Calling all sponsors, bowlers, and cheerleaders who care about our senior neighbors across Southern Rhode Island. You have an opportunity to support services that help our older citizens age-in-place in our wonderful South County. Southern Rhode Island Volunteers has been the agency supporting our seniors since 1981—NO ONE else can claim to have been providing free, meaningful service to seniors in our area for that long. Yes, we are in our 43rd year at SRIV, 4 decades of helping our seniors, our nonprofits, and our communities.
We welcome anyone 18 plus years of age wanting to volunteer and add purpose to some of your free time. We welcome our teens 13 to 17 to volunteer for some of our summer events, to help our seniors cleaning up their walkways in the fall and winter months or maybe gardening in the spring and summer months.
There are so many ways to help, not only our seniors but also our nonprofits—our wonderful community museums, arts, culture and life—like the amazing South County Museum in Narragansett, or help with beach or park clean ups like Wilcox Park, Westerly, Ninigret Park, Charlestown, or along any of our beautiful beaches, or help our seniors through supporting this event and other ways. Options include providing transportation to medical appointments, grocery stores, pharmacies, the bank, personal care locations such as the barber or salon and more; maybe you’d like to deliver Meals on Wheels, food from local grocery stores or pantries; or companionship may be what you are looking for—sharing life stories, board games, puzzles, conversations, college football and more; or you may want to help from the office by answering the calls from seniors needing help, by helping with online grocery orders that get delivered later in the week. There is so much! You can get to know SRIV and our wonderful team by attending this event as an introduction.
I’ve shared a flyer with this year’s date and info and it represents some of last year’s event supporters, Bentley Builders, Northup’s Service Center, South County Smiles and many more.
Other sponsors who are supporters of our seniors include The Village at Worden’s Pond, People’s Credit Union, Bank Newport, The Volunteers of Matunuck and Tuckertown Fire Departments, Gates Insurance, A B Hoxie Well & Pump, Stasiunas Construction Companies, The Coutu Family, Lise Iwon, Belmont Market, Washington Trust Bank, Fiore Realty, SKIBPO, and Old Mountain Lanes
