The Local Hero Awards are back! After a one-time pandemic hiatus, we invite you to meet some of the most inspiring people in our community as they receive their awards. Join us for six short videos that tell their intimate, moving, and uplifting stories.
Each year, Midpen Media selects six local unsung heroes providing amazing service to our local community. Each hero is featured in a short documentary telling the story of their work and presented with the Local Heroes Award. It’s our biggest community event of the year, and we want you to join us! This year we are telling the stories of the following change-makers:
Mrs. Marion Drewes, age 53 years, passed away peacefully on May 15, 2021 at her home with family by her side.
Marion was the first New Year’s baby born at 1:48 a.m. on January 1st, 1968 in Port Arthur, Ontario. Marion worked at various office jobs until she started at Safeway Dawson Road in 1993 (until 2002). Marion always enjoyed working with and helping others, so she enrolled in massage therapy school (RMT). After graduation in 2000, she started her own business, Massage Mobility where she provided mobile care which included work-place massages and group homes for people who were not mobile. Massage Mobility was involved in the “CIBC Run-For-The-Cure” for many years.
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Feb 11, 2021 8:11 AM
Recreational Therapist with the Day Program at VON Middlesex-Elgin in Strathroy, Sandra Brown, loves to teach people life skills that will improve their quality of life. She enjoys each day, and attributes that to helping people with their outlook.
Brown, who got involved in education through Fanshawe’s Recreation and Leisure Program, learned a lot about how to teach other people life skills, and power of positivity in the program. While the pandemic has been hard, it’s been extremely difficult on her, due to the nature of her job with those who are already struggling.
Nursing home offers staff bonuses, other incentives to get COVID-19 vaccine
A.G. Rhodes decided to sweeten the deal by offering raffle prizes to staff members, $500 bonuses, TV sets, and paid time off to staff who get the vaccine. Author: Natisha Lance (11Alive) Updated: 10:48 PM EST January 20, 2021
ATLANTA The COVID-19 vaccine was expected to be the lightening rod to help protect the elderly in nursing homes from the virus. However, some staff members are not so eager to sign up.
One group of nursing homes are now offering incentives to get more staff members vaccinated.
A.G. Rhodes is doing what it can to make the COVID-19 vaccine enticing to apprehensive staff members. Across its three locations, 33 percent of staff and 62 percent of residents have received the Pfizer vaccine.