Print Issue: July 17, 2002

Manors Hold Spring Picnics

(Clockwise from left) Christina Bialoglow, a volunteer at St. Thomas Manor for 11 years, joins her mother Maria, her father John, her nephew Nicholas, and her niece Allison during the May 17 picnic at the East Point Catholic personal care home.
(Photos by Michael Alexander)

Eighty-nine-year-old Helen Seawright enjoys her dessert during the picnic for residents at St. Thomas Manor May 17. The picnic menu also included hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, cole slaw, baked beans and watermelon. Similar picnics were held May 10 at Marian Manor, Atlanta, and May 24 at St. Teresa Manor, Riverdale.

Below: Jean Coate, 84, enjoys the picnic lunch for the residents of St. Thomas Manor, East Point, with her son James Redmond, visiting his mother from Osage, Ark., for the weekend. The annual picnic is held in May during celebration of "Older Americans Month."