The Tri-Cities Better at Home helps seniors with simple day-to-day tasks, thereby helping them maintain their independence and stay connected with their community.
The program offers light housekeeping, transportation to doctors' appointments and grocery shopping services to Tri-City seniors who are 65 years or older and living in their own home.
Light housekeeping and transportation services are provided on a fee-for-service basis. Fees are determined on a sliding scale based on the individual's household income; pre-registration is required.
Share Family and Community Services is the local organization providing Tri-Cities Better at Home, working with Community Volunteer Services for Seniors in offering grocery shopping support. Better at Home is funded by the government of B.C. and managed by United Way of the Lower Mainland.
For inquiries and/or to register, calling Paola Wakeford-Mejia at 604-937-6991 or 604-936-3900, or emailing [email protected].
Hungry for challenge?
On the eve of the release of the latest Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, all sorts of challenges will test teens' skill and cunning at Terry Fox Library - and the strongest will win prizes.
The Hunger Games Teen Challenge runs from 4 to 5 p.m. on Nov. 21 at the PoCo library and registration has begun.
Sign up by calling 604-927-7999. Terry Fox Library is located at 2470 Mary Hill Rd. in PoCo.
Travel back to Sandon
You can travel back in time next week at Terry Fox Library with historian John Mitchell.
He will share the story of Sandon, the "Monte Carlo of B.C." that burst to life during the silver boom of the mid 1890s and was the first city in the province to be fully electrified. The town was wide open and wild 24/7 with gamblers, bordellos, newspaper men and two railways, all tucked tightly between towering mountains.
Mitchell's presentation runs from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23 at Terry Fox Library, 2470 Mary Hill Rd., Port Coquitlam. To register, call 604-927-7999.
