Toronto man honours his mother with fundraiser at Scarborough long-term care home
CBC
As part of his healing and as a way to honour his beloved mother, Sonny Von hosted a non-profit "feel good event" at a Scarborough long-term care home on Friday.
Von held a meet-and-greet after starting a GoFundMe fundraising drive to collect money for the Tony Stacey Centre for Veterans Care in Scarborough. It featured puppies, an ice cream truck, doughnuts, balloons, and more, all to cheer up residents and remind them that the community cares about them.
Long-term care homes are near and dear to Von, especially since on Saturday it will be two years since his mother died.
"I thought what better way to honour her than to give back to the community," Von said.
His mother Kostadinka lived in Craiglee Nursing Home from 2017 to 2019.
As CBC's Marketplace reported in an October 2020 story about mistreatment and neglect of patients at some Ontario long-term care homes, Von and the rest of her family witnessed abuse and negligence care after placing a video camera in her room, and promptly moved her to another long-term care home. She died in 2019 after suffering from dementia.
Soon after, Von went through a difficult time in his life, one full of anger and sadness. He said he soon turned his suffering into healing by helping the community.
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