My name is Jude Francis, and my letter is R for Restaurant owner. But I think that R should really stand for resilient, because that is what businesses in Scarborough have had to be during the pandemic. Our restaurant, JC’s Banquet Hall, has served Scarborough for many years and we love that we have been able to help our community celebrate the special moments in their lives. To us, that is what supporting your community is all about.
Scarborough is home to over 600,000 people. People that have come from all over the world. The different ethnicities of Scarborough and the number of newcomers make it incredibly fascinating. Yet it has never lost that feeling of a small community because we all work together to make Scarborough better. That’s why I call it a little piece of heaven, and that’s why it’s so important that we support SHN. They take care of all of us. So, when we were given the opportunity to provide food for SHN frontline workers, we grabbed it.
But SHN and Scarborough deserve more than just food. We deserve facilities that match the quality of our medical staff. They have done so much, with so little, for so long. And we need to change that.