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Highland Park Resident Nominated for National Senior Service Award

Highland Park residents are encouraged to cast their vote for one local finalist as the state's Outstanding Senior Volunteer for Home Instead's Salute to Senior Service program.

Highland Park residents are encouraged to cast their vote for one local finalist as the state’s Outstanding Senior Volunteer. The recognition is part of the Salute to Senior ServiceSM program, sponsored by Home Instead, Inc., the franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care® network. The program honors the contributions of adults 65 and older who give at least 15 hours a month of volunteer service to their favorite causes.

Lee Gimbel from Highland Park, IL has been chosen as a finalist for his ongoing service and leadership:

  • Lee was nominated for his service at the Brandel Care Center.
  • Lee has been volunteering at the Center’s dementia unit for every Tuesday for the past four years.
  • Those who have watched Lee give selflessly of his time describe him as warm, compassionate and helpful.
  • Lee loves to take Care Center residents on “field trips,” such as playing golf on the patio.

 

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Online voting will take place from April 15 to April 30, 2013 at SalutetoSeniorService.com (Nominations for outstanding senior volunteers were accepted between Feb. 1 and March 31, 2013.) From those state winners, a panel of senior care experts will pick the national Salute to Senior Service honoree.

Home Instead, Inc. will donate $500 to each of the state winners’ favorite nonprofit organizations and their stories will be posted on the Salute to Senior Service Wall of Fame. In addition, $5,000 will be donated to the national winner’s nonprofit charity of choice.

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The 2012 national winner is Clark Paradise, an 85-year-old volunteer from Toms River, N.J., who – with his wife, Jean – founded a growing mission in his community that serves more than 1,000 homeless and disadvantaged each month.

The national U.S. judging panel will include the 2012 winner Clark Paradise; Dr. Jane F. Potter, Chief of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, representing the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging; Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging; and Dr. Harry R. Moody, AARP Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs.

For more information about the Salute to Senior Service program, visit SalutetoSeniorService.com.

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