Many Bowen people and organizations have been doing their part to recognize essential service workers (for example, Catching Stars has been delivering gift baskets, Tell Your Friends did their gift basket nominations) and another Bowen Islander wants to get in on sharing the love.
A community member recently came to me with an idea: once a week for the next five weeks, recognize one Bowen Islander who is working the front line of COVID-19. This community member offered to contribute five $100 prizes.
So, once a week for the next five weeks we’ll draw at random someone who, by doing their job, risks exposure to the coronavirus. This could be anyone from health care workers, to grocery store workers, to restaurant workers, to freight workers, contractors, postal workers, essential store workers, couriers, foodbank volunteers, firefighters and anyone else putting themselves on the line. The chosen person each week will receive $100 (to be clear, the money is coming from the donor, not the Undercurrent).
We do need your help for this though! Are you or someone you know a front-line worker? Let us know at [email protected] (we need name and a means of contacting this person).
While we can only recognize a few individuals, islanders can also send notes of support for those on the front lines to the above email because there are so many people working to keep our society going through this crisis. Thank you all.
The first draw will be on April 29 [Note: I changed the date of the draw because I needed some more time to gather names––sorry for any confusion!]
— Bronwyn Beairsto, editor
