Jefferson Hills launches Neighbors Helping Neighbors initiative to help shut-ins during covid-19

Katie Green
Friday, April 10, 2020 1:43 p.m. | Friday, April 10, 2020 1:43 p.m.

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Volunteer and borough resident Dave McGrew makes deliveries of donated food and basic supplies for senior citizens who are shut-in from the coronavirus pandemic in Jefferson Hills borough.

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Jefferson Hills Borough manager John Stinner hands out masks and gloves to Mayor Jan Cmar, right, and Nicole Ruscitto, background, before beginning to organize donations of food and supplies for seniors.

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Jefferson Hills Mayor Jan Cmar, center, works with other volunteers and borough officials on collecting and organizing donations from the community to be delivered to shut-in seniors.

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Borough officials and volunteers, from left, Mayor Jan Cmar, Borough president pro tempore Nicole Ruscitto, borough manager John Stinner, volunteer Nikki Weiss, and borough clerk Sherry Trbovich, at right, organize food and household supplies donations.

Jefferson Hills borough officials, led by council president pro tempore Nicole Ruscitto and president Karen Bucy, have designed and implemented a new program dubbed Neighbors Helping Neighbors to assist the borough’s senior citizens during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a news release.

Volunteers are delivering donated non-perishable food and household items to vulnerable residents to bolster or sustain them during Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order.

Deliveries – which will be left outside of residents’ homes so that there is no contact – are taking place every Tuesday and Thursday as long as the quarantine is in place.

“The volunteers were very enthusiastic and positive about helping seniors inside the community,” said borough manager John Stinner. “Yesterday (Thursday), six care packages were delivered to seniors inside the Borough of Jefferson Hills.”

Additionally, the borough is collecting donations of dry, non-perishable food – including canned fruits and vegetables, soups, stews, pasta, noodles, crackers, jarred sauces, powdered drink mixes, powdered milk, butters (peanut or others), granola and cereal bars – and household items such as personal or dish soap, toilet paper and other paper products.

To request service, Jefferson Hills residents should call 412-639-2339 or email NHNP@jeffersonhills.net.