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Coming Soon:
SCM and the Arts
 SCM is on the cusp of adding a brand new program to its suite of services: SCM and the Arts. You may be aware that we have been dabbling in transportation to the arts since May, 2008, when we took a group of SCM riders to see the magnificent Cantata Singers. We also started a partnership with the
Community Music Center of Boston, where we now transport twenty SCM fans weekly to participate in the magnificent Una Voce intergenerational community chorus.
With generous support from the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, SCM is set to create a calendar of arts-related activities for its ridership. This program is far more
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a new set of trips. SCM and the Arts heralds our expanding vision of what it means to be a community transportation provider. Our mission is to support the independence of seniors and persons with disabilities through our services. What does it mean to be independent, and how can it be done without the car keys? Being independent means far more that getting to the grocery store and the doctor's office. It is is being able to maintain a healthy lifestyle, including activities that keep us engaged in our neighborhoods and enhance our well-being. SCM and the Arts will include excursions to events, but it will also pursue opportunities for us to participate, as we do in the intergenerational chorus.
What would YOU like to do that is arts-related? Jewelry-making? Painting? Improvisational acting?
Email Reed to share your ideas. |
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Kinsey Award Winner
This quarter's Kinsey Award goes to Fenel Pompilus, an employee who exemplifies SCM's spirit of service to our riders. Fenel's friendly professionalism is valued by dispatchers, fellow drivers, and SCM riders alike.
Fenel showed this spirit most recently during a routine pickup. He arrived to find a rider's son distraught: He had fallen asleep and his father, who has dementia, had wandered away. Fenel combed the neighborhood, found Dad, and brought him safely home.
Fenel is a young man with an old soul and a great big heart. We admire his commitment to helping others, and we are proud to have him on the SCM team. Congratulations, Fenel! | |
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Door2Door Rider Profile: Marie Marques
By Scott Fleming, SCM Office Manager
Forty-year Somerville resident Marie Marques knows a thing or two about games. We can start with how she came by her dining room set and chandelier. This reporter was completely star-struck when she told me that her son won them for her on The Price Is Right. "Come on down!...He was jumping down the aisle, and I was going to hit the ceiling!" How neat is that?
Another big game in Marie's life: Bingo! Marie's favorite bingo gathering is at St. Joseph's Church in Union Square on Friday nights. And it was there that she learned about SCM from a friend.
Marie's decision a few years ago to stop driving was no game, though. Marie didn't mind giving up her keys, but she needed a new way to get around. She decided to give SCM a call. "The greatest thing to come down the pike," she says. "I appreciate it so much." Today, SCM's Door2Door service dutifully takes Marie to her doctors' appointments quickly and easily.
So, Marie, know of any new games in town? "The Wheel of Fortune was just filming in Boston... but I missed it." Well, we couldn't get her to the show, but we know the first three letters she would have requested: S-C-M! |
SCM'S 3RD ANNUAL
SAFETY ROAD-EO
By Sam Westover, SCM Transportation Manager |
It was the weekend of August 23rd: We thought it might be a bust, what with Hurricane Bob getting ever clo  ser and heavy rains and wind in the forecast. Thankfully, Bob took a different course and headed further out to sea, giving us a drizzly Saturday and an absolutely gorgeous Sunday for our ROADeo. This, our third annual ROADeo, really felt like a community event. We held it at our own base just outside of Davis Square, welcoming drivers, neighbors, and friends who were all kind enough to volunteer their time. Equally generous was a loan of 100 brand new traffic cones from the Mass Highway Department. Twenty competitors, including SCM drivers, its executive director, and even our friend Carlos Batista from Arco Tire (SCM's top repair shop) helped judge and competed. The ROADeo includes the wildly popular driving test through the cone-dotted maneuvers course, a timed test for wheelchair securement, a written quiz, and a competition to find the most of five specific safety defects on a van. For the second time, Trudy Siraco, our most senior driver, pulled out a win. Close behind were Office Manager Scott Fleming and Trainer Penny Cole. Trudy, Penny, and Roberto, another trainer/driver, had recently returned from representing SCM at the CTAA National Safety Roadeo in Providence, RI. They did us proud in Providence, and again in our own back yard.
(photo by Kevin Ezernieks) |
Our Mission: SCM promotes the independence of seniors and persons with disabilities through community-based transportation. Our friendly, safe and reliable services help people live healthy, mobile and connected lives. SCM Website.
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