Chorus Voices

Episode 50 of Chorus Voices celebrates 50 years of Chorus in the community and, as it turns out, it’s our 50th episode! “Our longest ancestor train traces our lineage back to 1970 when Volunteer Task Force was founded by John and Sandra Penrose," says Dan Minchin. Volunteer Task Force and then Chorus volunteers Jim and Wanda Bennett contributed an extraordinary 18 years to their community. They met Jeannette Olsen in their first year and the three have remained close friends. One day Wanda sat with a customer instead of doing her gardening. The customer’s husband had just died. “It wasn't just about the gardening. It was interacting with the people,” says Wanda. Jim recalls an emotional moment when a man in his 90s asked for help for the first time. There was much food to be shared on a day out gardening, and it was fun, too. Jeannette remembers Wanda unloading a lawnmower one day. “I turned around to look for her lawnmower and it was racing down the hill.” Ina Hart has been with the Albany Senior Citizens Ce