Wednesday, August 31, 1988

Bus Qelivers

For. many Saanich Peninsula
seniors, a better life is a bus ride

“away.

By VALORIE LENNOX
Review Staff Writer

Monday to Friday the Mt.
Newton Daycare Socicty bus
picks up an average of 20 seniors,
bringing them to the centre on Mt,
Newton Crossroad.

Once there, the seniors take part
in activities, receive personal care
and have a hot meal. For many,
the centre makes the difference
between remaining at home or
being in an institution.

The bus is an important link for
the seniors. Specially designed to
take wheelchairs, the $49,000
vehicle was obtained by the day-
care socicly. in November 1987
with donations from the Monday
Bee group, the Vancouver, Vic-
loria, P.A. Woodwards, and
McLean Foundations, B.C. Lot-
tery Fund, the Seniors Lottery,
Central, Saanich Lionettes and
individual community donations.

The bus seats 12 passengers and
can accommodate three wheel-
chairs, but only had a few seniors
lo pick up on the first trip Aug. 26.

First aboard was 67-ycar-old
Eric Dudley, who describes him-
seif.as ‘‘the boy’’ of the group.

A stroke victim, he walks with
the help of a cane and has some
difficulty articulating words. He
has been coming to the Mt. New-
ton Centre for two years.

He comes to the centre, he says,

BUS TRIP BUDDIES Eric
_ Dudley, 67, and Gigi Bur-
gess, 85, share stories on
their ride to the Mt. New-
ton Daycare Centre. .

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because it gives his wife a rest. He
also enjoys the activities, particu-
larly the word puzzle games, and
he praises the staff.

He enjoys walking, reading and
‘“‘kecping my mind active.”’

He welcomed Gigi Burgess, the
next passenger aboard the bus,
with ‘‘Hello, sweetie.”’

Burgess, who lives with her
daughter, has been coming to the
centre for nine months. She
attends Monday and Friday.

Both she and Dudley came to
Canada from England and served

‘in the navy during the Second

World War, giving them a fund of
niemorics.

Gigi is 85 years old. *'] don’t
mind who knows it,’’ she
declares.

She uses a walker and says she
can no longer play golf, which she
used to enjoy.

Now, she says, she enjoys

“fanything I can.’

One thing she enjoys is the Mt
Newton Centre, especially ‘‘the
kindness and the people.”

She also recalls, with pleasure,
encouraging bus driver Dan Wal-
lace to collect the windfall apples
from the yard of another bus
passenger, Delora Parsons.

With Delora’s permission, the

_apples were collected and shared.

“*T didn’t like them. Danny

_ did,’’ Gigi reports.

Delora, 77,: would usually ride
on the bus but that moming had
been picked up by Mt. Newton
Centre staff member Heather

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The next stop is to pick up
85-year-old Jane Harris, who lives
with her granddaughter. Since
January, she has attended the
centre three times a week.

Although she suffers from heart
problems and tires casily, she
refuses the offer of a wheelchair.

‘*No you don’t,’’ she tells
centre staff. ‘If you do (bring a
wheelchair) I'll just be sitting
there,”’

Driver Wallace receives a
phone call canceling the final
scheduled pick-up, because the
passengers is away for the day.

The bus is equipped with a
tclephone in case of emergencics,
Wallace notes. In exceptional
cases, such as a senior living alone
with no nearby relatives and a
failing memory or hearing, Wal-
lace has a key to the home.

He is assisted on the Aug. 26
trip by nurse’s aid Allan Claxton.
Usually, he says, the bus picks up

‘twice as many passengers but at

the end of August many pcople
are away on vacation.

By maintaining independence at
home for seniors, Wallace says the
program helps scniors have a bet-'
ter life and a sense of hope, even if
they have medical problems.

‘It does make a. tremendous
difference to a lot of people. They

seem to realize that, old as. they —

are, they can recover.”’

“The daycare centre is covered
under the provincial long-term
care program. Seniors reccive

medical monitoring, personal

care, a meal and the chane to
socialize. ;
-The bus makes two trips daily,

-one to pick up seniors south of the
- centre and one for seniors north of |
the centre. The centre serves seni-

ors living from Royal Oak to
Land’s End Road.
When not doing daily pick-ups,

~ the bus is used to deliver medical

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equipment from the centre’s loan
cupboard, for centre ficld trips and
to pick-up hospital patients.

The first group of seniors to
arrive al the centre are served
coffee and muffins. As the bus
arrives at Mt. Newton Centre,
Gigi hopes the muffins are ready.

‘Eat breakfast. I do,’’ Eric
suggests. Later, he gallantly offers
his muffin to Gigi, who confesses
she had neglected breakfast.

Delora is already at the centre,
busily folding a pile of clean
towels. Living alone and ham-
pered by a failing memory, she
comes to the centre Monday to
Friday. It’s been part of her life for
about 10 months.

“Everyone is so kind and good
and nice, | think it’s

ful, the way they do these things.”’

COFFEE AND MUFFIN.
Start the day for Delora
Parsons, 77, at the Mt.
Newton Daycare Center...
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