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Foundation work complete!

Earlier this week workers completed pouring the rest of the concrete foundation for the new Care Centre. This is a significant milestone! Thanks to everyone for helping build your new community Hospice. [showhide type="post"] Want to keep up to date on the most recent...

The Strange Events of Grief

It was just one of those nights. He had to get out of the house. Oh, he understood that his adult children were just worried about him and that is why they doted on his every move. “Come on Dad – you have to eat – have more food… Dad, now you have to get things done...

Full footprint emerging

This afternoon workers continued to install the forms for pouring the remaining concrete foundation. You can really see the complete building footprint emerging (four times the square footage of the current Hospice building). We also hosted an open house this...

Foundation work starting up again

With the permit recently approved to continue building the new foundation, workers were at the site this morning laying the concrete forms for the Heeney House community programming area.  [showhide type="post"] Want to keep up to date on the most recent construction...

Gravel inlay for Hospice Residence

This morning on my way to work I photographed this team placing and flattening gravel in-between the concrete foundation walls for the new Hospice Residence. In the photo below, the excavator is where the private garden will be. Where the men are standing is where a...

Making room for a new foundation

While there is still some debris to be cleared away from the demolition of Langton House, the excavator is starting to make way for the new foundation of Heeney House.  [showhide type="post"] Want to keep up to date on the most recent construction activity?...

Moving forward

Yesterday and today work continues on the demolition of Langton House to make room for our new Hospice Peterborough Care Centre. It has been a difficult process leading up to this day but now we can move forward to build the best hospice for our community. [showhide...

Ribbons for remembering Langton House

Thank-you to everyone who participated in yesterday's Community Memories Ceremony - it was an opportunity for those who may have lived, worked, visited or simply admired this building to remember and celebrate the meaning the space had for them before the building is...

Remaining foundation poured for Hospice Residence!

As predicted, workers poured the remaining concrete foundation for the new Hospice Residence. My previous post was last Wednesday July 12 so they must have poured late last week. What a contrast to the July 12 photos! I am amazed at how straight and orderly the...

Hospice Residence: Prepping for remaining concrete foundation walls

Work on the Hospice Residence continues this week as workers place more wooden forms around rebar (see photos below). Probably next week the remaining concrete walls for the Residence foundation will be poured. [showhide type="post"] Want to keep up to date on the...

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With Gratitude

“Ross”…This was the simple subject line of a message I received late this morning from a colleague. I knew what it would say before I clicked on it. Ross had died. I did not really know Ross, but hearing of his death hit me harder than I expected. You see, Ross was...

The stone work has started!

The excitement continues at 325 London Street as the stone work begins. [showhide type="post"] [/showhide]

A roof over our heads…

Thank you to Havelock Metal for the splendid metal roof now going on the Care Centre. [showhide type="post"] Insulation and ceilings going up...check!!     Photos courtesy of Mortlock Construction [/showhide]

We have windows!

Let the sun shine in...We have windows! [showhide type="post"] [/showhide]

Join us for a walk through

We thought you might like to see the progress with your new Care Centre. Please join our Executive Director Linda Sunderland and some of the team for a walking tour through the new building (June 7, 2018). https://youtu.be/RzFDKv4fw-I

Roof work and prep

Over the past few weeks, workers have been continuing to work on the inside of the building (not much to see!). Externally, preparations are underway for metal roof installation for all the peaked roofs (see photos of black building wrap on roof sections below)....