High River's Tate Barton is branching out from lemonade.

Now that the Cancer Care Centre has been completed he's turning his attention to supporting cancer care patients with their health and wellness needs.

Chaplin at the High River Hospital, Paras Persad says, the first event in the Tate's Lemonade Speaker Series goes Monday.

"The Barton's have raised a significant amount of money for the Cancer Care Centre here and they wanted to go beyond just bricks and mortar," he says. "The Cancer Clinic is up and running and it's fully funded with made in High River solutions and there was still a significant amount of cash and drive that's a made in High River solution that has to do with more community healing and wellness."

Part of the Tate's Lemonade Speaker series is aimed at bringing in top notch speakers to talk about health, healing and wellness around cancer.

Alberta Health Services, the High River and District Health Care Foundation, the High River United Church and Wellspring Calgary have teamed up to put on a series of talks.

Professor Deborah Sword will be speaking at the United Church Monday, October 23 on conflict strategies called Fight, Flight or Freeze.

"What invariably happens is that John or Susie is so impacted by the treatment and the medication sometimes those things can do a number on their hormones, on their thinking patterns, their endorphins, and so we hear it all the time 'John was a nice man but since he's having the treatment he changed radically, or Susie was a great wife, or great mother or great friend but man the chemotherapy has done a number on her' and that's essentially the drive behind hosting something like this," Persad says.

The event begins at noon with a light lunch followed by the presentation from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m..

The cost is being paid for entirely by proceeds from the sale of Tate's Lemonade.

To register call the hospital or go to www.wellspringcalgary.ca/become-a-member/register-for-programs-online/