Issue #379 April 15th, 2019 Feeding Our Curiosity, Uncovering Strengths

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MPP Piccini Announces Final Approval for Ed’s House, Northumberland Hospice Care Centre

On Sunday April 14th supporters of Community Care Northumberland’s, Ed’s House gathered along with MPP David

Piccini at Hamilton Township Municipal Building. The event was an opportunity to hear the news that the govern-

ment of Ontario has given approval of the Capital Program application for the site of Ed’s House Northumberland

Hospice Care Centre. The contract for the building has been awarded and development of the hospice care centre is

able to move forward.

The provincial government has allocated $1.2 million in capital funding and $630,000 in operational funding to

support Ed’s House. This is an important and exciting announcement for Community Care Northumberland, for the

project team and for the residents of our community.

This announcement allows Ed’s House to begin construction of their 18,800 square foot hospice hub with six

operational beds located on Ontario Street in Hamilton Township. Ed’s House will be a hospice hub providing

residential hospice care 24/7 at no cost to those receiving the service.

The approval means more people in Northumberland and across Ontario can access end-of-life care in a home-like

setting thanks to the investment by the government of nearly $33.6 million to build 193 new hospice beds.

“Ed’s House will provide our residents with quality, compassionate end-of-life care in a comfortable setting that is

close to home,” said MPP Piccini. “All of our residents and families deserve access to dignified end-of-life care and

our Government fully supports the remarkable Hospice teams around our community.”

“Congratulations to Community Care Northumberland, and

the entire ED’s House project team for their dedication and

hard work to make this hospice a reality,” said MPP Piccini.

“Special thank you also to the community for the

overwhelming support of this project to-date.”

"On behalf of the Board for Community Care

Northumberland I wish to express our thanks to the Province

of Ontario for approving this stage of our capital project. We

are excited to be able to move forward with entering a

construction contract and starting the building of Ed’s

House.” said Ray Lobban, Chair of the Board for Community

Care Northumberland.

Pictured at the event left to right are: Patti & Gord Ley (Campign Co-Chairs), MPP David Piccini, Diane & Ed Lorenz (Donors),

Trish Baird (CCN Executive Director, Stephen Beauchamp (CCN Vice Chair), Kym Read (Donor), Stewart Richardson (Building

Committee Chair).

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CCN In the News: March For Meals—Raising Awareness Hot and Frozen Available in Colborne

Mayor Mandy Martin joined together with a CCN volunteers on March 28th to help deliver hot meals to local

Meals on Wheels clients in Colborne.

Pictured: Jule Rusaw and Donna Rusaw from

Black Dress Catering, Mayor Mandy Martin—

Cramahe Township, Jo—Black Dress Catering,

Carol and Gord McArthur—Meals on Wheels

volunteers, Liz from Black Dress Catering and

Maretta Riley - CCN's program assistant in

Colborne.

Volunteers pick up the hot prepared Meals on

Wheels insulated bags at the old United

Church in Colborne, located at the corner of

Lyle and Percy Street and deliver them to

clients on a pre-planned route in Cramahe Township during the noon hour. The pre-planned route of stops takes

no longer than 1 hour. When the route is completed, the volunteers return the bags to our Colborne program

office. Last year, with the help of local volunteers over 1,759 hot and frozen meals were delivered throughout the

Alnwick-Haldimand and Colborne area.

Hot meals are prepared by Black Dress Catering and are $6.00 each. They

include an entrée, vegetable and side, soup or salad, bread and dessert.

Frozen meals are available for $5.75 each and there are many options

suitable for dietary needs. On today’s hot meal menu, stuffed cabbage,

baby red roasted potatoes, baked beans accompanied with a roll, salad

and for dessert, fruit or white cake with a brown sugar icing.

For additional program information about Meals on Wheels visit

www.commcare.ca/mow.html, please contact CCN’s Colborne office at

(905)355-2989 or email colborne@commcare.ca.

Upcoming March for Meals Dates:

Campbellford – March 29, Grafton – April 9th

A Few Spaces Left in the Journal Writing Workshop in Brighton

Childhood memories are telling about who we are. In this workshop, Cathy

Ireland, makes journaling easy and fun. She will share from a journal guide that

she wrote a few years ago, introducing a variety of writing topics, designed to

inspire reflection, writing and sharing. Participants will be encouraged to explore

more fully the lesson’s learned or the moral of the story coming now from their

adult perspective. This is a workshop you won’t want to miss!

