Thank you St. Margaret’s Bay Palliative Care Network

This summer members of the Valley Hospice Foundation were truly touched when the St. Margaret’s Bay Palliative Care Network contacted them with the offer of hosting a fundraising concert that would benefit the Valley Hospice project. 

Folks gathered in a church in Upper Tantallon for a beautiful afternoon of coral and chamber music, followed by a celebrations of 80th birthday of Barbara Jannasch, a long time advocate for hospice palliative care.  Barbara’s birthday wish was for friends to consider a gift to the Valley Hospice project.  In the end all the proceeds were donated to the Valley Hospice Foundation for the development of their new Hospice facility.

“We have learned over the years that Hospice can only happen when groups with similar ideas cooperate.    Hospice palliative care is primarily focused on caring for dying people and those close to them, however, that care cannot exist without the resources and support of organizations”, says Foundation Chair, Diana Patterson.

“The hospice will serve as the ‘anchor’ for hospice palliative care activities in the district that serves the Annapolis Valley and it is our hope that it will be an example for similar projects” adds Brenda Wallace-Allen who has been involved with the project since the Foundation was established in 2000.

The Foundation members wish to acknowledge the St. Margaret’s Bay group for their support and ability to understand that the progress being made in the Valley can have a positive effect throughout Nova Scotia.