Senior Adults Reaching Out to Care Over the Phone
Ann Loyd, a long time Northpark Resident says she loves to talk on the phone, and wants to be involved in helping her neighborhood, now we she is finding ways to use her gift of gab to show love to her neighbors.
Ann has been attending the Northpark Neighborhood Association meetings for several years, but just recently has become a regular at the Friendship House Neighborhood Lunches. She has gotten to meet several new neighbors, and catch up with old friends at these lunches, but has been asking for a while what she can do to help around the neighborhood. She has known for a long time that she is great at calling friends on the phone, but just last week got a couple phone numbers from the neighbor lunch and called to check on two neighbors, one who missed the neighbor lunch and another she had just met and wanted to learn more about, and ended up visiting with her neighbors on teh phone for over an hour. Now Ann has volunteered to call the other neighbors who attend our bi-monthly adult luncheon to check on them, as many of them are seniors who live by themselves, and she is at home most days and loves to talk on the phone. She also tries to keep the Friendship House informed of any neighborhood happenings, and calls to suggest when sympathy cards, or welcome cards can be sent to neighbors. We are thankful for having caring neighbors like Ann in North Park Neighborhood.