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Show I Special Programs for Seniors Each Friday Services for the Aging has special programs and activities for senior citizens. Friendly Neighborhood Group II meets every Friday at 1 1 :00 a.m. at 156 Westminster Avenue (north end of the County Complex) for an afternoon of fun, delicious lunch, a little knowledge, good entertainment, dancing and exciting games. The first Friday of the month there is dancing to the music of the Kitchen Aires, the Senior Citizen rhythm band directed by Amos Bronson. On following Fridays there will be fun quiz games, some round dancing. Bingo, entertainment and some learning. Election time is coming up and there will be interesting informative panel discussions held. One pertinent question to be discussed is: What are the problems of our community? How can we as Senior Citizens work to help ourselves as well as others to make our community and country a better place in which to live? To help Senior Citizens become more informed, a group of professionals will be present to answer questions from the Senior Citizens on matters of interest and i mportance to them. How to properly mark the voting ballot, how to "scratch vote," etc., will be discussed in detail also. The only cost to the Senior Citizen is the cost of the lunch: Ala carte 50 cents Full course meal 75 cents Modified diet $1 .00 Reservations must be made in advance. Planning for transportation -- -- -- underway and may be available in the future. For an afternoon of food, Staff of Community Drug Crisis Center is fun and knowledge, call 487-366- and make reservations 7 for Friendly Neighborhood Group II which is held each Center Offers Help by Steve Varley Friday at 11:00 a.m. at 156 Westminster Aveune. I 4-- H Crisis Center at about noon one day last week to see if an appointment could be made to in talk with the people there and get a better idea of what they do. "Sure, they said, "today is fine!" Today! that's odd. Usually an agency has to plan a schedule a few days in advance, yet they Salt Lake County A program led called the Community Drug by local volunteer leaders to help young people learn new skills, incorporate new methods. Young people learn to do by doing. Learn to "Make the Best gt0 OPEN TO ANYONE FROM 19 years of age. were able to squeeze me into their schedule on such short notice. "Not at all the way an agency should act," was thinking as I drove over. was inside talking Once with the "staff" I started to understand why the scheduling problem hadn't been a problem at all. The Center has about as much administrative zeal as a lemonade stand.' found I was chatting freely with them over a coke in about a minute after arrived. And what people they were! It was like having best friends who actually knew what they were talking about. I'm not inferring that my friends don't, but these people were particularly well informed. Then began to wonder; this can't be what a Drug Crisis Center does. So asked I I Better." I I I I them, trying to act as could. "Well, we go out to schools and PTA groups, assemblies and sophisticated as I other groups that YV Pam Arnold, Youth Assistant Vincent Rice, Youth NO COST TO JOIN! Assistant Nellie Valdez, Youth Assistant Sponsored by S. L. County Commissioners, U. S. D. A., U. S. U. Extension, Salt Lake City Cal I or stop in: USU Extension Center 444 South Second West Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 328-574- 5 j express a sincere interest in becomming more knowledgeable on the subject of drugs, and talk to people about why people turn to drugs as an alternative at all. We also operate this Center as drug abuse treatment center, and sometimes more importantly, as a 'clearing house' for all sorts of problems people may come up against; family and personal problems, people having trouble fitting into particular situations imposed on them. We provide a place for parents to get factual informaton on the various drugs. They shoud have a place to comfortably get that information and ask questions," explained a staff member. "People's problems are symtomatic of something. And the problems may not necessarily be drugs. Consequently, we sometimes act as a referral agency for other types of problems. On Monday and Wednesdays we have free medical clinics conducted by an M. D. and registered nurse, and or so along with thirty-fiv- e volunteer workers, we do group therapy, counseling and conduct Gestault and encounter groups. Groups really help people who turn within themselves for answers to their problems," said another member. was practically in tears with writer's cramp and missing most of what they were telling me when the fifth and final member of the Center staff came in from I delivering posters all day. "We have been trying to get word out to as many places as possible about what we do. Today John was placing posters in as many gas stations as would consent to them to let people know, especially people who are not local and don't know the area, what we do and how to contact us if the need arises. That's a much better alternative to people traveling through the city than keeping them a stranger and alienating them from our culture. In fact, that's one of our plans for the future, to try to obtain a place to function as a sort of youth hostel for both young travelers and also for local kids who's only present alternative to a truly bad situation is the Detention Center or other institutions which, though they are good community services, may not be appropriate in many cases," a staff member said. thanked my new friends at I the Center for my new information and bid them but secretly wondered how was ever going to relay all of the important information good-b- y I they had just given me. Did you know, for instance, that a major health hazard right now is not the actual use of drugs, but the fact that the drugs available to those who want them are not what they are said to be. They are impure, often containing out-and-o- ut poisen, the very possible cause of a recent death! The reason, I was told, was that there is, of course, no "quality control" over something which is illegal to begin with, consequently imperiling a would be light drug tryer with unforwarned consequences. "This impure drug usage is a serious thing which can cause death," they told me. But the only way to give you the real story is to have you get it yourself. The people at the Community Drug Crisis Center, (they like to call it simply the Community Center), are all nice people and they do know what it's all about. So if you want good information, or even know of a problem to lay on them yourself, they are at 868 South McClelland Street (1040 East) and their phone number is 355-284You'll have a tough time finding associated with any red-tap- e them and be prepared not to get any sort of a lecture. 6. |
