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		Bill Sewell Profession: Retired Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michigan Technological University Email: wsewell@mtu.edu

Bill Sewell recently retired as an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan Technological University. He serves on several community boards of directors including the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home for Abused Women, Omega House (a proposed hospice house) and Portage Lake Hospice. Bill is a trained hospice volunteer.

In addition, he does volunteer work with Keweenaw Home Nursing and Hospice, Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly and Portage Lake Hospice. Bill is an active member of the Copper Country Peace Alliance.

News

Volunteers beautify Hancock with gardens

Posted 07/28/2003

HANCOCK -- Volunteers are helping to make Hancock beautiful. Guest writer Bill Sewell, who volunteers with the group on Saturday mornings, describes how volunteers -- both children and adults -- are planting flowers and maintaining gardens on White Street and Pine Street. Nancy Carr of Carr Landscaping and Design, who supervises the group, volunteers her own time and materials to this Beautification Project, initiated by Hancock Mayor Jim Martin. more

Omega House to provide home for terminally ill hospice patients

Posted 12/16/2002

HOUGHTON -- The capital campaign is underway to raise another $500,000 for the million-dollar Omega House, a six-bed hospice house planned to provide a homelike setting for dying Copper Country residents who are unable to stay in their own homes. Omega House will allow family and friends to support the dying person through visits and short stays, while professional and volunteer caregivers address the patient's physical, emotional and spiritual needs. The facility will serve Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Ontonagon counties. more