Rotary Club gives its heart to seniors
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — The theme of the Putnam Rotary Club this year is “Boots on the Ground” and it’s a year-long outreach to those in need including mentally challenged, seniors, veterans and those unsheltered.
For Valentine’s Day, the club members gave their hearts to the area’s senior citizens.
Putnam Rotary Club President Kathy Kirk said the club members put together 180 “love bags” that contained: Cookies, word puzzles, scented bookmarks, playing cards, motivational pocket calendars with matching pens, warm socks and handwritten Valentine cards from the Rotarians.
It was all hands on deck Feb. 10 when all the Rotarians formed fun assembly line and put the bags together.
From there various Rotarians took care of delivering the bags to seniors, including:
Putnam elderly housing at St. Onge, Crabtree and Bulger; the Gladys Green senior housing in Thompson, the Pomfret Public Library for its senior dementia program; Putnam’s senior programs and the town of Eastford’s elderly program.
Kirk said: “Our theme this year is Boots on the Ground, and supporting our senior community is a big part of that. Packing and personally delivering these Valentine love bags gave us the chance to spread encouragement, connection, kindness and community support as a reminder to our seniors that they are loved and are not forgotten.”
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