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Prince Edward Community Care’s Volunteer of the Year
2007-2008

Walter Ruggles

Every year the staff of Community Care are given the task of picking one volunteer as Volunteer of the Year for their effort and commitment to the seniors of our County. The staff choose fromthe over 500 caring and giving volunteers on our roster who help seniors stay living at home.

It was a lucky day for Prince Edward Community Care for Seniors in January 2003 when Jill Bowling dropped in to see if we needed help at our Seniors’ Dinners. Jill had helped out at the local seniors hot lunch program when she lived in Kanata. She enjoyed it, and wanted to volunteer in a similar program.

Since that day, Jill has regularly and cheerfully helped at our Seniors’ Dinners all over the County. She is one of those people who is always working behind the scenes, making the dinners go smoothly, remembering details that others forget – reminding us the coleslaw needs to go immediately into the fridge – and making sure that volunteers new to the program feelwelcome and know what to do.

In fact Jill is so great at taking new volunteers under her wing that we often tell them to ask Jill if they don’t know what to do. We know she has taken the food handler course and will know howto steer them in the right direction.

Jill is also very kind and personable to the seniors in the program. Over the years she has come to know many of them well, and they all recognize her smiling face behind the serving table.

Jill has also been a great sport about sticking around till the end of the seniors dinner and helping with the clean-up – no small thing. As a consequence she has sat through her fair share of sing songs, knows all the words to “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”, and hopefully, learned a little from the speakers at the dinners, which can range in topic from “ teddy bear collecting,” to “when it is time to throw out your medication”– (and how to do it safely).

We want to recognize Jill’s loyalty and steadfast dedication over the past 5 years. Even when Jill had some health concerns of her own, she still would volunteer if she possibly could. We worried sometimes that it was too much, but Jill knew her limits. No one knows how they will react when faced with a serious health concern, but Jill has been an example to all of us with her bravery, her optimism and her willing sense of humour.

We are truly blessed to recognize Jill Bowling as The Prince Edward County Community Care for Seniors Association Volunteer of the Year. Thank you Jill.

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Presented June 26, 2008 by Lorna MacDonald, Co-ordinator


Your contribution of time--large or small--will be greatly appreciated by the older adults of your County.

Community Care for Seniors began in 1977. Our mission is to assist older adults to live in a home environment in reasonable independence. The services we offer are called "home support" programs and they serve to augment the informal family and neighbourhood support many older adults have. We serve the entire County of Prince Edward.


Russ Perkin, Recipient of "Ruth Burrowes
Volunteer Award".
Picton Gazette photo.
Used by permission
Member of Volunteer Canada

We invite you to check off on the attached form the thing(s) that you are interested in. "Community Care has an intake process for new volunteers that includes completing a registration form, an interview with staff, reference checks and police background checks. Please call or email for more information on the volunteer intake process – 476-7493 or communitycare@on.aibn.com

Please send or bring this form to the Community Care office. Our staff would be pleased to explain each activity in detail , and the amount of time required to participate as a volunteer. If you have a few hours to spare, we need your help!!


Stan Rolsky, Volunteer of the Year for 2002-2003 with Lorna MacDonald, Co-ordinator

Debbie Moynes, Executive Director and John Cameron, 2002-2003 Volunteer of the Year

Volunteer Opportunities

Meals on Wheels® delivering
co-ordinating volunteers
Seniors' Dinners serving &/or
setting up at dinners in:

Milford
Picton
Bloomfield
Demorestville
Ameliasburgh
Consecon
Wellington
Volunteer Driving driving seniors to appointments
driving seniors shopping
Foot Care Clinics reception at Foot Care Clinics

Picton Wellington
Telephone Reassurance making regular daily calls to a senior
Volunteer Visiting visiting shut-ins and lonely seniors
Income Tax Forms preparing Income Tax returns
Office reception
typing/computer
telephoning
Fundraising helping on Tag Day (2 hours/year)
baking for bake sale (once a year)
staffing promotion booths
selling raffle & other tickets
helping with Membership Campaign
helping to plan events (eg. Art Auction)
Thrift Shop cash register volunteering
sort and clean donated items
price items
pick up donations
volunteer to help with recycling and garbage
window dressing
handy person
Other
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Donations gratefully accepted and recognized with an Income Tax receipt.

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WHO CARES?----VOLUNTEERS DO!


Volunteers involved in Income Tax in 2004
receive certificates from CCRA and Community Care.
Back Row (L to R): Ralph Hall chair of the board, Bill Thomas, Kathy Forbes
Front Row (L to R): Mary Acera, Wilma Murphy, Pauline Joicey,
Genny Vincent vice chair, Lenore Kennedy
Photo by Rick Fralick, Picton Gazette, used by permission.