August PCSBV Newsletter 2022

Cathy Jones Volunteer Extraordinaire!

We want to hear from you! Please take a couple of minutes to answer a few short survey questions so we can learn more about you and how we can improve your reader experience. PCSBV NEWSLETTER READER SURVEY The Speakers Series has been a great success and that is in part due to Cathy’s help. She believes strongly in the immeasurable value that PCSBV brings to the community and the Speakers Series tool is just one way the organization and Cathy can offer support to clients and families. We are thankful for Cathy’s giving nature and the commitment she gives to us. Give her a high five if you happen to see her around! It gives the public an opportunity to learn, change perspectives about death and have questions answered right away. “I love assisting people in conversations that are difficult to start, carry deeper, and then bring to conclusion with some understanding of what they are going through,” says Cathy, “It is rewarding to see someone smile because they realize they did their best or to help someone have a ‘light bulb’ go on in their head that you know will bring a positive outcome.”

Cathy Jones has called Bow Valley home for more than 30 years and has involved herself in helping the community by volunteering with Palliative Care Society of the Bow Valley. Originally, she joined the Society as a volunteer to help it form the Communications and Executive Committee. Then, in the years that followed, she helped create the Speaker Series with the Executive in 2018. Cathy says, “It was meant to reach out to the residents of the Bow Valley to answer their questions and learn about palliative care and about all the goals of the Society.” Cathy has been an integral part of the program as one of the first to organize a presentation in 2018 and now as a presentation moderator. The Speakers Series is a tool for residents to talk and listen and have conversations about all the issues surrounding death.