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Don’t Let Flu Season Trick YOU!!! Treat yourself to a flu shot. Be Wise. Immunize!!! (Flu shots are available at many Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging Senior Centers, Administrative Office, Pharmacies, Public Health Departments, and Physicians Offices.) Preventing the Flu: Good Health Habits Can Help Stop Germs https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/habits.htm Good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu.The single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year, but good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu. There also are flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat and prevent flu. 1. Avoid close contact. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too. 2. Stay home when you are sick. If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. This will help prevent spreading your illness to others. 3. Cover your mouth and nose. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. 4. Clean your hands. Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub. 5. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth. 6. Practice other good health habits. Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food. Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 2 Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, http://www.history.com/topics/ to make predictions about the future. For a people halloween/history-of-halloween entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty comfort and direction during the long, dark winter. and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of DID YOU KNOW? Samhain, when people would light bonfires and One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In is purchased for Halloween. the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated To commemorate the event, Druids built huge November 1 as a time to honor all saints and sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a attempted to tell each other’s fortunes. When the secular, community-based event characterized by celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. which they had extinguished earlier that evening, In a number of countries around the world, as from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, the coming winter. people continue to usher in the winter season with By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the gatherings, costumes and sweet treats. majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two ANCIENT ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN festivals of Roman origin were combined with the Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now traditionally commemorated the passing of the Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the celebrated their new year on November 1. This day Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of marked the end of summer and the harvest and the Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year celebration into Samhain probably explains the that was often associated with human death. Celts tradition of “bobbing” for apples that is practiced believed that on the night before the new year, the today on Halloween. boundary between the worlds of the living and On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the dead became blurred. On the night of October the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In was established in the Western church. Pope addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Continued on Page 4 Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • Octomber 2017 - Page 3 Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved mirrors. the observance from May 13 to November 1. By In the late 1800s, there was a move in America the 9th century the influence of Christianity had to mold Halloween into a holiday more about spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended community and neighborly get-togethers than with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls’ the century, Halloween parties for both children Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed and adults became the most common way to today that the church was attempting to replace the celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church- foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated were encouraged by newspapers and community similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English and religious overtones by the beginning of the Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the twentieth century. night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become Eve and, eventually, Halloween. a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many HALLOWEEN COMES TO AMERICA schools and communities, vandalism began Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited to plague Halloween celebrations in many in colonial New England because of the rigid communities during this time. By the 1950s, town Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was leaders had successfully limited vandalism and much more common in Maryland and the southern Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers European ethnic groups as well as the American of young children during the fifties baby boom, Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of parties moved from town civic centers into the Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations classroom or home, where they could be more included “play parties,” public events held to easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also inexpensive way for an entire community to share featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief- the Halloween celebration. In theory, families making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth could also prevent tricks being played on them by century, annual autumn festivities were common, providing the neighborhood children with small but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere treats. A new American tradition was born, and it in the country. has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an In the second half of the nineteenth century, estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making America was flooded with new immigrants. These it the country’s second largest commercial holiday. new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland’s potato famine of 1846, helped to TODAY’S HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. The American Halloween tradition of “trick-or- Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans treating” probably dates back to the early All Souls’ began to dress up in costumes and go house to Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor house asking for food or money, a practice that citizens would beg for food and families would eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for Young women believed that on Halloween they their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. could divine the name or appearance of their future The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 4 the church as a way to replace the ancient practice all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The on the future instead of the past and the living practice, which was referred to as “going a-souling” instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do was eventually taken up by children who would visit with helping young women identify their future the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, husbands and reassuring them that they would food, and money. someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter recommended that an eligible young woman name were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes world, people thought that they would encounter rather than popping or exploding, the story went, ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being represented the girl’s future husband. (In some recognized by these ghosts, people would wear versions of this legend, confusingly, the opposite masks when they left their homes after dark so that was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out people would place bowls of food outside their of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them Halloween night she would dream about her future from attempting to enter. husband. Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall HALLOWEEN SUPERSTITIONS on the floor in the shape of their future husbands’ initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering Halloween has always been a holiday filled with at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people and looking over their shoulders for their husbands’ felt especially close to deceased relatives and faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At some friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and chestnut-hunt would be the first to marry; at others, along the side of the road and lit candles to help the first successful apple-bobber would be the first loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. down the aisle. Today’s Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs Of course, whether we’re asking for romantic advice and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing or trying to avoid seven years of bad luck, each one paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring of these Halloween superstitions relies on the good us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle will of the very same “spirits” whose presence the Ages, when many people believed that witches early Celts felt so keenly. avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt. But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today’s trick-or-treaters have forgotten

