Judge hands control of Saskatoon Lighthouse to accounting firm

Financial control of an embattled Saskatoon non-profit will be temporarily handed over to an accounting firm.

Financial control of an embattled Saskatoon non-profit will be temporarily handed over to an accounting firm.

Friday morning, a Saskatoon Court of King's Bench judge granted a request by board members to have Lighthouse Supported Living Inc. enter into receivership under MNP.

The accounting firm will have the power to manage operations and list three properties connected to the non-profit for sale.

While MNP can place the properties on the market, whether the firm will be permitted to finalize the sale will depend on the outcome of a hearing scheduled for April 13.

The immediate future of the Lighthouse ended up in the hands of Justice Allisen Rothery after two board members, Twila Redekopp and Jerome Hepfner were forced out of their role as co-director by the three other members of the Lighthouse board.

Redekopp and Hepfner had stepped in the co-director role after Lighthouse executive director and board member Don Windels was placed on leave in early 2022 following the findings of a court-ordered MNP report which found he had on multiple occasions used the Lighthouse treasury for personal loans.

Finding themselves excluded from the beleaguered non-profit's day-to-day operations, it was Redekopp and Hepfner who first applied for the Lighthouse to enter into receivership.