SJCCC opens new rehabilitation apartment July 5, 2021 at 14 h 56 min Reading time: 1 min 30 s
By Nick Seebruch The ADL apartment at St. Joseph s Continuing Care Centre. Submitted photo.
CORNWALL, Ontario – The St. Joseph’s Continuing Care Centre (SJCCC) has announced the opening of their new Activities of Daily Living (ADL) apartment for rehabilitation patients.
The studio style apartment will help rehabilitation patients transition from in-patient care to at-home care.
Thanks to the generosity of the Pommier Family and Pommier Jewellers the ADL apartment opened in late 2020.
“We are very grateful to the Pommier Family and Pommier Jewellers for providing our community a space like this” said Gizanne Lafrance-Allaire, Executive Director. “We are thrilled with the benefits we’ve seen so far and are looking forward to what the future holds for this space and our patients.”
Author of the article: Francis Racine
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • May 3, 2021 • 2 minute read • Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Champlain East s program director Michelle Gosselin, CMHA executive director Joanne Ledoux-Moshonas and Cornwall Mayor Bernadette Clement were all on hand during the first ever flag raising ceremony that marked the beginning of the 70th Mental Health Awareness week on Monday May 3, 2021 in Cornwall, Ont. Francis Racine/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network Photo by Francis Racine /Francis Racine/Standard-Freeholder
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week which officially kicked off on Monday is especially important according to organizers.
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Publishing date: Apr 08, 2021 • 2 days ago • 2 minute read • Sometimes a good old fashioned sign is the best way to inform potentially confused customers. This one is at the Shiny Bud Cannabis Co. outlet in Le Village. Photo on Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Cornwall, Ont. Todd Hambleton/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network Photo by Todd Hambleton /Todd Hambleton/Standard-Freeholder
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A sampling of businesses in Cornwall and area Thursday indicated that, despite the stay-at-home-order that kicked in at 12:01 a.m., a lot of stores and outlets are planning to stick with curbside service.
Have a wristwatch that needs to be repaired? A downtown Cornwall institution, Pommier Jewellers, can fix it through its curbside service. If it’s a gift you’re looking to acquire, that too can be accomplished – a call to the store indicated that there are a few ways of communicating virtually, to set up the pr
An angelic community tradition Reading time: 3 min Andre Pommier with 19 years of angels.
For 19 years, Pommier Jewellers has made a Christmas angel ornament in support of the United Way. Each angel is unique, each angel is special, and each angel has a special meaning.
Two years ago, Tish Humphries, President and Founder of the Hub for Beyond 21 spoke at the United Way’s Fall Fundraiser kickoff breakfast. At that breakfast, she told the audience about her experience trying to find support for her daughter with special needs after she aged out of the school system at 21.
Humphries explained how she, and many other families in her position, we left with out resources for their children with special needs after they left school. She explained how these parents either had to leave their jobs, or in some cases take their children to work with them and that even then these children were still comparatively isolated and deprived of what