Happy Birthday
Moved to a New Home
Wishing you Happiness
on your Special Day
June 2009
Newsletter
We will truly miss
our friends
and we want to wish them many
blessings in their new home.
We are thinking
of you…
Birthday Blessings
Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings,
as your birthday nears.
Consider special people
who love you, and who care,
and others who’ve enriched your life
just by being there.
Think about the memories
passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
that have made you who you are.
Another year is a happy gift,
so cut your cake, and say,
"Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!"
By Joanna Fuchs
Especially to those who are
under the weather. May you find each day
a little brighter. With time and care, we are
wishing you the gift of better health.
Welcome to our New Friends
l
to our friend, but not goodbye.
PROGRAM EXPANSION and
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
UPDATES
Dates to Remember ….
Sunday June 21st
Father’s Day
Sonora Dodd, of Washington,
first had the idea of a "father's
day." She thought of the idea for
Father's Day while listening to a
Mother's Day sermon in 1909.
Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father,
William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War
veteran, was widowed when his wife died while
giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left
to raise the newborn and his other five children
by himself on a rural farm
in eastern Washington state.
After Sonora became an adult she realized the
selflessness her father had shown in raising his
children as a single parent. It was her father that
made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the
eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and
loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so
she chose to hold the first Father's Day
celebration in Spokane, Washington
on the 19th of June, 1910.
President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the
idea of a national Father's Day. Then in 1966
President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential
proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as
Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the
law which finally made it permanent in 1972.
Try
these
interesting
facts
out:
* No other month begins on the same day
of the week as June. This year, that day is
Monday.
* June 19th is the birthday of Garfield, a
comic strip created by Jim Davis.
* June's flower is the rose or honeysuckle.
* June's birthstone is the pearl,
Alexandrite, or moonstone.
* June is named for the Roman goddess
Juno, wife of Jupiter and the Greek
equivalent of the goddess Hera.
* In the 19th century, Catholic countries
devoted June to the worship of the Sacred
Heart
Work is progressing very
quickly on our expanded
lounge area and the first floor
rooms of the Supportive Housing/Wellness
Centre. Our expanded space now has walls
and a floor, which gives us a sense of the size
or our new lounge area. Some of you had a
chance to see the shape of our new space
before our glass doors were boarded up to
protect them from the renovations occurring in
our coatroom area where windows and walls
will be removed to join the link to the Wellness
Centre. Rising out of the sub-floors of the
Supportive Housing/Wellness Centre is the
steel framing structure that will support the
roof of our lounge area, the Wellness Centre
and the Link, which now joins our program
entrance to the new building. Conduit and
wiring is also being installed in the basement
areas. We are about 7 months away from the
completion of the new building and our
program expansion. Our program
renovations to add a barrier-free washroom
and changes to our office spaces will be done
near the end of the building project in late
November or early December.
Deanne Gillies