Celebrating Community Living Month

 

Family Day

Palmer Park was hopping on Saturday May 30th as we celebrated Community Living.  Over 600 people visited the park and enjoyed a BBQ lunch and the musical entertainment of The Canadian Rock & Roll Show which featured Blue Rodeo’s Cleave Anderson and Teenage Head’s Dave Rave.

The celebration of community inclusion included a number of vendors and displays of local organizations. Children enjoyed the jumping castle, face painting by youth from the Uxbridge Baptist Church and meeting our local emergency response team of firefighters, police services and ambulance attendants.

The event was possible with the generous  support of the Baagwating Community Association.

 

Scugog Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Meeting

We were pleased to host the May “Business for Breakfast” meeting on May 28th.  The event was held at our main office and was catered by our Port Perry Resource Centre. Attendees enjoyed a delicious breakfast while they heard from local business owner, Terry Vos, who spoke of his experience in hiring people who have an intellectual disability.  We think it captured our feelings when he stated it’s not about hiring someone because they have a disability; it’s about hiring someone because they have the skills to enhance your business.

Employers often overlook the opportunities that are available to them by not exploring hiring someone with a disability.  Community Living has been working in partnership with our local communities for over 40 years to secure employment opportunities for people we work with.

Tyler Bjerknes has been working at Vos Independent. He also spoke at the breakfast, detailing his job duties and the satisfaction he gets from his job.

For more information about our employment services, contact Caron Weber at 905-985-9312 ext 28.

 

Kryme Tyme Hits Port Perry

What a way to celebrate Mother’s Day as Port Perry’s own Chris McAuley returns to the wrestling ring after a five year absence. Fans were pumped to see all the great wrestling action. Chris, who organized the event, was raising money to support Hill House Hospice, which assisted his father during his battle with cancer. Chris also chose to reach out to the community to support a number of other local services including Community Living Durham North.  Thank you to Chris for organizing such a great event, and thanks to all the wrestlers for putting on a great show!