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05/1986 Senior news o- i FridleySenior News e. Fridley Recreation Department 571 -3450 MAY, 1986 Minnesota Opera and The Ordway Music Theater presents "THE KING AND I" One of the longest running Broadway musicals in the history of New York theater, Tbp. King & I is the story of a young English widow, Anna, employed by the King of Siam to import Western culture to his 67 children and numerous wives. Anna travels to the exotic land of Siam to match her strength against the stubborn, but intellectually curious King. DATE: Thursday, June 19, 1986 TIME: 12:45 p.m. - Depart from St. William's Church 12:50 p.m. - Village Green pick-up 2:00 p.m. - Ordway Curtain 5:00 p.m. - Arrive in Fridley (approx. time) COST: $21.50 RDGISTRATION: Fridley residents* may register for this trip on May 12th at 8:00 a.m. at the Fridley Recreation Office. Non-resident registration begins on May 19th. Payment must accompany all registrations. Mail-in registrations are welcome and handled on a first-come-first-serve basis following the first morning of registration. *Resident: Resides within Fridley City limits. **************************************************************************** REGISTRATION : OUT ON THE TOWN "THE KING & I" NAME: - ADDRESS : - STREET CITY ZIP TELEPHONE # : AMOUNT ENCLOSED : ENJOY A DAY OUT ON THE TOWN ! SENIOR SHOPPING MINNESOTA ELDERHOSTEL 1986 Transportation is provided to Holiday Warehouse each Wednesday afternoon of the An exciting summer awaits you if you get month and to Target the second Tuesday of the involved in the Minnesota Elderhostel month. The bus will leave the Congregate Program. Elderhostel, a program for people Dining site at 12:30 p.m. on Target days and over 60 , is a combination of the best home pick-up will begin at approximately traditions of education and hosteling. 12:45. Inspired by the youth hostels and folk Thanks to the generosity of the Lions Club, schools of Europe, Minnesota Elderhostel there is no charge for this program. For a provides one week experiences of campus life bus reservation, call 571-3450, extension and academic stimulation. Elderhostel is for 122. any older person who has not finished learning. A recent addition to the Senior Shopping Program is Northtown/Bob's Produce on the lst The colleges in this area which offer Thursday of each month. The bus will leave Elderhostel Programs include: the Senior Nutrition site at 12 : 30 p.m. Shopping at Northtown will be from Augsburg College approximately 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ending the Bethel College trip with Bob ' s Produce & specials for Hamline University seniors! St. Cloud State University FRIDILY SENIOR NUTRITION PBS University of Minnesota College of St. Catherine Hot meals are served Monday through Friday at College of St. Thomas 12:00 noon in the gymnasium of the Community Concordia College Education Center. Everyone under the age of Macalaster College 60 is asked to pay $2.50 - all others are requested to make donations. Menus are There are no exams, no grades, and no published weekly in the Sun Newspaper and required homework. If you want to see the Star and Tribune. Reservations must be made exciting brochure, call the Minnesota at least two work days in advance. To place Elderhostel office at 376- 2704• your reservations, please call 571-6085 between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. For more information, call 546-3242. Memorial SENIOR TRANSPORT Transportation is provided to the Fridley Day Senior Dining site. Anyone wishing to ride j the bus to dining must notify Connie two working days in advance. Calls should be 1986 -- directed 986 -_directed to 571-3450, extension 122, Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. A 50 cent round trip fare will be charged. SENIOR CENTER NEWS MONTHLY BLOOD PRESSURE TESTS Seniors of Fridley, if you are intersted in a five day trip. How about one to Mackinac Free blood pressure tests are offered at the Island in the state of Michigan. For more Community Education Center, Room 10, 6085 7th information, pick up a flyer at the Senior Street. The May schedule is: Center. Arrangements are being made for a Tuesday, May 6th.. .. . . . . . .11:30-12:00 Noon slide presentation at the Center on Tuesday, Thursday, May 15th. . . . . . . . .12:30-1:15 p.m. May 6th at 11:00 a.m. Remember high blood pressure has no symptoms Cards are still being played; Wednesday-500, to warn of its presence. Regular check-ups Thursday-Whist and Cribbage on Friday. When are necessary for detection. the weather warms up, we will play in the air conditioned room at the Center. There will be a summer schedule of activities at the Spring is here i Center for your information. The Center will be sponsoring a Defensive Driving Class May 20th & 21st. If you are interested, sign up at the Center. For