Help elderly residents in need beat the heat this summer by donating a fan in the annual “Cool Corpus Christi Fan Drive.” The drive begins July 13 and continues through July 28.
Cool Corpus Christi is a collaboration between the parks and recreation department’s Senior Community Services, WellMed and Grande Communications. A kickoff event is 11 a.m. Thursday, July 13, at Greenwood Senior Center, 4040 Greenwood Drive.
Donations of either 16-inch-by-20-inch box fans, standing oscillating fans and/or money may dropped off at any of the locations listed below. Collected fans will be delivered to homebound seniors and elderly persons identified as in need by the city’s senior centers, the Corpus Christi Housing Authority and Adult Protective Services.
Last year, more than 100 fans were distributed across the Corpus Christi area.
Locations for dropoff are:
- Grande Communications, 6441 Saratoga Blvd.
- Lindale Senior Center, 3135 Swantner St.
- Greenwood Senior Center, 4040 Greenwood Drive
- Garden Senior Center, 5325 Greely Drive
- Ethel Eyerly Senior Center, 654 Graham Road
- WellMed at Six Points, 1660 S. Staples St., #160
- WellMed Shoreline, 1215 Santa Fe St.
- WellMed at Calallen, 13725 Northwest Blvd., Suite120
- WellMed at Wooldridge, 5846 Wooldridge Road
- WellMed at Morgan, 922 Morgan Ave.
- WellMed at South Alameda, 3262 S. Alameda St.
- WellMed at Crosstown, 2634 Gollihar Road, Suite C
- WellMed at Cabaniss Field, 3434 Saratoga Blvd.
- South Coast Family Medicine, 4458 S. Staples St.
