A Grand Celebration to Honor 125 Years
United Helpers has served our community since 1898! To celebrate, make plans to come to the United Helpers 125th Anniversary Gala, Saturday, November 4, at 6:00 p.m., at The Stables at Windy Point, 215 Sissonville Road in Potsdam. Our theme is “Celebrating Our Legacy and Envisioning Our Future”! All family, friends, employees, and volunteers are invited to join us in support of this exciting anniversary and UH’s next 125 years of...
A Gift that Lives On
In the past couple of years, the world has had to bid farewell to Constance (Connie) Dillingham Hanson and (Donald) Bruce Hanson. They were fast friends to United Helpers. Bruce was born in 1926, and he passed away in 2021. Connie was born in 1929, and passed away in 2022. They married on March 31, 1979. Between Connie’s career and service to her community, she found time to serve as a member...
August 31 Donor Recognition Event
We look forward to honoring all United Helpers donors at our annual Donor Recognition Event, on August 31! Join us on Thursday, August 31, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. We will host you at 8101 St. Hwy. 68 in Ogdensburg. If you haven’t seen this landmark UH facility as it is today, be sure to attend. Wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres (and good company) will be served. Also, come to enjoy stories...
Gift of Print to Celebrate United Helpers’ 125th
Bill Poole and Doris Ferris unveil a print of the original United Helpers Home. Early Residents of the original United Helpers Home Bill Poole and Doris Ferris unveiled a print of the home drawn by late fellow Early Resident Ron Collins during a ceremony held this spring at the Edgar A. Newell II Memorial Golden Dome. The Dome was built on the site where the UH Home once stood. (“Early...
United Helpers director of behavioral health programs to speak July 26 at Potsdam Rotary meeting
POTSDAM — Dave Nelson, director of behavioral health programs at United Helpers, will speak at the Rotary Club of Potsdam noon meeting on Wednesday, July 26, at the Potsdam Town Hall community room in Potsdam. Nelson will speak about mental health and the services available to area residents. Prioritizing mental health is one of the presidential initiatives of 2023-24 Rotary International President R. Gordon R. McInally. He is encouraging Rotary clubs around...
United Helpers Hosting Raffle for Four Tickets to see the World-famous Savannah Bananas in Syracuse
When it comes to the hardest to get tickets in entertainment, there is Taylor Swift and then there is the Savannah Bananas. The Savannah Bananas are a traveling baseball team that plays their own version of the sport called “Bananaball.” The unique set of rules makes their games part circus and part baseball, but 100% entertainment. The team has sold out every game over the past three years. Their game on Sept....
United Helpers Introduces Two New Honors at Summer Awards Ceremony
Each summer since 2021 United Helpers has honored exemplary direct care staff with the presentation of the Margaret R. Spies Award. This year’s summer awards ceremony included the addition of two new awards – one to honor behavioral health staff, and another to honor professional staff. Front row, from left, are winners, MDSP Amanda Bisnett, of Nicholville, Home Health Aide Janice Clough, of Potsdam, CNA Lindsay Weir, of DeKalb Junction, and...
Canton Town Board Honors United Helpers
CANTON – A proclamation by Canton Town Supervisor Mary Ann Ashley declared May 10 as United Helpers Recognition Day in the township. Members of the United Helpers leadership team attended this week’s town board meeting to receive the proclamation. The town also gifted the organization a lilac tree and a replica of the historic Town Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 1962. United Helpers Vice President of Human Resources Michelle Matthews...
Winner of the Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge!
Peayton Stark, Peayton Stark, 2023 Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner. From the Northern New York Community Foundation - For the second year in a row, an area student wrote a winning essay about United Helpers for the 2023 Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge, which solicits entries from three counties. It is made possible by the Northern New York Community Foundation in partnership with Community Bank, N.A., and an anonymous donor....
Nursing Home Coalition Aiming to Inform Public of State’s Neglect
OGDENSBURG – United Helpers COO Stacey Cannizzo is joining leaders from 25 other non-profit nursing homes across Upstate New York in sending strongly worded statements to media in their community to alert citizens of the ongoing lack of response from the governor on senior care issues. “The end of 2022 marks a troublesome new milestone that most people are unaware of,” Mrs. Cannizzo wrote. “It marks 15 years since the state...