CRAWFORD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING

December 2020

200 SOUTH SPRING ST. BUCYRUS, OHIO 44820 419-562-3050 or 800-589-7853 Senior Tidings CENTER HOURS Monday-Friday 8:30am—5pm Email: [email protected] Crawfordcountyaging.com

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Secret Santa Tree……...... Pg 2 Free Holiday Meal....…….Pg 2 Adopt-A-Senior…. ..……..Pg 3 COVID-related text scam...Pg 4 Calendar..………..…...... Pg 6 Menu...... Pg 7 Holiday fun pages...... Pg 5,8-10

Newsletter Donations Donations for the Council on Aging newsletter, Senior Tid- ings, are always appreciated. The mailing cost for each home is estimated to be $3.00 per year. Mail donations to: Council on Aging, 200 S. Spring St., P.O. Box 166, Bucyrus, OH 44820

Holiday Events Holiday Meal TREE The Council on Aging will be Seniors ages 60 and older who are in need of an distributing a FREE Holiday item during the Holiday season (up to $50 price) are Meal to senior citizens age 60 invited to call the Council on Aging (419-562-3050) and older. Seniors must sign up to have a gift tag placed on our Secret Santa Tree, (starting Monday, Nov. 23) and only a limited number of meals i.e. new coffee maker, warm blanket, etc. Deadline for seniors to will be available. Meal pickup call in to request items—one item per senior—is Monday, Dec. will be drive-thru style on Fri- 7. Tags will be anonymous and will show a number that corre- day, Dec. 18th, from 1 to 2:30 sponds to a senior and the item the senior has requested. p.m. Each meal will include tur- key, , mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, Be a Senior’s SECRET SANTA cranberry salad, dinner roll and pie. Community members are invited to become a Sen- ior’s Secret Santa! Come by the Council on Aging Tickets are FREE, but required and limited. Call the Senior and take a tag off the tree and bring it back with the Center at (419) 562- 3050 to re- mentioned gift, unwrapped, to the COA. Look for serve your ticket (starting Mon- the Secret Santa Tree starting Monday Nov. 16 located inside day, Nov. 23). When you visit our foyer located at 200 S. Spring St., Bucyrus. (Please call the the Council on Aging, our doors number listed on our front door when coming to the COA—once are currently closed for visitors due to COVID19, but if you call we know you’re here we can let you in our foyer where the tree us in advance letting us know will be located). Council on Aging employees will wrap gifts and when you will be picking up a deliver them to seniors. Please tape the tag from the Angel Tree to ticket, we can bring it to your the gift so we can make sure it gets to the senior who requested the car. item. Deadline for community members to bring back gifts is Dec. Remember—you will receive a 14. Holiday meal only if you have a ticket!! Important Dates for Seniors to Remember: When picking up the Holiday • Deadline for seniors to call in requesting a gift tag be put on our day meal on Dec. 18th, please Secret Santa Tree—Monday, Dec. 7th. enter off of Rensselaer St. behind the main building of the Council on Aging thru the alley. The line Important Dates for Community Members to Remember: will form around the building to • Community members look for the Secret Santa Tree starting the front for easier access. Monday, Nov. 16. inside COA’s foyer. • Deadline for community members to bring back gifts is Mon- day, Dec. 14.

2 | Crawford County Council on Aging Adopt-A-Senior for the Holidays

Adopt-A-Senior for the Holidays our existing programs. Below are some ways you can help during the holiday season.

Many times friends and family ask what they can Adopt-A-Senior: do for our older adults during the holiday season. Meals for One Week-$25 Why not Adopt-A-Senior to provide services as a This enables one home bound senior to enjoy one way of giving back? meal a day for one week. As a non-profit organization, the Crawford Coun- Adopt-A-Senior: ty Council on Aging relies on contributions to sup- Transportation for Two Weeks-$40 port its mission of enabling seniors with long-term This enables one senior transportation (round care needs to live independently in their homes. As trip) once a day for two weeks. our senior population continues to grow rapidly in the coming years, we need to provide essential ser- Adopt-A-Senior: vices to assist independence, safety, and quality of Homemaker or Personal Care Services life. for One Month-$250 Adopt-A-Senior helps to support Home Delivered This enables one senior to receive homemaking Meals; In-Home Care (including personal care or personal care services for two hours two times and homemaking); and Transportation. Any do- a week. nations made will be used to expand and enhance

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Security Summit partners warn taxpayers scammers. of new COVID-related text scam People who receive this text scam should take a screen shot of the text message that they received IR-2020-249, Nov. 4, 2020 and then include the screenshot in an email to WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service, [email protected] with the following information: state tax agencies and the tax industry today • Date/Time/Time zone that they received the warned of a new text scam created by thieves that text message trick people into disclosing bank account infor- • The number that appeared on their Caller ID mation under the guise of receiving the $1,200 • The number that received the text message Economic Impact Payment. The IRS does not send unsolicited texts or emails. The IRS, states and industry, working together as The IRS does not call people with threats of jail the Security Summit, remind taxpayers that neither or lawsuits, nor does it demand tax payments on the IRS nor state agencies will ever text taxpayers gift cards. asking for bank account information so that an EIP deposit may be made. People who believe they are eligible for the Eco- nomic Impact Payment should go directly to “Criminals are relentlessly using COVID-19 and IRS.gov. People who do not have a filing require- Economic Impact Payments as cover to try to trick ment but who are eligible for EIP can use a non- taxpayers out of their money or identities,” said filers tool on IRS.gov until Nov. 21 to claim their IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. “This scam is a payment. new twist on those we’ve been seeing much of this year. We urge people to remain alert to these types of scams.”

