Issue 21 Senior November 2020 Denison Seniors Jazzercise Rusty Hinges - Waterloo Pool Dance What is Jazzercise? Back by popular demand is the Rusty Night Hinges Class now on Tuesday and We develop and market fun and effective fitness Thursday Morning from 9-10 AM The first Saturday of programs and products that enhance the well- taught by Karon Northington. All of each month, the SNAP being of people of all ages. our Fitness Classes are taught by Center and Parks and Certified Instructors and Recreation invite all Choreographed to today's hottest are modifiable for anyone. But on seniors 55+ to come out music, Jazzercise is a fusion of jazz dance, Tuesday and Thursday the focus is off for a night of dancing, food, and live resistance training, Pilates, yoga, and the Aerobic side and more on the entertainment. kickboxing. Start dancing yourself fit and change Stretching and Strengthening side. the shape of your body today! The dance will begin at 6:00 pm and last until 9:00 pm. Cost is $3/person if you bring Monday through Friday at 5:30 pm Senior Fit - Waterloo Pool a food item or $5/person if you do not bring The class is designed to support older food. Call for pricing adults in their pursuit of healthy living So guys and gals put on your dancing shoes 903.821.5135 and happy lives. It is designed to and come join us for a night of fun! Email: [email protected] increase muscular strength, range of coordination, agility, and balance to improve the Dominoes participants daily living. Monthly Activities P. 1 Have fun and move to the music using Come out Monday Coloring Page P. 2 an assortment of free weights, through Friday from exercise bars and hand towels The First Thanksgiving P. 3 9:00 am to 11:00 am for seated and standing P. 4 for games of Spin- Pg 3 Cont. &Sudoku exercises with a trained instructor. ners Dominoes. Word Search Puzzle P. 5 Every Wednesday from 9:30 am to 11:00 Boost your memory P. 6 am we have an active group that plays 42 **Jazzercise have resumed—Call Unique Thanksgiving Recipe P. 7 Dominoes. 903.821.5135 for more details on Recurring Events P. 8 classes.** Special Announcement P. 8

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Denison Seniors Newsletter Issue 21 November 2020 Page 8 Page 1 Unique Thanksgiving Recipe

Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Ingredients

• 3 c. leftover mashed potatoes • 3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled • 2/3 c. shredded cheddar cheese • 2 tbsp. thinly sliced chives • 1/2 tsp. garlic powder • Kosher Salt • Freshly ground black pepper • 2 eggs, beaten • 1 1/3 c. panko bread crumbs • Vegetable Oil, for frying

STEPS 1) In a large bowl, combine mashed potatoes with cooked bacon, cheddar, chives, and garlic powder, and season with salt and pepper. Stir until all ingredients are incorporated.

2) Place eggs and panko in separate shallow bowls. Use a small cookie scoop to scoop 1” to 2” balls of mashed potato mixture. Roll into a ball in your hands, then dredge first in egg and then in panko. Repeat until all mashed potatoes are used.

3) Heat 3” of oil in a large cast iron skillet until candy thermometer reads 375 degrees. Fry potato balls in batches until golden on all sides, 2-3 minutes. Drain on paper towel lined plate and season immediately with more salt.

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Challenge yourself! This sequence of strength moves will help boost your memory and muscles at the same time. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball All through the first summer and the early part of autumn the Pilgrims This fun series of coordination challenges will give your body and brain a boost! Andi will walk you were busy and happy. They had planted and cared for their first through the moves, then you’ll repeat the entire sequence. Try your best to remember the order of fields of corn. They had found wild strawberries in the meadows, moves for a little self-challenge. Most importantly, have fun with it! raspberries on the hillsides, and wild grapes in the woods. In the forest just back of the village wild turkeys and deer were easily As always, safety is key. If you have a chronic condition, an injury, or balance issues, talk to your shot. In the shallow waters of the bay there was plenty of fish, clams, and lobsters. doctor about how you can exercise safely. The summer had been warm, with a good deal of rain and much Lower Body Challenge sunshine; and so when the autumn came there was a fine crop of corn. Stand with your feet spread apart at a comfortable distance. Alternate lifting one knee up and then "Let us gather the fruits of our first labors and rejoice together," said Governor Bradford. the other, 3 times for each knee. Then raise and lower only your right knee, 3 times in a row. After "Yes," said Elder Brewster, "let us take a day upon which we may thank God for all our blessings, and invite to it our your third knee-lift: Plant your feet to the floor, push your hips back, gently bend your knees and sink Indian friends who have been so kind to us." down into a squat. Next, repeat the sequence with your left leg. Alternate knee lifts 3-5 times with each knee, then raise your left knee 3 times in a row. Then, perform the standard squat again. The Pilgrims said that one day was not enough; so they planned to have a celebration for a whole week. This took place most likely in October. Upper Body Challenge The great Indian chief, , came with ninety of his bravest warriors, all gayly dressed in deerskins, feathers, and foxtails, with their faces smeared with red, white, and yellow paint. Stand tall with your feet planted to the floor. Slowly lift your right elbow up, then your left and hold As a sign of rank, Massasoit wore round his neck a string of bones and a bag of tobacco. In his belt he carried a long both elbows up. Then, move both elbows down and back up 2 times, finishing with your elbows knife. His face was painted red, and his hair was so daubed with oil that Governor Bradford said he "looked greasily." raised. Next, lower your right elbow first, then your left. Then, move both elbows up and down 2 times and complete the exercise with your elbows lowered. Now there were only eleven buildings in the whole of Plymouth village, four log storehouses and seven little log dwelling -houses; so the Indian guests ate and slept out of doors. This was no matter, for it was one of those warm weeks in the season we call Indian summer. Next: Repeat this sequence with raising your left elbow first. Raise your left elbow up, then your right. To supply meat for the occasion four men had already been sent out to hunt wild turkeys. They killed enough in one day Then, move both elbows down and back up 2 times. You should finish with both elbows raised. Next, to last the whole company almost a week. lower your left elbow first, then your right. Finally, move both elbows up and down 2 times and Massasoit helped the feast along by sending some of his best hunters into the woods. They killed five deer, which they complete the exercise with your elbows lowered and relaxed. gave to their paleface friends, that all might have enough to eat.

