By Sarah Rae

Project Poinsettia spreading holiday cheer for another year

Dec 1, 2016 | 11:00 AM

Residents in long-term care facilities around northwest Saskatchewan are in for a treat this holiday season, with another year of Project Poinsettia.

Radio station Q98 partners with local businesses and the local union for the project, which tries to spread holiday cheer in long-term care facilities by delivering poinsettias.

“The way long term care facilities are, it’s not necessarily the cheeriest place,” Q98 program director Nic Fransoo said. “The staff do everything they can to make sure everyone has a happy holiday, but a little something extra from somebody outside the facility to remind those patients that others are thinking of them as well really makes a big difference.”

The project started out in the Battlefords a few years ago and eventually spread to encompass the whole Prairie North Health Region this year. Poinsettias will be delivered to different facilities throughout December, starting this week.

Fransoo helped deliver the poinsettias in past years and said it’s an incredible feeling to visit with the patients.

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“It is great doing it, taking out those poinsettias and visiting with those people, even if it is just for a few moments to tell them ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy Holidays’ and remind them that we’re thinking of them,” he said. “It’s really important for us to remember them and remind them that we care about them too over the holidays.”

Sarah Rae is battlefordsNOW’s court and crime reporter. She can be reached at Sarah.Rae@jpbg.ca or tweet her @sarahjeanrae.