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Show Page 5 from the Westside . . . I Jay Greenan, new Westside Council Executive Secretary. Council Gains Executive Secretary difficult to crystallize the many faceted image of Jay R. Greenan. He is young, ambitious, sensitive, warmly alive and also the newly appointed executive secretary of the Westside Council . He is a man who never stays in one place, but rather, moves about displaying enthusiasm, a genuine concern and a lively interest for the people in the is community. f I 6. by Barbara Smith It There are hundreds of people like Alberta and Robert who receive skilled nursing care in and manner, each will inter-relat- e their homes from this United Your Utah United Fund gift assist in reaching the goals." Fund agency. The Community is working every day of the year "First," Jay explains, "we Nursing Service provides care to to services vital must improve the community bringing persons from all income brackets. neighbors of yours who need image and make the individuals in Charges are made on a sliding fee them pressingly. the community aware of the scale to accommodate persons When you give to one annual types of programs, services and with modest means. If you know various other activities that drive, your gift supports 50 local of someone who needs a nurse's exist agencies . . . fifty different ways care by the use of the media." at home, just call 486-218- 6 a hand to extend "Then we will initiate a helping you and arrange for a nurse to call on where of block meetings program people who need one. them. You probably don't know information can be dispensed, Delivering the care and involvement encouraged, needs Alberta Justensen. She is 68 years comfort a skilled nurse can old and lives alone in a modest identified, and referrals made on provide to the patient's home . . . a block level. We would like to home located in Midvale. Most of and providing the physician with us would have difficulty finding organize a presentation kit skilled outreach observers of including information about H it, but the Community Nursing ill home-boun- d Model Cities, a brochure on Service traveling nurse knows chronically patients is the only function of Westside Council Block Program, exactly how to get there. She the Community Nursing Service. comes twice each week to community school information, It is a vital function - one your and slide presentations on Alberta's home to change Utah United Fund gift helps services in the area and whatever dressings, cleanse inflamed sores else seems appropriate. We would and administer soothing provide. For information about the like in the future to hire three medicaments to Alberta's services provided by the other 49 community workers with good painfully afflicted legs. of the Utah United communication skills. There will Robert Strickland is a agencies Fund, or for information about be an election of block leaders terminal patient whose physician other community services you whose responsbilities will include has granted him permission to may be in need of, call the getting the community spend his remaining days in his Community Services Council, own home with his family. The information to the people, and 486-213care and treatment he requires is also their task will be to identify administered by a traveling nurse and make known the needs oftheir from the Service according to the. particular block so that they may doctor's instructions. be fulfilled." "Next we will meet with i leaders of other agencies and groups working in the area and With his fine background. h worker, Jay and his Tammy Lee, who has previously worked with a Feasibility Study out-reac- for a Westside Center, are planning some great activities. They will use various communications techniques with the purpose of encouraging more citizen participation, education and activity in the Westside Council of the model attempt to correlate and coordinate council activities with their area of concern." "I believe," concludes Jay emphatically, "that if these areas are dealt with and accomplished concurrently, it will increase individual participation, better utilization of resources for those One Man's Opinion Born in California some twenty-si- x by Frank Howard years ago, he has an impressive background. halted. He attended San Francisco City College, Brigham Young Mrs. Mary Carston, a Central City Senior Citizen asked, "What has the Community Action Program done? They have been here for years, but nothing University, and received his B.A. in Public Relations at San Jose State University. In 1969 he was elected President of the Public Relations Student Society of accomplished. Where will it end?" America, San Jose State Councils, committees, agencies, programs - all University and was also the Public Few in authority can appreciate the mixture of frustration and unchannelled enthusiasm that marks the common lot of us today. But, as we are reminded every day, authority is in the saddle and seems to ride herd on our hopes and aspirations. included campus press relations, envision action on the part of society to bring about solutions assisting the student body are caught up in a process of deferring to experts and kowtowing to specialists; voting on candidates, parties and to stubborn, slogans; of Relations Director of the Associated Students which president in well-meanin- Public Relations been engaged in many job activities. He has been the Public Relations Assistant to the Citizen League which is a it corporation dealing with summer youth activities. Several years ago he had volunteered to assist the firm Ruder and Finn with their accounts. Jay has held many other public relations positions which includes being the Administrative Assistant to Assemblyman Alister McAlister of the California State neighborhood. They hope to improve the image of the Westside to portray a vital and important segment of the Salt Lake area. "I would suggest," says Jay, need, greater representation on and of the Westside Council and create a better image of the Westside." in For more information "that the communications on the Westside program concentrate on three primary areas to accomplish our Community Council each will goal. Although segment call 485-120in a different be 3. Legislature. never-endin- g problems. God only knows there is a reason for not being silent, for affirming, for acting. Individual efforts to open doors that may lead to solutions are admirable. However, as soon as organization encircles these efforts with its decisions and publicized events. Since his college years he has non-prof- words which g approached tentacles of chairmanships, voting rights and all the mish-masof "proper procedure," hopes become h dimmed and efforts wane. Why? Partly, I suppose, being human we love to talk, "put our point over," are enarmored of titles that tickle our egos and, where money is involved, to see to it that the flow of funds is not We delegating responsibility and authority in education, or letting preachers carry the church and diplomats carry the nation and proudly proclaim this process as "democratic." This same process, when applied to local and community defeating and will continue to be so, until the incalculable power stored up in the average man and woman is released in the form of a spiritual and political energy as great as atomic .power. Until that day comes, we may well ask, along with Mrs. Mary Carston, "Where problems, will it is end?" |
