Posted by: thepinetree on 06/12/2013 04:37 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 06/12/2013 07:05 PM
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Letter to the Editor - Marti Crane
We need your help!
The Volunteer Center belongs to everyone!
Individually and collectively, we are the key to a sense of community that allows us to all feel safe, connected and valued....
For 22 years, volunteers from across the county have been insuring that our frail and otherwise vulnerable neighbors have a way to get to needed medical appointments. It is critical that we maintain a list of volunteers from each community, and we need your help. If requested, reimbursement is made for mileage. What you donate is your time, your attention and a piece of your heart.
This safety-net transportation program is not like a bowling league where you are committed to being there every Tuesday. When a request is made, we will call you and if you are available and motivated to drive on a specified date and time, great. If not, we go on down the list…which is why it is so critical that we expand and keep adding partners to the program.
We all have busy lives, families, vacations and health issues of our own. However, when all the stars align and you can lend a hand, you help to diminish feelings of depression, you restore hope, and enhance that sense of community, all by sharing a ride.
Our seniors have amazing stories, and are ever-so grateful for the help and the precious time we spend with them. Each is someone’s grandmother, grandfather, sister or uncle.
More help is always needed so it’s up to each of us to spread the word. Tell your friends.
Please call today (209) 754-1699.
Keep paying it forward!
Marti Crane, Director, The Volunteer Center of Calaveras County
www.calaverasvolunteer.com
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