Conway Workshop Association thanking businesses
Digby’s Conway Workshop Association is hosting a dinner to thank its community employment partners who have hired workshop clients to work in their businesses.
A dinner invitation has gone out to nine employers and 10 workshop clients for a dinner being hosted Wednesday, Nov. 22, at the Conway Workshops Community Kitchen on Shreve Street in Digby
The Workshop says it is proud to have the support of area business operators in helping to develop the skills and knowledge each client needs to live as independently as possible and to achieve their own optimal level of independence.
Each of the clients are employed for specific times in a day or during a week, with staff guidance from the Workshop and each business.
Those who are being thanked include:
• Shopper’s Drug Mart (Nicole Dugas, client)
• Richardos worthy, client)
• Tim Horton’s in Conway (Natasha Ball & Brittany Harding, Pizza (David Ax- clients)
• Fundy YMCA (Teresa Granger, client) • Captain’s Cabin (Kyle Schoenermarch, client)
• Scallop Shell (Nikki Speichts, client)
• Sobey’s (Gordon Wilson, client)
• Birch Street Seafoods (Gilford Jarvis, client)
• Conway Qwik Stop (Lisa Bailey, client)
“Our purpose is to support and empower our clients to lead the quality of life they choose,” says Conway Workshop’s executive director Jill Baxter. “We also believe that engaging all abilities benefits everyone and they can be achieved through a community of champions, like the people coming to the dinner. This year is our biggest year of clients either working in the community or volunteering at establishments and businesses.”
Baxter says the businesses and Conway Workshop are together helping to create and facilitate opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
She also says they receive a lot of community support.
“With over 2000 customers coming for firewood, End of Life Electronics, ordering their car cleaning, floor or furniture cleaning for business/home and other ventures with business partners, Conway Workshop is opening doors and eliminating barriers for everyone,” Baxter says.