By Peter Golden
Special to the Tab
Posted Feb. 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM
NATICK
When Home Depot and Natick Rotary team up to bring good cheer to community members in need of a visit and a caring word or two, the result can be nothing but serendipitous.
Recently, Rotary president Judy Shea along with Rotary club members Steve Brayman, Scott Davis, Eric Lazzari and Ben Greenberg dropped in at the Eliot Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Facility – a long-term care center in Natick.
As the past holiday season’s installment of an annual program developed by Rotary past-president Tobe Gerard the group toured the facility, meeting with scores of residents. Many are largely immobile, or depend on center staff for socialization opportunities.
Equipped with 50 lovely poinsettias, the perfect cheery plant to scare away the winter blues, the Rotarians visited residents throughout the center. As one resident said to her visitor, “At least someone loves me!” when handed her poinsettia plant.
Rotarian Ben Greenberg, a long-term member of the Natick Center business community, made a special contribution to the effort by loading up one of his DebSan trucks with all 50 plants. With the generous donation of the plants and kind assistance of Home Depot staff, Greenberg toted the red-leafed gifts to Eliot Rehab.
Relying on hints from center staff, 50 residents found the Rotarians gently tapping on their doors. In this simple, unassuming way, “just one more day” for residents became a very special one. For all it was a chance to enjoy a friendly chat and a holiday greeting – and to receive a cheery plant that will light up more than one life long after the snows of winter of gone.
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