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Show Uolunteers Busy With Sr. Citizens By ROSELYN KIRK Though retired, senior citizens ci-tizens are kept busy in volunteer volun-teer work for programs sponsored spon-sored by the Council for Aging. Ag-ing. MRS. ALICE Johnson, administrator ad-ministrator of the program, ' said the council "can't spare i employees for all senior ci-? ci-? tizen activities." So, 2,464 hours were donated donat-ed by volunteers the last three ; months. VOLUNTEERS act as friendly visitors, on transportation transpor-tation committees, as instructors, in-structors, as clerical help, as hostesses at the centers and make telephone reassurance - calls. Mel Rodgers, who heads the transportation committee at the Bountiful Center, and Wally Epperson, calling chairman, did double duty ! last week mailing out the ' Senior Citizen's Bulletin. ! MR. RODGERS said the four-page bulletin is sent out every two months to every , senior citizen who can be identified. ; Over 3,200 older'citizens have been identified and I receive the publication. This bulletin was larger since it j included information on vot-! vot-! ing and the referendums to appear on the bal lot on Nov. 2 . MR. EPPERSON and Mr. Rodgers have been active on the transportation committee for the senior citizens. Mr. Epperson headed the committee com-mittee for one year. Mr. Rodgers served the last two years. Both volunteer at the Bountiful Boun-tiful Center. THOUGH THE center supplies a bus for longer trips, Mr. Rodgers picks up senior citizens in his car for trips to the doctor or brings them to the daily meal at the center. "Some don't own a car," he says. Mr. Epperson calls district representatives twice a month to remind them of classes, activities and meals. Mr. Rodgers became active in the senior citizen's program through bowling. AN AVID bowler, he said he first joined the bowling league and then volunteered for other jobs. He now takes Monday off from his volunteer duties since "it's my bowling day." HELEN MAXFIELD and Lillian Schceler are volunteer volun-teer instructors at the Bountiful Boun-tiful Center. Helen teaches bridge and Lillian teaches crocheting. Helen says most of her students are "all good bridge players." She volunteered to teach basic bridge and gives instructions while games are in progress. HARVEY PRICE, one of the bridge players, says there are usually two or three tables ta-bles on Tuesday, but the "diehards play on Wednesdays Wednes-days and Fridays as well." Mrs. Maxfield said she starts with basic rules, counting and playing of hands. Her students "are competitive and play for blood," she says. LILLIAN SCHOELER is still waiting to teach crocheting. crochet-ing. The Center asked her to , teach the basics, but she finds most senior citizens already know how to knit and crochet and just want help with their patterns. While Mrs. Schoeler waits for pupils, she's painting ceramics. ARDELL DEASON works at the desk at the Bountiful Center. She answers the phone and sells ceramics on Tuesdays and Fridays. She "looks forward to work" where she fills in wherever she's asked to help. MARY STAUFFER, Bountiful Boun-tiful Golden Years Center director, explained that friendly visitors are volunteers volun-teers who make calls to the homebound. "They build up friendships and form attachments." attach-ments." Friendly visitors see the homebound at least once a week. Sometimes they visit daily. ELSE HANSEN and Audrey Fuller visit in nursing homes. Though the Bountiful Center has 15 friendly visitors volunteers, more are needed. Volunteers also call the homebound to give telephone reassurance, Mrs. Stauffer said. MRS. JOHNSON said the Council on Aging oversees the two centers, one in Bountiful and the other in Clearfield. Although the Bountiful Center is now located in the basement of the library, the new $365,000 center, to be built on land donated by Bountiful, is now under construction. con-struction. THE HERITAGE Center in Clearfield opened four years ago. A Davis County Health Department nurse is on duty two hours a week to take blood pressure and perform community com-munity health services in the two centers. The senior citizen programs are supervised by a 26 member board called the Davis Community Council on Aging. VOLUNTEER members of the council come from all over the county. Coy Hayward, a member of the county council, is chairman of the building construction at the Bountiful Center. Mrs. Johnson said the purpose pur-pose of the program for aging is to provide social services as well as recreation." The Davis County President Ford committee is working enthusiastically to contact every voter in Davis County on behalf of the president. ACCORDING to the committee com-mittee the response of voters has been very encouraging. Former supporters of Governor Gover-nor Reagan are particularly strong in their desires to have President Ford remain in the White House.1 The committee expects the president to carry Davis County with over 65 percent of the vote. |