What Sun City Center Needs Now: Next Generation Step-Up
Dear Editor,
Our community has been so well planned physically and our first 40 year+ residents developed programs which have made us so independantly [sic], meeting our needs as we go through 30 to 40 to 50 years in retirement. As we saw what happens with age and health, we made plans to help that stage, from the original golf cart and tram help right up to the Good Semaritans [sic] and SCC Rides for those not able to even use that transportation. And all level community additions of collective living assisted living and nursing homes.
What else could we need or use? We have developed into a town of a generation coming here, single, not because of death of a mate, but never-married professionals, divorced singles, and many childless first and second marriages and relationships. We need, after the first years of parties — guardianship programs that are sincerely loving and caring and closer to our hearts than ever before. Groups or couples, who want to be guardians. SCC-ites for SCC residents. Not just to interface with our lawyears, banks and accounts, but to come be our friend. We need room-mate searching abilities to allow us to seek someone else in our town to match up as buddies. All privately so we remain safe with a neighbor.
We have had a guardianship foundation who has collectively paid bills and checked in on us — all recently challenged by our state legislature because of other town’s misbehavior; and we had the famous Mr. Faircloth/SunTrust Bank/resident superman who gave the first generation the best of the best and safest feeling. We had that. What do we do to get back this quality that was here?
We need to develop a new volunteer program that will make that “safe-as-you-need-me” “I’ll be there for you” program. Will the new Baby Boomers step up and develop and provide and keep the quality that Sun City Center has been known for? It takes a heart of gold because it only takes a moment to be in need.
Lezlie Pitzer
Kings Point, SCC
