CAREGIVERS' NIGHT OUT
First Wednesday of Each Month
Starting Wednesday, June 4, 2008
6:00 to 9:00 P.M.
The Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Day Center
231 Melrose Street, Winston-Salem
Loved ones needing care will enjoy an evening of planned activites, and refreshments will be provided.
Caregivers can enjoy an evening out!
The cost is $10.00.
Registration is required each month.
Call 721-6949 or 721-6948 to register.
Sponsored by:
Senior Services, Inc.
The Shepherd's Center of Winston-Salem
The Forsyth County Department of Social Services
Family Services, Inc.
DAYBreak Centenary Group Respite Care
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GIFTS FROM GRAN’S GARDEN
Volunteer Project Continues to Flourish |
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Local Garden Clubs Join In
"Little Greens" is one of a number of local garden clubs that are now helping create the "Gifts from Gran's Garden." Each month members from different clubs give their time and talent, as well as cuttings from their gardens, to prepare arrangements that volunteers and Senior Services staff members deliver to homebound seniors.
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GIFTS FROM GRAN’S GARDEN, a volunteer-driven project that got under way in March 2007 continues to be a huge success. Small bouquets of donated, usually seasonal, flowers arranged by teams of volunteers are delivered monthly to Meals-on-Wheels recipients. In addition, volunteers design small arrangements for delivery to participants in the Living-at-Home and Home Care programs.
Senior Services Named First Three-Time Winner of the
Joel A. Weston, Jr., Memorial Award
Focus Is on Excellence in Nonprofit Management
Senior Services received the 2007 Joel A. Weston, Jr., Memorial Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. The Weston Award, first presented in 1985 as a tribute to its community-minded namesake, recognizes nonprofits that exemplify the vision of excellence that Joel Weston had years ago for local nonprofit organizations. “I want them to be well run, in a business-like manner,” he is known to have said, “ and I want them to really do what they say they will do.”
The award committee which is made up of community volunteers, takes into consideration many aspects of the agencies it reviews, including mission, service provision, board composition and oversight, financial and personnel management, strategic planning, and marketing, along with significant achievements. A $10,000 unrestricted grant from the Joel A. Weston, Jr., Memorial Award Endowment Fund goes to the winner of the award, which is presented annually.
Senior Services, which also received the award in 1987 and 2000, became the first organization to have won the distinguished award three times. |
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The program was initiated by Lila Cruikshank as a memorial to her mother, Lila Womble Jenkins, who, according to her daughter, “treasured the ability to stay in her home until her death in August 2006, who loved people almost more than life itself, and who loved flowers as an expression of beauty and joy, and shared them abundantly from her garden as gifts of love.”
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