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Show may not be able to cook, it also provides a few moments of companionship for someone who is alone and lonely. Often, the daily visit of the Meals on Wheels ) truck is the only contact many of these people have with the outside (omo)) a world. WOMAN OF THE WEEK Mrs. Hutchings has been with the program since June, 1967. While she has worked with many firms and organizations including Utah Power and Light and Remington Rand in California, after she had worked with the Utah Girl Scout Council, she realized the great satisfaction that comes from working with a agency. There is no end to the many dutis and jobs to be accomplished, she said, and no greater reward than a happy satisfied feeling of a job well done for someone who really needed non-prof- it you. Lucille Hutchings' capable hands truly produce a job well done everyday. There Is enough work for several Executive Directors, and yet she finds lime to do it all herself, assisted by just one full-tim- e worker, several workers, and willing volunteers. (Her first three months at the Agency she had no paid help at volunteers.) Four separate service programs are administered by the agency, part-tim- e all-o- providing companionship, Lucille Hutchings recreation, physical exercise, and nutritious meals. Anyone years or older is eligible to participate in all of the activities of the agency. These four fifty-fiv- The friendliness and warmth of V. Lucille Hutchings shines clearly through everything she undertakes, as Executive Director of the Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging, her guiding hand and happy spirit enriches the lives of the many people she works with and helps everyday. While the title Executive Director might seem to be a job for someone who merely stays in an office and oversees planning and directing, Mrs. HutchingB is in everything that happens in the agency's home at 156 WestminsterAvenue located in the old City and County Budding the middle of complex. Her work is with people over we fifty-fiv- e years of the term Senior Citizens or aging. 1 realized that many of our older people are simply age-peo- ple tarved for human nly companionship. Their real hunger is for individual consideration as people who still count in the scheme of things, she said in a recent interview. At the Center, older people count. They are all e throughout its duration. An Office programs are Meals on Wheels, Friendly Neighborhood Center, Friendly Visitors, and Physical Fitness Program. Meals on Wheels provides over 5,000 hot, nutritious meals' each month. These meals are delivered to the home at noon each weekday in five specially equipped heated vans. These modem trucks were made possible for Meals on Wheels through money from the Harriet D. Travis Trust Fund. For $1.00 or $1.25 for special diets, an older person may have a meal of soup, salad, hot meat, potatoes and of Economic Opportunity gravy, vegetable, individuals-a- nd all important The Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging was founded December, 1962, a non-prof- it corporation, with tax exempt status. Its primary purpose was .to render direct services found to be needed in the community by and for aging and aged. It has been financed by public and private funds Program grant supported the on Wheels Project from its inception in 1967 through 1969. In 1970, Meals on Wheels was accepted as a United Fund Meals Organization. home-mad- e bread, dessert and drink. Anyone who is fifty-fiv- e years of age or older may participate in this Not program by calling does this only program provide a meal hot for someone who daily 487-366- 7. For those who can come in to the Center, meals are served in the dining room on weekdays at 11:30 a.m. for a nominal cost. Here companionship and contact with other people is almost as important as the good, nutritious meals. The Friendly Neighborhood Program is the second function. Every Thursday, there is luncheon and entertainment at Senior Gtizen Talent Time from II a.m. to 2 p.m. Entertainment and table games and comjianionship are featured. (Make reservations in advance by calling The Friendly Visitor Program takes place away from the Center. This consists of volunteers of any age who visit with elderly persons unable to leave their homes. The Visitors read, talk with, listen to, drive or walk with those in need of a friend. Perhaps they will write a letter for someone who Ls unable about what is to hold a pcn-eh- al 187-3667). happening to outside-list- en someone who has no one else with whom to talk. Volunteers are always needed for the Friendly Visiting. No skills are required-on- ly the desire to make a new friend and to be a receptive and understanding visitor. Most of the persons served by this program are elderly men and women whose physical or is impaired g emotional loneliness and lack of personal by well-bein- attention. They may be living alone or in a boarding or nursing home. They may be completely or partially helpless, sick or well, but they have one need in to take a If you interest in them. personal common-someo- ne would like to volunteer, 487-366- call 7. The Physical Fitness Program is the fourth one administered by the agency. This is a carefully supervised program tailored to meet the individual needs for anyone over fifty-fiv- e years of age. A qualified specialist supervises the weekly sessions held every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Center. Forty-fiv- e minutes of exercise are followed by a fifteen minute rest period and a hot lunch. The physical activity is free; lunch is 50 cents or 75 cents. 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