The Sake of This Boy VOLUNTEER THAM! She was sometimes called Sally - a widow with A very special thank you to our busy three children. Perhaps life had been a volunteers. We've really needed you lately little harsh and she would have welcomed a with our newsletter , the Service Club change for the better; an easier way if it Olympics and with tax assistance. It ' s came. gratifying to know when we ask, you come out She thought she saw it come when a man, a in mass. widower from her past, returned with a proposal of marriage. In his nice suit of _ Happy clothes and talk of a prosperous farm, the J prospects of a better life grew, for she a understood him to mention servants and to be Mothers • � • a man of substance. She accepted and crossed the river with him to view her new posessions: a farm grown up L /Day • in wild blackberry vines and sumac ; a floorless, windowless hut, the only servants two thinly-clad barefoot children, the father of whom had borrowed the suit and boots he went-a-courting in. Her first thought was the obvious one - go back home, but she looked at the children FUTURE FRIDLEY FRIENDLY FOLKS FUN especially the younger , a boy whose On May 6th, the seniors of the Friendly melancholy gaze met hers. Fridley Folks will indulge in an old For a moment she looked, while a great spirit fashioned Basket Social with slightly modern subdued the passions of the flesh, rolling up tones. On May 20th, the Senior Club will her sleeves she spoke, "I'll stay for the observe a very special occasion; a Memorial sake of the boy"; Sally Bush didn't know when Dedication to deceased members. A special she looked at that melancholy face of ten program is being planned and commemortive years that her stepson, Abe, would some day honorarium has been arranged. say, as his country' s most beloved and The June meeting will be accompanied by a box respected of Presidents, "all that I am or lunch, possibley chicken from Big Boy and in ever hope to be, I give to my angel mother." June, a picnic at Locke Park with games , From a speech by: cards and just plain relaxing. Jeffrey R. Hollan August 19th, possibly a Korean children's choir will visit the club. The first meeting in September will be MENS TREAT -- enough said. The second September meeting will show some local talent along the line of skits and such. The rest of the fall program will be reviewed in a later edition: They include a movie and a chow mein dinner. The Program Committee has been busy and have earnestly �— tried their best to bring entertainment that fertil is within the club's means. TN33RUCTIONANNUAG/ARDEN Have you always wanted a garden, but you live EASTER BINGO in a trailer court or apartment and don't On March 25th, th the Friendly Fridley Folks p held their yearly Easter bingo with prizes have the space? Would you like to have a and one grand prize. Winners of canned goods garden, but just don't know where to begin? and other foods were Jean Johnson, Betty Here's your chance. We have contacted an Powell, Joe Zuleski, Harold Anderson, Alverna Anoka Extension Master Gardener to help with Lorbeski, Anna Peterson, Jo Zawislak, Frank an instructional garden. You can learn by Sasek, Adelynne Tuttle, Jack Markuson, Helen doing and harvest the fruit of your labor. Kay won Plots will be in the Community Garden near theg�rand prizesof anon dEastera lily.rks A s u It Columbia Arena. Contact Connie for details g p y� 9 that was put together by the Fridley Crafters at 571-3450 , extension 122. Space is and offered for sale be lottery was won by limited. There is no charge. Jeanne Smestad. MAY HEALTH AWARENESS FAILING EYESIGHT The speaker for the May Health Awareness will be Art Dropkin. Art, through complications of diabetes has lost his sight. He will give us some tips on coping with the aspects of decreased vision. He will also give us suggestions on how to make adjustments easier. This program will be held at the following days and locations: May 1st Dayton Senior Center 12:30 May 8th Blaine Senior Center 12:30 May 9th Coon Rapids Senior Center 12:30 May 15th Anoka Senior Center 12:30 May 27th Fridley Senior Center 12:30 Mark one of these important dates on your calender. Bring a friend. If you have any questions call one of the above Senior Centers. THEATRE CLUB 3rd ANNUAL QUALITY OF LIFE & AGING CONFERENCE March was a busy month, but the seniors managed to keep up with Connie's outlay of Sponsored by: program. On Sunday, March 16th, 14 club Minnesota Peer Counselor Alumni Assoc members attended Totino Grace's production of May 16, 1986 Fiddler on the Roof and once again the 8.45 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. students and their play advisors demonstrated Prom Center that they could rise and shine. The actors all performed their roles exceptionally well For everyone interested in aging. Workshops and provided their audience