PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The scary time of the year is almost here. Are you ready? I don’t mean Halloween; I mean the November elections. If you have not volunteered to help at the Election Day BBQ and you would like to, you can do so at the October meeting. And of course, you can pay for your BBQ dinner tickets at the same time (cash or check to AARP 5239). Remember the money is used for our charitable donations.
I want to thank Dick Martin for running the September meeting and surprising me with three volunteers to be the Program Committee. They are Bonnie Boelke, Tina Aris, and Florence Hanlin. Thank you ladies so much! Bob Pfile has done a great job and will work with them on the programs already set up. He will then take over membership from me.
We are now in need of a new Refreshment Committee to take over in January from the Bradies. The ideal would be to have four people or two couples to take turns or work together setting up the refreshments at the meetings and helping with the picnic and holiday party. If you are interested or would like to know what is involved, please contact the Bradies or me. We have over 400 members, so I know help is out there.
The Nominating Committee will present their slate of Officers and Directors and open the floor up to nominations at the next meeting. If you have an interest in serving on the board, submit your name. We will vote at the November meeting and have the installation at the December meeting.
Enjoy the fall weather and the lower utility bills as we are in between the hot and cold seasons. I hope to see many of you at the October meeting.
Carla Wascalus, President
The scary time of the year is almost here. Are you ready? I don’t mean Halloween; I mean the November elections. If you have not volunteered to help at the Election Day BBQ and you would like to, you can do so at the October meeting. And of course, you can pay for your BBQ dinner tickets at the same time (cash or check to AARP 5239). Remember the money is used for our charitable donations.
I want to thank Dick Martin for running the September meeting and surprising me with three volunteers to be the Program Committee. They are Bonnie Boelke, Tina Aris, and Florence Hanlin. Thank you ladies so much! Bob Pfile has done a great job and will work with them on the programs already set up. He will then take over membership from me.
We are now in need of a new Refreshment Committee to take over in January from the Bradies. The ideal would be to have four people or two couples to take turns or work together setting up the refreshments at the meetings and helping with the picnic and holiday party. If you are interested or would like to know what is involved, please contact the Bradies or me. We have over 400 members, so I know help is out there.
The Nominating Committee will present their slate of Officers and Directors and open the floor up to nominations at the next meeting. If you have an interest in serving on the board, submit your name. We will vote at the November meeting and have the installation at the December meeting.
Enjoy the fall weather and the lower utility bills as we are in between the hot and cold seasons. I hope to see many of you at the October meeting.
Carla Wascalus, President
OCTOBER PROGRAM
Healthy Aging
by Carolyn Wray, Publicity
Rebecca Bigoney, MD, a Board Certified Internist, will be the speaker at the October 20 meeting of AARP, Chapter 5239. The subject of her talk will be Healthy Aging, which includes managing medical emergencies and daily care of senior citizens. She currently serves in the capacity of Collaborating Physician with the Senior Care Services Department of Mary Washington Hospital. She is also the Director for Ethics Services at Medicorp Health System and serves as Physician Support for the Care Management Department. She is an Attending Physician on the Palliative Care Unit at Mary Washington Hospital. With her background in the medical field she will be a most enlightening program for this AARP group.
Dr. Bigoney received her under-graduate degree from Emory and Henry College, her MD from Medical College of Virginia, where she also did her Internal Medicine training. She received a Masters in Clinical Ethics from the University of Virginia. She is certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
The program will be held on Monday, October 20, at the LOW Clubhouse. Sweets and coffee will be served at 9:30 AM, and the program will begin at 10AM.
WANTED
Refreshment Committee People
Do you like having coffee and sweets at the meetings. If so, then volunteer be on the Refreshment Committee. We are looking for two to four good people to take over in January. The main duties are getting to the meeting site early and making and putting out the coffee and the sweets that are brought by the members. Contact the Kathleen Bradie at 308-5507.
BIRTHDAYS FOR OCTOBER
(Libra and Scorpio)
Rose Bianco—Janet Bloom
Boyd Bowers—Joyce Bowers
Janet Buccola—Judy Carter
Irene Daehnke—Theresa Danoy
Dave Dietz—Sherman Embrey
James Fargo—Robert Girman
Chris Grimley—Lee Anne Hamilton
George Lenwell—Marti Martin
Grace McEuen—Nell Meador
Agatha Mucciacciaro—Ruth Price
Bernie Palowitch—Bobbie Prees
Leon Strain—Marti Williams
NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to the following new members:
Gay Grant, Bob Simpson, Peggy Simpson, and Margaret Thode
SUNSHINE REPORT
A Get-Well card was sent to Anna Hoehn in September.
