Skip to main content

Read the full article in The Hill Times

Police Chief Eric Stubbs, longtime Nelson House supporter Lee Farnworth, and Deputy Chief Patricia Ferguson. Photograph courtesy of Lee Farnworth

More than 100 generous guests came out to support the Susan Sherring Legacy Fund, raising more than $12,000 to help Nelson House, an Ottawa-based emergency shelter for women who are victims of domestic violence, in the name of the late journalist.

Hosted by Sherring’s friend Isabel Metcalfe at her home in the Glebe on Oct. 1, the annual fundraiser featured speeches by Nelson House executive director Christy Savage, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, and Police Chief Eric Stubbs.

Sherring’s sons Peter and James, her sisters, and their families were in attendance; alongside PSG Senator Andrew Cardozo; Ottawa-Centre MPP Joel Harden; Ottawa City Councillors Shawn MenardTheresa Kavanagh, and Jessica Bradley; and Daria Ivanochko, chair of Nelson House Board of Directors.

Sherring—a former Ottawa Sun journalist and columnist who died in July 2022 at the age of 63—was a keen supporter of Nelson House and its work for women and their children experiencing intimate partner violence. Nelson House set up the eponymous legacy fund in her memory.