City of Vandalia Parks & Recreation Vandalia Senior Center February, 2021 Volume 09 Issue 2 Membership Dues Are Due by March 31: The City has decided IF you were a member in 2020, then your dues will be half price for 2021. Vandalia single $7 Non-resident single $10 Vandalia couple $12 Non-resident couple $17 You can write a check to the City of Vandalia and mail it to the Vandalia Senior Center at 21 Tionda Drive South, Vandalia, 45377. Or you can come in to the center to renew. You can also pay with cash or credit card. If your address or phone number has changed, please send in the new information. Born in 1931: Congratulations! You are turning 90 in 2021. Your membership is free! 90+ and Lifetime Members: You still need to call, stop in, send a note or email that you still want to continue to receive your newsletter. Let the office know of any change in information. Be sure to read through the guidelines. 1. According to the CDC guidelines, if you get Covid, you should not return to activities with others until 10 days since symptoms first appeared and 24 hours with no fever without the use of fever reducing medications and other symptoms of Covid-19 are improving. If in doubt about returning, stay home until you are sure you are free of Covid. 2. If you have symptoms or have been exposed, it is recommended that you be tested. Regardless if you have been tested or not, do not come to the center for at least ten days and continue to monitor your symptoms. 3. Most of you are very good at staying home if you don’t feel well. If you have any of the symptoms of the virus, especially a fever, you cannot come to the center. 4. The State’s guidelines state you must wear a mask to be allowed to enter the building. It should remain on unless you are eating or drinking for a very short time. 5. When you come in, your temperature will be taken. It must be below 100.4 degrees. 6. The State guidelines require everyone to sign in when you enter the building. If you enter through the door even for a minute, you must sign in. Go to the writing desk on the wall in the hallway between the office and the kitchen door. 7. We will be practicing social distancing of six feet. The chairs are set up for social distancing, please do not move them. 8. Drinks can be self-serve but food can not be. Any food at the center will need to be served to you. You can bring your own small snack just for you to eat. 9.When you get up from where you were sitting, please sanitize the table area and your chair. We have cleaning supplies for you to use. 10.In the future, procedures may change as needed or as new guidelines come out. INFORMATION Additional Notes 1. Card playing, Mah Jong, and the jigsaw puzzle table will return when social distancing is no longer required. 2. Sign-up for the book club, birthday celebrations, the movies, and art appreciation. 3. Following the State guidelines, all food needs to be served to you. 4. The City is not permitting lunches to be eaten at the center since your mask would be off for too long. Please do not carry in your own lunch to eat here. 5. The State allows drinks to be self-serve. Currently, drinks are only on the counter on the days when there are scheduled events. You can use an instant packet for decaf coffee. On days without events, there will be cups on the counter so you can get cold water from the pitchers in the first refrigerator. How to Sign Up and Cancel You can sign up as always by coming into the center. You can also sign up by calling or emailing. The contact information is on the back of the newsletter. You must sign up for an event in order to attend the event. If you cannot come, please cancel by calling or emailing. Thanks! Stonespring Dessert & Learn on Tuesday, February 2, at 12:30 p.m. Poetry Potts Davis with Stonespring will bring your dessert. You will be watching Birds and Bees: Some Strange Ways the Animals Do It! I know you had the birds and the bees talk decades ago but it was not like what you are going to see. You will see bowerbirds, kiwis, kobs (antelope), tarantula, wolves, giraffes, bed bugs, anglerfish, nursery web spiders, land snails, hooded seals, mice, Adelie penguins, honey bees, birds of paradise, banana fiddler crabs, toads, desert grassland whiptail lizards, and red sided garter snakes. You will watch three different YouTube shows totaling 35 minutes. Limit: 35 Springmeade Dessert & Learn on Tuesday, February 9, at 12:30 p.m. Robin Shafer will order your dessert. You will see Jackie: A Tale of Two Sisters. This documentary will take you back to the beginnings of Jackie and her sister, Lee Radziwill and follow them through their lives. It will show you their relationship with each other as well as with all of the men in their lives and the one man that they shared. 