You Can Support the Senior Center By: Enjoying Our Pulled Pork Lunches on Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26
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Newburgh Senior Center September 2020 Newsletter Nancy Lybarger, manager 529 Jefferson St. Newburgh, IN 47630 email: [email protected] Phone 812-853-5627 Facebook: Newburgh Senior Center Fax 812-853-5629 Web site: The Place Where Seniors Congregate Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 2 pm Manager’s Corner That noise you heard that sounded a gram might be, we’ll have lunches that we yearn, deep in our souls, to bit like a pile driver was me doing my bagged up for you to take home and see everybody again. And, I promise happy dance. We have been given the eat. that will be sooner than later. Until go ahead to start opening up by stages, While you are here, if you need snacks then, we need to reach inside and find beginning with cards and Scrabble. or drinks, Diane will be happy to serve a little more strength to keep up our We’ll have played euchre and Scrabble you. We ask that if you are eating or spirits for just a little longer. a couple of times by the time our drinking, please be at least 6 feet away If you know someone looking for a newsletter gets to you. We’ll see how from other people because you’ll have job, Ride Solutions needs bus drivers. that goes and move on from there. I to remove your mask. Pay starts at $12 an hour and there are am cautiously optimistic! Speaking of masks, we have many benefits available. Call 877-369-8899 As everything stands now, lunch will here is anyone needs more. If masks to get an application. be the last thing we add back to the are impossible for you, we have face schedule. Don’t panic. We won’t let shields. September birthdays anybody starve. The plan now – when By and by, we hope all this is behind we get to that point – is to have exer- us and we can get face to face and hug cise at 11 and bingo or what other pro- and touch and not worry about passing gram we’re going to do at 11:30. When along horrible illnesses. we finish bingo or whatever our pro- Diane and I want all you all to know Get ready to smell the smoke: Porkapalooza 2020 is coming! Before you know it, the smokers will and a drink. be in the side yard filling the air with Porkapalooza is our primary fundrais- Kathleen Myers 9-1 the delicious aroma of smoking pork. er for the Center. We are so happy to Rosie Cooper 9-1 Porkapalooza is set for September 25 be able to offer it this year since so Patti Rusche 9-7 and 26. many other gatherings have been can- Salina Herrell 9-8 Don’t forget to call in your order for celled. John Kim 9-9 pulled pork, ribs and tenderloins for We are only able to do this because Bob Claborn 9-13 Porkapalooza. All orders must be pre- we have a way to keep everybody Bonnie Seibert 9-18 paid this year so we can cut down on apart. It must be this way in order to Jahara Tapal 9-18 the number of contacts. keep us all safe. Ginny Baker 9-20 All lunches will be drive through, too. We have decided not to be open to Mary Lou Benkert 9-23 They will taste just as good, we are the public on Friday, September 25. Bettie Ruffner 9-24 certain. Same reasonable price, too: The only people in the building will be Jim Lott 9-25 $5 for a pulled pork sandwich, chips Porkapalooza volunteers. Wedding Anniversary: Allen and Elaine Gomoll 9-17-1955 Thanks to our Day Sponsors for September day. Thank you, Pat and Don, for your anniversary of he and his wife, Elaine. faithful sponsorship and your dedica- Thanks, Dr. Gomoll for your support. tion to our community. September 27 is sponsored by Bill September 6 is sponsored by Becky Shinn in honor of his wife Diane's and Mike Ziga in honor of their 34th birthday. Diane, we hope you have a wedding anniversary. Thank you, Mike wonderful day. Thank you Bill and Di- and Becky, for making the NSC part of ane for your support of the NSC. We your anniversary again this year. We enjoy being part of your special hope you have a great anniversary. In day. Happy Birthday, Diane! We appreciate our Day sponsors for 1986, "That's What Friends Are For" September 30 is sponsored by Jane this month. was the #1 pop song. Maybe you and Fred Stanley in honor of their anni- September 5 is sponsored by Pat and danced to that song at your wedding versary. We hope you have a wonder- Don Brooks in honor of their wedding reception? ful day and thank you for including us anniversary. We are honored to be September 17 is sponsored by Alan