Age Friendly South Portland – Winter assistance is available - Press Herald

Age Friendly South Portland, successful concern with the South Portland Public Works Department, is erstwhile again providing its Sand Buckets for Seniors programme this coming wintertime season.

Like past season’s palmy programme that served much 250 residents passim the city, seniors and individuals with mobility issues tin scope retired to nationalist works to person a 5-gallon soil bucket to usage connected slippery walkways astir their homes. Residents tin telephone 207-767-7635 oregon email [email protected] to petition a bucket and/or soil refill.

For residents who received a soil bucket past winter, Age Friendly South Portland is requesting that the buckets beryllium reused, if possible, for this winter’s programme successful bid to trim costs. Buckets should beryllium placed outdoors successful a determination convenient and readily accessible to nationalist works unit aboriginal this fall/prior to the archetypal snowfall.

If you utilized the programme past year, but bash not mean to proceed its services, delight scope retired to the nationalist works section to instrumentality your bucket.

To larn much astir this service, including to person a bucket and/or soil refill, telephone 207-767-7635 oregon email [email protected]

Shoveling volunteers sought

It’s going to snow. That’s right, and we, Age Friendly South Portland, request volunteers to assistance shovel walks and mailboxes of older residents who can’t antheral those shovels.

We started offering snowfall shoveling past twelvemonth utilizing volunteers. It was a large occurrence and we present request much helpers to perpetrate to a azygous locomotion oregon mailbox for 1 of our seniors. We are getting galore calls from radical wanting to get connected the snowfall shoveling database and we anticipation you tin rise your limb (with a shovel successful hand) and assistance them out.

We are asking each helper to enactment with 1 resident. Your enactment tin assistance summation peoples’ information and mobility truthful delight see helping america out. For much information, email [email protected], telephone 207-799-6350 to speech with Sue Henderson, oregon telephone 207-799-8888 to speech with Maxine Beecher. We tin assistance you get signed up.

Assistance is available

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Older residents, who person paid years of taxes and assistance physique our city, who are present connected fixed incomes that are deed hard by expanding prices should consciousness comfy successful seeking assistance from programs to assistance with the outgo of heating, food, proscription and taxes.

During the pandemic, businesses person been capable to question help, determination person been galore programs to assistance galore people. People connected fixed incomes request immoderate assistance getting done these times, too. That is the close and conscionable happening to do. So delight bash not beryllium excessively shy oregon excessively arrogant oregon excessively stubborn to question immoderate help. You tin telephone the South Portland Social Service Department, 767-7617, to find retired much astir income-based programs to assistance with heating costs.

You person and volition perceive much from Age Friendly South Portland astir taxation relief, proscription and assistance with food. Please scope retired to us; determination is simply a batch going on. Age Friendly South Portland is simply a radical whose intent is to assistance older citizens property safely successful spot and your input is valuable. If you would similar to enactment with Age Friendly South Portland, consciousness escaped to telephone maine astatine 799-6350.

Susan Henderson, caput for Age Friendly South Portland. She tin beryllium reached at [email protected]