{"id":222817,"date":"2025-10-18T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:36:13","slug":"clarington-mayor-adrian-foster-comments-on-municipalitys-first-hospice-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222817\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarington Mayor Adrian Foster comments on municipality\u2019s first hospice opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hospice-1.jpg\" title=\"Clarington Mayor Adrian Foster comments on municipality\u2019s first hospice opening\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hospice-1.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Clarington\u2019s first ever hospice care facility is open and Mayor Adrian Foster has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great day for Clarington. After years of hard work, our very first residential hospice is open, giving folks a warm and caring place when it matters most. It\u2019s such a relief to know our community has this home to support and comfort those needing end-of-life care and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the unstoppable Marigold Hospice Care Board and staff who made this moment possible. Your legacy has forever improved local health care for our community.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to the many enthusiastic community supporters who took this project to heart. Clarington\u2019s been proud to contribute \u2013 donating the land, offsetting fees, and providing $1.25 million to get construction started.<\/p>\n<p>As we gather to celebrate this remarkable milestone, I am honoured to mark the occasion by presenting the Clarington Mayor\u2019s Challenge Coin to Melodie Zarzeczny, the Board Chair and a driving force behind Marigold Hospice Care. This recognition reflects not only the significance of today but also Melodie\u2019s outstanding leadership throughout the ten years it took to reach this achievement. This is a symbol of our profound gratitude to Melodie for her extraordinary efforts to establish intentional, specialized end-of-life care in Clarington. Her fierce dedication to hospice has closed a significant gap in our health care system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor\u2019s Challenge Coin recipients are residents from all walks of life \u2013 volunteers, fundraisers, organizers, educators, and advocates \u2013 each making a positive impact on Clarington.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Municipality of Clarington \u2013 Left to right: Regional Councillor Wards 1 and 2 Granville Anderson, Councillor Ward 2 Lloyd Rang, Marigold Hospice Care Board Chair Melodie Zarzeczny, and Mayor Adrian Foster at the official opening of Marigold Hospice Care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarington\u2019s first ever hospice care facility is open and Mayor Adrian Foster has issued the following statement: \u201cThis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-222817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}