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Vol. XV, No. 12 Volunteer help provides in-home care for elderly By Tina Riggs outside of their homes. The idea of the program is to delay the transfer of elderly residents Clackamas Community to costly nursing homes. College and “Action,” a SCP workers are paid less federally funded volunteer minimum wage. agency, are joining forces on a than new program called the Senior However, “Action” pays for meal and mileage reimburse Companion Program (SCP). The SCP is a program that ment, liability insurance, sick enables senior citizens to aid leave, vacation time and an an other elderly people living at nual health screening. home. The program also pro Each volunteer will visit vides low-income seniors with five to seven citizens per week. needed income while perform The elderly who will benefit ing community services. from the SCP program are Seniors^ involved in the, referred by social service agen program will work approx cies such as Welfare and the imately 20 hours a week aiding American Cancer Society. elderly who have trouble caring The Senior Companion for themselves. Their duties Program is a part of the CCC range from simply talking to gerontology program. The pro light housework and preparing gram budget can employ 12-15 meals. SCP workers may also volunteers. For additional per take their elderly companions sonnel, SCP must ask the com munity to help fund the pro- gram. The college was picked because of the strong geron tology community emphasis. Lane Community College is among a few other local col leges that are involved in the SCP program. Of the Print Staff Photo by Duffy Coffman SOGGY DOGGY—Neither rain, nor wind, nor cold of day, keeps this sopping pooch from his appointed round of guarding his masters pick-up. He did not appear to be happy about it, however. County senior services levy, new ASG senators top agenda By J. Dana Haynes Of the Print is a worthy cause and I think we should help out.” A committee of five ASG members will be formed to help pass the levy. If it succeeds, the levy would cost home owners' in Clackamas County $.21 per $1,000 in the estimated value of their land. In other business, two senate positions were filled, br inging the total number of new solons to four since the beginn ing of the term. The Associated Student ¡Government Thursday voted Ito aid and support the passage of a three-year senior services levy sponsored by Clackamas [County.^ ASG Assistant to the President, Joe Schweizer headed the opposition. “There are many things that the ASG agreed to do this year that sure betting ignored,” he said. “I ¡don’t think we can afford to [work on an outside project.” Mel Blair, a second-year Clackamas County Super business major, and Ron visor Jane Tomlin asked the Eckert, a new student at the ASG for- their endorsement College, were appointed to the land help in passing out pam positions. Pat Smith and phlets. ASG Senate Liason Becky Olman accepted their ¡John Shaffer said in support of Senate seats at the Jan. 14 the action that “All they’re ask- "meeting. ling from us is a little time. This The new appointees replace Laurel Cates, Dave Cook, Pat Glenn, and Mike Shaw, who all resigned sighting personal reasons. The ASG also unanimous ly approved a funding request from Senator Mike Doan for a summer theatre production at the College. Doan and several other students were granted $480 to stage the play “Whose Life Is It, Anyway?” The show will be the Col lege’s first summer stock per formance and will be perform ed in August. It will be directed by CCC student David Harvey, who has been cast in the Col lege’s winter production, “Not Any More.” The ASG Ways and Means Committee suggested the request be approved, and that funds be drawn from the “Concerts, Plays, and Exhibit Florence Lee flying high page 4 tions” line item in the 1982-83 budget. The Bahai Club Constitu tion was denied ASG recogni tion because the information submitted was incomplete. No advisor was listed. Student Activities specialist Dave Buckley noted that even if the ASG had ap proved the Bahai Club request, they would not have qualified for ASG funding. “The ÀSG cannot fund any religious organization, and that is what, the Bahai Club is. All they are requesting is acknowledgement from the ASG that they are an official club,” he said. ASG will hold its weekly meeting tomorrow at noon in the Fireside Lounge. ’•The meeting is open to students and the public. A one-month volunteer training session consisting of 40 hours instruction started January 25. The volunteers are paid for the first month’s train ing and four hours a month thereafter. To work in the program, one must be over 60 years old and have a personal income of under $5,300 or joint income of $7,100. The stipends are not taxable., so they won’t af fect participants’ social security or welfare benefits. Ruth Alldrege, an employee at the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), comments, “I think the Senior Companion Program will be very successful. A few couples from RSVP are already doing what we Call ‘friendly visiting.’ We have only started, but I think it is going to work.” Why women hoopsters are winning page 8