LAKE PLACID — Mercy Care Elder Friends and Friendship Volunteers spent the afternoon preparing their vegetable garden at the Lake Placid Community Garden on May 30.
The plan is to tend the garden over the growing season and harvest the produce for participating Mercy Care Elder Friends and Friendship Volunteers.
A perfect day
In addition to the variety of vegetables planted, there was an abundance of sunshine, socialization, friendship and happiness.
Mercy Care’s mission is to enhance in every dimension the fullness of life of Elders living in our community.
For other organizations or individuals who are interested in participating in the Lake Placid Community Garden, contact Summer Britcher, garden manager, at sbbritcher@gmail.com or by phone at 717-676-0415.
Can you help?
Mercy Care hosts social impact engagement events to strengthen friendships and relationships in the Tri-Lakes area among Mercy Care volunteers, parish nurses, elder friends and Mercy Care’s Mission Extension Partners’ volunteers and their elder friends.
Mercy Care is experiencing many new requests from elders in our community who need friends and informal supports to help them age in place more successfully. Mercy Care serves any older adult in need within our capacity.
Mercy Care receives requests for a Friendship Volunteer from elders themselves, their families, or friends, to help them with informal supports and ease their isolation and loneliness.
Mercy Care’s next Friendship Volunteer Training will be held Sept. 25 in Saranac Lake. Mercy Care invites anyone in the Tri-Lakes region and surrounding communities who is interested in becoming a Mercy Care Friendship Volunteer to take the training.
To register, please visit Mercy Care’s website at www.adkmercy.org or contact Lexi Bevilacqua, Mercy Care’s Program director, at abevilacqua@adkmercy.org or call Lexi for more information at 518-523-5446.
Mercy Care can be reached at 185 Old Military Road, Lake Placid, NY 12946, by calling Donna Beal, executive director, at 518-523-5581, or by e-mail at dbeal@adkmercy.org For more information, visit Mercy Care’s web site at http://www.adkmercy.org