Keeping a Promise: the Roger's House Story How a Community Rallied to Build a Palliative Care Home for Children
Thursday » May 18 » 2006 Keeping a promise: The Roger's House story How a community rallied to build a palliative care home for children Ron Corbett The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, April 22, 2006 This is a story about a hockey team, a coach and a city. It is difficult, so far, to pick the protagonist. All have played leading roles at one time, and before the story is finished (in many ways it has only begun) many other people will come to seem more important. Mothers you have never heard of before. Fathers. Children. It will be a long list. So far, though, this is a story about a hockey team, a coach and a city. It is a story with many twists and turns, many highs and lows and if you CREDIT: Julie Oliver, The Ottawa Citizen are looking for the beginning, then you need to Roly Hein, who owns R. E. Hein go to the summer of 2003. June to be exact. Five Construction, celebrates yesterday's days before the death of Roger Neilson. official opening of Roger's House, a children's palliative care facility. When he first read about the idea for the project to The Ottawa Senators hockey club, knowing the honour Roger Neilson, he phoned Ottawa passing of their much-beloved assistant coach is Senators Foundation president Dave imminent, are looking for a way to honour him. Ready and told him: 'I'd like to build that At a management meeting, the idea of a house for you.' pediatric palliative care hospital -- modelled after Canuck Place in Vancouver, a hospice funded and supported by the Vancouver Canucks hockey team -- is discussed.
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