Veteran Search, Parade, and More News!

 

Current Volunteer Requests:

Please check the Volunteer Request Board regularly.

 

Boulder

          Bi-weekly Massage

          Massage

Broomfield

          Pet Therapy

          Respite

Longmont

          Light Housekeeping

          Bi-weekly Companionship

          Weekly Respite

          Weekly Respite  

     (Two volunteers needed for couple living with daughter.)

Thornton

Companionship for 105 year old!!

Westminster

          Bi-weekly Veteran-to-Veteran companion

 

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TRU Volunteer News and Education

 

11/11/21, Thursday: Veteran’s Day Parade

TRU Community Care values veterans and is grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Longmont Veteran's Day parade.  Are you a veteran or someone who appreciates veterans?  We invite you to put on your red, white, and blue and be a guest on our float.  We have 40 spots available. 

 

TRU Community Care has spot #30 in the parade, next to Roosevelt Park off of Bross street. Guests should arrive between 10:00am and 10:30am to board the float.  Warm drinks and light snacks will be provided. The parade begins at 11:11am with a F16 flying overhead and ends by 1pm.

 

All float guests are required to be vaccinated and wear masks. The float requires guests to walk up 4 stairs and be able to stand for a long period of time.  We will have some hay bales available for guests who need intermittent sitting breaks. We look forward to honoring our veterans alongside of you. Check out more details and sign up using this link:   https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f48abaa2ba2fbc61-longmont or email Becki at rebeccaparr@trucare.org . 

Speaking of Veterans, could you help us identify TRU’s Veteran patients by making phone calls to patients and/or their family?  We have the goal of contacting over 200 patients and need your help.  We are looking for 10-15 volunteers to make 15-20 calls over a couple weeks, starting ASAP.  Veteran’s Day is quickly approaching. Our hope is that every Veteran patient in our care is known and those that desire a pinning receive one by the Friday, November 12^th.  You will be able to make these calls from home.  We will provide you with a script.  Please email Becki at rebeccaparr@trucare.org with Calling Patients in the subject line and she will get you names and a script to start making calls. 

Do you know a Veteran who may like to serve our Veteran patients as well as other community Veterans a few hours a month by participating in veteran pinning ceremonies?  This individualized volunteer position would not require the rigorous onboarding typical of patient/family volunteers.  This Veteran volunteer would be specifically providing the much-needed pinning service.  Please connect any potential volunteers with Becki Parr.
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“We should all be cartwheeling through the compost!” Ask the Mortician. For the DIE-hard gardening enthusiast… And it’s legal in Colorado!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJSEZ_pl3Y

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Lost COVID Vaccination Card? Thanks to volunteer Nancy Orr, we now have the million-dollar answer to this question, “What do I do if I lose my vaccination card?” For replacement COVID Vaccinations cards:  myVaccine Record

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Volunteer Connection Calendar

TONIGHT! 10/27 Wednesday: Volunteer Support Group: with Richard Mercer 5:30pm-7:30pm Book Discussion: Attig's chapter, "Re-learning the world..." https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PcQJjlLwOtu3drj0ezQCahNbj82MLhxg/view from the book Meaning reconstruction in the experience of loss.

Zoom Access code is: 358 883 9662

 Please don’t purchase the entire book. The discussion for this evening will revolved around Thomas Attig’s specific chapter, “RELEARNING THE WORLD: MAKING AND FINDING MEANINGS” You can access the chapter here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PcQJjlLwOtu3drj0ezQCahNbj82MLhxg/viewm

 

11/11 Thursday: Longmont Veteran’s Day Parade

 

12/10 Friday: Volunteer Holiday Party! In-person (So far!!) Bring a White Elephant Gift to exchange.

 

1/14/2022 Friday, 12:15-1:45: VC Zoom Book Review with author Dr. BJ Miller. A Beginner’s Guide to the End. Meeting ID Code: 448 343 968

 

The first-ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying – and living fully until you do.

“There is nothing wrong with you for dying.” Palliative care Doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.”

An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is a “book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for the other phase of life.” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).