44 minutes Limit: 35 February is American Heart Month: Here’s Some Heart Facts! 1. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed the first heart month which took place in February, 1964. 2. Your heart beats 4,320 times per hour or 100,000 times per day. 3. The first pacemaker was implanted in 1958 and had to be plugged into a wall outlet! Page 2 Food Cypress Pointe Dessert & Learn on Fri., February 12, at 12:30 p.m. Shelby Alig from Cypress Pointe will bring your dessert. Allen Johnson is returning to share his trip, Chile: The Land of Fire and Ice. Allen and a friend drove the length of Chile. They explored the country’s many glaciers and volcanoes. Limit: 35 The Laurels Dessert & Learn on Tues., February 16, at 12:30 p.m. Christopher Norman from The Laurels of Huber Heights will bring a dessert for you. Elizabeth Durnell Maier, a lawyer with Durnell Maier Law LLC, will be your speaker. She will present “Long Term Care Planning”. Liz’s talk will cover Medicaid and Veterans Aid and Attendance. Limit: 35 Crossroads Investment Planning Dessert & Learn on Tuesday, February 23, at 12:30 p.m. Brian Addis with Crossroads Investment Planning will bring your dessert. Brian will talk about investments after the elections and what really happens. Limit: 35 StoryPoint of Troy Dessert & Learn on Thurs., Feb. 25, at 12:30 p.m. Kristy Osting of StoryPoint of Troy has asked Chef Ben to return. He will demonstrate making a soup for you which you can then sample. The Chef will also have the recipe for you. Then you will watch the story of Betty White: First Lady of Television. This show will take you back to her beginnings in 1939. Many people that she has worked with over the years are interviewed. Betty herself talks about her marriage and her long career. 55 min. Limit: 35 More Heart Facts 4. Make a fist and wrap your other hand around it. That is about the size of your heart. 5. Your heart weighs about the same as two baseballs or 5 ounces. 6. Your blood makes a round trip through your body about 1,000 times every day. That’s about 41.6 times per hour. 7. Laughter is good for your heart. It makes your blood vessels expand and contract which increases your blood flow by 20%. 8. The first open heart surgery was in 1893. 9. The heart has its own electrical supply and can beat without the body. Page 3 Vandalia Senior Center Events Can you name the other half of each famous couple? Answers on p. 9. 1. Adam & __________________ (first couple) 2. Sonny & __________________ (singers) 3. Clark Kent & _________________ (Superman) 4. George Burns & _________________ (comedians) 5. Clark Gable & ___________________ (actors) 6. Desi Arnaz & ___________________ (tv show) 7. Mark Anthony & ____________________ (Roman General & Queen of Egypt ) 8. King Edward VIII & ____________________ (He left the throne for her.) 9. Richard Burton & ____________________ (actors) 10. Fred & __________________ Flintstone (cartoon) 11. ____________________ & Clyde Barrow (criminals) 12. Rhett Butler & _______________________ (Gone with the Wind) 13. Romeo & _____________________ (Shakespeare) 14. Tarzan & ______________________ (tv show) 15. Robin Hood & ______________________ (book and movie) 16. King Arthur & ______________________ & Lancelot (book and movie) 17. Kermit & _____________________ (The Muppets) 18. John Lennon & _____________________ (The Beatles) 19. Paul Newman & _____________________ (actors) 20. Samson & _____________________ (The Bible) 21. Humphrey Bogart & ______________________ (actors) 22. Joseph & ___________________ (The Bible) 23. Ronald Reagan & ___________________ (actors and President) 24. George Putnam & __________________ (She was an early pilot.) 25. Prince Rainier III & ___________________ (She gave up acting for Monaco.) 26.Frank Butler & __________________ (A shooter from Greenville, Ohio) 27.Prince Albert & ___________________ (ruled England) Page 4 Vandalia Senior Center Art and More FREE Card Making Class on Wednesday, February 3, at 1:00 p.m. This is a unique Valentine card for you to make. All materials will be provided. You can choose or not to bring your own pencil and scissors. There will be one person at each six foot table. Limit: 12 Art Appreciation Is on the Second and Fourth Tuesdays It is at 2:00 p.m. in the dining room. Sit at the tables at the front. Most of the time the group watches a DVD and discusses the artwork.