By Spencer Sterritt

P.A.’s Jam Man helps the visually impaired bowl a strike

Nov 20, 2016 | 3:00 PM

There’s a tasty way to help the visually impaired.

Senior citizen Charlie Squires, affectionately known as “the Jam Man,” was on hand at the Union Centre craft sale on Saturday, Nov. 19 selling his homemade jams and preserves.

The money raised will go towards the Prince Albert Lion’s Club and support their efforts for visually impaired bowling. The club will purchase guide rails and other equipment to help the blind bowl.

Squires has a personal connection to the Lion’s Club and their bowling support. He looks after a blind widow friend of his on the request of her late husband.

“He called me into the bedroom three days before he passed away approximately and asked me if I’d look after Lorraine,” Squires said. “I promised I would and this is how I got involved.”

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He said Lorraine is a “wonderful dancer with a great sense of humor.” He talks to her every day, takes meals with her and helps her around the city.

This is roughly Squires’ fifth year donating his proceeds to the Lion’s Club.

He said he wouldn’t possibly be able to raise as much money as he does without the help of his friends.

“If they have too many raspberries in their patch they call me,” he said. “Last year I’ve never seen wild berries as plentiful as they were. I couldn’t imagine it.”

According to Squires, this year has been just as bountiful.

ssterritt@panow.com

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