Flower Brings Cheer to Nursing Home Residents
A local group brings holiday cheer to residents at a Boardman nursing home.
Members
of Poinsettia's For a Purpose, in collaboration with Walgreen's on
Route 224 in Boardman, showed up at Briarfield of Boardman nursing home
to surprise all of the residents with poinsettia's. This is the fourth
year the group has provided the flowers, and they pick a different
nursing home every year.
The group's founder, Matthew Severn,
said he started passing out the flowers in 2007 after he brought flowers
to his grandmother while she was living at a nursing home.
"When
I brought her the flowers, everybody in the nursing home was asking if
the flowers were for them and if I was their grandson. So, a lot of
people hadn't seen somebody my age in awhile, so I started doing that
every year. My goal was to get poinsettia for everybody in a nursing
home," said Severn.
The group handed out about 60 poinsettia's to residents at Briarfield.
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