{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"50: 50 years in the community","description":"Episode 50 of Chorus Voices celebrates 50 years of Chorus in the community and, as it turns out, it\u2019s our 50th episode! \u201cOur 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\u2019s husband had just died. \u201cIt wasn't just about the gardening. It was interacting with the people,\u201d 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. \u201cI turned around to look for her lawnmower and it was racing down the hill.\u201d Ina Hart has been with the Albany Senior Citizens Centre and then Chorus for about the same amount of time. She works in the office at the centre and started off cooking for the Meals on Wheels service there. \u201cIt was really hectic because I had to learn how to cook bulk amounts of food. And I'd never done that before. And somebody had said to me, 'Oh, come on, Ina. Your mum and dad had 16 children. You should know how to cook for lots of people,'\u201d she says.  Narelle Roberts started as a Support Worker for Community First, now Chorus in 2009, supporting people living with disability. She is also a customer and enjoys taking part in the Ability Arts program. \u201cIt was just pure heaven that I got to know how to look after myself and then take better care of myself from being here at Chorus and Community First,\u201d says Narelle. \u201cThere's just a never-ending array of those sorts of stories that pop out of the work of Chorus,\u201d says Dan. \u201cAnd I guess that also is reflective of the sort of rich tapestry that Chorus is; it's made up of these multiple parts, groups, organisations that over the 50 years have come together.\u201d Credits Podcast Hosts: Dan Minchin and Louise Forster Opening Voiceover: Ryan Burke Opening Music: \u201cWattlebird\u201d by Dylan Hatton Music Interviewees: Jim Bennett Wanda Bennet Jeannette Olsen Ina Hart Narelle Roberts Producer\/Interviewer: Judith Hatton Audio Editing: Matthew Clark Artwork\/video: Maddie Bull ","author_name":"Chorus Voices","author_url":"https:\/\/chorus.org.au\/","html":"