A number of local businesses, nonprofit community living, seniors celebrated the Northumberland United Way’s “Day of Caring” on Friday, June 13, 2025.
Day of Caring is about bringing together volunteers to flood the community performing acts of kindness through mulching, weeding, pruning and planting, but also minor repairs such as building a bookshelf, painting, building a barn door at Ed’s House Hospice.
Volunteers were easy to spot around Cobourg, Port Hope and out to Alderville wearing red shirts working together, shoulder to shoulder with their teammates to help spread the Local Love.
One of the contributors is Town of Cobourg which saw Councillors Randy Barber, Brian Darling and Aaron Burchat along with Cobourg Mayor Lucas Cleveland who helped kickoff the event.
” Volunteers from every corner of Northumberland County, individuals, businesses, and service groups, come together, not just for recognition, and not for reward, but to give back to the community we all love so much,” said Alicia Vandine, Executive Director.
“Every painted wall, weeded garden or safer home is a brick in Northumberland’s next century.”
“Our partners don’t just fund change, they work in tandem with the team at United Way to create it.”
Joel Scott, Community Care Northumberland’s Director of Donor Relations Communications said Day of Caring saves thousands of dollars to everyone who benefits from the volunteers.
“With the project CPK and Cameco are working on at Ed’s House – if we had to do this project ourselves, or had to go to our donor community, it would be in the thousands of dollars.”
Scott said it’s the third year volunteers have helped out at Ed’s House, “and we can’t say enough what the United Way does and what Day of Caring does for our community.”
Community partners and sponsors taking part were : Lakeport Power, Arclin, Cameco, Town of Cobourg, Home Hardware Cobourg, CPK Interior Products, Lakefront Utilities Services, Cobourg Lions, SABIC, Stalwood Homes, CPS Wood Products, and PJs Custom Outfitting.
Author: Pete Fisher
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