Our Mason District residents are known far and wide, apparently. Imagine my surprise when I made a quick trip to my Oregon hometown this past weekend, and my sister pointed out a front page article in the Sunday edition of the Eugene Register-Guard, the local paper. The article, a reprint of an earlier Washington Post piece, discussed the challenges to senior citizens when they have to give up driving. Featured were Betty Lee Thatcher, an Annandale resident, and Nancy Hall, president of the Annandale Christian Community for Action (ACCA), which coordinates rides for seniors to medical appointments. This is a big country, but many issues, like the potential isolation of senior citizens who no longer drive, are the same regardless of size or geography.
