Sun City Sun - February 15, 2022

Feb. 15, 2022 • SECTION SC Volume 25, I­ ssue 4

Sun City volunteers vital to Bluffton Self Help Volunteer Gary Peragallo prepares to transport food for neighbors in need.

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Volunteers at Self Help assist with hand up to neighbors in need

By Katherine Mace CONTRIBUTOR

“I love this place!”

Sun City resident John Pickens is one of many volunteers who are committed to Bluffton Self Help (BSH) and The Market, at 39 Sheridan Park Circle in Bluffton.

The Market is one of the many services provided by BSH, and at this location, volunteers were ready to provide food or clothing to any Bluffton resident or worker who could use a hand. Many of those volunteers are residents of Sun City.

As they prepared to open the doors, The Market was remarkably busy, yet very organized. Shelves lined with products were straightened. The floors were spotless.

Pickens was overseeing the storeroom. A volunteer rushed back to see if there was any flour. Pickens knows The Market well and was able to rattle off what was in short supply. “We’re low on flour, sugar, ketchup, mustard, pancake mix, and syrup,” he said.

The Market customers are referred to as

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Volunteer David Wetsel stores donated food in the refrigerator at Bluffton Self Help.

“neighbors,” and Pickens voiced a shared truth: “To make a great neighborhood, you have to be a great neighbor.”

Volunteer Dave Wetsel explained that coming to The Market is “just like shopping

in a grocery store.” Neighbors can come once a week and get an allotment of fresh meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and an assortment of non-perishables. BSH is 100% funded by donations and grants from the

community.

The Hub is where it all starts. “The Bluffton Self Help Resource Hub is the first stop on a neighbor’s path to success“ says Danielle (Danny) DeKruif, the agency’s marketing and communications manager. “We want to understand the needs and goals of each individual, because each path is as unique as the neighbors we serve.”

Bluffton Self Help’s mission is “to empower and advocate for Lowcountry neighbors to improve their lives through education and training, basic needs, and guided access to a network of community resources.” The organization was borne through the vision and hard work of their founder Ida Martin, who provided food and clothing out of her garage starting in 1987. Martin wanted to help working families and the elderly in times of need.

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Volunteer John Pickens stacks boxes of canned goods in the storeroom at Bluffton Self Help’s Market.

Kimberly Hall, executive director, echoes Martin’s philosophy. “We have 35 years of neighbors helping neighbors,” she said.

“Volunteers are the heart of our mission.”

Bluffton Self Help merged with the Literacy Center last summer. “To expand our reach, we did community research to learn how to meet the needs of our neighbors,” Hall said. “We wanted to know what areas we should be looking to grow. We can help neighbors get a GED (Graduate Equivalency Degree,) or study ESL (English as a Second Language.) We have a market for food and clothing, and every Friday, we deliver food to the homebound.”

BSH literacy volunteers are equally enthusiastic and committed. They work at four different venues throughout Jasper and Beaufort counties.

Volunteer Karen Blickstein is fluent in Spanish and is in her sixth year of teaching ESL classes for beginning learners. “In our culture, we welcome strangers,” she said. “I like hearing their stories. There is a universality to the immigrant experience.”

Blickstein said she is the granddaughter of immigrants from Russia and Poland. “Being an immigrant hits home for me.”

The Literacy Center also provides study sessions for students preparing for their citizenship test, as well as help with resume building and interviewing skills. One great class is Workplace English, that was developed to help students who need to quickly learn the words and phrases essential to

their jobs.

Bluffton Self Help services were scaled back during the height of COVID. Fewer volunteers worked. However, Gary Peragallo, a market volunteer, was there throughout.

“Gary is the ultimate volunteer. During the shut-down, we scaled back, but Gary kept coming,” Hall said. “We concentrated on being safe, but did not want to let our neighbors down. We had drive-thru food distribution. Gary was a rock star. He was always here. Our volunteers are passion driven.”

The volunteers and staff are still masked and safety conscious, but they are in full stride providing a wide variety of services. A visit to any of the Bluffton Self Help venues leaves a visitor astonished.

