By David Rossiter
Special to The Record
This week marks the 33rd year that Quebec has recognized Intellectual Disability Week. The initiative was created to “Bring the general public and people with intellectual disabilities closer.”
Usually, the week plays host to numerous events and activities to achieve that goal. Since those have been cancelled, Virginia Jackson, a Townshipper living with an intellectual disability, figured that sharing her perspective on the past year would be a good way to take part in the week.
Just over a year ago today, Jackson said she lost her job at Grace Village retirement home in Huntingville. “Since I didn’t live at the home, I wasn’t able to keep working there when the pandemic started. They couldn’t risk residents getting Covid.”
At first it wasn’t so bad, Jackson said, explaining that the free time was nice. “But after six months I started to go crazy, it was so hard not going anywhere,” she said.
