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September 2019 Chilliwack Hospice Society News ~ September 2019 7112 Vedder Road, Chilliwack, BC V2R 3T6 Phone: 604-795-4660 Email: [email protected] - Website: www.chilliwackhospice.org Registered Charity #867303232RR001 Mission Statement: Chilliwack Hospice Society is a community based volunteer organization which accepts death as a part of life. We support individuals and families during the dying and grieving process. Goodbye Summer Hello Fall There has been so many positive things going on at Chilliwack Hospice Society. Our team of Program Staff: Lucy Fraser – Program Director, Jen Dacre - Palliative & Bereavement Services Manager, and Brandon Wakefield - Child and Youth Program Manager have been hard at work serving this amazing community. Our offices on Vedder are a hubbub of activity, healing, laughter and joy. We are so blessed to have such a talented and compassionate team. We have several fundraising events coming up that allow us to provide all these services for free. Our 16th Annual Gala is fast approaching on October 19th and will be a “Moonlight Gala” filled with glamour and glitz. It will include everything that sparkles. Our entertainers will be the Bruce James Orchestra who will play all night and provide dancing later. Our Chef from “Taste of Thyme” is preparing a sumptuous meal that will delight all who attend. Our live and silent auctions are always a huge hit with our guests. Tickets are available on Eventbrite or by calling our office at 604-795-4660. They are $150.00 and include a partial tax receipt. Don’t miss this fabulous event. On November 21st we will be holding our first Champagne Tastes Art Auction. We have several beautiful pieces of original art and numbered prints that have been generously donated to the Society which will be auctioned that night. They include works by Brent Heighton, Johnathan Milne, Evelyn Zuberbier, April Lacheur and Sylvie Roussel-Janssen, just to name a few. Tickets will be available through Eventbrite or by calling our office at 604-795-4660 and the cost will be $20.00. We will be serving scrumptious snacks and delicious bubbly. If you have art that you would like to donate to this event, please contact Sharilyn Jackson at 778-860-4019 or email at [email protected]. Starting in January Laurie McNaught, our new Educational Manager, will be presenting various educational events for the community. These will cover various topics such as Advance Care Planning, Banking, Downsizing, Cooking for One, Legacy Arts, and Bucket List Festival. We are currently working on our schedule so stay tuned for more information. Thank you for your continued support of Chilliwack Hospice Society! Thank you to all our volunteers who are the backbone of our Society and to our staff and board members! Sue Knott, Executive Director Tickets on sale now October 19, 2019—Moonlight Gala This high profile and glamourous evening offers fine dining, dancing, silent & live auctions and exciting entertainment. Definitely not one to miss! Page 2 2 Programs and Services Traumatic Loss Group This eight week group is for people who have had loved ones die in ways including but not limited to suicide, homicide, accident, substance use and/or physical illness. Please contact Lucy at [email protected] or by phone at 604-795-4660 ext. 105 if you would like more information about this group. Pregnancy and Baby Loss Grief Support Group We offer one-to-one support to parents whose baby has died from miscarriage, stillbirth or within the first year of life. If this is a group which you would like to attend or have questions about it, please contact Lucy: [email protected] or by phone at 604-795-4660 ext. 105 Relaxation Program We offer relaxation treatments to community members on Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. Our Relaxation Team consists of volunteers trained in a variety of Complementary Therapies. People who receive treatments do so for a variety of reasons including: chronic pain; bereavement; anxiety/depression; illness; treatments of illness such as radiation and chemotherapy; caregiving fatigue; recovery from accidents; and addictions. Or you just might like to try receiving a treatment to see what it’s like and have a relaxing experience. The treatments are usually around half an hour. To book a session, just call the office: 604-795-4660 First Step Grief Support Group An 8-week closed program that takes place at the Chilliwack Hospice Society’s “Rotary Hospice Centre” It is offered up to 3 times annually. Our next session will begin October 1st and run through to November 19th. Please call Jen if you are interested in joining this group. [email protected] or by phone at 604-795-4660 ext. 107 Children’s Grief Support Group