In 2021, 177 volunteers donated 12,976 hours, and that’s during the pandemic.

Bluffton Self Help is aware of the needs of the community, and they respond. “Everyone should give back to their community in some way,” said volunteer Pete Albero.

DeKruif summed it up their efforts: “When neighbors walk in the door at any of our locations, we want them to feel proud of the work they are doing to create a better life for themselves and their family.”

To find the service locations, donate money, food or clothing, or to volunteer, visit blufftonselfhelp.org or call 843-757-8000.

Katherine Mace is a writer who lives in Sun City.

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Sun City softball season sports two sets of sisters

By Gwyneth J. Saunders CONTRIBUTOR

It is not unusual for athletic sisters to play the same sport. There are the Williams ladies in tennis, the WNBA’s Ogwumike siblings and the Korda sisters of the LPGA. Now there are the Carpenters and the Madsens – two sets of three sisters playing softball in Sun City Hilton Head’s Peg Welch Ladies League.

The Carpenter sisters, from North Attleboro, Mass., include Deb LeBlanc, Susan Pina and Lynn Lapointe. They’re all playing for the team sponsored by J&R Ice Cream, one of five teams hitting the field this spring.

If practice is any indication of their personalities, it will be as much fun watching them as it will be playing with or against them.

Lapointe’s son-in-law is in the Marine Corps, and when she came down to help her daughter settle in Bluffton, she fell in love with the area.

“My son-in-law’s uncle lives in Sun City, my daughter knows I’m very active with

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The Madsen sisters are, from left, Karen Madsen, Patricia Lee and Eileen Hupal.

athletics, and I saw that this was the place for me,” she said.

The other two sisters followed her down to Sun City after visiting and seeing the activities available. LeBlanc and Pina, who

are also very athletic, made several visits to their sister and then made the decision to also move to Sun City.

Lapointe still works as a special education teacher at Bluffton High School, and LeBlanc

telecommutes for a company in Boston.

Pina, a mathematics educator who retired in 2009, bought a Mathnasium learning center with her daughter. Pina recently retired from that, moved here, and still meets online with a few students.

Softball is only one of the activities the sisters played growing up. Lapointe said she played basketball and field hockey in high school and college, and she and LeBlanc played softball together in high school.

The Madsens, who traveled a bit farther to get to Sun City, also came one by one. Originally from Liverpool, England, Eileen Hupal and Karen Madsen followed their older sister Patricia Lee to the States.

In 1973, Lee met and married a U.S. Air Force serviceman stationed at Upper Heyford near Oxford. Less than a year later, they moved to the States when he was transferred back.

Hupal followed Lee, accepting a position as a nannie in New York. During the two

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SISTERS from page 9SC years she was a nannie, she met and eventually married her husband.

Madsen also took a job as a nannie in 1978. Bored with college, she took the same opportunity as Hupal to work as a nannie.

Lee said she and her husband would come down to Hilton Head Island to visit, and one year they stopped to look at the Sun City models. They bought a house in 2006 but, because they were still working in Connecticut, they rented it out.

The Hupals would come with the Lees, and eventually they also bought a home.

Madsen followed suit.

“I’d come down to visit them and honestly, the minute I drove through those gates I knew this was where I wanted to be,” she said. “I just started looking at homes, eventually found one in 2019, closed on it, but I was still working so I rented it out for a few years and just moved in in June.”

Proximity to the Island and the ocean was also a draw for the sisters.

“I think that’s the reason most people come here,” said Lee. “To me it’s like summer camp for adults.”

Lee started with the Saturday coed league

The Carpenter sisters are, from left, Debbie LeBlanc, Susan Pina and Lynn Lapointe.

10 years ago. She had never picked up a bat or glove in her life, but did track and field hockey in England. When they were all finally together in Sun City, Lee kept trying to get Hupal to play softball. She was finally persuaded to try it and now she’s on a team.

“I think we’ve all improved,” Lee said.

