A woman whose husband spent his final days at the Miller Centre in St. John’s is launching a fundraiser to help spruce up the facility’s family room.

Christine Blackwood lost her husband to cancer last year and says she wanted to find a way to give back to the facility.

She noticed that the furniture in the family room at the Miller Centre’s Palliative Care Unit where loved ones gather was starting to look a bit tired, and she’s organized a fundraiser for this coming Sunday at O’Reilly’s Irish Pub.

She says she wanted to give back to the community, “for families who are going through so much pain as it is, and to provide a bit of comfort while they are there is kind of what I was thinking.”

The Rays of Sunshine fundraiser takes place from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. this Sunday, October 5th

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