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 5 Alexandria Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. All Blue Rivers Area Agency Monday - Friday • Puzzles on Aging Offices, Senior Wednesdays Centers, and Blue Rivers Public • BINGO/Popcorn Transportation Services will be Thursdays • Show and Share closed on Fridays Monday, October 9, 2017 • Picture Day October 2 in observance of the Holiday. • Poems October 3 • What is your favorite meal? October 5 • Name your favorite magazine October 6 • Word Search/Cards October 9 • Columbus Day - Closed October 10 • Good Old Days Stories October 12 • Riddles/Cards October 13 • Favorite place to eat October 16 • Animals/Pets Pictures October 17 • Bring a recipe/Dominoes October 19 • Share chores you did growing up October 20 • Name your favorite song October 23 • Word Search/Scrabble October 24 • Mystery Word/Nebraska Trivia

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 6 Alexandria Senior Center (con’t) Chester Senior Center (con’t) October 26 October 4 • Join us for our monthly • Cards to Shut-ins Birthday Dinner • World Animal Day Birthday Cake & Ice Cream October 5 October 27 • Silly Sayings • Have you traveled on a plane or train? October 6 October 30 • Smile Day (Make Someone Smile) • Funny stories and sayings for Halloween October 9 October 31 • Columbus Day - Closed • Halloween Party with cookies & punch October 10 • The Year 1973 Trivia October 11 • Fall Chores - most or least favorite October 12 • Good Old Days Story Beatrice Senior Center October 13 • Fun Trivia October 16 • Word Pictures October 17 • “Peanuts” Comic Strip Word Games October 18 Meal reservations due one business day in advance. • Rhymes at Work Coffee & Rolls Every Morning October 19 Evening Meals - 2nd Thursday, 3rd Tuesday, • Navy Word Search and 4th Monday each Month October 20 Tuesdays • Knock Knock Jokes Puzzle • Tai Chi at 10:30 a.m. October 23 October 9 • Name BINGO • Columbus Day - Closed October 24 • Space Words Quiz October 25 Chester Senior Center • All About Nuts October 26 • Birthday Dinner with Music Song - “Pumpkin Bells” October 27 • National Chocolate Day October 30 Meal reservations due one business day in advance. • History of Halloween October 2 • Pumpkin Trivia and Jokes • Wheel of Fortune October 31 October 3 • Happy Halloween Guess the number of candy corn in the jar • Celebration of Apples

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 7 Cortland Senior Center Davenport Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Wednesdays Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays • Tai Chi get together at 10:30 a.m. • Exercise at 9:30 a.m. • BINGO at 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays October 18 • Trivia • Influenza/Tdap Immunization Clinic Wednesdays Provided by Public Health Solutions • Scrabble October 2, 20 • Mexican Train Dominoes October 3, 13, 23 • Tri-ominoes October 5, 10 • Skipbo October 6, 24 • Kings in the Corner October 9 • Columbus Day - Closed October 12, 16 • Qwirkle October 17, 27, 30 • Rummikub October 19 • Pitch October 26 • Scam Presentation by Cornerstone Bank • Join us for our monthly Birthday Dinner Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging is one of celebrating all October birthdays! seven sites hosting the Aging & Disability Resource Center, ADRCNebraska, a new pilot project benefitting: • Seniors (age 60 and older) • People with disabilities of all ages; and Birthday cake and birthday meals are compliments • Family members, caregivers & advocates of Cornerstone Bank. Thank YOU!!! Our Options Counselor is available over October 31 the phone or through face-to-face meetings • Link-O to assist eligible people and/or their We work on Jigsaw Puzzles every day! representatives in making informed choices about the services or setting that best meet the person’s needs.