“Well, I couldn’t be any worse,” laughed Hupal, “so I’ve definitely improved.”

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“I had no interest, absolutely not going to do it. But one day – I think I was having a hard day at work – Patricia convinced me to come to a practice,” said Madsen. “I said, ‘That’s fun. I’ll be outside for the afternoon.

I won’t have to work.’ Packing up to go, Eileen runs across the parking lot and says, ‘Victoria just drafted you.’ That’s how I got to play softball. And I have not regretted it since.”

Victoria Black is the president of the PWLL, and she doesn’t take “no” for an answer.

“It’s been an amazing experience. Just being able to catch a fly ball, and get a good hit. It’s just amazing,” said Madsen. “And then the women – I’ve met some incredible people, and the encouragement so many of them give you. It’s just been an amazing experience. Softball to me is like a family.”

And that’s one of the benefits of the sisters all living in the same community and sharing softball games and more.

“It’s great. We have Sunday dinners together, also, and every one of us takes a turn,” Lapointe said of the Carpenter sisters.

“It’s awesome to have family close by. I appreciate it. We do our own thing but also get together as a family, and that is very comforting to have my sisters close by,” said Lee. And for someone who was not going to play, not only does Madsen think the game has brought the sisters closer together, but, she said, “we tend to talk about softball a lot.”

Gwyneth J. Saunders is a veteran journalist and freelance writer living in Bluffton.

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Senior dating sites set us up for silly, nonsensical scenarios ATTENTION SUN CITY!

By Chris Roosa CONTRIBUTOR

My friend sent me a photo that she displayed on the internet in order to join a senior dating site. She relayed that she hadn’t had any takers and was baffled as to why she was being overlooked.

Although the photo was a lovely reflection of her, since her second face lift and tummy tuck, I felt the need to make one slight suggestion.

My recommendation was that perhaps she submit another photo without the oxygen tubes sticking out of her nostrils. That tank might be a dead giveaway that she’s on her last breath – literally!

I personally have reached an age where, if I were a single lady, I would never date again. I’m just too old! Half the men my age can no longer hear, and I currently remain exhausted from repeating every sentence three times to my own husband.

Many elderly gentlemen can’t even drive due to poor night vision. Plus, with a wobbling balance issue, they are trying to steady themselves on a cane. Just an accident waiting to happen.

Picture this: Two seniors meet on a dating site. They decide to go out to dinner. He arrives in an Uber for their date, as it will be dark outside by the time they finish dining and, remember, he has no night vision.

He teeters up to her door on his cane.

Here comes the pretty little women to greet her date, pushing an oxygen tank, with tubes streaming from her nostrils.

So far the visual of these seniors isn’t off to a great start. It can only go downhill from

there.

My husband began telling me a lengthy story. I appeared not to pay attention while he rambled on and on. When he completed his tale he asked me if I was even listening to him? I replied, “What?”

He got all frustrated and the look on his face made me laugh uncontrollably. The thought that he might have to repeat that lengthy saga was just too much for him to deal with. On the other hand, I have to repeat everything 20,000 times a day. I was, in fact, listening the whole time. I just wanted to see his reaction.

I’ve spent nearly 60 years married to one man. I’ve washed his cloths, cleaned his house, raised his children and cooked his meals. He retired 25 years ago, but I am still cleaning, tending to his laundry, and preparing his meals. I’ve often wondered, when do wives get to retire? Perhaps when we vacuum ourselves right into our own personal 6-foot hole in the ground?

In this day and age of vaccines and masks one might feel the need to produce “papers” to prove we are inoculated enough to go out for a dinner date. So far, I have had three injections. A fourth is probably yet to come this year.

Don’t you get the feeling that if you drive around some late evening in a retirement community, it will be totally aglow with injected residents? It might look like a city of fireflies glowing in the dark from all the chemicals being introduced into our systems just for the privilege of wearing a mask for one more date.

Even if I weren’t married, I’d pass!

Chris Roosa lives in Sun City Hilton Head.

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