Grace Cottage Hospital

WISHES FULFILLED

Cottage Door readers come through for us every single time. The following requests were fulfilled immediately:

Scott Heller of Communications Industries Corporation donated a new overhead projector.
Jim Kowalski and Anne Brewer donated the funds to purchase a new fax machine for the Purchasing Department.
Betty Bolster and her family donated two perennial asters in memory of Betty's parents, Harry and Marie Brown. Dr. Bob Backus donated 88 tulip bulbs for A Garden of Grace, Marguerite Wyman donated 100 naturalized daffodil bulbs to the Mollie Beattie Woodland Garden. Jay Wilson of Newfane Greenhouse, Dick Kearley of Robrick Nursery and Marguerite Sgadaro of Wilmington contributed a variety of garden plants.
Thanks to the Jamaica Library, Stratton House Nursing Home now has a bookshelf filled with books
for the pleasure of residents and visitors.
MORE WISHES MADE An invisible fence is needed so that Stratton House Nursing Home residents may go into the garden.
A reservoir is needed to fill the hydrotherapy tub in the hospital. This tub is in use constantly, both for therapy and to bathe nursing home and hospital patients. Without the $3000 reservoir, the patients must patiently wait (and sometimes shiver a bit) while the tub fills.
The kitchen needs additional volunteers to help with the salad bar and other food-related jobs. Chef Bill Smith also has an extensive "Wish List": a large punch bowl, 6-qt. commercial mixer, food processor, serving platters, matching salad plates, large table cloths, glass buffet bowl and, the biggest on the list, a commercial gas double oven. Gently used items are perfectly acceptable.
Stratton House Nursing Home needs 4-head electric rechargeable razors. Male patients are shaved daily, and the $40 razors wear out rapidly.

Over fifty years of historical information about Grace Cottage needs to be sorted, documented, and filed. Is there a volunteer archivist somewhere out there, who could begin and complete this project at his/her own pace?
Call (802)365-9109 for further information about any of the above wishes.