Calling on her decades of lived experience, retired restaurant owner and caterer Gladys Goode chops vegetables Monday to Friday without fail at St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Drop In Centre that prepares and serves more than 300 meals a day, 365 days a year, to those most vulnerable in downtown Prince George.
“I retired early so I needed something to do so I came here to volunteer about four years ago,” Goode said. “It just went from one day to another to another until I was volunteering five days a week and when I’m done here I go over to the Elder Citizens Recreation Centre to keep myself busy.”
Goode said throughout her life she was always active and out of the house most days so she’s kept that up because she likes the work and helping people is important.
“Day after day Gladys comes here and chops and chops, she sits and chops like the matriarch of St. Vincent’s,” Bernie Goold, executive director of St. Vincent de Paul Society, smiled.
“There’s always something that needs to be done here and anyone can come and volunteer," Goode said. "You don’t have to come every day but even once a week would help because they really need it.”
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