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
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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.”
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