Community Foundation Award to Sisters of Charity IC

The Greater Saint John Community Foundation, celebrating its 30th anniversary, awarded a $5,000 Community Service Award to the Sisters of Charity I.C. during celebrations at the Imperial Theatre.

Congregational Leader, Sister Sandra Barrett scic, receiving the award immediately passed it on to the chairman of the Board of ‘Hestia House’, Rothesay Police Chief Stephen McIntyre. Making the grant payable to the Women’s Shelter is the Foundation’s way of honoring the Sisters for their ‘significant contributions’ to the community over the past 152 years.

“There is a lot of dedication and generosity”, said the Foundation’s Patron, Lt.Gov. Herménégilde Chaisson …”You have given a great deal of soul, which is a benediction, and a benediction must be shared”.