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 8 Deshler Senior Center Diller Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. October 4 October 2, 27 • Word Pictures • Trivia October 6 October 3 • Jokes • Tell a Joke Day October 9 October 4, 19 • Columbus Day - Closed • Show & Tell October 10 October 5 • Who are the Baby Boomers? • Bring a School Picture October 12 October 6, 11 • Trivia • Readings October 17 October 9 • Mystery Word • Columbus Day - Closed October 18 October 10 • Apple Crossword Puzzle • Your Favorite Pie October 19 October 12, 30 • Missouri Historic Homes • Dominoes October 23 October 13 • Word Games • Your Favorite Holiday October 24 October 16 • Person, Place or Thing • Your Favorite Season October 26 October 17 • Join us for our monthly Birthday Dinner and • Cards in Diller at 1 p.m. music celebrating all October birthdays! October 18, 20 • Puzzles October 23 • Word Search October 24 Birthday cake and birthday meals are compliments • A Favorite Costume of Midwest Bank. Thank YOU!!! October 17 October 31 • Cards in Odell at 1:30 p.m. • Dress up for Halloween October 26 • Health Program October 31 • Kindergarten Class performs at the Center at 12:30 p.m.

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 9 Douglas Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Mondays • Laps in the Gym Fairbury Senior Center Fridays • Cards October 3 • Favorite Card Game October 4 • How long have you lived in Douglas? Meal reservations due one business day in advance. October 5 Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays • Where did you live growing up? • Walking Club at 10 a.m. October 9 • Arm Chair at 11 a.m. • Columbus Day - Closed Mondays October 10 • Tai Chi at 11:30 a.m. • Fire Prevention • Canasta at 12:30 p.m. Check Your Fire Alarm Tuesdays October 11 • Sr. Songsters at 11 a.m. • Blood Pressure Clinic • BINGO at 12:30 p.m. • Birthday Party Wednesdays October 12 • Pinochle at 12:30 p.m. • Puzzles Thursdays October 17 • Tai Chi at 11:00 a.m. • Bean Bag Toss • Canasta at 12:30 p.m. October 18 Fridays • What’s your middle name? • Card Club at 12:30 p.m. October 19 October 9 • How did you get to school? • Columbus Day - Closed October 24 October 19 • What’s on your bucket list? • Dinner/Dance at 5:30 p.m. October 25 October 26 • Jokes • Foot Clinic, 9 - 11 a.m. October 26 • How were you disciplined? October 31 • Show & Share

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 10 Falls City Senior Center Hebron Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Mondays Mondays & Wednesdays • Knock. Knock. Who’s There? Joke Day • Wonderword October 3, 10, 17 Tuesdays & Thursdays • Word Search • Tai Chi at 8:30 a.m. October 4 Wednesdays • Don’t Tell Anyone the Answer • See You Lighter at 8:45 a.m. October 6 October 2, 16 • Start asking family members for recipes. • Fairbury Trip The more, the better. October 3, 11, 17, 20, 24, 31 October 9 • BINGO • Columbus Day - Closed October 4, 5 October 11 • Bake • Ask me a question... October 6 Who Am I? at 11:30 a.m. • Bake Sale & Garage Sale 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. October 12, 18 October 9 • Door Prize Day • Columbus Day - Closed October 12 October 10 • Who Has This? at 11:45 a.m. • Foot Care Clinic at 11 a.m. October 13 • Wonderword • Who Has the Funniest Shirt? October 13 Wear it!! • Waffles at 8:30 a.m. October 18, 20 Ham and Cheese Omelets • Who’s Who October 16 October 19 • Cards • Blood Pressure Clinic with Cookies at 11:15 a.m. October 23, 27 October 24 • Sewing • BINGO at 11 a.m. October 25 October 24 • Influenza • Scavenger Hunt at 11:30 a.m. Immunization Clinic October 26 • Scramble This October 30 October 31 • Make Treats • Costume Party with Treats October 31 • Halloween Party at 6:30 p.m.

