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ELDERS AT SENIOR CONCERNS PRODUCE PATRIOTIC CARDS FOR U.S. MILITARY IN IRAQ
Janet Cox
Air National Guard sergeants Marilou Pampo (right background) and Rebecca Duran (right foreground) admire the art of Ken Westling and Lorraine Gislason of Senior Concerns' Adult Day Center program as they put finishing touches on greeting cards destined for airmen of the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands ANG Station currently deployed to air bases in Iraq.
Janet Cox
Senior Concerns' Adult Day Center volunteer Pam Diddie (r) and program participant Emily Scirone assemble garlands and greeting cards to be mailed as a "home front thank you" to airmen of the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands ANG Station currently deployed to air bases in Iraq.
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More from Conejo ValleyTHOUSAND OAKS, August 21 -- A touch of home and a heartfelt thanks from elder Conejo Valley citizens for a tough job being well done has been
received by a group of Air National Guard personnel currently assigned to air bases in Iraq from the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands ANG Station.
A carton filled with dozens of carefully hand-produced greeting cards and decorative, flag-encrusted garlands recently arrived in the Middle East war zone with the personal compliments of participants in Senior Concerns Adult Day Center program in Thousand Oaks.
Genesis for the long-distance thank you to U.S. service personnel grew out of interest from Technical Sergeant Rebecca Duran, unit education and training manager at the Channel Islands ANG station, and her husband Mike Duran, director of sales for Senior Concerns' medical supplies affiliate.
"The Guardsmen deployed thousands of miles from home were really grateful when they received the homemade cards and garlands," Sgt. Duran said. "They were especially pleased that ordinary citizens back home are thinking of them and the mission they are performing."
Senior Concerns is a private, non-profit social service agency serving frail and special-need seniors and their caregiver families in Ventura and western Los Angeles counties since 1975. Its Adult Day Center provides professionally-managed social, educational and recreational activities for seniors in a continuing effort to offer stimulating programs aimed at keeping them out of institutional care as long as possible.
For information about Senior Concerns, call (805) 497-0189 or log on to its website: www.seniorconcerns.org.
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