THE PINES PRESS

“Relax and Enjoy” … A Fairway Pines Community Publication

April 2018

The Low Self —Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7:00. Please use the back door.

Don’t let worry kill you off—let the church help.

Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

Potluck supper: prayer and medication to follow.

Pastor is on vacation. Massages can be given to the church secretary.

Please join us in

congratulating Jill and

her husband Joey on the

birth of their baby boy!

Joseph is welcomed home

by big sisters

Mackenzie and Lydia.

Joseph Robert Niehaus

March 14, 2018

8 lbs. 2 oz.

21” long

A Note From the

Executive Director

QUOTES ABOUT VOLUNTEERING

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

~ Winston Churchill

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don’t have to

have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and

verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated

by love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.

But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

~Mother Teresa

“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the Earth who

reflect this nations compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain

love for one another.” ~Erma Bombeck

We truly appreciate all the volunteers we have!! If you are

interested in volunteering please contact

Bonnie Leukam at 351-4900.

Laura lives in Sauk Centre and is a Senior in High

School. Some of her favorite hobbies and past times

are reading, drawing , and singing. One of Laura’s

favorite places to have lunch is at the Truck Stop.

Please help us welcome Laura to Fairway Pines.

Laura Bertram

Dietary Aide

Becky lives in Melrose and has three children and two

poodles; Angel & Molly. Reading, bowling, golfing

and hiking are just a few of Becky’s favorite hobbies

and past times. Please help us welcome Becky to

Fairway Pines.

Becky Borash

HHA

Tenants

14 Dolores Trutna

20 Fran Winters

24 Mona Kohorst

27 Trix Kleinschmidt

Staff

11 Heather Graffam

14 Micala Funk

23 Amanda Kuhlmann

30 Erin Holker

Hair cuts

Highlights, Lowlights or Full Color

Perms

Hair Sets

Located in Fairway Pines, is open to the public!

Call Cathy today to set up an appointment:

320~492~8078

Mckayla lives in Melrose and is a Junior in High

School. She has one dog Buddy and on cat Mader. In

her free time Mckayla enjoys tennis and hanging out

with friends. Please help us welcome Mckayla to

Fairway Pines!

Mckayla Schleper

Dietary Aide

Looking for Shamrocks... Winner of the Shamrock Hunt:

“Fran Winters”

The Prize: A Shamrock Plant

FOWL PLAY SCRAMBLED EGGS (WORD SCRAMBLE)

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WCOR ____________________________________

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KDCU _______________________________________

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EGSOO ____________________________________

LGLU ____________________________________

KHWA _______________________________________

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EOLROI ____________________________________

LOW _______________________________________

NPOIGE ____________________________________

NRIOB ____________________________________

WSOPRAR ______________________________________

RWEOKOCDEP ________________________________

BLUEBIRD CANARY CRANE CROW

DOVE DUCK FLAMINGO GOOSE

GULL HAWK HUMMINGBIRD ORIOLE

OWL PIGEON ROBIN SPARROW

WOODPECKER

Bakery clerk: “What would you

like today?”

Customer: “I’d like that

chocolate-covered doughnut,

that jelly-filled doughnut and

that cheese Danish. But I’ll

take an oat bran muffin.”

In the spring, many animals will be once again making an appearance. That includes animals we may not wish to see. How far can a skunk spray?

Spring turns into summer which will bring more pesky mosquitos. What color should you wear to deter them?

There are still a few cool days in springtime. Hwat part of the body loses heat the fastest?

When the petals of this flower are eaten, they taste like strawberries or green apples what is it?

Which spring flower’s blooms last only three to seven days?

1. 12 or more feet 2.Orange (mosquitoes are repelled by the color orange.) 3.Head 4.Rose 5.Tulips

Mike Frank 100 years old with Joseph Niehaus

one week old.

4:45 pm Candlelight Dinner (Tenants Only)

6:15 pm Grand March (Open to the Public)

Entertainment will follow by Jerry Bierschback & Joyce

~ Families are encouraged to join us for Grand March and/or escort their loved one. Families are also welcomed to stay for the Entertainment.

“I think my Grandpa’s pretty old. He can do

math in his head.”

Donald Vincent Miller, age 87 of Sauk Centre, died Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at his home in Fairway Pines in Sauk Centre, Minnesota with his family at his side.

A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 24 at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in Sauk Centre with Father Sudhansu Kumar, OSB and Father An-drew Marthaler concelebrating. Following the funeral Mass, Don's family invited everyone to the Sauk Centre American Legion to celebrate his life.

