Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 6, 1993 TAG: 9305060443
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-4 EDITION: METRO
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Roanoke Valley senior citizens have begun a financial appeal for the League of Older Americans Area Agency on Aging's Meal-on-Wheels program.
Volunteers in the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) are stuffing empty paper plates bearing the message, "Help Us Fill This Plate," to mail to households in the Roanoke Valley area.
The appeal is being conducted to help eliminate the LOA's growing waiting list of seniors who are doing without the hot lunch.
For more information, call Kevin McCullough at 345-0451.
Hospice program needs volunteers
Good Samaritan Hospice, an in-home program for terminally ill patients in the Roanoke Valley, is seeking volunteers to provide patient and family support or to work in the office.
An eight-session training program will begin May 24. For more information, call Melinda Bern, volunteer coordinator, at 776-0198.
`Sneaker Day' promotes healthy lifestyle at work
Businesses and companies are urged to take part in "Sneaker Day" May 19 as part of the fifth annual Employee Health and Fitness Celebration.
The Roanoke Valley Alive & Well Coalition is asking employers to let employees wear sneakers to work to promote a more fit and healthy lifestyle at the workplace.
To register with the Alive & Well Coalition, call the Council of Community Services, 985-0131.
Drug abuse prevention gets foundation's help
The Foundation for Roanoke Valley has made five grants to Roanoke Valley organizations to fight youth substance abuse.
Prevention Plus, a division of Mental Health Services of Roanoke Valley, received $400 to benefit its programs of information, education and support groups.
The donation came through Charles H. Fitch of Salem, who won $400 in the Crosby Golf Tournament and designated it for use in the Roanoke Valley.
The Winston-Salem Foundation, which administers the Crosby grants, asked the Foundation for Roanoke Valley to choose an appropriate charity that works to prevent drug abuse, and the foundation selected Prevention Plus.
The foundation's board of governors then decided to match the Crosby grant by donating $100 to each of four Roanoke Valley Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Salem and Botetourt County. Parent-infant program still helps after 10 years
The Parent-Infant Education Program is celebrating its 10th year of providing services to developmentally delayed, disabled and "at-risk" children from birth to age 2.
The program, based at the Easter Seal Center in Roanoke, is a cooperative effort of the Easter Seal Society of Virginia and Mental Health Services of the Roanoke Valley.
Services offered to eligible children and families include: free developmental screenings; free individual child and family needs assessments; infant/family service plans to meet assessed needs; regular home visits by a staff member to promote activities that aid the child's development; group activities; a monthly respite program to give parents a break; parent groups; individual physical, occupational and speech therapies; a lending library of books, toys and other materials; and information, referral and follow-up support services.
For more information, call Russ Harbaugh at 362-1656.
by CNB