Happy Day Senior Services is named after my father Alfred Day, known to everyone as Happy Day.

 

My father was also a business owner and I have many memories of my father helping others. His wife Florence, my mother, had polio and my father was her #1 support. It seemed to me 'Happy Day' was the original Good Samaritan, bringing homeless people to our house for meals, fresh clothing and to have a warm bath.

 

He would drive neighbours to and from town for errands, plow snow during the winter, dig ditches and put in water lines for neighbours and friends.

 

He would rescue the neighbour’s cat, provide a place to rent for a family that needed a roof over their head, water plants, cut lawns, visit and make people laugh. He really was always so happy when he was helping someone which is why he was known and called Happy Day.

Although he is deceased, his legacy lives on in his children, myself, my sister and brothers. I am so honoured and thrilled to be able to name my business after my father, and I know he would be humbled but smiling and so happy about this exciting new venture.               

     

—Written by Bonnie Johnson, CPCA