SR July 7, 1976 Mount Joy Homemaker Services expands program of family aid Mount Joy area Home- maker Services, affiliated with the Visiting Nurse Association, will expand its programs to include per- sons under 60 years of age beginning July 1, according to Robert C. Aims, project director of VNA’s county- wide Homemaker Program. Since VNA initiated its Expanded Homemaker Program in 1975, the ser- vice has been offered to persons over 60 through a contract with the County Office of Aging. The Visiting Nurse Association is a United Way agency. According to Aims, the program will offer three major advantages to the younger age group: —It will permit the in- capacitated family member to remain at home, out of an institution. —It will provide families some relief from continuing care of the chronically ill or disabled family member. —It will permit working family members the free- dom to continue working as they are relieved of added housekeeping or care re- sponsibilities at home. The new part-time care will offer the same light housekeeping and personal care services that it always has offered to those over 60. A typical homemaker visit of several hours a day, a few days a week may in- clude meal preparation, feeding, bathing, grocery shopping, vacuuming, or assisting a patient with medication. Homemakers will also care for children in the patient’s home on a part- time basis while the patient is bed-bound or incapacit- ated. Although homemaker service is free to those over 60 as a result of the Office of Aging contract, Aims said, service to those under 60 will be offered on a sliding fee scale. Aims ex- plained that the fee of ser- vice will be determined by the extent of voluntary community support for the program and a family’s income level. However, he added that no one will be refused service because of their inability to pay. Since the Visiting Nurse Association is a United Way agency, the Association can cover the cost of Homemaker visits if the family cannot. VNA'’s Solanco and Lan- caster City homemaker offices also will offer ser- vice to persons under the age of 60 beginning July 1. An individual living in the northern, western, or eastern section of the county may apply for homemaker service by con- tacting the nearest of these offices: Ephrata Office, 123 East Main Street, 733-0345. Mount Joy Office, 37 East Main Street, 653-8585. For thousands of years man and his messages could travel no faster than he himself . . . or his horse could run. Through all the centuries of history, man has made some imagi- native attempts to hasten his messages . . . tom toms . .. horns . smoke signals . . . pigeons. But most proved unreliable and susceptible to the weather. Then in the 19th century all this changes with dramatic sud- denness. On March 10,1876 and in the third story laboratory at 5 Exeter Place. Boston, Thomas Watson hears the first complete sentence transmitted by a variable resistance transmitter. Alex- ander Graham Bell's “Mr. Watson. come here, | want you!” comes clearly over the wire. During the exciting 100 years since, new communications inventions and discoveries have followed one another with breath taking rapidity. We at United Telephone salute the courage of our founding fathers and the imagination of our inventors not to be satisfied with ancient “well-documented impossibilities™. menting with new thoughts and new ideas. We pledge our con- tinuing support to making America the greatest nation, yesterday. today and tomorrow. FEPEFPPPrEPF Fre S $ sn FANART ARS 2% People experi- SUSQUEHANNA TIMES - Page 11 * SUPER 76 % CLEARANCE SALE q x At OUR pes ——— aL lar cA Something extra. vx MERCHANDISE CLUB NOW FORMING YW Check our SUPER discount prices on ICE HOCKEY EQUIPMENT for the month of JULY NOTICE TO “BIG FOOT” PUMAS—CONVERSE—TIGER, ETC. CASUAL—TENNIS—ALL PURPOSE SHOES AT Ridiculous Prices YX Converse All-Stars Top Quality $9.76 WX WARM-UPS Most Items GYM SHORTS-GYM BAGS JACKETS UP TO SWIMWEAR TENNIS RACKETS BASEBALL-FOOTBALL-HOCKEY T-SHIRTS—SHORTS 7 5 2% Off OUTDOOR “REC” EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE IT ALL at.......... KENNYSMITH 65 E. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552 SPO 9 ‘Central Pa. Year-Round Hockey Headquarters’ Celebrating our Nation’s 200th Year and the Telephone’s 100th Birthday! Watch your newspapers for more information concerning these telephones THE UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA A Company of United Telecormmunications, Inc.
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