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Show MAKING LIFE A BIT brighter for many home-bound senior citizens are Ted and Mary Comins of Bountiful. The couple serve as volunteers for the Golden Years Center, taking the meal and "a little pleasure" to dozens of senior citizens. Couple brightens day Ted and Mary Comins of Bountiful Bounti-ful have been serving as volunteers for the Golden Years Center, delivering deliv-ering meals to the shut-ins, meals on wheels. THEY DELIVERED 47 meals one day last week, taking the meal and a little pelasure to each of those senior citizens, from North Salt Lake, Woods Cross and East Bountiful. The contact these shut-ins have with the volunteers means so much to these people who are often quite lonely. TED AND Mary have been married mar-ried for 40 years and they have two married sons and four grandchildren. grandchil-dren. They enjoy their volunteer work and helping others as they can. Mary often helps in the kitchen kitch-en in serving the meals, when she is needed. Ted is retired after 42 years of federal service. THEY ALSO volunteer once a month to work at the St. Vincent's De-Paul Soup Kitchen in Salt Lake City, where they help serve from 200 to 300 meals. They represent . St. Olaf s Parish in this volunteer service. This couple often substitutes as school crossing guards when needed for that service. They are also currently involved in acting as a host family for foreign people who are visiting in the USA. THEY said, "working for people like Barbara Anderson and Joyce Smith at the Golden Years Center, makes it a pleasure to volunteer and some day we may need this special service." kj |