For the second year in a row, Jan Watson, Chair of the Board, received a welcome email in the Home Hospice North Lanark (HHNL) mailbox. It read, in part: “I am a Funeral Director with Capital Funeral Home & Cemetery in Ottawa — but live in Almonte (The Friendly Town!!) and am sending along this letter to introduce myself… [We] have a charitable foundation under the name of the Arbor Memorial Foundation. Each year all Arbor employees are asked to submit requests for many assorted charitable organizations in the communities we all live and work in, and this year I chose Home Hospice North Lanark.”
The letter was signed “David Bagnell.” David’s request was approved and he recently met at our new office on Ottawa Street with Jan, Program Coordinators Emily Ballinger, RPN and Sidney Thomson, RN CHPCN (C) and Visiting Volunteers Cathie Solojew, and Patty Waters to present them with a cheque for $1,000.
This kind of community support means so much! HHNL does not receive any continuous, base government funding for their HHNL programs, so we need these kinds of donations. The beneficiaries are our clients — our family, friends and neighbours — and everyone in the community who benefits from our services, public education programs and so much more.
Thank you to David and the Arbor Memorial Foundation — from the bottom of our hearts.
To learn more about HHNL and how you can make a difference, please visit www.hhnl.ca.
