Norm Charette could be called a man with drive. And he’s hoping everyone else in Iroquois Falls joins him in their cars on Wednesday night, for a drive-by tribute to all the workers at Anson General Hospital and South Centennial Manor.
“From our nurses to housekeeping, kitchen staff to physio, maintenance, receptionists and administration,” he says.
The idea is to line up on Anson Drive facing west, starting at the high school at 6:45. The resulting parade will begin at seven o’clock.
“I’ve been in contact with the OPP,” Charette notes, “and we’re asking that they would lead us from the high school to the hospital, where we would go around the parking lot and then proceed to the Manor and go through the parking lot and then we would disperse from there.”
Charette’s mother-in-law is in long-term care. He says she’s missing family contact. And his son and daughter-in-law are working what he calls “crazy hours” at Lady Minto Hospital in Cochrane. That’s part of the idea behind the Iroquois Falls event.
“It’s just to show support that even though we are cooped up in self-isolation in our homes, that we’re there with them.”
Charette says he’ll also contact the MICS health care group – which operates both facilities – to determine whether horn honking would be a disturbance to patients and residents.
