PG Hospice's Home Hospice Programs, Mayor Simon Yu and his wife Momo Yu will be celebrating Lunar New Year together on Feb. 1 at the Prestige Hotel Ballroom.
The Lunar New Year is based on the lunisolar calendar, which is determined by both the moon and the sun. The new year starts on the new moon that's closest to the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. This date usually lands somewhere between the Jan. 20 and Feb. 20.
The event aims to raise money for the Hospice program which aims to provide 24-hour care and provide compassion and dignity to people facing the end of their lives.
“The reason why we started doing this, we wanted to do it this year is because it's our mayor's culture," said Hospice employee Jenna Phillips. “We've always thought that Chinese New Year's would be a really fun event. And we didn't do anything for our actual new year. So we thought this is a great opportunity.”
Tickets are $125 each, which includes a multi-course dinner, a cultural performance and entertainment and presentations that highlight the Lunar New Year and Chinese culture.
Phillips also stressed the importance of Hospice care, not only for patients but also for the community itself.
“Hospice is a place that not only does what most people understand what hospice does. which is when people are at the end of their lives, we give them a safe, comfortable place for families to be all together and make people as comfortable as possible," she said. "We also have so many other programs that a lot of people don't even know that we have. We have various grief programs. Everything from a children's group to a family group, to one on one. So that when people have lost somebody, then you know that it's not over because they're grieving and so we have these programs to help them through their healing process as well.”
Funds from this event will also be going to Hospice Home Care which provides at-home care for patients facing end of life.
To find more information or to purchase tickets visit pghpcs.ca or purchase them in person at Solace Centre, 1506 Ferry Ave..