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 11 Nebraska City Senior Center Palmyra Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. October 4 October 5 • Foot Clinic • Coffee & Donuts at 9:30 a.m. October 5 October 9 • Kyle’s Store 10 - 11:30 a.m. • Columbus Day - Closed October 9 October 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 • Columbus Day - Closed • Cards after lunch • Pot Luck at Noon October 11, 17, 27 October 12 • Jokes • Tenant Meeting A smile a day keeps the doctor away. October 18 October 18 • Tea at 3 p.m. • October Birthday Party October 19 with Cake and Ice Cream • Presentation and Dessert • Blood Pressure Clinic Courtesy of Good Samaritan Society Auburn October 19 October 20 • BINGO • Pumpkin Bake-off at 2 p.m. October 23 October 23 • Balloon Exercise • Crafts October 25 October 25 • Trivia • BINGO at 1:30 p.m. October 26 • Cooking for One at 2:30 p.m. October 28 • Pot Luck at 5 p.m. October 31 • Trick or Treat

SEVERE WEATHER CLOSING INFORMATION In the event of severe weather or dangerous road conditions, Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging Senior Centers may be closed. If the schools in your community are closed, Blue Rivers AAA Senior Centers will also close. If conditions become dangerous, Blue Rivers Public Transportation will also close. Please check your local radio and television stations for the most accurate and up-to-date closing information.

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 12 Sterling Senior Center Syracuse Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Everyday Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays • Events to Remember and Tell a joke • Card Playing at 9:30 a.m. October 3, 17, 30 Tuesdays, Thursdays • Cards at 1 p.m. • Exercises at 10 a.m. October 4, 18 October 2 • Exercise • Blue Shirt Day October 5 October 3 • Trick or Treat • Brain Quest October 6 October 4, 19 • Foot Care Clinic at 10 a.m. • BINGO at 11 a.m. courtesy of Ridgeview Towers October 5 October 9 • Birthday Party • Columbus Day - Closed • World Teachers Day October 10 October 6 • What chores did you have • Lee’s National Denim Day growing up? Wear Your Blue Jeans October 12 October 9 • Screamo • Columbus Day - Closed • Fire Drill October 10, 26 October 13 • Word Games • Remember to use your Farmers Market coupons October 11 before October 31 • National Bring your Teddy Bear to Lunch Day October 19 October 13 • Favorite Thing About Fall • Silly Sayings Day October 20 October 17, 24, 31 • Favorite Memory of Autumn • Games Day at 11 a.m. October 25 October 19 • October Birthday Party with Kramer Sisters • Blood Pressure Clinic October 25, 26 October 30 • Medicare Part D Sign-up 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. • National Candy Corn Day with Mary Ann Holland at Bank of Sterling October 31 Call for Appointment 402-866-2050 • Knock-Knock Jokes Day October 27 • Favorite Halloween Party October 30 • Favorite Halloween Costume • Preschool - 5th Grade Halloween Walk- through Parade

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 13 Table Rock Senior Center Wymore Senior Center

Meal reservations due one business day in advance. Meal reservations due one business day in advance. October 2, 6, 12, 16, 18, 24 October 2 • Balloon Volleyball • Homemade Cookie Day October 3, 10, 19, 23, 31 October 3, 10, 17, 24 • Crafts • BINGO October 4, 6, 17, 25 October 4 • Word Search • Influenza Immunization October 5 Clinic • Rolls & Coffee October 5 October 6 • Reminiscent Corner • Soft Serve Ice Cream October 6 October 9 • Decorate Pumpkins • Columbus Day - Closed October 9 October 10 • Columbus Day - Closed • Guitar Music with October 11 Pastor Dorothy Smith • Caramels October 13 October 12, 26 • Root Beer Floats • Penny BINGO October 20 October 13 • Ice Cream Sundae • Around the Table October 25 October 16 • BINGO with WFLA • Words with Ten October 26 October 18 • Foot Clinic • Blood Pressure Clinic • Rotary • Birthday Dinner • Chair Exercises (Dee Kaser) October 19 • Diabetic Class (Dee Kaser) • I Never Game October 27 October 20 • Birthday Celebration! • Story Day If your birthday is this month, October 23 your meal is compliments of the • October on the Farm Senior Center Activities fund. October 25 Be sure to remind us of your birthday! • Nutty Quiz October 30 October 27 • Hat Day • Community Coffee October 30 • Candy Corn Day October 31 • Halloween Party Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 14 October Menu

