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F ■■ \ fflT I .U u W 1 X f 1 -%• < * I _ ’fc jf *y A-dF 1 f-'ff I ; >IP ?y r #AILBi&& Fierce winds ICE TAKES fanciful form on the Great Lakes tug-barge carrier “Presque Isle” pulling into Milwaukee’s harbor on a minus-10 degrees day. Crewman looks over the bow en cased in ice sculpted by lake winds. Growing older Teaming a senior up with two young uns By Lou Coffin Loud cheers and applause for Peter Dys, the dedicated executive director of the Lan caster (Pa.) Office of the Ag ing. He also heads the area Agency on Aging in that part of Pennsylvania. What Dys did was to put together a program that rated this headline in the Susquehanna Times, a local newspaper: “County Residents Over 60 Get Their Chores Done Free.” Hold your hats, everybody. Here, quoting the Susquehan na Times, is what the senior agers get free: “The Home Chore Program will include: replacing fuses, electric plugs, frayed cords, door locks, window catches, replacing faucet washers or faucets and doing other minor plumbing repairs; repairing broken stairs and floors, patching walls and ceilings; installing hand rails and safe ty rails for tubs and toilets, in stalling screens, repairing furniture, installing shades and curtain rods, shampooing and tacking down rugs, mov ing furniture, washing win dows and walls, scrubbing floors, cleaning attics and basement to remove fire and health hazards, minor repairs to the exterior, minor pain ting, nonexpert insect-rodent control, bringing in coal, removing ashes, moving trash to collection points, cutting grass, trimming overhanging branches, and clearing walkways of snow and leaves.” There’s no need, obviously, to expand on our need for such help. The little and big home repairs that we seniors can’t make are sources of endless irritation. We can’t afford to pay for leaking faucets. And if we could where do we find plumbers and other artisans who will call to do little jobs like that? Which brings us to a report of how Dys put the “Chores for Seniors" together. The pilot program began in the summer of 1975. The idea was, as Dys tells it, “to cross fer tilize the talent and knowledge of seniors with the abilities of youth and with their need for practical experience under mature guidance.” For the pilot plan, Dys employed 20 young persons aged 14 to 19, using funds from federally funded Manpower’s “Summer Youth Chore Program." He teamed up the old and the young. One senior taught two young uns. As Dys reports, “Senior Citizens and youth developed a greater ap preciation of one another in a talent and work-sharing ex perience.” The summer pilot plan was successful. In 1976, the Lan caster Office of the Aging made the Chore Program a regular service for over-60s in the area. Dys combined funds from the state’s (Housing) Winterization Program and the Comprehensive Employ ment Training Act. “Home Chore Service,” Dys says, “becomes a very important part of our con tinuum' of care concept. It helps our older citizens live more comfortably in their homes. This also provides valuable support to our homemaker program which another agency in our com munity supplies under con tract." We now ask that all readers refer back to the list of home chores performed. We ask, “Should not every county of fice of aging in the U.S. provide this service?” In Cumberland County, N.J., a chore program similar to the one in Lancaster is called “Mr. Fixit.” Readers who agree that the Chore Program is a must should campaign actively to get it started in their own local area. Here’s what we can do: —Get up a petition. It might read: “Why can’t we have free Home Chore Services?” Clip this column to the list of names and addresses on the petition. Mail it to the County Office of the Aging. —Compose your own letter to the County Office of Aging listing some of the chores that need your doing in your own home. —ls you belong to a Senior Citizen Club or action group, have your president write ask ing for chore service. Please note. Snow shoveling is one of the services offered in the plan. Don’t wait to write your letter or send your petition. It’s a cold winter. For more information, write your local office for senior citizens affairs. i NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l ■r #*■' Complicated BUDGET DIRECTOR Bert Lance sees as a major goal of the Carter administration the simplification of the bureaucratic process. The American government, he says, has become too com plicated for the average American to comprehend. 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Solomon St Phone 228-8488 Griffin Daily News Thursday, February 17,1977 Page 13
