Stories

With an Open Mind, and Open Arms

Gail Bissett is a passionate person; she’s one of those people who laughs loudly, has many interests, is positive and upbeat, and is very engaging. She has travelled extensively, has reached her goal of visiting every continent on Earth, including…

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You are Not Alone with Prairie Hospice

Having lived in the town of Nokomis for 47 years, Marilyn Steve-Zorn never expected to move to the city. In Nokomis, she had a lovely two-storey home, a huge garden with mature fruit trees on a triple lot, lifelong friends.…

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A Family of the Heart

For the last 17 years of her career, Dawn worked at John Dolan, a school in Saskatoon that serves students with multiple disabilities. With a Masters Degree in Exceptional Education, she worked half-time in the classrooms and half-time as Vice…

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A Royal Escort

Her Royal Highness “Princess Callie” and her courtier Jim  are well known in the Prairie Hospice Society community. Together they do a lot of volunteering, and “the princess” has become something of a star. However, Callie wasn’t always treated like…

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What Goes Around, Comes Around

Life was wonderful and busy for Ed  and his wife Wendy: two grown families and grandchildren from their previous marriages; hockey; kaiser; travel; friends. While Ed had retired from his job as a federal meat inspector, Wendy still worked full-time…

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A Chance to Help – At a Crucial Time

There were three seminal stories around death and dying that made a huge impact on me many years ago. These accounts haunted me, changed me … and instilled in me a thirst and a quest to learn better how to…

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Of Gardens and Gratitude

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and  planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” – Abraham Lincoln  Throughout her life, Joyce Comeault lived in a…

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A Friendship Blossoms

For two strangers, it was the garden that brought them together. And once the seed was planted, it was a special friendship that blossomed. * * * Joan had been a stay-at-home mom for much of her adult life. In…

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An older woman with white hair wearing a red jacket reaches out to touch the nose of a horse.

Carol Wills’ story: Shaw TV Saskatoon

Shaw TV interviews a 75-year-old who has been living with rectal cancer for more than a decade and says the services she’s received from the Prairie Hospice Society has helped her live life to the fullest.

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