NEWS
Fans will be available to needy persons
BY ROY REYNOLDS

May is "Elder Awareness Month." May is also only a short time away from the sweltering East Texas summer. Unfortunately, pride prevents many of the elderly in the area from making their plight known, until it's too late. To try to help as many as possible, the Rusk Rotary Club, with the assistance of a couple of local retailers, will provide fans to many of the elderly in the area before the heat of summer takes hold.

To help in this "Fans For The Elderly" campaign, Harry's Building Materials Inc. in Rusk and Wallace-Thompson Hardware will offer 20 inch box fans at considerably-reduced prices for this effort during the month of May.

Persons wishing to help may stop at one of the stores and purchase a Rusk Rotary fan. It will be held at the store for Rotary members to pick up. They will personally deliver the fans to the elderly.

Persons who have good fans they would like to contribute or those who would like to donate to this cause, may contact Rotarian Toni Meador at Texas National Bank (903) 683-8899.