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