Historical March 1981 community-service report. Services, eligibility, phone numbers and dates refer to that period, not current assistance guidance.
Pete Cauchon, a southside postal carrier received a “Senior Citizens Appreciation Award” for his part in the Carrier Watch home-protection program which recently may have saved an 80-year-old woman’s life. Cauchon discovered a southside resident registered in the Carrier Watch program had not picked up her mail. Through the information provided on the Carrier Watch registration form, Martha Dodge of the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging, a volunteer coordinator of the program, was able to locate the woman’s son who managed to enter the house.
The woman was found uninjured, Mrs. Dodge said, “However she was on the floor unable to get up and had been without food or water for at least twenty-four hours.” During the winter months when many senior citizens are homebound because of severe weather conditions, older adults are being asked to consider registering to participate in “Carrier Watch,” a free home watch protective service for the elderly and the homebound developed in cooperation with the postal service. “Carrier Watch” is in effect in all postal areas within the 631 zip code.
It combines the efforts of the postal service, the Letter Carriers Union, local area agencies on aging, police departments and other organizations to insure that the most vulnerable of the community’s citizens are given the greatest degree of protection possible. City residents wishing to register for the program should call 622-3714. ,
Originally published in The Paper, March 1981.
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