Full-Body Challenge Combo Under the trees were built long, rude tables on which were piled baked clams, broiled fish, roast turkey, and deer meat. The young Pilgrim women helped serve the food to the hungry redskins. Combine both lower body and upper body sequences for the ultimate challenge! Let us remember two of the fair girls who waited on the tables. One was , who leaped from the boat at ; the other was Mary Allerton. She lived for seventy-eight years after this first Thanksgiving, and of those First, lift your right elbow and raise your right knee at the same time. Then, lower your right knee but who came over in the she was the last to die. keep your right elbow lifted. Next, lift your left elbow up and raise left knee. Lower your left knee What a merry time everybody had during that week! It may be they joked Governor Bradford about stepping into a deer down but keep your left elbow lifted. Then, raise your right trap set by the Indians and being jerked up by the leg. knee and lower both elbows. As you lower your right knee, How the women must have laughed as they told about the first Monday morning at Cape Cod, when they all went raise both elbows again. Next, lower both elbows down as you ashore to wash their clothes! raise your left knee, then lift both elbows up as you release your left knee down. Repeat this alternating sequence 3-5 It must have been a big washing, for there had been no chance to do it at sea, so stormy had been the long voyage of times. Then finish by lifting your right knee and lowering right sixty-three days. They little thought that Monday would afterward be kept as washday. elbow, then lifting your left knee and lowering left elbow. Then there was young , who in mid-ocean fell overboard but was quick enough to catch hold of a trailing rope. Perhaps after dinner he invited , whom he afterward married, to sail over to Clarke's Island and return by moonlight. Repeat the entire series again! As you move through the second round of coordination drills, try to remember the With them, it may be, went and Priscilla Mullins, whose love story is so sweetly told by Longfellow. sequence of exercises to test your memory. One proud mother, we may be sure, showed her bright-eyed boy, . And so the fun went on. In the daytime the young men ran races, played games, and had a shooting match. Every night Replay this coordination challenge every week to see how you the Indians sang and danced for their friends; and to make things still more lively they gave every now and then a shrill war whoop that made the woods echo in the still night air. improve.

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The First Thanksgiving Cont.

The Indians had already learned to love and fear Captain Miles Standish. Some of them called him "Boiling Water" because he was easily made angry. Others called him "Captain Shrimp," on account of his small size. Every morning the shrewd captain put on his armor and paraded his little company of a dozen or more soldiers; and when he fired off the cannon on the Indians must have felt that the English were men of might thus to harness up thunder and lightning. During this week of fun and frolic it was a wonder if young Jack Billington did not play some prank on the Indians. He was the boy who fired off his father's gun one day, close to a keg of gunpowder, in the crowded cabin of the Mayflower. The third day came. Massasoit had been well treated, and no doubt would have liked to stay longer, but he had said he could stay only three days. So the pipe of peace was silently passed around. Then, taking their presents of glass beads and trinkets, the Indian king and his warriors said farewell to their English friends and began their long tramp through the woods to their wigwams on Mount Hope Bay. On the last day of this Thanksgiving party the Pilgrims had a service of prayer and praise. Elder Brewster preached the first Thanksgiving sermon. After thanking God for all his goodness, he did not forget the many loved ones sleeping on the hillside. He spoke of noble John Carver, the first governor, who had died of worry and overwork. Nor was Rose Standish forgotten, the lovely young wife of Captain Miles Standish, whose death was caused by cold and lack of good food. And then there was gentle Dorothy, wife of Governor Bradford, who had fallen overboard from the Mayflower in Provincetown harbor while her husband was coasting along the bleak shore in search of a place for a home. The first Thanksgiving took place nearly three hundred years ago. Since that time, almost without interruption, Thanksgiving has been kept by the people of New England as the great family festival of the year. At this time children and grandchildren return to the old home, the long table is spread, and brothers and sisters, separated often by many miles, again sit side by side. Sudoku To-day Thanksgiving is observed in nearly all the states of the Union, a season of sweet and blessed memories.

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