His family members remember . . . "Dad was born August 19, 1930 to Edward and Grace (Orth) Miller in West Union Township, West Union, Minnesota. Dad attended school in a rural schoolhouse, then in Sauk Centre and graduated from St. John's Preparatory High School in 1948. Dad and Patricia (Pat) Louise Marthaler were married at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, Sauk Centre, Minnesota on April 15, 1952. Dad was a member of Our Lady of the Angels Church and was a charter member of the Knights of Columbus Bishop Busch Council 4863. Dad farmed with his father, Ed, until July 1952 when Dad was drafted into the United States Army. He completed basic training at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Once the Army realized how well he could type, Dad was made Company Clerk at Camp Chaffee. After being Honorably Discharged in 1954, Dad and Mom returned to the West Union area to continue farming with Dad's father, Ed. A few years later, Dad and his younger brother, Jim, would begin farming together for many years. Dad was a busy guy! He also sold Dekalb Brand corn seed. In 1975, Dad and his brother, Jim, were two of the five original owners of MBC (Miller, Bailey, Calkins) Drainage and offered land tiling services. After Dad's retirement from farming in 1989, he began selling crop insurance and continued with that business until he sold it in 2012. Dad had a passion for gardening, playing cards, casino trips, fishing, traveling and counting his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Dad and Mom created beautiful flower gardens along the creek that ran through their farmstead. Mowing the extensive lawns on the farm was also something Dad looked forward to. Dad mowed for the last time in the summer of 2017, when he reluctantly acknowledged that it was getting too difficult to get on and off the lawn tractor. Giving up lawn mowing was more difficult for him than hanging up his car keys for the last time. Skat (pronounced "scott") was Dad's favorite card game and he also loved a good game of cribbage. He played cribbage up until a week be-fore his death. Dad made many trips to the casino where he enjoyed playing the penny slots. Mary and her husband often took Dad on trips to the area casinos. Mary is sure that Dad would hide from them when it was close to the pre-determined time to go home because he was having so much fun. She would have to walk the entire casino several times before she could catch up to him. Dad never really won big money, but he always smiled and said, "I do okay" when asked. Dad spent many happy hours casting "Daredevils" after his favorite fish – Northern Pike –at Westport Lake or other favorite spots. He occasionally got out on the ice for some winter fishing with Brian or some of the grandkids. Travel was something Dad really enjoyed. For many years, Dad's preferred method of travel was by Amtrak. He would board the train in Fargo, go to California to visit his two sisters and Mom's brother, then to Arizona to visit his brother, then on to Arkansas to visit friends from his army days before heading back home. Dad was a very handy guy at fixing things. While the rest of us might look for a product on the Internet that would do what we needed, Dad would use nails, wire, duct tape, tin cans and scrap lumber to create a solution. It wasn't necessarily pretty, but it was functional and did exactly what it needed to do. On the day before he died, Dad was still suggesting modifications he wanted Gene and Brian to make to his electric scooter. Said modifications included an empty Bush's Beans can and attaching it to the side of the electric scooter with a bolt to hold his bottle of water. Dad's needs were simple. Give him a ham sandwich on a Dollar bun from Coburn's followed by a chocolate chip cookie or a chocolate sundae from McDonald's and he was a very happy man. He also enjoyed collecting brain teasers and tidbits of information. Dad loved to share little-known facts that he read about. Many of these little tidbits of information are taped up all over the house: On the refrigerator, his desk, on the computer, inside cupboard doors, in his car, his wallet and his vest pockets. They were everywhere! And Dad could remember what almost all of them said. Dad loved his children and grandchildren, but when the great-grandchildren came into his life, he really got excited. His favorite pastime when the Greats came to visit was to get them to dance along as Big Mouth Billy Bass (the singing fish wall plaque) sang "Take Me to the River". " Don is survived by his children: Eugene (Linda) Miller of Sauk Centre, MN; Mary (Kevin) Swenson of Foley, MN; Kimberly (Wayne) Danielson of Fargo, ND; Brian (special friend, Brenda Wolbeck) Miller of Sauk Centre, MN; sixteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren, brother, James (Rosie) Miller of Sauk Centre, MN; sister, MaryAnn McGill of Lafayette, CA; brothers-in-law, LeRoy (Shirley) Marthaler of Clarksdale, AZ; Edward (Marcia) Marthaler of Newport Beach, CA; and many nieces and nephews.

Don was preceded in death by his wife Patricia in 2008, his parents, sisters Renee Miller and Arlene Freitas, three infant children and one great-grandchild.

Don lived at Fairway Pines since July 2017 and will be greatly missed by everyone!

606 Main Street North Sauk Centre, MN 56378