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If It The Altamont Enterprise -• Thursday, March 16, $006 76e P<vti<tiaft> &otfaye <utd v/hiSm Mle jrmaaeL nd&dodma m emu uooducare have announced their openings * ...in Voorheesville (next to Nichols Market). We would like to extend \Special Thanks\ to J.J. Cramer and his talented and dedicated crew (we love it!!) We would also like to thank: • The Voorheesville Village Planning Board • Gerry Gordinier • Kenneth Connolly • Voorheesville Carpet • Jim Condin Painting • Capital Signs Donna Lussier Proprietor The Enterprise opinion pages are a n open forum for our community. We encourage readers to express-\their thoughts about issues that appear in this newpaper or: affect the community. Letters should be brief (with an outside limitof l,O.0O'word#. and must include the writer's address, name, and phone number for verification. The editors may reject letters that have been printed elsewhere. Letters'concerning elections will be cut off one issue before the mm*. election at the editor's discretion. No unsigned I ^y letters. Deadline for letters is Tuesday a t noon. Commissioner Salerno goes above and beyond To the Editor: I would like to write in support of Commissioner [Anthony] Salerno and the Altamont Police Department. I think that we as citizens of Altamont should consider ourselves lucky that we are able to have a fully-staffed police department. Try living some place like Dallas where they are severely understaffed and see how long it takes an officer to respond to a 911 call. Granted, we are a small village and we have a very low crime rate, but I think that is one of. the reasons why people love Altamont, it's a safe place to live and raise children. \ It appears that the Altamont Police Department has gotten a bad rap lately, and most of it seems to be coming from people who have gotten a ticket or gotten in trouble for their own wrongdoing. I have had to contact the Altamont Police Department on quite a few occasions lately, but on a 'Victim\ level. Every officer that I have dealt with has been wonderful, specifically Commis- sioner Salerno. He has con- stantly gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me with my situation. I feel honored to have him as our Commissioner, and I fully support the Altamont Police Department. Not many police departments would take as much time and effort to help people with their situations as Commissioner Salerno and some of the other officers have taken to help me with mine. ' I would like to take this op- portunity to personally thank both. Commissioner Salerno and Officer Matthew Hanzalik for their help, time, and dedication. Stephanie Carter Altamont HOMEOWNER RATES LOWERED! 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Greg Goutos has been helping Community Caregivers since September, 2004, serving as a member of the board of direc- tors, our treasurer, and a mem- ber of the finance committee. He agreed to step out of the volun- teer role for a short time to be our interim executive cirector, and when Diane Cameron took over the job, Greg returned to his volunteer positions. Then, he coordinated the Caregivers' Kids' Valentine's Spaghetti Dinner for the resi- dents of the Omni Apartments on Carman Road. He's written up all the details — how much pasta, how many fixings will serve 70 — so that next year the effort will be even smoother! And, in between other com- mitments, he's been a driver for several last-minute transporta- tion needs. His February service report showed 41 hours spent on administrative and event activi- ties, and almost 100 miles driven. And he did it all with a smile, stories of his kids, sports events, and new school classes — a picture of the busy person that you give a new task to, because you can be sure he'll get it done. Greg Goutos of Altamont, we are happy to name you as volunteer of the Month for March, 2006. Your dedication to the mission of Community Caregivers and your willingness to do whatever is necessary to get the job done — these things have earned our gratitude. And we appreciate that you have stepped out beyond the administrative tasks to meet and serve your .neighbors, and that you come back with tales of how you enjoyed those opportunities. Thanks for all you do! Meet Marie Do you know your neighbor? We'd like to introduce you to someone who might be a Care- givers' neighbor: Marie is. 82, widowed, lives by \ herself in an apartment near Western Avenue in Guilderland. She asked us for help getting to the physical-therapy appoint- ments her doctor recommended after she fell and injured her knee. Short-term, Marie needed some help toting groceries, too. The Guilderland Senior Bus will take her to doctor's appoint- ments, but not to physical ther- apy. Her daughter Cheryl lives nearby, and helps her often, but has a full-time job and can't take too many more days off without creating a problem. Mark has leukemia. (Not all our neighbors are elderly.) We pro- vide respite visits so he gets to meet with new people and she gets some time out — 33 respite visits; — Louise in a senior housing complex who is visited once each week by the volunteer who assures her that her memory lapses aren't obvious — 67 visits; she threw in a few extra weekends; And he did it all with a smile. Marie is typical of the neigh- bors helped every day by Care- givers' volunteers as they carry out the motto of \lending neigh- bors a helping hand.\ Many needs At the end of 2005, we had 521 clients on our roster. More than 80 percent are female; more than 75 percent are over age seventy; 55 percent live alone. More than 25 percent have some type of disability or mobility restriction, using a cane, walker or wheel- chair, or are visually- or hearing- impaired. Two-hundred-and-thirty-one clients received services in 2005. Almost 4,100 services were pro- vided to them. Here are some examples: — John who asked for a single prescription pickup; — Anne who needed help with outside chores — 14 visits; — Barb who needed transport to the food pantry twice each month — 24 shopping trips; — Sharon whose little boy — Art who visits his wife daily in the nursing home (we do two days of transport for him each week; she eats better when he's with her) — 98 rides; — Mary who goes three times each week to dialysis (we drive one way, the family drives her home) — 123 rides; — Bill who goes to adult day care twice each week — 153 rides. Some of our neighbors depend on us for regularly-scheduled help; others call occasionally as they have need. For some of our . neighbors, we are an \insurance policy\ in case of future need. They may not call on us right now, but want to know we are there if their situation changes. Would you like to get to know a new neighbor? You can start at a new volunteer's orientation session: March 22 a t 10 a.m., or March 23 at 6 p.m., here at Fountain View, just off Route 155. Give us a call at 218-1167. Thanks so much! Thrilled with library plans To the Editor: Upon reading of Berne's deci- sion to devote more focus to its public library, I was thrilled. In 1997, I returned to school and studied librarianship (I have found many people are sur- prised to hear that there is a specific master's degree often required to work as a librarian — an MLS or Master of Library Sciences. With all the enthusiasm of a (relative) newbie, I feel pas- sionately that a public library is vital to an area: it provides knowledge sources, social out- lets, and entertainment venues to its niembers. I am also a newbie to the area. Now I recognize that not only are the people wonderful, their decisions are wonderful as well. Mary Jo McKeon Berne ^ t r , !y ; ifoT#'? ? *'^&'s^
