laurio. Or not.

What about Jake Kimberley, Dan Ashton or Andrew Jakubeit? Perhaps it’s too soon….

We could go the sports route and decide on Duncan Keith, the most successful hockey player to have called Penticton home. Then there’s a musician like Mike Reno of Loverboy fame.

Perhaps we could play on our geography. Maybe the Peaches and Beaches Room or the Wine Ward. Possibly the Skaha Sanctuary.

We could give a nod to our hockey history and go with the Vees Vault or celebrate our neighbours in the Penticton Indian Band with the Syilx Suite.

Regardless, give the city credit for soliciting public input on this important decision.

Possibilities abound, but whatever the winner is, let it not be Hospital McHospitalface.