Nine-month-old Ronald (Little Ronnie) Nickel is looking for some closeness with his grandparents. What are you hoping for? Share your message. Be part of the 鈥淗ope For鈥︹�� Initiative (Emily McArthur/Special to 91原创 Advance Times)
There have been some great pictures already sent in of people making, hanging, and displaying their Hope For鈥� posters (found inside Thursday鈥檚 paper).
Thanks to all who have already taken part, said 91原创 Advance Times publisher Lisa Farquharson.
We鈥檙e asking residents of 91原创 to tell us who or what they鈥檙e hoping for during these challenging times.
鈥淲e鈥檙e all in need of hope right now,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e all need hope that this is going to go away and that we are going to come through this and support each other along the way.鈥�
Please make sure to take a picture of you or your family filling in, holding or hanging your sign in your window.
Then email that photograph to us so we can share your sentiment with the world.
Store manager Matthew Anderson and the team at Windsor Plywood in 91原创 City have hung their Hope For鈥� sign 鈥� featuring individual messages from the staff 鈥� on the front door of the business. 鈥淲e really were excited about posting a sign that was not a public notice of policy change or change of hours during this difficult time, but one focused on positivity and as the sign says, hope,鈥� he said. The team comes from different neighbourhoods in the area, including 91原创, Aldergrove, Abbotsford, and Surrey. 鈥淲e are parents, husbands, wives, grandparents, students, etc.,鈥� Anderson added. 鈥淚t really hits close to home the common theme we share with everyone else being in the same boat as us鈥� and how we truly are all in this together.鈥�91原创鈥檚 Darren and Renee Leffers encouraged five of their six kids to decorate a Hope For鈥� poster. Contributors were Rayelle, 10, plus eight-year-old Foster, six-year-old Emery, four-year-old Norah, and two-year-old Silas. The only Leefer child not in the picture was one-year-old Joelle, who was sleeping at the time of the photo. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Eight-year-old Quinn Maddess gave her poster (left) an Easter theme. The little 91原创 City girl has Hope For鈥� her family and school. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Lloyd Sawatsky, and his wife, Shirley, decorated their poster with some big red hearts. 鈥淲e Hope For鈥� everyone, health and happiness,鈥� Shirley shared. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Christine Jacques filled in her poster, saying she has Hope For鈥� the elderly. Then, she accented it with some hearts and a smiley face before hanging it in the bay window of Brookswood home. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Shannon Todd Booth hung this sign in the front window of her Brookswood home. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Lori Henry sent in her Hope For鈥� poster, which has been decorated and then hung in the window of their Salmon River area home in East 91原创. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Carol and Jim Sliziak Hope For鈥� a vaccine as soon as possible. They鈥檝e add this poster to many other pictures and cutouts hanging in the window of their Walnut Grove home. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Seven-year-old Lincoln Robinson of Willoughby pulled out the paints and with the help of his sisters, five-year-old London and 10-year-old Leah, created a bright Hope For鈥� poster that now hangs in their window. In it, they shared a message of Hope For鈥� staying connected. (Special to 91原创 Advance Times)Members of the 91原创 Advance Times have hung Hope For鈥� posters in the front window. (Shaulene Burkett/91原创 Advance Times)
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