OUR RESIDENTS
Still Serving: Meet the Million Dollar Man
If you see Will Dwyer walking your
way, just get out your wallet.
Resistance is futile when it comes to
this resident of Chartwell Whispering
Pines in Barrie, ON. He recently hit the
astonishing mark of $1-million person-
ally raised for the Terry Fox
Foundation for cancer research.
The Second World War veteran lost
his mother to cancer when he was a
young man and the disease claimed
two of his seven children. Fundraising
for this important cause seemed like
another way he could serve and so,
40 years ago, he began collecting.
“It was small amounts sometimes but
it grew as years went by,” he says.
“And I kept going.”
Well done, Will. You are one in a
million!
Ron Moir, who visits his wife Sonia in
LTC every day, was so pleased he paid
tribute with a poem.
To call it just the Tunnel
is definitely not fair.
Kitchener’s
Tunnel of Love
Roads can be covered by stone, by
asphalt, even by grass - but at
Chartwell Westmount Retirement
Residence in Kitchener, ON, the path-
way is paved with love.
An indoor tunnel connecting the resi-
dence with Chartwell Westmount
Long Term Care next door was built
for convenience – but serves a more
profound purpose.
More than 20 friends and spouses
traverse it to visit loved ones from
whom they are separated by different
care needs. What was once a plain
It’s a perfect, safe connection
to visit Long Term Care.
tunnel is being transformed with
murals celebrating Waterloo County.
With design led by the residence’s
artistically gifted bus driver Sandy, the
goal is to have every person who lives
and works at the two residences have
a brush stroke on the mural.
The scenery will change with the
seasons as students at two local
schools add crafted adornments –
butterflies and birds will arrive for
spring and summer, jack-o-lanterns
for fall and, of course, poppies for
Remembrance Day.
It shields you in the winter
if cold and snow you shun.
And then of course in summer
months, protects you from the sun.
It does not care how old you
are or if you’re short or tall.
Please come and use me
anytime, I welcome you all.
For residents with wheelchairs,
it’s a blessing from above.
Let’s call it by its proper name
– our Tunnel Filled With Love.
RENDEZVOUS
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