Cole Camp Senior News

July, August, and September 2019

Cole Camp Senior Center

206 E. Junge St.

Cole Camp MO, 65325

Phone 668-668-2352

Fax 660-668-2355

Coordinator: Janis Garren

Care Manager: Dee Locke

County Services Director,

Teresa Torrence, Warsaw

660-438-3300

Cole Camp Senior Center celebrates 35th anniversary

The Cole Camp Senior Center celebrated its 35th anniversary as the place where older

adults gather to dine, visit and learn on April 23. The celebration included cake and ice

cream, reminiscing, a slide show, photo albums, and prizes for just about everyone who

attended. Our center still serves as a hub for older adults, who enjoy lunch, regular game

nights, art classes, puzzle contests, beading classes, pick-up pinochle games, EnhanceFit-

ness, armchair exercises, blood pressure screenings, ice cream cones and root beer

floats. Perhaps the most important thing older adults will find here is friendship. The center

also provides volunteer opportunities for older adults, who help serve meals, clean up,

and serve as receptionists. Care Connection Care Manager Dee Locke serves the center

to provide information and resources that are available to seniors, including Medicare

counseling, benefits screenings, and education on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s disease

to healthy living. The idea of the senior center originated with a senior citizens club that met monthly

in Cole Camp in the basement of a local church. The District III Area Agency on Aging

(now dba Care Connection for Aging Services) approached the citizens’ group with the

idea of creating a senior center and nutrition program to benefit older adults. After much discussion, the senior center opened in the Lion’s Club building on April

23, 1984, as the first satellite operation of the agency, according to a history in the cen-

ter’s archives. The meals were brought to Cole Camp from the Warsaw Senior Center.

Meal service peaked at about 100 meals and prompted Cole Camp to have its own kitch-

en and Staff for some time. Over the next three decades, the center served thousands of meals and provided

countless hours of volunteer opportunities, programs and fellowship opportunities.

Getting ready to cut cake for the 35th anniversary celebration are from left: Benton County Services Director Teresa Torrence, Regional Services Director Chris McCune, Cole Camp Senior Center Coordinator Janis Garren, and Care Connection Executive Director Diana Hoemann.

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Our Volunteer Pizza Party

We had a great time celebrat-

ing our volunteers April 16

with a pizza party. Here, home

-delivered-meal staff Glenalee

Dillon (left) and volunteer Su-

zanne Schlesselman prepare

homemade pizzas for the oc-

casion.

Always the jokester, Henry

Vogler puts on his “eyeglasses”

so that he can see us.

Pausing for a photo are: (from

left) Lois Barr, Ruth Ann Kreisel,

Frank Kreisel, Esther Schlessel-

man and Henry Vogler.

Involved in a serious pinochle game

are: (from left) Lois Viebrock, Shelby

Gray, Huth Schlesselman, and Lance

Gray.

Another card playing group: Reta

Shellhart, Sharel Wienberg, Elaine

Miesner, and Alice Miesner.

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Happy Birthday to the Seniors that have

a Birthday in July, August and September.

July Carol Williams Bill Davis Eileen Berryman

Barbara Donnell Rita Burns

Gary Heimsoth Anna Descar

Edna Heisterberg Barbra Hagston Rama Lee Monsees September Jo Ann Weinberg Anna M. Brown

Junior Weinberg Judy Green

Wilma Williams Elizabeth Hazelrigg

Izola Schnakenberg Michael Kroenke

August Vicki Labille Deanna Balke Charlene Nichols

Lois Barr Lee Parsons

Winston Borchers Dorthy Brown Orlyn Brauer Larry Harms

Myra Case Tammy Holley

Glenalee Dillon Judy Silva

Barbara Hall James Sizemore Alice Liebel Morris Williams

John Meyer

Aline Mittlestadt

Wanda Phifer

Evelyn Steffens

We celebrated May with a painting contest, and had partici-

pants vote on their favorites. The participants include Mona

Canida, Billie Long, Lee Ramel, Esther Mast, Sandy Smith and

Larry Smith. Some of the artists had offers to purchase their

work. We think all of them are winners! Painting classes will

resume in September from 1 to 3 p.m. every Monday.

Art Show

and

contest

Displaying her

first-place

painting of a

landscape is

Mona Canida.

Standing by her

second-place

painting of car-

dinals is Billie

Long.

The Mike Kroenke Band

New Bead Class At the

Cole Camp Senior Center

The Mike Kroenke Band made a huge impression during their debut at

the Cole Camp Senior Center. In the above photo, Sally Jordon sings while

Mike Kroenke plays guitar. Mike, a well-known local musician, drew a nice

audience that had a really good time. Mike plays again on birthday day, Fri-

day, July 19. Come and join us!

Vocalist Dianna

Schumaker delights

the crowd with a

familiar song

The bead class is every Tuesday from

9 am-11:30. Pictured here from the left

are Wanda Isaac, John Kelly Blum, Sharon

Johnson, and Connie Bauer.

For more information on activities or the menu, please see your

local newspaper weekly or come to the Cole Camp Senior Center

for the activities, calendar and menu or on-line @ goaging.org.

Center Coordinator Janis Garren and her husband Todd packed the senior center as

they hosted a fish fry June 22. More than 40 revelers enjoyed pinochle, Ticket to

Ride, Pitch, and Rummikub. The event was moved indoors (from the Garren farm)

because of the heat. A special thank you to Ruth Ann and Frank Kreisel, who pre-

pared and brought the fish and have volunteered to do it again. Others brought cov-

ered dishes to share. All enjoyed a good summertime social and look forward to the

next event.

The Cole Camp Senior Center Summer Fish Fry

CARE

CONNECTION

FOR AGING

SERVICES

www.colecamp@goaging.org

National Falls Pre-

vention Awareness

Day Sept 23

National Falls Prevention Awareness Day

As we settle into the dog days of summer, we look forward to the

fall. As such, we want to remind folks about National Falls Prevention

Awareness Day, which will be the first day of fall, Sept. 23.

Falls prevention is a focus because an older American is seen in

the emergency room every 11 seconds because of a fall-related inju-

ry.

You can expect the center to provide some information about

how you can improve balance and remove obstacles to prevent falls

during that week.

The NCOA offers these tips to help prevent falls:

Find a good balance and exercise program. Care Connection peri-

odically offers “A Matter of Balance,” a program that has been proven

to prevent falls in older adults.

Talk to your doctor or other health care provider and let them

know about falls.

Regularly review your prescription medications with your phar-

macist.

Get regular checks on your vision and hearing.

Keep your home safe. Look for things around your house that

increase the risk of slips, trips and falls.

To learn more about “Matter of Balance” classes, ask Janis. To

learn more, visit www.goaging.org or https://www.preventmofalls.org.

July

August

The Mo State Fair

September