ORLAND — Enough with the robo-calls and social media and unending changes to technologies just to have a better quality of life. Glenn County supervisors sought to approach seniors the old fashioned way — in person — at its first ever Senior Resource Expo on Thursday at the Glenn County Fairgrounds. More than 116 groups for social clubs, service providers and businesses connected with local families on a plethora of services they may not know about or simply disenfranchised from technology.
Glenn County Supervisor Jim Yoder said the event was designed with seniors in mind to give them knowledge to make their lives, “just a little bit better.” Supervisor Monica Rossman said 24% of Glenn County are seniors, many of them are underserved, and created the event with with the offices of Assemblyman James Gallhager (R-Yuba City), State Senator Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) and U.S.
Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale). While working as a beautician, Rossman worked with her oldest client, age 104, who once asked, “What’s the incentive to getting older?” “I didn’t have an answer for her,” Rossman said. “So .
.. we created this.
” Nearly every public social service was represented at the expo, for veterans, housing, social clubs, transportation, arts and crafts, technology, law enforcement, disaster relief, food — even a phone club to schedule check-ins and a club for bingo. One local organization, Glenn County Senior Nutrition represented by Anthony Van Natta, dire.
