Giving cancer patients a lift
One of the biggest roadblocks to cancer treatment is transportation. The American Cancer Society's Road To Recovery program helps provide patients across Metro Denver with free rides to treatment. They need your help.
For those in the area who cannot drive themselves or have no other means of getting to treatment, volunteers donate their spare time and the use of their personal vehicle to give cancer patients in their community a much-needed ride. Road To Recovery volunteers in the community have driven many patients to their cancer treatments but the need continues to grow.
Every driver has one of the most crucial instruments in cancer care and it's been next to you the whole time - your passenger seat! It can be used to help save lives.
To volunteer all you need is a current, valid driver's license, access to a safe and reliable vehicle, and proof of adequate automobile insurance. Drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a good driving record. To ensure quality drivers the Society screens every driver and has them complete a training course. Rides are scheduled Monday through Friday and drivers are able to select the times they are available.
Volunteer coordinators are also needed to help schedule the requested rides. Coordinators can work from any location that is convenient for them. Great organization and communication skills can make a major impact on the well being of cancer patients in the community.
As a Road To Recovery volunteer for almost six years I can truly say that the patients aren't the only ones to benefit from this program. It's a great feeling to know that I'm donating my passenger seat to help save lives!
For more information, please visit cancer.org/drive or call 720-524-5405.
Carol Rose, Road To Recovery VolunteerLakewood
A CPA eager to support Emma
Congratulation to Emma Albertoni (www.facebook.com/downwithdough) on her efforts to cause the Jeffco School Board to step into the 21st Century.
The financial literacy effort she is seeking to have the School Board implement is, in my opinion, way overdue. Our own four children graduated from Arvada West in the late 70's and early 80's. Although not required for graduation, they all took, at my insistence, a course in learning about some basic financial understanding of the financial system, how to use checking accounts and other basic financial system functions of that time. It has served them well in their lives and I have never understood why the curriculum has never, to my knowledge, required students to have such a course to graduate. If the school curriculum is to ever try to include useful courses such as the one that Emma is trying to achieve in her effort and make it mandatory, it is too long in coming.
It is disconcerting to me to have to rely on current students to try to convince the School Board about useful content in curriculum.
Harold D. Hein,Arvada
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