Currents News Staff
A new face has made an appearance at Carilion’s Crystal Spring Tower Construction Site. Josh Young has brought the ‘Where’s Waldo’ stories to life.
“To try to do something unique, something to brighten their day,” Josh said. “So we came up with the idea to take a cut out of Waldo. Everybody knows the children’s story, Waldo. So we take him each day and put them in a new spot somewhere on the site, so the kids have something to look forward to.”
The site is right below Carilion Children’s hospital, giving patients and staff the perfect view to ask ‘Where’s Waldo?’
“And I literally just got this, like little spark of joy,” said staff member Kathleen Boone. “Um, and this really like fun moment.”
Carilion life specialist Kathleen Boone says its important to bring joy and play to pediatric patients and Waldo is doing just that.
“I can imagine that’s what the children are feeling as well,” Kathleen said. “Just a fun surprise and something that they weren’t expected and something that brings them joy, which is really important to have those pockets of joy I think here because it can be really difficult.”
Each day, you can find the eight-foot-tall Waldo cutout hiding in a different spot at the construction site.
“Just to brighten the day over there with the community and the patients and the staff,” Josh said, “and had guys lined up. So they enjoy every single morning the first thing they do when they show up is find a new place for Waldo.”
The crew has big plans to keep people asking, ‘Where’s Waldo?’