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I THh BRUNSWICK BKACON, Thursday. Ndvcmber 12, I9H7—PaRe 5-H tells Huspicf Patient Care Coordinator BuVf7i^cVe7how''' Irtons-ho’’"’ “^sistance and support, during one of her recent visits to the Shelter Awarded $15,000 Grant Hope Harbor Home Inc. has been awarded $15,000 in federal Family Violence Prevention and Services Act monies to help establish a local shelter for battered women. Chairman Katherine Shawver and Secretary/Treasurer Isobel Beebe met last week with Julia H. Beeves, director of the N.C. Domestic Violence Project, to review the temus of the Krant. Shawver said it will Ijc used to pay staff ami fringe benefits and to buy .supplies for operating the facility. Hope Harbor Horne will be located between Supply and Bolivia in a donated house now undergoing renovation. Among the items still needed before the shelter can open its doors are a septic tank, plumbing and elec trical connncctions, a washer and dryer, insulation, heating system, refrigerator, household goods (ex cluding beds, stove and sofa), and of fice equipment such as a desk. typewriter and filing cabinet. Hope Harbor Horne is relying ex tensively on contributions of labor and materials from church and business community volunteers. The bojird of directors is awaiting word now on tw’o foundation grants for which it lias applied. A program on dome.slie violence in Brunswick County and the need for the shelter will Ik? held Saturday star ting at 9 a.m. at the Public Assembly Building at the Bruaswick C'ounty Government Center in Bolivia. It is being sponsored by the Brunswick County Council on the Status of Women. Belles Will Sing For Elks Couples The Barbershop Belles will enter- Uiin at the Nov. IH meeting of the Calabash FJks Auxiliary No. 2679. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the F.lks I.odge adjacent to Traders Village and is open to all wives of Klks. Plans for the Christinas party and a Dec. 5 yard, craft and cake sale will be completed. On Monday, Nov. 23, at 9:30 a.m. auxiliary members will visit the Brunswick Village Residential Care facility in Shallotte to play bingo with residents. FREE DELIVERY FREE REMOVAL OF OLD APPLI ELECTRIC RANGE Model TBXK17K $26 monthly $20 monthly Mcxlel JE45 SERVICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALL MAKES & MODELS OF APPLIANCES Kino's ★ Junction Hwy. 17 & 21 1 In Supply 0(X‘n Mtiodoy SoturJov / AM lo 5 30 PM'754 6I38 ★ Hwy. 133 Long Beach Rd. In Southport OtX‘n Mundoy Sotuuloy 8 AM to 5 PM/4S7.58SS ‘ 'inL N *. HOSPICE IS: ‘A Special Kind Of Caring' BY HAHN ADAMS Some 26 Hospice volunteers arc now providing “a special kind of caring" to terminally ill patients and _ their families in Bruaswick County, but according to Patient Care Coordinator Buffy Tucker, more volunteers arc always needed. Ms. Tucker said she hopes at least 20 prospective volunteers will attend a training program set for Friday evening and Saturday at the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation office in Shallotte. "We’re looking for people who are interested in devoting time to terminally ill patients." she said, noting that all types of volunteer help is needed—from patient care to office work to simply running errands. Hospice, a United Way agency, is a service to pa tients who have been diagnosed as having a terminal il lness. Staff and volunteers are available to the patient and family during the illness, and then to the family for at least a year following the patient’s death. "Death is probably one of the most difficult things we deal with in life," Ms. Tucker said. “Our main goal and objective is to keep the patient virtually pain-free and comfortable, and allow them to be able to stay at home." Hospice of Shallotte is a branch of l^wer Cape Fear Hospice Inc., wliich has served Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties since I960. In July, the organization opened an office on N.C. 130 in Shallotte, with a full year’s rent paid by com munity contributions, Ms. Tucker said. Besides Ms. Tucker, who has been patient care coordinator for one year, other staff members include a full-time secretary and home health aide, two part-time nurses and four part-time aides. Ms. Tucker said the local office also plans to employ a full-time bereavement social worker as soon as possible. This year. Hospice will serve 61 patients in Brunswick County, she estimated. The local office handles an average of about 20 patients during any given week. She said the !x>wcr Cape Fear Hospice, on the whole, this year has recorded about a 40 percent in crease in referrals over last year. Also, Brunswick County—being a popular retire ment area—has an older average population than most other countics-thus the increased demand for Hospice care and the greater need for volunteers. Hospice volunteer Jean Stanaland. who lives bet ween Hickman's Crossroads and I>ongwood. said her role is to help patients and their families witli whatever their needs may be. "Really what wc do is try to be a friend to the fami ly." Ms. Stanaland said. She added that being a Hospice volunteer is a rewarding experience. "You just feel like a person who is worthwhile to the community,' she said. “You get so much more from the association with them (patients and families)—of being a friend than-anything else." Often a Hospice worker’s help can make all the dif ference in a patient s comfort at home, as in the case of Bill Horton of Calabash, who found out he had throat cancer in August. Ms. Tucker herself has been helping Horton and his wife, Mar>’, for the past three weeks with problems as fundamental as finding food that he isn’t allergic to and the proper healthcare supplies he needs. "The most important thing iHospice has done) is this tube in my nose,” Horton .said. “I can’t eat any solids and can’t drink thick liquids, so I have to be fed through this tube." He said Hospice was able to find the right-sized tube to fit him comfortably after he and his wife had difficul ty finding one on their owti. A Hospice social worker also has helped the Hor tons with all of the paperwork that has accompanied his medical care. And Horton knows more Hospice help will be on the way, if it is needed. "They've been helpful in some very, very good ways," he said. "The big help is going to come later. If and when I need it, I know it’ll be there." nospice I raining To Start Nov. 13 Hospice of Shallotte will offer a volunteer training program Nov. 13 and 14 at the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation office in Shallotte. The Nov. 13 session will be from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and the Nov. 14 ses sion will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with lunch furnished. Intcre.sted persons are asked to at tend the training program to provide additional volunteers, which are greatly needed in this area, or to in- crea.se awareness of the local Hospice program. For more information, contact the local Hospice office at 754-5356. Fall Fashions At... DtPARTMINT STORE Bone, Black, Red, Gray, Novy Burgundy, Taupe, Block Patten Ladies' Blouses by: Shirley Laura Mae Candies $15 to $52 Ladies' Skirts by: Russ Stoneybrook Seoson Ticket $20 to $55 Dress Flannel by J.J. Cockran $19 and Arrow $20 \ Master Socks $2 asst colors Men's & Boys' Athletic Socks $1.50 to $1.75 Ties by: Hanover and BenchMark iw V ■ ^ Men's Dress Shirts by: LeTigre and Arrow $16 to $25 Sport Coats By Haggar $80 to $100 Golf Jackets $35 Black, Oyster Nickle Sport Pants by Haggar $24 to $35 Tables of Fall Fashions At Great Sale Prices For Men and Ladies WARM UP PANTS DEPARTMENT STORE and BEN FRANKLIN Main St., Shallotte, 754-4846 i'*»r im eouNSkViCK b(acon
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