As we all take this journey together through the COVID-19 pandemic, many of you have asked what you can do to help support and raise the spirits of our facility staff, residents, and patients. We’d like to take a moment to share with you some tangible ways you can do exactly that. Watch our video from Marquis Companies & Consonus Healthcare CEO, Phil Fogg, to learn of two ways you can help!
The single most important factor determining the future of a child is the presence of a consistent and caring adult. Just one. At least one. Marquis Companies and Consonus Healthcare, CFO, Steve Fogg, helps show how the private and non-profit sectors can work together to support youth in the Portland program with Friends of the Children.
Donald Bramley has always wanted to visit Washington, D.C. In October, that wish was made a reality as Bramley joined a group of 30 veterans who toured the nation’s capital. The trip was organized by the Vital Life Foundation as part of its Journey of Heroes program. The group visited from Oct. 21-24. They toured the city’s historic sites with a special focus on visiting the war memorials.
U.S. Navy veteran George Bickford, a resident of urban unincorporated Clackamas, left Oct. 21 with several other local veterans and their families for Washington, D.C., to visit the memorials erected in their honor.
Fifteen veterans and their family members left the Portland International Airport Monday morning, bound for Washington D.C. on a Journey of Heroes trip. It's the largest group yet for the Journey of Heroes, which gives veterans a chance to visit the war memorials made in their honor. "I can hardly talk! I'm so excited!" said WWII Veteran William Mangold, about to board an airplane for the first time in 35 years. "This is one chance in my life where I'll get to see something like this, you know? And it couldn't be a better place to go."