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Sunday, April 17, 2016

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Southcoast VNA taking registration for 13th annual Camp Angel Wings.

 

Volunteers plant new fruit trees at the Mill Pond Community Grove.

 

Selectmen noted this week the passing of Westport former Fire Chief, George E, Dean on Tuesday, April 12th.

 

 

Southcoast VNA taking registration for 13th annual Camp Angel Wings.

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

 

FAIRHAVEN, Mass. — Southcoast Visiting Nurse Association, known in the community as Southcoast VNA, will host its 13th annual bereavement camp, Camp Angel Wings, in July. This is a meaningful, fun-filled, two-day camp experience for children and teens, ages 6 through 15, who are grieving the loss of a loved one. The camp will be held on July 16th and 17th from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Camp Welch in Assonet.

 

Campers will participate in various interactive activities including music, swimming and arts and crafts, as a positive way to help share their loss and memorialize loved ones. All activities are designed to reduce feelings of isolation and improve the self-esteem of children and teens who share like experiences in grief.

 

Camp Angel Wings is free for all campers and registration is required. Applications to attend Camp Angel Wings are now being accepted, and should be completed as soon as possible, or no later than June 1, as space is limited and a waiting list is expected.

 

To obtain an application or for general questions, contact the Camp Angel Wings coordinator by phone at 508.973.3426 or by emailing campangelwings@southcoast.org.

 

About Southcoast Visiting Nurse Association

Part of Southcoast Health, Southcoast VNA is one of the largest not-for-profit, community-based home health and hospice care agencies serving Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. For more than 100 years, Southcoast VNA has provided high quality, comprehensive home health and hospice services, which foster improvement and maintenance of health, prevention of disease and disability and compassionate end-of life care. Services are available 24 hours a day, every day.

 

Southcoast VNA’s home health care program offers services tailored to the specific needs of every patient including skilled nursing, specialized wound and ostomy care, advanced cardiac care, rehabilitation therapies (physical, occupational and speech/language), infusion therapy, behavioral health services, in-home telemonitoring, medical social work, nutrition services, home health aides and health promotion and education.

 

Southcoast VNA’s hospice and palliative care program offers specialized care for individuals with terminal and life-threatening illnesses including skilled nursing, physician services, pain and symptom management, inpatient care, palliative care, social work services, home health aides, drugs and medical supplies, complimentary alternative therapies, counseling, spiritual support, bereavement support and volunteer respite support.

 

Southcoast VNA’s main office is located at the South Coast Business Center at 200 Mill Road in Fairhaven; with community offices located at 244 North Main Street in Raynham, at 1822 North Main Street, Fall River, and 1676 East Main Road, Portsmouth, R.I. For more information about Southcoast VNA call 800.698.6877 or visit www.southcoastvna.org.

 

 

 

Volunteers plant new fruit trees at the Mill Pond Community Grove.

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Saturday, April 16, 2016

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Westport, Massachusetts – On Saturday, April 16th, community members and the Westport Land Conservation Trust planted new fruit trees at the Mill Pond Conservation Area; most were plum trees. 

 

The effort was led by volunteer Emily Vogler, a landscape architect who teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.

 

“Many towns have community gardens where individuals have plots,” said WLCT Executive Director, Ryan Mann. “This is an attempt to bring the community together under one plot. In a few years we hope that the public will be able to take a walk here and pick an apple along the way.”

 

Future plans also include a public garden where residents are free to pick the vegetables.

 

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Selectmen noted this week the passing of Westport former Fire Chief, George E. Dean on Tuesday, April 12th.

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

 

George F. Dean, 81, of Westport died peacefully at home with his loving family by his side on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. He was the husband of Patricia A. (Rosinha) Dean.

 

Born in Westport, son of the late George F. and Ethel A. (Wood) Dean, he was a lifelong resident of Westport. He was appointed fire chief for the Town of Westport in 1972 and served as chief until his retirement in 1982.

 

Mr. Dean was a founding member of the Westport Permanent Firefighters Local 1802 and instrumental in the transfer of the ambulance from the police department to the fire department in 1974. He was also a founding member of the Greater Fall River Emergency Medical Service, which united the towns in Bristol County for medical response.

 

A life member of the Westport Volunteer Fire Company, and a member of the New England Association of Fire Chiefs, New England Division of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts and Bristol County Fire Chiefs Association.

 

PictureHe was a Past Master of the Noquochoke A.F. & A.M. Masonic Lodge and was also a member of the NRA and Ducks Unlimited. Mr. Dean enjoyed life in Westport, especially town politics, where is served on the Westport Finance Committee for many years.

 

Including his wife, survivors include 2 sons: George F. "Skip" Dean and his wife Kelly of Westport and Alan M. Dean and his wife Kimberly of Westport; 2 daughters: Jody A. Cote and her husband David of Westport and Lori A. Wukawitz and her husband Mark of Coon Rapids, MN; 5 grandchildren: Jacob, Khoryn, Grant, Chapin and Emma; and several nieces and nephews. His loving heart also reached out to many in his extended family, especially Amy Miguel. He was loving uncle to Sean and Julie Sullivan and Lisa and Manny Diaz and brother of the late Beryl Sullivan.

 

Interment was in Beech Grove Cemetery, Westport.

 

Memorial donations may be made to: Westport Ambulance Trust Fund, PO Box 3470, Westport, MA 02790.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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