Caring For Our Community Since 1976.
Mark your calendar for Sunday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm! Gold Hill Inn is hosting a tribute to Bob Dylan with live music from several local bands. All proceeds will benefit TRU Community Care.
The band lineup includes:
$12 cover charge – cash only!
The people of Boulder County have spoken. TRU Hospice Thrift Shop, located at 5565 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder, won Best Recycled Goods/Thrift Shop in the Boulder County Gold People’s Choice Awards this year.
Members from the Board of Directors—along with interim CEO Pat Mehnert and Vice President of Philanthropy Annette Mainland—greeted customers on Sunday, September 25 with free donuts and coffee.
The thrift shop exists to support the mission of TRU Community Care: to ensure that everyone in our community can live with advanced illness as comfortably, confidently, and fully as possible.
“Its sole purpose is to support what we do in our hospice program. We bring them peace, and space, and the ability to say goodbye in the way they want to.” said Annette Mainland.
For each item purchased at the thrift shop in Boulder proceeds are filtered directly back to TRU Community Care. Thanks to our loyal customers, the work of TRU is extending to the local community with each treasure that leaves our store.
We are grateful to our customers for their continued support, and we thank you for voting us Best Recycled Goods/Thrift Shop in Boulder!
We’re always looking for volunteers in our thrift shop! In as little as two hours per week, you can make a difference in our community and meet new friends. Contact the thrift shop for more information: 303.604.5353 or email store manager Lynn McCullough.
Friday, September 9 was United Way’s Annual Day of Caring, the largest single-day volunteering effort. More than 1,000 volunteers donate their time and effort on this special day, and this year’s event was no different.
Employees from the city of Boulder volunteered their time at the TRU Hospice Thrift Shop, located at 5565 Arapahoe Ave in Boulder. Among them was David Farnan, Library & Arts Director. As he was sorting clothing to be priced and merchandised, he came across a darling shawl from the 70s. “Check out this pattern. I think it has some pizzaz.”
David Farnan, Library & Arts Director for the City of Boulder, volunteers at the TRU Hospice Thrift Shop
While many people know about TRU’s thrift shop, there are still those who don’t. For every item donated and then sold, a piece of TRU goes home with the recipient. All proceeds from the thrift shop are reinvested in TRU hospice care in Boulder and surrounding counties. At TRU Community Care, hospice patients and their families receive peace, comfort, and the ability to experience end of life as comfortably, confidently, and fully as possible.
View more Day of Caring photos on our Facebook page.
To become a volunteer at the thrift shop, contact Lynn McCullough or call 303.604.5353.
For immediate release:
Sept. 22, 2016
Contact:
Maria Thomas,
Communications Coordinator
mariathomas@trucare.org
LAFAYETTE, CO – TRU Community Care – founded in 1976 as the first hospice in Colorado – is pleased to announce it has been awarded $100,000 in grant funding by the Colorado Health Foundation to increase access to primary care services for elderly individuals through telehealth.
The grant will be used to extend the ability to monitor and assess patients between physician and home health visits for those with chronic diseases in TRU’s new PACE program (Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly). Telehealth includes equipment, connectivity, clinician consultations via electronic communications, monitoring of vital signs, and other symptoms related to chronic disease.
As a result of the grant funding, there will be increased access to primary care services for patients with chronic conditions and reduced isolation for seniors in our community. The telehealth tools will allow clinicians and others to proactively, rather than reactively, manage patients with chronic conditions, with the goal of keeping patients healthier, living independently, and reducing unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
TRU PACE is scheduled to open in early 2017, and is the first time this program will be offered in Boulder and southwest Weld Counties and beyond. Once PACE is open, the goal is to enroll at least 200 seniors in the first year who can benefit from TRU’s continuum of care model for years, as oppose to months. PACE participants will have access to a primary care physician, health condition specialists, nutrition, group activities, physical therapy and more – all in one convenient location. The goal of the program is to keep seniors in their home, increasing the quality of life for this ever-expanding population.
TRU Community Care serves Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Erie and beyond. TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado offers services in Greeley and extends to Weld and Larimer counties. Additional services include grief support, which is available to anyone in the community free of charge. It is a privilege for us to help those who are grieving regain their balance and resume healthy living. Grief groups include adult, teen and child as well as equine therapy. At TRU Community Care, we add life to days, because that’s what TRUly matters. The sooner you call, the sooner we can help – 303.442.0961 or visit trucare.org.
The Colorado Health Foundation works to make Colorado the healthiest state in the nation by ensuring that all Colorado kids are fit and healthy and that all Coloradans achieve stable, affordable and adequate health coverage to improve their health with support from a network of primary health care and community services. To advance our mission, the Foundation engages the community through grantmaking, public policy, investing in evaluation, private sector partnerships and strategic communications. For more information, please visit www.ColoradoHealth.org.
The Nomad Playhouse in north Boulder has a new play premiering this weekend: The Outgoing Tide.
The Outgoing Tide is a straight-talking, unpretentious, and unexpectedly humorous story of one man’s struggles to stay in control of the end of his life as he contends with Alzheimers.
Gunner (Steve Grad), a hard-bitten man who ran a trucking company, is planning his exit and rejecting years of humiliating deterioration in a home. His response, “Quality of life… Kiss my ass.”
Peg (Abigail Wright) has lived with Gunner for 50 years. She’s a good Catholic girl whose caretaking of her family is sorely tested. Still she says,”It’s what I do.” She wants son Jack
(Bunk Hess) to help her convince Gunner to move to a continuous care facility.
Jack, caught in the middle of his parents struggle, has his own problems. Midway through a divorce and dealing with a difficult teen-age son, he also has old grudges about a father who teased and bullied him as a child and a mother who used to scare him with her exaggerated caution: “I know a boy who sat too close to the television and his eyeballs melted.”