with some very include Alzheimers Disease ; Chemical good singing and exciting dance numbers. The Dependency, First Call For Help; Relaxation & young folks that become involved in such Exercise; Self Esteem & Aging; Access to activities as Fiddler on the Roof, devoting Legal Services; and the Importance of Fun and so much of their time and talent, certainly do a lot to dispell the unwelcome opinion laughter. Tony Bouza will be the morning that is tagged on the youth of today. They keynote speaker. certainly deserve credit. For more information, call 376-2945. On March 24th, 11 members combined with about thrity seniors from Coon Rapids for a day at the Whitney Senior Center in St. Cloud. The group rode in a comfortable coach for the one ,SI'. PHILIP'S 60+ CLUB hour drive and were met by a hospitable hostess at the Center. Before lunch the The St. Philip's 60+ Club will be taking a visitors were given a resume of the Whitney bus trip to Mantorville, MN - a U.S. Historic Center and then a quick tour of their Restoration town - on Wednesday, May 28, facilities. After lunch , members of 1986. Whitney' s Players put on an entertaining You are invited to join them for a full day program consisting of two skits and a very clever singing group. One skit (they are of adventure! $27.00 cost includes deluxe called Reading Skits) was about a man and tour bus, coffee stop at Cannon Falls, tour wife together in a car and the wife is just of Grand Old Mansion, guided tour of learning to drive. The other skit concerned Mantorville, lunch at famous Hubbell House an older man who lives with his daughter and and Red Wing pottery shops. Time is from resents being treated an an old man and 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. threatens to leave home. The music group Call Don Breining at 571-8364, or Burnie were not only good singers, but good actors Lossing at 784-1557 for more details. as they demonstrated some of their songs to Reservations must be made with payment by May the amusement of the audience. The day was capped off with a visit to Country Kitchen 12th. and then off to home. A TRIBUTE V.F.W. Post 363 is one of the more than 10,000 seperate groups that comprise the world's largest service organization with nearly 2 ,000 members. How the V.F.W. came into being deserves attention. In the years 1590-99, three different veteran groups formed with the purpose of veteran aid in mind but they lacked effectiveness. In 1913, the three group combined to form Veterans of Americans which a few years later officially became the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The groups unofficial motto, "We take care of our own" eventually became "our own and our country. " Through the ensuring years, the V.F.W. has not only supported many hospital sites and quietly sought favorable legislation, but have continually worked for better international relations. Fridley's Post 363, located on Osborne Rd. near Hwy. 65, has been enlarged and improved in stages over the 21 years of their existence in Fridley. The V.F.W. Post 363 has developed many community programs that have benefited the lives of countless people such as the handicapped, shut-ins, the ailing, the young, the elderly, and the populace in general. Members count among their many programs their donations to cancer research which exceeds several thousands of dollars; visits and parties for Fridley's two nursing homes and providing $1200 worth of kleenex for home members; and holiday parties and special events for the handicapped. Collecting labels is more than a hobby at Post 363; they are used to obtain beneficial articles for people who would otherwise be without. Americanism is uppermost in V.F.W. action. They have placed flags in more than 75 schools, nursing homes, scout troops, City Hall, Village Green and the Senior Center on a annual basis. Post 363 promotes and plans activities for the youth of Fridley in safety instruction with fire arms, bycycle procedure, sports, and by awarding scholarships to deserving or indigent students. Contests to perpetuate democracy and loyalty are held in the Fridley schools each year. Post 363 sponsors a Boy Scout troop and is instrumental in programs at the Fridleys Community Park and the Islands of Peace Park. They contribute blood to the V.A. hospital and make regular visits to patients providing gifts and games. Other programs include collection of clothes for the Moore Lake Hospital and Veteran's Home and the St. Cloud V.A. hospital; financial help ($3000) for the Serviceman's Center at the airport; and baskets of food to the needy at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Auxiliary sews and knits articles for V.A. hospitals and for homebound cancer patients. Wherever a need exists, the V.F.W. looks for a way they can help. Post 363 for the consideration given to them. Most of us remember the