Victoria’s Read

If someone knows how to wear many hats and manage them well, its Sherry St. Denis. Sherry’s roles include: wife, mother, friend, Chairman of the Board with the MFRC, estimator with Walkers’ Moving and Storage and representative with Primerica Financial Services, to name a few.

The St. Denis family moved to North Bay in 1985. Sherry’s married, has 2 children and helped raise a third, 2 now in University and 1 still in high school.

Sherry and her husband Claude were both members of the Canadian Military when they moved here. Since then, Sherry has resigned from the military life in one way and has become involved in another.

For the last 8 years, Sherry’s been with the Military Family Resource Center, the first year as a volunteer and then working her way up to being Chairman of the Board. Sherry really enjoys working with the MFRC as it makes her feel good to help other military families with issues that only military families have to deal with.
Sherry also works for Walkers Moving and Storage as an estimator and has worked with them for the last 4 years. This job involves travelling to peoples’ homes and giving them an estimate on what it would cost for them to have Walkers’ move them. Sherry is often surprised at how little people think a move will cost and advises people to err on the side of overestimating what they think it will cost rather than underestimate it.

This job varies in intensity with the seasons, spring and summers being the busiest, fall and winter being the slowest. This tapering off of business gives Sherry the opportunity to also to pursue a part-time career with Primerica Financial Services.

She is also very involved with her teenage son, often dropping him off and picking him up for football practice.

Sherry is very well organized – she has to be! – to manage her busy lifestyle. Sherry is down to earth with a great sense of humour. Anyone lucky enough to get to know Sherry is drawn to her and is fortunate to be a friend of hers.

By Michelle Lashbrock