By Cecilia Nasmith
While the Northumberland Hills Hospital Health Professions Scholarship often goes to a student graduating from a West Northumberland high school, the 2023 scholarship is furthering the post-secondary health-care studies of two Northumberland residents already well into their respective programs.
The announcement came Thursday evening, following NHH board vice-chair Tom McLean sharing it first at the June board meeting.
Nicole Crisp
Nicole Crisp is a Castleton resident who, after 15 years in executive assistant and administrator roles, was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic to choose an entirely new career in what she considers her true calling – nursing. She completed her first year in Loyalist College's Registered Practical Nurse program this spring and begins her final year in the fall. She is interested in labour and delivery and surgical services, the areas in which she hopes to serve.
Crisp grew up on a Saskatchewan grain farm and, since moving to Castleton, has been a dedicated volunteer in her new home community – as an active parent volunteer at Northumberland Hills Public School and at Community Care Northumberland.
Her application included a letter of reference from Loyalist faculty member Barbara Remington, praising her “strong work ethic and high quality of work.”
Though she could not be present at the board meeting, Crisp did send a message: “I am a full-time student, mother, wife and neighbour who is proud to live in Northumberland and is committed to this community.”
Lola Dickson