three annual dinners that were planned, cooked, delivered, and served to the seniors at the Center by the Auxiliary and their V.F.W. helpers. The V.F.W. also provided the Center with a flag and a new television set. In order to help the senior center become more financially solvent, the V.F.W Post 363 has twice donated $2000 towards its well being, hoping to bring more and better programs for the seniors of Fridley. With this kind of backing the Senior Center can look for brighter days and they are assuredly grateful for this kind of support. Whenever money has to be raised these men and women rise to the occassion just as they did when the defense of our country was needed. One of their fund raiser projects is the Buddy Poppy sales. The Poppy represents an honor to those who have died for their country and a continuing aid to the living of today. Receipts from the Poppy sales go to help veterans and their families who have experienced hard times. The seniors especially acknowledge their gratitude for the exemplary and spirited backing that V.F.W Post has provided for the Senior Center. Let us give them a hats off salute for all their attention efforts; and remember them charitably on Buddy Poppy Day. They deserve this and more! Bill Campbell FRIDLEY'S RECREATION A NATURAL RESOURCE DEPT. INVITES YOU TO BRING.YOUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS TO SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER 100.85th AVE.NORTH 1/2 MILE WEST OF NORTHTOWN SHOPPING CENTER 784-3854 FOR AN OLD—FASHIONED IN THE RSPV O P� --. MFMOR/g4 O MEMO A Y 9c+ . oNOq Y MAY 26 co G00�`pt, <G�cti �SNE Gp� P OR.RUr�FOOD G�KA�Q y0�Fx �P S FRISBEE GOLF' MAKE A NATURE CRAFT HIKE WITH A NATURALIST PARTICIPATE IN GAMES & RELAYS MAY n , 1 2 3 Northtown/ Cribbage Bob's Produce Bowling Party Whist Bake Sale 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FFF Meeting Holiday Shopping Bowling 1 :00 P.M. Cards (500) Party Whist Cribbage Blood Pressure Canterbury Downs Bowling 11 :15 - noon 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Bowling Sr. Theater Club Holiday Shopping Party Whist Cribbage Sr. Golf 1 :30 p.m. Cards (500) Blood Pressure Bowling Target Shopping 12:30 - 1:15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Bowling FFF Meeting Holiday Shopping Party Whist Cribbage Sr. Golf 1 :00 P.M. Cards (500) Bowling 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Picnic in the Park Health. Awareness Holiday Shopping Party Whist Cribbage Memorial Day 12:30 - Vision Cards (500) Bowling Volunteers of America MAY 1986 Senior Nutrition Program 2t",-'Qk MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Beef Stroganoff Veal Bird/Gravy Wide Egg Noodles Baking Powder Biscuit Buttered Carrots Winter Mix Vegetables Coleslaw Tomato Juice Dark Rye Bread/Butter Pineapple Walnut Dessert Fresh Fruit Milk Milk 1 1 2 Swiss Steak/Spanish Sauce Ring Bologna Baked Chicken Norwegian Meatballs/Gravy Turkey Tetrazzini Baked Potato Hot German Potato Salad Sweet Potato Boiled Whole Potatoes Buttered Mixed Vegetables Buttered Spinach Buttered Green Beans Pineapple Coleslaw Buttered Carrots V-8 Juice Whole Wheat Roll/Butter Bran Bread/Butter Whole Wheat Bread/Butter Dark Rye Bread/Butter Wheatberry Bread/Butter Fresh Fruit Brownie-frosted Tapioca Pudding/Whipped Topping Plum Sauce/Peanut Butter Fruit Pie Milk Milk Milk Cookie Milk Milk 5 6 7 8 9 Beef Stew/Vegetables WELCOME SPRING Cheesy Beef-Macaroni Casserole Baked Chicken Riblet/Sauerkraut Coleslaw Baked Ham/Glaze French Cut Green Beans Bread Dressing/Gravy Baked Potato Baking Powder Biscuit/Butter New Potatoes Pickled Beets Mashed Potatoes Rye Roll Butter Applesauce Creamed Peas Wheatberry Bread/Butter Marinated Vegetable Salad Pumpkin Bar Tossed Salad/Cucumber/Radish/ Milk French Dressing Vanilla Pudding/Whipped Topping Whole Wheat Bread/Butter Milk g Milk Fresh Fruit Bran Bread/Butter Milk 12 Strawberry Shortcake/Topping 13 14 15 16 Milk Sweet & Sour Meatballs BBQ Chicken Battered Fish Hamburger/Mushroom Gravy Pork Chop/Gravy Buttered Rice Potato Salad Tartar Sauce Whole Kernel Corn Mashed Potatoes Mixed Vegetables Buttered Peas Au Gratin Potato Baked Potato Waldorf Salad Pineapple Ring Salad Cornbread/Butter Broccoli Dark Rye Bread/Butter White Mountain Roll/Butter Bran Bread/Butter Ambrosia Dessert Whole Wheat Bread/Butter Fresh Fruit Spice Cake Sugar Cookie Milk Lemon Meringue Pie Milk Milk Milk 19 20 Milk 21 P2 23 Scalloped Potato and Ham Spaghetti/Meat Sauce Baked Chicken Salisbury Steak/Gravy Cooked Cabbage/Peas Parmesan Cheese Packet Parsley Potato/Gravy Mashed Potatoes ole Wheat Roll/Butter Buttered Wax Beans Italian Mixed Vegetables Carrot-Raisin Salad H 0 L I D A Y utterscotch Pudding/Topping Tossed Salad/French Dressing Bran Bread/Butter Oatgrain Bread/Butter lk Egg Bread/Butter Pear Sauce Apple Pie Birthday Cake ilk Milk Milk 30 26 27 28 29 