News Room
Truslow Adult Day Center Benefits from United Way's Day of Caring
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Saco, Maine—Volunteer gardeners will spend the day planting flowers and plants and students will spend the day creating decorative painting at the Truslow Adult Day Center in Saco, one of the project sites of United Way’s Day of Caring.
Six students from the New School in Kennebunk and their chaperone Judy Hunt King, a landscape artist and gardener of MilleFleur Farm in Kennebunk, will be putting their artistic talents to work adding the finishing touches to a wall mural and other decorative painting projects at the Truslow Center. The students from the New School include: Jesse Flood, Will King, Megan Gates, Dylan Corrao, Devin Timmins, and Nakita Herne.
One of the owners of Canteen, Barbara Willey and her nephew Jamie Willey, are volunteering their day in the garden. Garden angel Theresa Dube, a master gardener, tested the soil and created a garden plan. Dube will volunteer throughout the gardening season in her role as a “garden angel,” working in the garden weekly with Truslow Center participants.
Richard Aspinall, a part-time maintenance worker at Truslow Adult Day Center, has volunteered to run the gas grill for a "thank you" barbecue. Grocery gift cards have been donated by Hannaford and Shaw’s in order to feed the volunteers.
Mimi Mills at York County United Way reports that the Truslow Adult Day Center is one of the 45 non-profits benefiting from 105 different projects. More than 1,000 volunteers from 65 businesses and schools have signed up to participate in the June 4 Day of Caring.
The Truslow Adult Day Center is a program of the Southern Maine Agency on Aging and provides therapeutic activities, health care and ongoing support for families needing a safe and stimulating program for their elder members during work hours. For more information on the Truslow Adult Day Center, contact Debra Thomas at 283-0166.
