Circle of Care board outlines ambitious goals for 2021 and beyond

Organizers of the 2021 Circle of Care annual general meeting took an innovative approach to justify an ambitious set of goals to a large audience of 70 attendees: they first presented a history of miracles and accomplishments that people in Point Roberts had accomplished.

The Little Town That Could

In order, Virginia Lester gave a 20-year history of the local health clinic, Julie Iddon presented an abbreviated account of how Lily Point became a park, Jennifer Urquhart on how the radio towers were defeated, Rose Momsen described the challenge of building the new library and Galen Wood talked about how Circle of Care expressed the wish to have a wheelchair accessible van by the end of 2019 and, lo and behold, the Colton Foundation showed up in August and agreed to purchase it.

All of this, they proclaimed, was evidence that when the people of Point Roberts decide they want to do something, something gets done. And now what needs to be done is to make it possible for people to stay on the Point and not have to move because of their age and health conditions.

Executive director Annelle Norman announced the first of a series of townhall meetings to discuss building a facility that could let people stay on Point Roberts and not have to move because of age or
infirmity.

“As Rose said, we need to get people’s hearts and minds together to make a miracle happen. We are going to have a series of townhall meetings to determine how we will make this happen. Let’s be bold, Point Roberts,” Norman declared.

In other initiatives, the group announced their plans to work on getting personal alert devises to older residents as well as a discounted emergency medical evacuation  insurance policy.

The first townhall meeting will be held by Zoom on Monday, March 1 from 7 to 8 p.m. To join, go to bit.ly/3qWQlM1.