METROPOLITAN PAINT-A-IRON "Senior Discount Day" The third annual Metro Paint-A-Thou is scheduled for Saturday, August 16 , 1986 . Every Tuesday at the ARC Warehouse Seniors This event is for low-income persons 60 years receive a 50% discount on all clothing items. of age or older, or persons with permanent The ARC Warehouse is a thrift store sponsored disabilities, who reside in the seven-county by the Anoka County ARC (Association for metropolitan area. Once again congregations, Retarded Citizens) . The store is located in community organizations and businesses will the newly remodeled Skywood Mall just off of have the opportunity to respond to the needs I-694 and Central Avenue N.E. in Fridley. of seniors for exterior house painting. This is a community partnership and hope to The long range goal is to make the store self paint about 200 houses this year (last year supporting and to have it staffed by Senior 191 houses were painted) . Volunteers will Volunteers. The store is also planned as a paint the homes of people who are unable to program to train developmentally disabled do the work themselves and cannot afford to adults in retail sales. The ARC Warehouse's hire a commercial painter. Groups of 15 to success is widely due to community support 25 volunteers, using paint donated by the and donations which are tax deductable. Valspar Corp. , will paint the houses . Religious community sponsors, corporate Any Senior Citizen willing to volunteer his partners and cooperating organizations work or her time at the store should call the ARC together to provide paint, volunteers and Warehouse at 571-4538. media coverage. The Metro Paint-A-Thon is looking for seniors � with the following guidelines: Househould Size: 1 2 3 4 Monthly Income $670 $905 $1,140 $1,370 NOTICE OF PART•-TIME JOBS FOR SENIORS The house must be a single family home occupied by its owners. The Anoka County Job Training Center is actively recruiting low-income county The house must be no larger than two stories. residents who are 55 and over for the Senior The house must be structurally sound and not Community Service Employment Program in need of major repairs. The house must be (S.C.S.E.P.) . in need of paint. Deadline for applicants is The program places people in 20-hour per week May 15, 1986. jobs in non-profit or government agencies. Sponsoring Organizations: There are a wide variety of jobs which are Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St. closely matched to the person' s skills, Paul and Minneapolis interests and abilities. The program pays Corporate Volunteerism Council minimum wage, but sometimes wage supplements Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches are provided by sponsoring agencies. Jewish Community Relations Council/ADL The intent of the progrm is to help St. Paul Area Council of Churches individuals gain in skills, experience and self-confidence, and to enable them to move ALL THOSE KISSES on to private-sector employment. Vocational Remember when you used to get letters (or assessment, placement assistance and skills still do) with closings of a lot of "V 's? training are also part of the program. Since You knew what was meant, but do you know why the program began in January 1984 , many an "X" rather than any other letters? participants have found permanent employment in their sponsoring agencies or at jobs in During the Middle Ages, when few persons were their communities. able to write, many documents were signed with an "X". Signers kissed the letter to A full range of additional employment affirm their sincerity in the same way they services is available at the Job Training kissed the Bible when taking an oath. The Center for people 55 and over who are seeking "X" was not selected at random. It was the work. Anyone interested in S.C.S.E.P. or sign of St. Andrew and implied a sacred other employment services, should call the promise to fullfill one's obligation in the Job Training Center, 784-1800 and ask for Saint's name. intake. They should identify themselves as 55 or over and be ready to answer questions From: WAGS RPG 8, January, 1986 Vol. VII regarding income in the past 6 or 12 months No.9to determine eligibility. 988Z'ON ;IWJGd NW 'SIlOdH3NNIW ZEVSS 'UN '-�aTPTzd Q I Vd •S•N anuaAV AgTSa@ATu❑ TEP9 39diSOd 'S -n quauigzad@G uoT'gP@1oag 31VN mno AOTpTja jo AgTD A TRIBUTE TO CLARA NORDELL There are some people in each of our circles who, when we depart from them, leave with an empty tank and we feel that we must rush for a refill. Clara provided that station: when we left her presence it was with a full inner tank. "Clara's Lamp" So softly, many years ago she lit her lamp and held it high along the path; it' s rosy glow a guide to others passing by. The holder goes: the light remains a brilliance in the sky above. Earth life begins and then it wanes; There is no death to lighted love.