NORFOLK â The Norwood-Norfolk Key Club donated three Comfort Cubs to Canton-Potsdam Hospital on March 30.
Executive Director April Grant, of the St. Lawrence Health Foundation at Canton-Potsdam Hospital, said the bears came at a good time as she said they had run out of their previous supply.
Comfort Cubs were created by Marcella Johnson, who came up with the idea after she lost a baby in childbirth. Marcella never wanted another woman to go home empty-handed, so Comfort Cubs were born.
Comfort Cubs are weighted bears and are now used for any types of trauma. The Comfort Cubs are going directly to the birth place at Canton-Potsdam Hospital to help with grieving mothers and family.
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Potsdam: Richard J. Del Guidice, 81, Potsdam, died Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at Canton-Potsdam Hospital from complications of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Richard wrote his own obituary âso Kathryn wonât have another duty at a difficult time.â Excerpts follow:
Richard was born September 20, 1939 in Manhattan to Dominic and Ellen Tobin Del Guidice, who were wonderful parents in all ways. He and his beloved brother, Robert, were blessed by their limitless love and guidance.
Richard grew up in an apartment building in Astoria, where his motherâs sister also lived with her husband and three girls. The two sisters created one family that made cousins into sisters and brothers. Richard attended public schools, and âwhen not in school, it was stickball, street football and, in warmer weather, sandlot baseball.â
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POTSDAM -- Richard J. Del Guidice, 81, died Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at Canton-Potsdam Hospital from complications of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Richard wrote his own obituary “so Kathryn won’t have another duty at a difficult time.” Excerpts follow:
Richard was born September 20, 1939 in Manhattan to Dominic and Ellen Tobin Del Guidice, who were wonderful parents in all ways. He and his beloved brother, Robert, were blessed by their limitless love and guidance.
Richard grew up in an apartment building in Astoria, where his mother’s sister also lived with her husband and three girls. The two sisters created one family that made cousins into sisters and brothers. Richard attended public schools, and “when not in school, it was stickball, street football and, in warmer weather, sandlot baseball.”