The scam text message states: “You have received a direct deposit of $1,200 from COVID-19 TREAS FUND. Further action is required to accept this payment into your account. Continue here to ac- cept this payment …” The text includes a link to a fake phishing web address.

This fake phishing URL, which appears to come from a state agency or relief organization, takes recipients to a fraudulent website that impersonates the IRS.gov Get My Payment website. Individuals who visit the fraudulent website and then enter their personal and financial account information will have their information collected by these

4 | Crawford County Council on Aging Holiday Activities

Design a person! Whether it’s a gingerbread boy or girl, give it a whirl!

We need wrapping paper!

The Council on Aging is accepting donations of wrapping paper. We will use the paper to wrap Secret Santa gifts for seniors.

www.crawfordcountyaging.com | 5 Activities DECEMBER 2020 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Angel Tree sign up deadline

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Holiday Meal Pickup

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 CLOSED CLOSED

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6 | Crawford County Council on Aging DECEMBER 2020 Menu

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday To Receive 1. Stuffed Pepper 2. Sliced Pork OR 3. BBQ Chicken 4. Beef Vegetable Your Meal You OR Orange Turkey Breast Breast OR Meat- Soup OR Chili Must Be Home Chicken Green Beans loaf Soup Brussel Sprouts Mashed Potatoes Peas & Onions Salad Blend At Time Of Corn Pears & Blueber- Sweet Potato Fries Fruit Salad Delivery Rice ries Cereal Bar Bread Crackers Pineapple Roll

7. Popcorn 8. Mini Sausage/ 9. Sliced Beef OR 10. Chicken 11. Egg Salad OR Chicken OR Pancake Bites OR Shredded Chicken Cavatappi Pasta Strawberry PB&J Chipped Beef Turkey Sausage Zucchini OR Pineapple Mashed Potatoes Baked Apples Peach Crisp Marzetti Cinnamon Corn Redskin Potatoes Apple Juice Peas & Onions Applesauce Banana Fresh Orange Cheesy Broccoli Fruit Punch Banana 14. Smothered 15. Chicken & 16. Southern Pork 17. Sloppy Joe OR 18. Pepperoni Hamburger OR Dumplings OR Chop OR Sloppy Jack Pizza OR Corndog Country Fried Hamburger Gravy Chicken Tenders Steamed Cabbage Grapes Steak Mashed Potatoes Peach Crisp Seasoned Orange/Pineapple Peas & Onions Corn Redskin Potatoes Potatoes Juice Coined Carrots Banana Pineapple Pickled Beets & Cereal Bar Egg

21. Salisbury 22. Mini Sausage/ 23. Swedish 24. 25. Steak OR Chick- Pancake Bites OR Meatballs OR en Fried Steak Turkey Sausage Turkey Tetrazzini CLOSED— CLOSED— Green Beans Baked Apples Capri Blend MERRY MERRY Yellow Squash Redskin Potatoes Vegetables !! CHRISTMAS!! Orange Juice Fresh Orange Peach Crisp Potato Roll

28. Pork Fritter 29. Chicken Leg 30. Turkey Burger 31. Grilled Chicken Menu Subject OR Grilled OR Meatloaf OR Spicy Chicken Salad OR To Change Chicken Bites Baked Potato Sandwich Turkey/Ham Salad At Anytime Redskin Potatoes Peas & Carrots Tomato/Lettuce Italian Dressing Brussel Sprouts Cereal Bar Italian Green Diced Tomatoes Without Tropical Fruit Beans Crackers Notice. Banana

www.crawfordcountyaging.com | 7 Movie Trivia

Name that Christmas movie! 5. “Ahh! Fre-Gee-Lay! It must be Italian.”

Answers on page 9. 6. “Silly snowmen, once they come to life,

they don’t know nothing. Come to life?” 1. “Faith is believing in things when common

sense tells you not to.” 7. “If something should happen to me, put on

my suit; the reindeer will know what to do.” 2. “He’s Mr. White Christmas, he’s Mr. Snow.

He’s Mr. Icicle, he’s Mr. 10 below.” 8.”Will you please tell Santa that instead of

presents this year, I just want my family back” 3. “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches

so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

4. “It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.

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Fill in the missing song lyrics.

Answers on page 10.

1. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. With the kids ______and everyone tell- ing you be of ______.

2. Said Santa to a boy child, what have you been longing for? All I want for Christmas is a ______& ______.

3. Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, ______. I don’t mean on the ______.

4. Make my wish come true. Oh, all I want for ______.

5. Oh, by gosh, by golly, It’s time for ______& ______. Tasty ______, Christmas ______. Countryside's covered with snow.

6. Have a ______, ______Christmas. It’s the best time of the year. I don’t know if there’ll be ______. But have a ______.

Movie Trivia answers: From page 8

1. Miracle on 34th Street 2. The Year Without A 3. It’s a Wonderful Life 4. How The Stole Christmas 5. A Christmas Story 6. Frosty the Snowman 7. The Santa Clause 8. Home Alone

www.crawfordcountyaging.com | 9 Winter’s greeting!

Missing song lyric answers (from page 9): 1. Jingle Belling, Good Cheer; 2. Rock, Roll, Electric Gui- tar; 3. A Ring, Phone; 4. Christmas Is You; 5. Mistletoe, Holly, Pheasants, Presents; 6. Holly, Jolly, Snow, Cup Of Cheer. 10 | Crawford County Council on Aging

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