This program is for children, ages 6-12, who have experienced the death of a loved one; or who currently have a loved one dying. Our next session will begin October 1st and run through to November 19th. Please call Brandon if you are interested in joining this group. [email protected] or by phone at 604-795-4660 ext. 108 Lucy Fraser, Director of Programs, How to Obtain Our Services recently celebrated 15 years with Chilliwack Hospice Society. We Just give us a call or send us an email surprised Lucy with a lunch party There is No Cost to Our with all her favourite foods. Working with Lucy makes every Clients for Our Services day enjoyable and we are so Phone: 604-795-4660 happy to have her. Thank you, Email: [email protected] Lucy, for everything that you do! Page 3 3 Programs and Services Children’s Horse Whisperer Grief Camp Our annual Horse Whisperer Grief Camp was held this year on June 15th. There were 30 children and youth between the ages of 5 and 13 who attended the camp, along with 26 Hospice Society volunteers and staff. The participants spent the day riding, grooming, painting, and reflecting with the horses. We also had a Fun and Games station that involved lots of running and laughing, as well as an Arts and Crafts station at which the kids made horseshoe dreamcatchers. Special thanks goes out to Dora Isaak for once again hosting the event this year and to all those who volunteered on the day. Both your presence and efforts ensured that the day was safe, fun, and meaningful for the children and youth of Chilliwack! Page 4 4 Chilliwack Hospice Thrifty Boutique 260-45428 Luckakuck Way 604-846-2226 Store Hours: Monday—Saturday 9:30am– 5:00pm Donation Drop Off Hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00am-4:30pm 3rd Annual Fashionista Fashion Show Our 3rd annual Fashionista Fashion Show was held on May 13th at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre. Our volunteers and staff worked hard to make this the best one yet! We had thirty models from 6 to 80 strutting their stuff on the runway. Many volunteer hours were put into organizing, setting up making over 1000 appetizers and ensuring the evening ran smoothly. A huge thank you to all of or volunteers and our community for supporting us to put on a successful show! Don’t forget to get your tickets early next year, we sold out fast! Want to keep up-to-date on all of our events and sales? Join our email list and like us on Facebook! Thrifty Boutique Thrifty Boutique Club Elite Volunteers Needed! Thrifty Boutique’s new Elite membership is an amazing value! 4 hrs a week gives you the opportunity to make new Become a member today! All for only $20 annually! personal connections while helping out our store. If this is of interest to you please call Sandy at ♥ 10% off regular prices ♥ Early opening on special sale days ♥ Additional 10% off sale items ♥ Chance to win 2 tickets to Gala 604-846-2226. ♥ VIP shopping days monthly ♥ Chance to win 2 tickets to Hoedown Your donations to the Thrifty Boutique go towards Hospice Programs and Services that are offered free of charge to the residents of Chilliwack and Agassiz. Page 5 5 Hike for Chilliwack Hospice was held at Townsend Park on May 5th. We had beautiful weather and a great turnout of walkers. Thank you to all those who participated, including our generous volunteers and sponsors. Our 2nd Annual Play it Forward Golf Tournament was held May 30th at Chilliwack Golf Club. Golfers enjoyed the beautiful course, a delicious buffet dinner and many fabulous prizes and sponsored activities. It was tons of fun! Thank you to all who helped to make this wonderful event possible. Page 6 6 Hi, my name is Elaine. I have been volunteering at Hospice since January 2011. Elaine I have 4 grown children, 8 grown grandchildren, 3 step grandchildren and 7 amazing great grandchildren. I live with my beautiful diva cat Lucy. When my Mom, who lived in Waterloo, Ontario, became terminally ill with cancer I was fortunate enough to be able to go there and spend her last 15 days with her. Her last 8 days were at a beautiful hospice setting and I was so impressed. At that time, I knew very little about hospice and what it meant. However, after this experience with my Mom, I knew that when I retired, I would volunteer in a hospice setting and begin to pay it forward. I started at the Society office in January 2011 and except for a short 'absence', have been doing this ever since. Volunteering with such an incredible dedicated staff has been amazing. Everyone is so appreciative of anything we do and seeing their personal dedication to what Hospice does is heartwarming. The programs and support offered to the local community, free of charge, never ceases to amaze me.
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