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Show Senior Transportation Options March of 1990, Sevier County Senior Citizen's In .) ' o V'iy.fejijlj is available to others by making a reservation through the Sevier County Senior Citizens Corporation. The cost is minimal, but there is a small charge to help cover expenses. 1 seniors for service trips to Call weekdays 9 on holidays the doctor, for shopping or and whatever needs a Senior and weekends. may have. Corporation became the proud recipients of two 1990, 15 passenger vans. These vans are used especially for the area Wheelchair Lifts Help To Make the Vans Available To All Senior Citizens 529-390- 896-530- Van services are on regularly scheduled times. Sevier County Seniors have applied for, and will Also, each month there receive another 15 passare many fun recreation-typ- e enger van in 1993. This trips planned and will make it so that the taken. There is probably Seniors in the area have a Verdus lives alone, has problems with hearing, and his eyesight has failed the past few years making it so that he cannot drive his pickup any longer. He is very depen- dent on someone else to take him any place he He has really enjoyed going with the other Seniors on Van cannont walk. Day. Othello was born with birth defects, and was expected not live, but he fooled everyone, and is still here 83 years later, Life has not been easy as he has always had a very hard time walking and talking. But he is a very independent person and has always lived alone. In his younger years, Othello spent many years selling products door to door. He has one of the best gar- dens in Aurora, and no one ever leaves his home without eggs, vegetables Othello cannot drive any longer and so benefits greatly by the van program, On Van Day, every Wednesday, Verdus and Othello always come into the Center to have lunch and then go shopping or do whatever errands they or fru't- - need done. A serious illness is the only thing that keeps them from enjoying this valuable service available to Seniors. Services For The Blind Being visually impaired free (blind or partially blind) is Their mission is to assist a condition that sighted visually handicapped peopeople really find difficult ple live as fully and indeto imagine. Most of us pendently as possible. never think about avoiding bumping into the furniture, dialing the tele- problems. They came not only once, but repeatedly, until she felt comfortable in continuing the lifestyle she had pursued for many years. Linda, whose vision deteriorated gradually, They even arranged for phone, driving a car, or found she couldnt fit her her to have talking books Access To Shopping Is A Service Of reading a book or news- house key into her front and magazines" so that Senior Citizen Vans paper. These are all ac- door. She found her fin- her love of reading could an average of 150 per- - much better opportunity to complished by sighted gers being scorched be- be extended. sons taking advantage of have their needs met in people as a matter of cause she couldnt read this program each month, the transportation field. course. the settings on her kitchen Among the services an been She had offered by the Services for But the loss or partial range. musician SenThe Sevier County Visually Handicapped Many of these people use loss of vision changes a accomplished all her life, but discovered are: Low Vision Services; the vans 4 or 5 times each ior Citizen's Corporation persons entire mode of she could no longer read Sight Conservation; Trainmonth, so you can see consists of the following life. her music. Monroe ing and Adjustment Serthat this is a real benorganizations: an is there Fortunately, vices; Outreach Services; eficial service for senior Senior Citizens; North to is that geared One of the accomplished Vocational Rehabilitation Sevier Senior Citizens; agency citizens. assist those who have this It is called disability. Services for the Visually a division ior Citizen's also have a Handicapped, of van for their use. This of the Utah State Office can makes 4 vans availabe to Rehabilitation. They be accessed by calling toll the Seniors in our area. Richfield Senior Citizens, and The Richfield Care Center. The Monroe Sen- One van is equipped with a wheelchair lift. This has been used mostly by the Richfield Care Center, but people from Services for the Visually Handicapped came into her home, by appointment, and trained her to cope with these Services; and Utah Business Enterpise Program. Their toll free telephone number LOOKING TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE is Spring 1993 21 |