Earth Day in SoCal was highlighted with groundbreaking for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing to be completed in 2025.
The world's largest such construction with more SoCal wildlife bridges across freeways hoped for in the future.
Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
Erin Myers reports for the KTLA 5 Morning on April 22, 2022
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Living in place and thriving as I age presents increasing challenges the older I become. Talking with a friend a decade younger but who is coping with issues of her's and husband's our conversation evolved to some of the needs we have. My family lives across country from me and, especially since Covid rarely is able to visit, unlike her family but they live in different communities so cannot easily visit their parents either.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a pre-screened group of people, maybe even senior high school or college students wanting to pick up a few hours of paid work occasionally, to provide assistance for incidental tasks?
Instances of retrieving boxes of items stored in high storage areas or replacing them, for example -- all those once simple actions that are no longer easy or even wise to undertake for physical or safety reasons. Somebody could pop in for a couple hours with advanced schedule coordination and take care of an accumulated list of tasks we prepared.
Most of the available help seems to be only those to do house cleaning or provide nursing or personal care such as bathing, cooking/feeding, companionship. There is a woman where I live who advertises as a Girl Friday who comes closer to providing such service, but she only runs errands, or shops for people.
Not all older people have such needs as my friend and I discussed, but perhaps some of you do or have thought about a source of such help.
