Alyssa Boyd graduated from McMaster medical school in 2003 and traveled North to Thunder Bay to complete a two year residency program in rural family medicine with a special focus in palliative care.  She returned to Southern Ontario in 2006 for a brief 3-month locum in Collingwood in the hopes of traveling...

Being in love with people, who they are, and what makes them a person, Nancy Good-Kennedy R.N., R.Ac , Co-founder of The Living Wish Foundation, joined the field of nursing more than 20years ago. She knows firsthand, that when human-beings are diagnosed with a life-limiting illness it is not uncommon... 

Ingrid McLeod-Dick is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a BSc. from Queens University and an MBA from Schulich School of Business. Ingrid worked 16 years in public practice and also taught at the Schulich School of Business for the past 25 years in its MBA and EMBA program in the areas of finance and accounting... 

Tanya Mazza’s career history includes more than twenty-five years dedicated to the arts in both public and not-for-profit settings. As a member of the marketing & development staff at Canada’s National Ballet School, Tanya gained extensive fundraising experience that included special events, major gifts, ...

Linda MacLeod has a background in clinical nursing in mental health, critical care and stepdown units in several provinces. Her work in hospital administration has been primarily in Ottawa and Collingwood, but also Cape Breton and Owen Sound. 

Her interest in palliative care began when she was a critical care nurse, and since then, she has been involved in hospital committees aimed at improving palliative care resources in hospitals and our community.

Michael Lewin has been a family physician for 27 years. After his studies at the University of Toronto, and residency at Queen’s, he worked in Maine, Bolivia, Ecuador and the Marshall Islands before starting a family and deciding to move closer to home, serving the Collingwood community for the last 17 years...

Carrie Plater grew up in Wasaga Beach and she has always felt giving back to her small town community in different ways was an important aspect of what living here is all about.

Carrie graduated from Georgian College's Advertising program, and she has had a successful career in...