Beatrice, Cortland, Diller, Odell home-delivered meals, Wymore

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

2 3 4 5 6 Spaghetti & Sauce Tator Tot Casserole Roast Pork Shrimpeez Chicken Noodle Soup Green Beans Succotash Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Waffle Fries Egg Salad Sandwich Garlic Bread Bread Tomato Kraut Coleslaw Carrot Raisin Salad Applesauce Plums Whole Wheat Roll Bread Ambrosia Ice Cream Pineapple & Oranges 9 10 11 12 13 Breakfast Casserole Chicken Hot Beef Sandwich Breaded Pollock Fruit Salad Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Flame Roasted Potatoes Coffee Cake Hominy Peas & Pearl Onions Pickled Beets Whole Wheat Roll Peach Crisp Bread Pudding Pears 16 17 18 19 22 BBQ Riblet on Bun Chicken Fried Steak Smothered Steak Potato Crusted Fish Chicken Lasagna Stuffed Spuds Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Baked Potato Hashbrown Casserole Carrots Sauerkraut Corn Cheesy Cauliflower Kidney Bean Salad Garlic Bread Fruit Cocktail Whole Wheat Roll Bread Pineapple Rings Apricots Pumpkin Dessert Fruited Jellow 23 24 25 26 27 Hamburger Steak Chicken Patty on Bun Ham Loaf Battered Pollock Chili Baby Bakers Sr Crm & Chive Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Macaroni & Cheese Cheese Stick Calico Beans Green Beans Mixed Vegetables Fruited Coleslaw Pea Salad Whole Wheat Roll Peaches Bread Tropical Fruit Fruit Pudding Pumpkin Bar Cinnamon Roll 30 31 October 4, 5 - Sukkot Cabbage Roll Mummy Dog October 9 - Indigenous Peoples Day WIld Rice Potatoes October 9 - Columbus Day Veggie Witches Teeth October 15 - Medicare Open Enrollment Begins Strawberries & Bananas Frog Eye Salad October 16 - Boss’s Day October 31 - Halloween Menus are subject to change.

All meals include low-fat or fat-free milk and margarine.

$4 Suggested Contribution for individuals age 60 and older $6 Meal cost for individuals under age 60 $6 Meal cost for all carryout meals

Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging • Table Talk • October 2017 - Page 15 September Menu Alexandria, Chester, Cook home-delivered meals, Davenport, Deshler, Diller, Douglas, Fairbury, Falls City, Hebron, Nebraska City, Palmyra, Sterling, Syracuse, Table Rock

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

2 3 4 5 6 Tator Tot Casserole Liver & Onions or Chicken Fish Beef Soup Vegetable Hamburger Patty Potatoes Potatoes Vegetables Bread Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Vegetables Vegetables Bread Pudding Vegetables Bread Bread Fruit Bread & Fruit Dessert Dessert 9 10 11 12 13 Sloppy Jo on Bun Chicken Swiss Steak Pork Wrap Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes Vegetables Vegetables Vegetables Vegetables Bread Bread Bread Fruit Fruit Dessert Dessert 16 17 18 19 20 Cook’s Choice Pizza Chicken Roast Pork Clam Chowder Pudding Vegetables Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes Fruit Vegetables Vegetables Vegetables Bread Dessert Fruit Dessert 23 24 25 26 27 Spaghetti & Sauce Pork Chicken Chicken Chili Vegetable Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes Vegetables Bread Vegetables Vegetables Vegetables Fruit Pudding Bread Bread Bread Fruit Dessert Dessert 30 31 October 4, 5 - Sukkot Breakfast Pork Casserole Cabbage Rolls October 9 - Indigenous Peoples Day Fruit Vegetables October 9 - Columbus Day Bread Bread October 15 - Medicare Open Enrollment Begins Pudding Fruit October 16 - Boss’s Day October 31 - Halloween Menus are subject to change.

All meals include low-fat or fat-free milk and margarine.

$4 Suggested Contribution for individuals age 60 and older $6 Meal cost for individuals under age 60 $6 Meal cost for all carryout meals

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