Our Clients Say It Best

Global Youth Day

Jun, 2015

On Saturday, April 18, Global Youth Day, a group of teen volunteers led by Hospice at Home Volunteer Coordinators Candy Briney and Vita Benson worked to make sure that hospice patients and families, and Hospice at Home employees and volunteers, were able to get a good dose of the wonderful medicine of flowers.

High School students from Lakeshore and St. Joseph High School signed up to dig in the dirt and get our gardens ready for Spring and do something special for our hospice patients and their families.

Several teens joined Candy at Hospice at Home in St. Joseph and cleaned up the Memorial Garden after our very long winter.  They pulled weeds and spread fresh soil and mulch, giving the garden the chance to start blooming all over!!  Vita and another group of teens did the same at Hanson Hospice Center, shoveling, spreading new mulch, re-potting plants, and cleaning and repainting outdoor furniture.  

Thanks to the generosity of Second Nature Gardens of St. Joseph, the students were able to use fresh mulch and soil for the Memorial Garden, as well as wheelbarrows and shovels. Also a thanks to Evergreen Lawn and Landscaping of Benton Harbor for their help and expertise at Hanson Hospice Center.  

Candy and Vita witnessed the kids working hard and also managing to have a good time. Many of the students said that they left with the feeling that they had helped to make a real difference for people in their community and that they are glad that our patients and their families can sit in the Memorial Garden or sit on the porches at the Hanson Hospice Center and breathe in the sacred peace and tranquility that only a well-kept garden can bring.