Remembrance Day is next Tuesday, and some local students and residents, along with staff at the Inpatient Rehabilitation unit at the North Bay Regional Health Centre are sporting a unique poppy.
Megan Reid, who works on the floor, says her 9-year-old daughter Averie loves crocheting and has been creating about a dozen or so a day since just after Halloween.
“She wasn’t selling them at that point, and she brought some up to my work to give to the nurses and they all gave her money for it, so she said why don’t I take the money and raise it,” says Reid.
Reid says her daughter will be donating half of her earnings to the legion on Remembrance Day.
Averie shares nearly $100 dollars has been raised so far and is surprised at the amount raised from her hard work.
“I went to school this morning, and everyone was asking ‘can I have one, can I have one?’ and I was like, okay, I’m already booked up,” she says.
Averie sends a big thank you to the nurses on C-1, who she says were the first to get the poppies and ‘give her business a boost’.
