Interested in helping neighbors? Want to make the world a little warmer? Have a yearning to do some small bit of good in the world, but in a nice non-controversial way?
Friends In Service Helping, known among Ridgefielders by its acronym FISH, could use someone with an appetite for public service.
FISH is a local branch of a larger national organization that provides free rides for people — often but not exclusively older folks — who need help getting to medical appointments.
FISH has 15 drivers. But its veteran coorinator, Linda Zembron, is stepping down. The group needs a volunteer willing to take on the task of matching people who need rides at certain times with people willing to provide them. The information comes in on a computer, and it’s maybe a couple of hours a day of e-mailing and phone calls to set folks up with the rides they need.
Anyone with a notion to help out may call Zembron at 203-438-0650 to learn more about the position, and what’s needed to do it.
Groups like FISH and the thoughtful neighborly services they offer are the kind of unnoticed organizations that can help keep a town like Ridgefield feeling like a community, and not a faceless suburb — despite some 25,000 residents.
Making sure people have the rides they need is a kind, friendly thing to do. It’s not difficult. All it needs, really, is some commitment. But committed volunteers aren’t that easy to come by these days.
Ridgefield’s FISH branch dates back to the 1960s. It will dissolve if no new coordinator steps forward.
That would be a real loss.
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