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THE NORTH CONWAY VISITING NURSE HOME CARE AND HOSPICE CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY
There are many heroes in our area and the Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice of North Conway employs many of them including Sandra Ruka, Executive Director. She says it’s a whole new world for the non-profit and its employees. “Coronavirus has definitely affected all our operations from office staff to clinical. We have very much a reduced workforce in the office. Everyone else is working remotely. Our clinicians are pretty much all working out seeing patients.” Sandra goes on to explain that the business itself hasn’t been affected by the virus; and that they’re fortunate to have kept their same level of service without turning anyone away for home service or hospice care. “However it is a vastly different world with everybody working remotely and following all the guidelines that we need to to protect our staff and our patients.”
The Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice provides a huge array of services from skilled nursing and home maker related duties to physical, occupational and speech therapy to end of life care. The need to visit client homes is inevitable. It’s one thing to practice social distancing, but what happens when home visits need to happen despite the pandemic? And what happens, especially, if Coronavirus is detected in the residence?
Executive Director Ruka outlines for us the protocol for Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice staff is to make those visits wearing full protective PPE gear and they help the families of the patients too. “Thanks to the effort of an amazing group of volunteers we’ve been able to provide cloth masks to all our patients and their family members.” Yesterday the organization’s first “dream team” started making an emergency supply of Tyvek protective gowns to ensure the safety of the clinical staff and clients.
In a recent post on the Visiting Nurse Home Care Hospice of Carroll County they thank their staff with the following message: “Thankful for our amazing staff selflessly serving the home care needs of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We celebrate and recognize the contributions of the nurses, home health aides, homemakers, support staff, social workers, therapists, and hospice workers who continue to provide care to clients in their homes and in keeping the office running smoothly. We would also like to extend our thanks to the volunteers who have made hundreds of masks to keep our staff and clients safe. We thank them for fulfilling our mission in these most difficult times, providing exceptional home health care enabling independent living and quality of life for our clients and their families.”
For more information about the Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice organization, please visit: www.vnhch.org.
Give the Class of 2020 a Shout Out!
Let’s face it! The Class of 2020 is getting a Raw Deal… Senior year is supposed to be a time of joy. One last chance to spend time with classmates and make those final memories. However sadly, they won’t be getting that. No formal goodbyes, No standard graduations, No regular proms, No celebratory parties. Instead just social distancing, remote learning, and uncertainty… So let’s help them out, let’s let them know that we support them, and that we feel for them.
93.5 WMWV has teamed up with numerous wonderful local businesses to do just that and we have created the Class of 2020 Shout Out Line.
It’s real simple to use… call 913-356-9145 and leave a message for your graduate. Tell them you love them and how proud you are. Whatever you want to say, that choice is yours. Then we’ll take that message and we will play it on the radio for all to hear. You can even surprise your graduate if you want… Eventually everyone will hear it.
Let’s show the Class of 2020 some LOVE. Again that number is 913-356-9145. Leave your message NOW!
This is a Service that we here at 93.5 WMWV are happy to provide and it’s because of these great local businesses…
Thank you to RWN Property Services, Profile Subaru, Grant’s Shop N Save, Mountain Center Physical Therapy, Northeast Credit Union, Zeb’s General Store, Veno’s Specialty Foods and Meats, Farm to Table Market, Yankee Smokehouse, and Tyler Ryan Design… we couldn’t have done it without you.
Congratulations to the Class of 2020! You earned it and we support you!
If your business would like to be a sponsor of the Class of 2020 Shout Out Line please email sales@wmwv.com
The M&D Playhouse Hopes To Reopen Soon with Matilda: The Musical
Artistic Director and Board President of the M&D Playhouse Mark Sickler called in to talk with Gino today about their future plans when they are allowed to reopen. Mark was super positive and enthusiastic and explained that not only does M&D have a Plan A, they also have a Plan B, C, D, E, and F. Although he was not sure on an exact date he said they have their fingers crossed for mid-July and did say the first show without a doubt will be Matilda: The Musical. Mark also touched on this year being M&D‘s 20th Anniversary, the departure of Ken Martin, and the 2021 Season. Click below to listen!
For information about M&D Playhouse please visit MDPLAYHOUSE.COM
UPDATE FROM THE FRYEBURG FAIR
In the past few weeks the Lancaster, Sandwich and Stratham Fairs have been cancelled. It’s not just because of the virus, some fairs depend on advanced advertising money and this year, with closed businesses, it’s just not happening.
Fryeburg Fair’s website is counting down the days to the fair and today it reads 159. Going strong since 1851, it’s the largest agricultural fair in Maine and is attended by over 225,000 people yearly. Over the years the nightly shows have brought in names like Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Lady Antebellum.
The Fryeburg Fair has a different and stronger model but for its board of directors, it’s still a decision that has to be made in this its 170th year. “At this point the Fryeburg Fair hopes to hold the fair in October but we recognize that there are a lot of variables involved and we at this point believe that we have until early June to make the call. Unless something happens in the meantime that makes a call for us. But right now we’re hopeful for a fair but we just don’t know what will happen between now and then.” says David Hastings, Vice President and Finance Director of the Fryeburg Fair.
Keep up to date with announcements by visiting www.fryeburgfair.org.
MOUNT WASHINGTON RADIO GROUP SUPPORTS 2020 GRADUATES
Plans for 2020 graduations are on hold due to the lack of information about the states reopening for large gatherings but Mount Washington Radio Group’s stations Magic 104.5/98.1 and WMWV have come up with an innovative way for friends, family members and school faculty members to reach out to their graduates and celebrate with them.
Knowing how strong of a medium radio is to get messages out, the team at Mount Washington Radio Group saw a positive way they could serve their community. With several high schools and many elementary schools, pre-schools, and colleges in Carroll County, Berlin and Gorham and Western Maine, there will be thousands of students graduating this spring in the WMWV and Magic listening area.
As soon as schools adopted the remote learning model for the rest of the year, the Mount Washington Radio Group’s team reached out to the community for their support. Without hesitation, RWN Property Services, Profile Subaru, Grants Shop n Save, Mountain Center Physical Therapy, Northeast Credit Union, Zebs General Store, Veno’s Specialty Foods and Meats, Farm to Table/Yankee Smokehouse and Tyler Ryan Design/D J Graphyx answered the call to help.
The stations then set up a dedicated voicemail number where messages for graduates can be left. Graduates themselves are also encouraged to leave messages for those who have helped them through the years. The programming department will then take those messages and put them on WMWV and Magic 104 for everyone to hear as well as play song dedications. On June 13th there will be a special, commercial free 3 hour party from 6-9 with a custom music playlist put together by DJ Graphyx.
If you would like to leave a voicemail for your 2020 graduate or have a special song dedication, please call 913-356-9145. Messages will be aired between 6 am and 10 pm.