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Show c EDaiwos c hi , Erasgaa 3 Thursday, May 8, 2003a Ate Hundreds of volunteers make it happen BY TOM BUSSELBERG Clipper News Editor BOUNTIFUL Kudos to mothers evenavhere - Hundreds of volunteers make it happen, every weekday throughout the year at the Golden Years Center. Whether its Betty Duncan, who has given more than 500 hours a year for the past seven years, to three volunteers, all over the age of 90. Those three may be the oldest of the 224 registered volunteers. Bert Bragonje, 93, is not too old to serve as a lapinstructor. Ruby idary Marquiss, 92, is affectionally called a Good Will Instructor by Dee Hailing, Golden Years director. Lillian Center Schoeler, at a young 95, still plays in the Golden Years Jazz Band. And then there are the cadre of dozens of other volunteers, who do everything from cut hair to deliver homebound meals. Seventy-seve- n are in their 70s and 61 in their 80s, of meaning almost two-thirthe volunteer force is over the of the parts This is for all the mothers whose children have gone our astray, and cant find job are the great the words to reach articles, poems and them. For all the tributes our friends moms who bite and listeners send us. Some of them their lips when their kids come home bring tears to our in with green hair or a and lumps eyes our throats, like this pierced tongue. This is for all the tribute to Mother's moms who ache everywhere, written when they watch by anonymous": Mark and Gayle their children go to This is for all the Van Wagoner school for the first mothers who have time and for moms who awake sat up all night with sick toddlers with a jolt at 2:00 a.m. as they OK Its honey. Mommy saying, is here. For Mom's who walk run to the crib to put their hand on the back of a sleeping baby. around the house all night holdThis is for all the mothers ing little ones who just wont need to run home and hug who stop crying. This is for mothers who show their children whenever they hear about a fire, a car accident up at work with milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their and a dying child. This is for all the mothers of purses. For moms who run make cookies and sew the victims at a school shooting, 1 lalloween costumes, and for all and for the mothers of those age of 70. who did the shooting. the mothers who dont! In addition to 224 certified This is for all the mothers of This is for mothers who gave volunteers who have donated birth to babies they will never the survivors and the mothers time throughout the year. who who sat glued to the television and the mothers to hold, get Hailing recognized 232 others in horror, hugging their children took those babies and gave them who have come to entertain or who just came home from homes. teach on an invited basis. For all the moms who froe school, safely. They are the backbone of their buns on cold bleachers so This is for all the mothers community! she told the your who put pinwheels and teddy they could answer, Of course I volunteers during a recent banI bears on their childrens graves. did, wouldnt have missed it!, in honor. their quet when their children asked them This is for all the young A major part of our mission if they saw them play football, mothers who stumble through is to prevent premature institusoccer or hockey diaper changes and sleep depritionalization of those with comThis is for all the moms who vation and for all the mature promised health situations, she scold their children in grocery mothers who know when to let said. A large portion of that stores when they stomp their gohappens through the Meals on For mothers feet, throw tantrums on the floor Wheels program one of our and yell at the top of their lungs and working mothers. For many services. that they want ice cream before mothers with SUVs and mothShe explained what they do dinner. ers who scrape together change is such a lifeline to many, that for the bus. For mothers with For all the mothers who sat almost invisible, resiotherwise childown and explained to their and mothers without, single dents of South Davis. Each dren where babies come from, mothers and married mothers. day, the volunteers gather up This is for all of you who and for all the moms who wantthe meals, load it into our food ed to but couldn't. For all the with God a new life. mothers who read Goodnight delivery vans, and head out, in all kinds of weather. We love you mom, hang in Moon twice a night for a whole An average of 100 meals, We then read there. and need now more it again just year you five days a week, are delivered. than ever. one more time. For all the moms who ; patiently taught their kids how to tie their shoes and for all the moms who said forget it and opted for Velcro instead. For all the mothers who teach their sons how to cook and their daughters how to make jump shots. This is for all the mothers who turn their heads automatically whenever a little voice calls mom" in a crowd, even though they know their own offspring are all grown up and in college! DEMENTIA CARE This is for all the moms who FROM A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE have sent their kids to school with stomach aches, assuring them that they would be fine once they got to school, only to be called by the school nurse asking them to come to the school immediately to pick up a very ill child! One car-pool- s. - stay-at-ho- DOROTHY SHURTUFF AND DEL ROWE enjoy a dance at the Golden Years Senior Center. depends on its many volunteers to run programs for Davis County residents. That means 100 seniors are receiving hot meals, plus a friendly visit, to insure they are well and comfortable, 1 Jailing said. If there are any unusual circumstances, those are noted and reported, and help is soon on its way. There are many other examples of help provided by volunteers. Several dedicated volunteers visit, cheer up those who are homebound, while others share any talents by instructing a variety of classes at the center; providing opportunities for seniors to rekindle interest in andor develop new hobbies and friendships. About 26,000 hours of volunteer service were provided in a hefty increase of 2002 4,000 hours over the previous Thats not counting the hundreds of anonymous hours year. given, she said. wouldnt be able to provide these much needed (homebound) meals, or provide many other services, such as free hearing tests, free blood pressure check, free legal We The center advice, free haircuts... Hailing said. In addition, monetary donations last year exceeded $5,000, a response that was beyond my wildest expectations. You are my heroes, she added simply, also thanking Davis County businesses for their support. The program included a dinner, while the male volunteers received gift certificates from Carls Junior and female volunteers a plant, compliments of Mountain Plants in Layton. te An Orcuanl Gove Alzheimers Community H!l ws on Sals! Shop fcoy (c - C:jL Toro Recycler Model 20016 Variable speed drive Rear baq 6.5 hp engine 2 year full warranty f fun -- 4 COVERAGE trj SES Sleep Well, Do Well Toro Super Recycler Model 20037 for kids to do their best in school or at play, they should get at least nine hours of sleep every night like Garfield. 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