A local woman, missing being with family for the holiday, is reaching out to her neighbours, making sure they have a filling Easter dinner.
Blanche Cronk lives in an apartment on 6th Avenue East, known as Crystal Towers. In her building, she has identified a few residents who were also alone on the holiday.
“I am offering dinner to anyone who is by themselves in the building,” she said. “I am thinking it will be five to six people.”
She contacted her neighbours, either by phone or with a note under their doors offering to cook a meal and deliver the dinners outside their doors on Easter, in keeping with physical distancing protocols.
She has a full menu planned of turkey, ham, potatoes, dressing, vegetables and dessert.
“I am baking a peach pie and have a rhubarb crisp,” she said.
Cronk is retired and has lived in the building since about 2009, and enjoys her neighbors.
“I can’t be with my family for Easter, so rather than mope around and feel sorry for myself all day, I might as well be busy doing something, helping somebody out,” she said.
