Spring 2022
SeniorsToday.com.au
Serving for 90 years
Never too old for cricket
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Clear purpose in each step At 90 years of age, Athol Alcorn shows more stamina than many half his age. The legally blind, nonagenarian, completed a 300km walk from Kilkivan to Ipswich raising more than $20k for Queensland’s only children’s hospice, Hummingbird House where he volunteers as a groundsman. STORY PAGE 6
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Need is ‘urgent’ The Kidney Support Network is currently looking for more volunteer drivers. Sunshine Coast Branch coordinator Sasha Hollow said the Kidney Support Network provided a transport service for renal/kidney dalysis patients to get to and from hospital for their treatments.
The group is also looking for volunteers for their Op Shop at Currimundi. “We provide the cars for transport and volunteers drive the cars/patients for us,” Sasha said. “We service five hospitals on the Sunshine Coast including SCU Private and Public, Nambour Public, Selangor
Private and Caloundra Public hospitals. “We are currently in urgent need of new volunteer drivers, and due to close contact with both the patients and the hospitals our drivers are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19. “Do you have a few hours free each week to volunteer?
“In urgent need of volunteer drivers for our Monday to Saturday morning and/or afternoon runs. Picking up our patients from home to be taken to hospital for their dialysis treatments, and/ or hospital to home (therefore current Covid-19 vaccination required).“ STORY PAGE 8