n
Volunteer Program
(RSVP) is another of AC
TION'S Older American
Volunteer Programs.
: RSVP Fred Lading
loves to play Santa in the
local day care center, but
his chief job is working
daily in the Senior Citizen
woodworking shop.
According to RSVP
program director, Marilyn
Strangeman , volunteers
provide a wide range qf
services to Coles County.
"They visit and make dai
ly reassurance calls to
other seniors in frail
health," she says. "They
call and ask 'Are you up?'
or 'Are you okay?" let
ting people know they are
being thought of and
simply being companions.
At holiday time," notes
Ms. Strangeman, "these
personal contacts are very
crucial to people who
might otherwise spend the
days totally alone and
i isolated."
Other Coles County
RSVPs assist in day care
centers or tutor slow
learners in grade schools.
A number of them help
children who have dif
ficulty learning to read.
Volunteer Velma
Heathcote works coor
dinating the Piecemeal
Program, which provides
inexpensive, nutritious hot
meals for area seniors.
"It's a place to congregate
and socialize, as well as '
get a healthy meal," says
Ms. Strangeman of the
noon Piecemeal repasts.
Some 55 retired senior
citizens of College Station
Ark., an isolated' com
munity of 3,000 on the
outskirts of Little Rock's
. SAT., DECEMBER 27,1930
- industrial area, will have
. more spending money for
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tne holiday because
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Volunteer Julia Williams Montgomery, Ala., nurs- home's division ifor the
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It is friendship to a
lonely hospital resident. It
is helping a handicapped
child experience the holi
day spirit. It is making
sure yule fires will have
wood to keep families
warm. In these and other
ways, nearly 300,000
Americans volunteers
in VISTA and Older
American Programs
are giving meaning to the
holiday season.
Two years ago,
"John," a middle age
resident of Sonoma State
Hospital for , the
Developmentally Disabled
in Eldridge, Calif., spent a
lonely holiday season. He
was so withdrawn that he
would not engage in any
social activities, or could
he in any way support
himself.
This year, John will
spend the holidays in his
foster home, a happier,
more sociable and outgo
ing man increasingly able
to provide for his daily
needs. The change in
John's life stems chiefly
from the work of Ron
Deas, a Senior Compa
nion volunteer at Sonoma
State's Foster Grand
parentSenior Companion
(FGPSCP) volunteer
program. Deas worked
patiently day after day
with John, providing one-on-one
care and en
couragement, the kind of
companionship . a
hospital's limited staff
can't possibly give.
John was the third'
hospital resident Senior
Companion Deas had
helped go on to more in
dependent living situa
tions in the community.
Deas is one of 97 Foster
Grandparent and Senior
Companion volunteers
serving the residents at the
hospital. Around the
U.S., more than 290,000,
such Older American
Volunteers serve their
Communities in programs
sponsored by ACTION,
the federal volunteer ser
vice agency.
' Volunteers like Ron
Deas will brighten the
holidays of thousands of
AmpricaiK I
Yule fires of low-
income families tn -Portland,
Maine, will f
literally be kept burning
with the help of VISTA
(Volunteers in Service to
Amerca) volunteers.
With Maine's long,
harsh winter setting in,
Portland's low-income
'imi'ies are struggling to
'meet the rising costs of
home heating. They are
assisted by VISTA
volunteer Pamela Wood
bury, who teaches local
families to convert to
wood-burning as a back
up (and, sometimes, as a
primary) source of heat.
"I also help organize and,
conduct neighborhood
energy awareness pro
grams," says Ms. Wood
bury, who assists the
Portland West
Neighborhood Planning
Council with energy con
servation workshops in
schools and low-to-
' moderate income areas.
Although wood
burning is more common
m Maine than in many
other states, Firewood:
prices there are as high as
anywhere else. The '
Portland Wood-Fuel
Cooperative, established
throueh the West
Neighborhood Planning
Council, sells firewood at
$75 per cord to 189
member households. A
cord . of air-dried hard
wood measures 4' x 4' x 8'
and provides as much
energy as 200 gallons of
heating oil.
"This is the wood co
op's second year," says
VISTA Lynne Mitchell, a
recent University of New
Hampshire English
graduate who helps coor
dinate the co-op's ac
tivities. "We'll process
about 1 ,500 cords of wood
this year," Ms. Mitchell
says, "delivering
anywhere within fifteen
miles of the storage lot
which was lent us by the
State Department of
Transportation." For
each cord of wood pur
chased, co-op members
work five hours cutting
and splitting wood in the
storage yard. "I get high
school clubs to donate
time working the yard on
behalf of disabled and
frail elderly people," Ms.
Mitchell says.
Wood co-op director
Bill Butler was a key
organizer of the project,
which he helped put
together while serving as a
VISTA volunteer after
thirty years' experience as
a Maine woodsman.
Around the U.S., nearly
4,500 VISTA volunteers
live and work in poor
communities.
In Coles County, 111.,
Retired Senior Volunteers
. will organize their holiday
chorus and go caroling in
the day care centers,
schools, and homes of the
frail elderly where they
work throughout the year.
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