To the editor:

There will be times when someone will need Visiting Nurses Association. There’s immediate assurance when the person there answers, Mary with the smile in her voice and almost instant rapport. Then there are others who become part of one’s family. These folks make the routines in caring a way of life, their comings and goings part of a weekly schedule.

Then there is the Douglas County Health Department with its Project Lively program which I’d known nothing about. One Sandra Kelly is a pint-sized powerhouse who intercedes in emergencies, makes needed contacts and helps in every conceivable way. There are the medics and officers who arrive promptly if there’s immediate need from a fall or other emergency. They bring calm, take control, smooth out the wrinkles.

If these are not examples of help and leadership, what would one call them? And they all, at times, can be in harm’s way in their work. These are special people who surely must come to us all from a higher realm. Bless ’em.

Sue Hess,

Lawrence