A significant milestone is coming up for Five Counties Children’s Centre and you’re being invited to play a big part.
Next year will be the centre’s 50th anniversary and ahead of all the festivities, organizers are launching ‘Gimme 5: Your Story is Our Story’.
CEO Scott Pepin says told us more.
Pepin explains why hearing from you is so important.
To make sharing easy, people can download and complete the Gimme 5 Story Package that includes several questions to help prompt discussion and sharing. Anyone who has a story or memento to share can email 50@fivecounties.on.ca or call 1-888-779-9916, ext. 200. With approval, some stories that are collected will be shared publicly by Five Counties during its 50th anniversary celebrations.
The origin of Five Counties dates back to 1970, when the Rotary Club of Peterborough was looking for a suitable initiative to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. Local Rotarians settled on the idea to establish a “children’s care centre” to provide care closer to home. According to a history of the local Rotary Club, this “centre was designed for the treatment, educational, social and physical needs of handicapped children within the ‘five counties’ region” – including Peterborough City-County, Northumberland County, City of Kawartha Lakes (then Victoria County), Haliburton County and North Hastings County.”
(Written by: Jordan Mercier)
