By Cecilia Nasmith/Today’s Northumberland
Community Care Northumberland’s second Handbags For Hospice fundraiser – in support of Ed’s House Northumberland Hospice Care Centre – will be a virtual event.
An online silent auction between June 1 and 10 will allow you to bid virtually on a selection of about 40 bags in a range of different styles, colours, sizes and prices that you can browse at www.commcare.ca.
And you can look forward to the full Handbags For Hospice event to return in February 2022. Meanwhile, organizer hope to build on the extraordinary success of their first Handbags For Hospice, raising $87,000 plus a $35,000 pledge from Mitzify Canada Group Inc.
“Building on the success of our first Handbags For Hospice event last year, we are excited to offer this on-line ‘teaser’ fundraiser and look forward to February, when we are able to host our full event,” Ed’s House Foundation board member and special events committee chair Nancy Oliver said in the announcement.
“Ed’s House and our Handbags For Hospice event count on the generosity of our sponsors Tony Pulla and Spoolon Manufacturing Ltd., donors and participants, and we thank them for their continued support of hospice care and services in our community.”
“I believe that giving back to my community is important,” said Pulla (of Remax Lakeshore Realty Inc.).
“I am proud to support Ed’s House, our Northumberland Hospice Care Centre, a calm, compassionate place for families to be with their loved ones when it is needed most.”
An integral service of Community Care Northumberland, Ed’s House in Hamilton Township provides resident care, grief and bereavement support, health-system navigation, caregiver support and palliative support to people with a life-limiting illness, their caregivers and their families – all at no cost to clients and their loved ones.
