GRANDMA GETS GIFT OF GLIDE DRUG STORE STAFFERS SURPRISE SENIOR WITH NIFTY WALKER.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer NEWHALL - There's a new spring in Sylvia Sand's step and she ``smiles like a hyena'' as she struts with her new red walker up Valley Street. A metallic balloon that says ``Thank you'' bounces jauntily jaun·ty adj. jaun·ti·er, jaun·ti·est 1. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk. 2. Crisp and dapper in appearance; natty. 3. Archaic a. Stylish. b. Genteel. from Sand's new set of wheels - a message from the friends who surprised her with the top-of-line Cruiser model, just because. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why they're thanking me, I can't stop thanking them,'' Sand said. ``When they gave it to me I had such goose bumps goose bumps or goose pimples: see gooseflesh. .'' The Cruiser, the envy of the retirement set at Valley Oaks Village, was a gift from the crew at Sav-on Drug Store in Valencia, a block away. Employees knew her old walker was too hard for the 4-foot-11 grandmother of two to push, so they got together and made a present, decking it with balloons and flags for a favorite customer, store manager Don Bennett
Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF (September 14 1910–September 15 1986) was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose said. ``Hi, Sylvia,'' says cashier Vincent Gibson, as Sand and her Cadillac of walkers glide into the store. Everyone knows Sylvia. ``She comes here a lot,'' Gibson said. ``Sometimes she tells us what she needs and we get it for her. It's hard for her to get around.'' Sand is a frequent Sav-on shopper - when you're 83, she said, you're on a first-name basis with your pharmacist and everyone else in the store. She was saving up her money for that $200 Cruiser, stocked on a high shelf above the Sav-on pharmacy, waiting to see if Medicare would kick in some cash. And then her drug store friends called her in one day. ``She had this decrepit de·crep·it adj. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. See Synonyms at weak. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d old walker,'' pharmacy manager Terri Justin said. ``I told her to have faith.'' They tiny New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of transplant was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. . She offered to pay, but this one was on the house. ``I didn't know anything about it,'' she said. ``They really pulled one over on me. I nearly cry when I think about it.'' The old aluminum walker with tennis balls affixed af·fix tr.v. af·fixed, af·fix·ing, af·fix·es 1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package. 2. to the legs to move it along was getting too heavy for the tiny Sand to push across town as she headed here and there. ``I used to come home and you couldn't even talk to me,'' Sand said Wednesday during a brief stroll. ``It was murder pushing that thing all day.'' But, she adds, it'll be perfectly fine with a little work for someone who can better manage it. ``I'm fixing it up now and I'm going to take it over to the senior center,'' she said. ``I want to pass on something to someone else.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Sylvia Sand, 83, of Newhall uses her top-of-the-line Cruiser walker, a gift from workers at the local Sav-on, to help her on the trip home from the store Wednesday morning. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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