Last Tuesday morning we heard from Margaret Schleier Stahl, with her classification talk.

 

One of Margaret's most inspiring stories was that of a nurse who took care of her ailing father at Meadow Park Long Term Care Home. Imagine for a second as Margaret stated, that you had an impact on someone you didn't even realize, until many years later. Her father's nurse that night, was a woman who had sat in one of Margaret's career workshops years ago. Margaret had instructed the group to reveal their dream jobs, and then dream one bigger. This single mom of three, was forced to mouth the words, she had never in her wildest dreams believed would come true seven years later: "nurse". 

 

Through the help of family and friends, this anonymous woman, who Margaret called Jane, persevered to become both a PSW and a registered nurse. 

 

Margaret has two adult children; Brandon & Morgan. Margaret has many reasons to be extremely proud of both of them as Morgan has just secured a position with the Economic Club of Canada as Director of Operations and Brandon, a newly hired supervisor at Aphria in Leamington. 

 

As acknowledged in last week's Sunriser, Margaret was on HGTV briefly (as her friend and her enjoy furniture painting) but joked that their show was cancelled after they appeared on air. 

 

Margaret's other brush with fame (at least locally) was running as a Liberal candidate in the last provincial election, where many acknowledged she was in for the battle of her life in the toughest riding in the province. Margaret had less than a 2% of winning her seat. 

  

In honour of the passing of charter member Jim Steele, this week's series of past Sunrisers will feature him.