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The Water is Wide: A Bedside Singers Story

Mar 3, 2017

By: Judy Foster, Hospice Peterborough Volunteer and Bedside Singer Today three of us sang on the [Peterborough Regional Health Centre Palliative Care] unit. We were welcomed into a number of rooms and sang in one of the halls. There was a couple who were...

Brave on the Rocks

Mar 2, 2017

By: Rachelle Kennedy, Hospice Peterborough Facilitator and Volunteer There was a biting cold and wild wind that was gusting off the shores of the great lake that day. The waves were wicked and relentless. It was as though all the pent-up coldness of the season had...

Foundation walls taking shape

Feb 17, 2017

Over the past two weeks, workers have been busy putting forms in place for the next layer of concrete foundation to be poured for the new building. A crane has been lifting baskets of the forms into the area where the workers remove them from the basket and put them...

180 Degrees of Life

Feb 10, 2017

By: David Kennedy, Bereavement Coordinator at Hospice Peterborough He stood in the chaos of boxes and paper – the reminders of the holidays that brought a trail of family and people into his house. Everyone was trying to make this Christmas better than it could be....

Pouring concrete!

Feb 6, 2017

More activity on the site this morning. At 10:30 the "concrete pumping" truck was loaded up by mixing trucks and the concrete started to flow into the wooden foundation frames. In the fourth photo below, there is a worker on the left who has the remote controls around...

Northwest corner Heeney House demolition

Feb 3, 2017

A lot happening on the site in the past 48 hours! When I walked by the site at 9am yesterday morning, workers were demolishing the concrete wall and tiny entrance-way in the north alcove of Heeney House. That felt dramatic to me. Then this morning at 9am, workers...

Preparing for concrete; inside work continues

Jan 30, 2017

Last week I interviewed Richard Johnston for our upcoming Hospice Highlighter newsletter. Richard is chair of the Every Moment Matters Campaign Building Committee and as a special treat, we conducted the interview inside Heeney House! See below for a few indoor photos...