in this special day. We wish you many part of such a joyful and happy Gomoll in memory of the 65th wedding more happy years. Congratulations! Equinox:Autumn arrives Get moving: Exercise video The fall equinox arrives Tuesday, Sep- a solar clock to mark the dates of the available online from Extension tember 22, at 8:31 a.m. in New- equinoxes and solstices. The Purdue Extension office in Boon- burgh. The equinox occurs at the In Mexico, the Mayans built a giant ville has shared with us an exercise vid- same moment worldwide; your clock pyramid called Chichen Itza. On the eo that you can do at home. We are all time depends on your time zone. It’s equinoxes, it looks as if a snake made wasting muscles sitting at home during the official start of Autumn. of light slithers down the the confinement, so we can get up and The word “equinox” comes from pyramid’s steps. move with this program. “Be Active Latin aequus, meaning equal, and In England, Stonehenge was also Every Day,” was produced by two Pur- nox, for night. built with the equinoxes and solstices due Extension Educators. On the equinox, day and night are in mind. If the sun is shining, it points Purdue Extension Health and Human roughly equal in terms of length. Dur- through several of the stones. Sciences provides information and pro- ing the equinox, the Sun crosses what (Thanks to the Editors at The Old grams related to Food, Family, Money we call the celestial equator—an im- Farmers Almanac for this info.) and Health. With the COVID pandemic, aginary extension into space of the Come play online with and subsequent activity restrictions and Earth’s equator line. The equinox oc- new group: Highway 61 sheltering-in, Purdue has turned to curs precisely when the Sun’s center providing educational programming on passes through this line. A virtual community for seniors has virtual platforms. This particular one is Another definition of fall is “nights of opened a site on Facebook. If you a video based on YouTube. below-freezing temperatures com- have internet availability, you can go It has a closed caption feature and is bined with days of temperatures be- to Facebook/Highway 61 Community available at no cost. This informational low 70 degrees Fahrenheit. ” and join the group. There are several video focuses on physical activities to Notice the arc of the sun across the online events and discussions improve your health and well-being. It sky each day as it starts shifting planned through September. Here’s is applicable to all ages and will in par- south. Birds and butterflies migrate the link: highway61.co. ticular appeal to seniors. along the path of our sun. To join, enter your name, then join The link is: https:// Fall equinox has been a day of cele- the room where you want to play. youtube/6jTD6Gg1N2A bration for cultures since an- Some of the things that are planned cient days. People tracked the transi- are TRIVIA -Every Tuesday at tions of the Earth’s journeys around 12:30p.m. and Thursday at 10:30a.m. the Sun. CST. At Machu Picchu in Peru, an ancient BINGO - Every Wednesday at stone monument called Inti- 12:30p.m. and Friday at 9:30am CST. huatana—which means “Hitching COFEE CHATS - Every Tuesday at 11 Post of the Sun”—serves as a.m. and Wednesday at 4pm CST. Thanks to our Activity Sponsors Town of Newburgh — Provides our building, maintenance and supplies/ services. *Bayer’s Plumbing (812) 853-2305 — Sponsors Fruitful Fridays and Sundae Fri- days. *Heritage Federal Credit Union — (812) 253-6928 — Our Internet Café/Printer sponsor. *Titzer Funeral Homes (812) 853-8314 — Sponsors our monthly birthday cake. Thanks, too for printing our newsletter. *Mike and Linda Andreas — Landscaping, garden and flowers sponsor. *Ohio Township — Activity sponsor. *King Mechanical Specialty and Zion United Church of Christ — Hospitality sponsors. We appreciate the commitment of those in our community who sponsor our programs and projects. If you would like to support the efforts of the New- burgh Senior Center, please contact us at (812) 853-5627 or email our manag- er, Nancy Lybarger at manageratnsc @gmail.com. Opening protocols: Here’s how it works As we get closer to opening up for all Masks are to be removed only if you begin to play until 11:30 a.m. The activities, please remember there will are outside and appropriately dis- same thing applies to other activities be things we must do before you get tanced or if you are eating/drinking. that usually are conducted in the com- settled for the day’s activities.