Date: April 17th, 2019 Time: 1-3pm Location: CCN’S Activity Room – Brighton Fee: $12.00

To register: Call our Brighton office (613)475-4190 or email through this link here.

Register Today For Our Golf Tournament

Please join us on May 5th at the Lions Pavilion

located at Cobourg’s beautiful beach. Participants

will have the choice to take part in a 5KM or 1KM

walk starting at the Lions Pavilion, moving along

Cobourg’s beautiful west beach towards the

boardwalk and then up to King Street for a

historical stroll through downtown Cobourg.

Finishing off back at Victoria Park and the Lions

Pavilion for a wrap up ceremony and BBQ.

If you’d like to support the walk please pledge a participant or

send a donation. Donations for the 2019 Hike for Hospice are

accepted on-line through www.CanadaHelps.org,

www.commcare.ca/hospicehike.html or at any one of

Community Care Northumberland’s offices.

Hike for Hospice

Community Diners in Grafton—RCL—Branch 580

Every 4 months, volunteers from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Legion – Lt. Col. John W Foote, Branch 580 in Grafton host one of our Community Diners programs.

Served buffet style, their recent menu included: ham, scalloped potatoes, mixed vegatables, coleslaw and rolls. For dessert, a selection of pies, apple, pumpkin or Irish crème with coffee or tea.

Pictured below: Volunteers from the Ladies Auxillary of this Legion, MaryAnne Mathew, Carol Chapple, Helen Massey and Pat Skinner.

Thank you to the Ladies Auxiliary of Branch 580 for providing a wonderful meal for our clients and allowing us to use their space.

For more information about our Grafton Community Diners program, call our Colborne office (905)355-2989.

Thank you, Dibbits!

A special thank you to Dibbits Excavating and Landscape Supply for donating the rocks for our recent rock painting class.

Look how our participants changed them into mini pieces of art!

New Pilot Project in Trent Hills

On April 29th, with support from the Municipality of Trent Hills, we will provide a transit system for the residents of Campbellford, Hastings and Warkworth that will allow access within and between communities through multiple stops, four times a day.

This new service will be provided as non-on-demand. This means that the van will operate by schedule and circle between the three towns within the municipality. The schedule is currently not finalized however in general the van will start in Hastings (3 stops) around 8:00am, then to Warkworth (3 stops) and then onto Campbellford (5 stops). It will then circle again. This route will take place twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon. Residents will be able to obtain this trip for $5 per way. Should residents like to spend a few hours in Campbellford and travel around, they may transfer for a $2 ride. The department will soon also announce daily and monthly pass options for regular riders.

Trent Hills Transit is something that has been made possible with the support of Trent Hills Council and Mayor Bob Crate. Annual funding and infrastructure support are what has made created this opportunity. Together, we will pilot this initiative and determine community and departmental impact towards the end of June and make any adjustments required to ensure the cost effectiveness of the service.

In addition to municipal support, the Trent Hills program expansion has been made possible by the recent grant received through MTO (Ministry of Transportation). This grant, totaling $497,200 over five years, has allowed for approximately $90,000 increase to the Trent Hills budget this fiscal year and includes the purchase of a new vehicle next year.

Kaylee McIlmoyle, Van Scheduler, has created a route that is also a natural expansion to other routes. Kaylee has used data from the area’s ridership and has chosen most frequently requested areas and times so that current riders will remain with existing schedules. As Kaylee also schedules other routes, there are two more vans available to the area to continue providing both our Rural-to-Urban and Specialized Options transportation services. Both these will remain as “on-demand” services in order to ensure no riders are missed.

Pictured below: Kaylee McIImoyle with our drivers Larry and George.

Stay tuned, we have further expansion initiatives on the way for the western part of the county through the Central Route. An increase in days as well as an advertising campaign to increase western ridership will be the focus of our second quarter this fiscal year.

CCN is definitely Connecting Northumberland with all its transportation services.

For more information about this pilot project or any of our other van services, contact 1.866.768.7776.

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