We get to know them and see the situation from all three points of view.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light, Dylan Thomas wrote as he contemplated old age and death. Gunner, a character in The Outgoing Tide, is somewhat less poetic, yelling at his wife when she brings up the idea that they move into a rest home together: You got a better chance of seeing Christ direct traffic with a cigar in his mouth. ~ NY Times
This drama brings sensitive observation and minor-key humor to painful situations that many of us will recognize from our own families ~ NY Times
The Outgoing Tide has affection and respect for its characters, and pulls you into its story. The characters are well-drawn, the dialogue is pungentHow Gunner determines to take control of his own fate, make peace with Jack, and win over Peg to his end-of- life plan makes up the gist of the story. ~ Backstage
The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham, directed by James Carver, will play at the Nomad Playhouse in Boulder, CO.
7:30 pm September 23rd , 24th , 30th , Oct 1st , with a 2:30pm matinee on Sept 25th.
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to our annual gala, Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 6-10pm. This year’s theme is a 1970’s disco party. Come shake your groove thang with live band Soul School, enjoy a scrumptious dinner, and bid on silent auction items. Can you dig it?
Winners drawn on Wednesday, Sept. 14th at 2pm.
For immediate release: September 1, 2016
Contact: Maria Thomas, Communications Coordinator, mariathomas@trucare.org
LAFAYETTE, COLORADO – More than 100 guests will get their groove on September 17 at TRU Community Care’s Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! 2016, the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser of the year. This annual gala helps raise funds for the compassionate end-of-life care and grief services that TRU provides to our local community.
Held at the Denver Marriott Westminster, guests will enjoy a silent auction, dinner, games of chance as well as a live auction. Local band Soul School will perform a variety of 70s hits sure to get people on the dance floor.
Silent auction items include several jewelry items courtesy of Snyder Jewelers, Inc., a gourmet Celestial Seasonings gift basket, gift certificates to many local area restaurants, a golf package, and an overnight stay at a local hotel including breakfast and champagne for two.
TRU Community Care is celebrating its 40th year of service to the Boulder community this year. What better way to celebrate than with a tribute to the decade that started it all? Don’t miss out on the fun!
TRU Community Care serves Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Erie, and beyond. TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado offers services in Greeley and extends to Weld and Larimer counties.
Additional services include grief support, which is available to anyone in the community. It is a privilege for us to help those who are grieving regain their balance and resume healthy living. Grief groups include adult, teen, and child as well as equine therapy.
At TRU Community Care, we add life to days, because that’s what TRUly matters. The sooner you call, the sooner we can help – 303.442.0961 or visit trucare.org
About the Author
Maria Thomas is the Communications Coordinator for TRU Community Care and TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado. She is a lover of the written word and also is a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). With over 15 years’ experience in the health care field, Maria has worked as a medical editor and as managing editor at National Jewish Health in Denver.
Joy Pulitzer, owner of Pulitzer Promotions right here in beautiful Boulder, CO has generously donated the two new flags you’ll see outside of our TRU Hospice Thrift Shop located at 5565 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder. These flags were much needed, as the old ones were faded and torn from the weather. Thank you, Joy! We appreciate you.
And, did you know that TRU Hospice Thrift Shop is the only nonprofit thrift shop in the area? We are proud to support the work of our organization through this store that rescues treasures from being dumped in the landfill, brings joy and surprise finds to the community, and serves patients and their families in their time of greatest need.
Last week, Mel Gilles of Eco-Cycle pulled into the parking lot of TRU Hospice Thrift Shop eager to pick up not the first, but the second large donation of boxes containing used T-shirts. Why so many shirts, you ask? Eco-Cycle is celebrating its 40th birthday this year, and as part of the celebration they are printing shirts with their logo and other messaging. Rather than purchase brand new shirts, Eco-Cycle reached out to TRU Hospice Thrift Shop Manager Lynn McCullough to see if there was an opportunity to partner and rescue used items before they hit the landfill. As luck would have it, there was!
Both Eco-Cycle and TRU Community Care are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this year. You can get in on the fun by purchasing tickets to TRU’s annual gala, Peace, Love & PIZZAZ! This year is a 70s-themed disco party!
The thrift shop has donated a total of 400 shirts to Eco-Cycle over the summer. First, at Eco-Cycle’s birthday bash, and now for their upcoming event in September. We’re thrilled to be partnering with such a great organization that is committed to reducing waste in our environment. Bonus? They’re located just right down the street from our thrift shop on Arapahoe Road. We’ve seen Mel sneak in to shop several times during the week. 😉
Mel from Eco-Cycle (left) with Lynn, TRU Hospice Thrift Store Manager (right) with the T-shirt donations.
The TRU Hospice Thrift Shop truck. Got donations? We’ll pick them up!
About the Author
Maria Thomas is the Communications Coordinator for TRU Community Care and TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado. She is a lover of the written word and also is a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). With over 15 years’ experience in the health care field, Maria has worked as a medical editor and as managing editor at National Jewish Health in Denver.
The new TRU Community Care Grief Services and PACE Center building.
TRU Community Care’s Widowed Seniors Grief Support Group (formerly known as the Widowed Persons Service Support Meeting) has changed its meeting location. The group, which meets the fourth Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., will now convene at the new TRU Grief Services building located at 2593 Park Lane in Lafayette, CO.
The death of a spouse has been identified as one of the greatest stressors a person can experience. Coping with the emotional upheaval and social re-adjustment that this crisis brings can be overwhelming and incapacitating.
The purpose of this group is to offer confidential support to those who have experienced the death of a spouse or partner.
Please call 303.604.5213 for more information or visit our grief services page.
