Michelle MacNeil

Bras d’Or native Michelle MacNeil is employed with Home Instead Senior Care after working at Resicare Cape Breton Association for 30 years and retiring. After Resi-care, MacNeil volunteered for three years until she joined Home Instead Senior Care because of her love of caregiving. MacNeil will be one of the people wrapping and delivering presents to isolated seniors for Home Instead’s “Be a Santa To a Senior” program that is currently underway. Age: 59. Occupation: Office co-ordinator of Home Instead Senior Care. Birthplace: Sydney Mines Family: Husband Hugh, sons Matt and Evan. Home: Bras d’Or. Pets: No. First Job: On a grant cleaning beaches. What talent would you most like to have: Play the piano. Coffee or tea: Green tea, black. Favourite food: Pasta. Favourite novel: The Shack. Favourite movie: The Notebook. Favourite Music: New pop.

What is something you like to do in

your leisure time: I try and walk five km a day. Favourite motto or expression:

“Caregiving is the hardest job I’ve ever loved” and “Home is the word there is.” What traits in people do you admire most: Sincerity. Favourite place to travel in Cape Breton: Neil’s Harbour and

Cheticamp. Favourite place to travel: The Caribbean