Central Illinois Agency on Aging, Inc. Senior 700 Hamilton Boulevard, Peoria, Illinois 61603 Telephone: (309) 674-2071, Toll Free: 1-877-777-2422 Website: http://www.ciaoa.net
Serving Fulton, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties Gazette Office Hours: Monday — Friday: 8:30 am—5:00 pm Keith Rider, CMA, President/CEO Saturdays: Closed 2019, June Issue Hoangvan Dinh, B.S., Editor
IN THE ISSUE
Happy Father’s Day….……...….1
June is Men’s Health Month…...2
CIAA 17th Annual Dr. Laurence E. Norton Golf Tournament…..3
Celebrating Generations….4 & 5 Happy Farmers’ Market Coupon...…....6 Keith Rider HealthAlliance MEDICARE.…...7
5 Things Everyone Can Do to Prevent Elder Abuse...………....8
Make Fall Safety a Top Priority..9 Father’s Flag Day—June 14...…...... 10
Fatherly Figures: A Snapshot of Dads Today..………….……....11
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Picnic…..…...... 12 Day
School Supply Drive……..…....13
The 2019 Dr. Jean C. Aldag Award……….…………….….14 The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora The 2019 Evelyn Serena Smith Stafford Award……………….15 Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War The 2019 Kathryn W. Timmes Award……….…...... 16 veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for
The 2019 “Because We Care” the first Father's Day celebration—more than 100 years ago, June 19, 1910, Awards…………………….…17 proclaimed by Spokane's mayor because it was the month of Smart's birth. The first Fireworks Safety Tips………...18 presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon
Planning a Group Trip or Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Father's Day has been Outing………….. …...………19 celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law Take Charge of that made it permanent. Your Health………….....20 & 21 Source: https://www.census.gov Friendship Line……………….22
Support Groups, Place to Did you know? Go...Things to See and Facebook …………...... 23 There are more U.S. House of than 70 million Representative, U.S. Senators for IL, IL General Assembly, Board fathers in the of Directors and Council United States. Rosters…...... 24
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June is Men’s Health Month
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“Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.” — Congressman Bill Richardson (May 1994) ONLINE RESOURCES
1994 Men’s Health Month On May 31, 1994 President Bill MensHealthMonth.org Clinton signed the bill establishing National Men’s Health Week. Men’s Health Network MensHealthNetwork.org Get It Checked 1 in 2 88.9 GetItChecked.com 1 in 2 men are diagnosed with In 2010, there were 88.9 men for Talking About Men’s Health Blog cancer in their lifetime compared every 100 women in the age TalkingAboutMensHealth.com with 1 in 3 women. group 65-69. Men’s Health Resource Center MensHealthResourceCenter.com REGISTER NOW DON’T WAIT CIAA 17th Annual Dr. Laurence E. Norton Golf Tournament Date: 08/16/2019 Coyote Creek Golf Course
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