EDITOR,
I want to write to you and tell you the kind of community we live in.
I was diagnosed in 2010 with cancer. Since then I have only found love and compassion from the people of Squamish.
There are organizations who have given us financial help when we needed it, but didn't ask the pharmacist who put happy stickers on my medication to make me feel better the doctors who listen to what I have to say because they only want to help me, and ask me how I'm doing at my grandchild's baseball game.
Women who cook for us when I am so sick from chemotherapy that I didn't have the strength to cook myself, without ever asking. Some of these people I have never met. The bank tellers who always ask how I'm doing and really mean it - it's not just lip service.
The people who come and sit with me and make sure I have food and water and take my medications. Even the neighbours who say, "If you need me, put a towel at your window and we will be right there."
The store tellers everywhere in this town that have something good and helpful to say to me
This is not a thank you list for if it was, it would have hundreds of names of friends and family that support me. What this letter is is to to tell you what kind of community we live in. I mean community, not town. Squamish is a community where people come together in a time of need and help whoever needs it.
I am proud to call Squamish my home and for the people that do all they do to help. They make me want to fight and be around a little longer.
Kathy Ramage
A proud 35-year resident of Squamish
