Adams Council on Aging Looking for More Volunteers
ADAMS, Mass. — The Adams Council on Aging is still looking to fill several volunteer opportunities for its programming.
COA Coordinator Sarah Fontaine said the council has been able to fill several volunteer positions, including gardening and helping with the newsletter. There are still several other volunteer opportunities available, she noted, such as the lunch program, rouge transport driving, the rickshaw bike and the brown bag program.
Fontaine said she has been working to fill the other openings and is advertising the opportunities in the COA's monthly newsletter.
"I moved it to the front of the July issue, and now it's even bigger on the front of the August issue," she said.
In other business, the bathroom facilities continue to keep the COA from moving operations into the Memorial Building. Fontaine said a grant meeting, which would fund $100,000 of the estimated $150,000 project cost, was postponed.
"I got a call in the afternoon that several of the meeting attendees were ill and would not be able to attend," she said. "So we're waiting on a rescheduled date for that."
The bathroom facilities have been in the works for several months, as many of the building's other facilities are at or nearing completion. While the building already has functional bathroom facilities, this project would add two more to the space.
The COA, Fontaine said, should be ready to move once the bathrooms are complete. If they get the grant, she said the town would then work on supplemental funding for the rest of the project.
Fontaine said she does not want to move programming or offices to the new building until they are.
"I don't feel comfortable moving over there without adequate bathroom facilities" she said. "And I don't want to move our administrative offices over there and have programing here. It's already hard enough with us being on the second floor when programming is on the first floor. It would be too difficult to manage from a separate building.
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