The SUMMIT Senior Apartments with Assisted Living Services treasures the life experiences of its tenants.
If you are looking for Sr. Clariet Perreault, you will more than likely find her busy at work accomplishing something important. When staff knocked at her door seeking an interview; she was cutting out a teddy bear pattern from scrap materials. Around her apartment were several cheerful bears, all different, unique and as beautiful as Sr. Clariet. “I started making bears about 2 months ago and since then have made around 50. I offer them to the Fire Department so that kids have something to hang on to when they need a hug most.”
With all of the recent Coronavirus precautions being taken at The SUMMIT (and the Villa) Sr. Clariet has been making fabric face masks. As soon as she was asked to use her fine seamstress skills to make these masks, she got right to it; finding patterns on the internet, searching for her supply of fabric, thread, and binding.
As Sr. Clariet describes her childhood growing up with 4 younger brothers in Red Lake Falls, she is quick with a smile and a frequent chuckle. “I still remember when I was about 3 years old. I sewed 4 buttons on my Great Grandpa’s shirt, standing on his lap with him in it! How is that for trust? I must have stuck him more than once!”
Sr. Clariet added one of her favorite childhood pets was her pig, Pinky. “Pinky was a gift to me because my father didn’t think the little runt would survive, but survive he did; he grew to about 300 pounds! And Pinky is credited for saving my life as a little girl. I had a penchant for playing near the stock water tank and I fell in…Pinky went to my uncle and pulled on his pants and drug him right over to save me. That pig never left my side.”
Sr. Clariet took her Solemn Vows in 1951 and joined the Sisters of St. Joseph; serving this world in prayer and as a Medical Technician, working in various capacities from being a Surgical Technician in the hospital to a Veterinarian Technician with animals.
Sr. Clariet said, “I am thankful for my blessings, my dear friends and my cozy home here in The SUMMIT.”
To learn more, www.villastvincent.org/assisted_living