If you know of a member who needs cheering up, contact Carolyn Durphy at 972-3306 or Helen Markart at 972-2697.
NOTES BITS AND PIECES
Nominating Committee
by Carolyn Durphy, Chairperson,
Your nominating committee members, Kathleen Bradie, Carolyn Durphy, Betty Hughes, Hank Lewis and Carolyn Wray have been contacting members to run for offices in AARP Chapter 5329 for the year 2009.
A slate of candidates to be considered for office has been drawn up, and the names will be presented at the October monthly meeting. The election will be held at the November meeting, where addition-al nominations may be made from the floor.
ELECTION DAY BBQ
by Jim Moore, Tickets, BBQ Dinner
Tuesday, November 4, 2007 is Election Day and also the date of AARP’s Chicken BBQ dinner, which is served downstairs in the Clubhouse from 11 AM until 6 PM. After three or more years at $7 a ticket, Dwight Mottet, AARP’s Chief Chicken in Charge, reports that this year the ticket price will be $9 a meal due to rising costs to our suppliers. This annual event has been the major fundraiser for our chapter, supporting approximately twenty-three charity organizations in the past.
Thanks to all who have already volunteered to help with this project. A few more volunteers are needed. Following is a list of the team captains. Call them if you are able to help on their function.
Harvey Miller, 972-2147, Cooking
Joyce Bowers, 972-9325, Serving Line
Rosemary Walker, 972-1375, Dining Room
Jim Moore, 972-9355, Phone Follow-up for tickets (end of Oct)
Members received four tickets on September 29. These need to be sold if at all possible. However, make sure the money and any unsold tickets are returned at the October 20, AARP meeting, or mailed to AARP Chapter 5239, PO Box 945, Locust Grove, VA 22508.
Additional information and extra tickets will be available at the October 20 meeting, or from Jim and Jan Moore, 972-9355, Bill and Norma Lanier, 972 3219, or Bill or Rosemary Walker, 972-1375.
Battlefield Piedmont Regional TRIAD Senior Conference
by Dick Bradie, Locust Grove TRIAD
Seniors and Care givers, get ready. It’s time for the annual Battlefield Piedmont Regional TRIAD Conference and get-together. As usual we are going to have informative and interesting speakers, topical exhibitors, great giveaways, complimentary lunch, terrific door prizes and, as always, good fellowship. This will all take place on October 17 at the Madison County Volunteer Fire Department located at 1223 North Main Street in Madison County. Things will get underway at 9 AM and end at 2 PM with a lunch of fried chicken, freshly cooked onsite, served with mashed potatoes and green beans at 11:30 AM. Dessert, water and other drinks will be provided. Remember, it’s all free. Come and hear our speakers pass on information on current, brand new scams and other important issues that will help keep seniors free from crime and promote their general safety.
Video Volunteers Needed
by Dick Martin
AARP Chapter 5239 volunteers have been videotaping monthly meeting speakers for rebroadcast on LOW’s Channel 18 for the past seven years. If you are adept at videotaping—or are interested in beginning to learn the video process—we ask you to join the Speaker Videotape Committee.
You will receive full start-to-finish training. Once you are comfortable and experienced, we will fit you into a schedule with others that suits your activity calendar.
To volunteer, or to get more information, contact Dick Martin at 972-5242 or email at doodoo1066@Verizon.net.
TRIPS AND TOURS
Fall Foliage Vintage Train Ride—October 25, Round-trip bus transportation from LOW LLCH 10 AM. There is now a waiting list for this trip. Info: June at 972-2409.
Southern Holiday Festival of Shows—Bus tour to Myrtle Beach, December 1-4. $405 pp/double occupancy. Four days/three nights; includes three Christmas shows, including Le Grande Cirque; backstage tour of the Alabama Theater; tour of Charlestown, SC; wine tasting. Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Mediterranean Cruise—July 3-15, 2009. From $4156 pp/double occupancy. Price includes Round-trip air fare from Dulles, 12-day cruise on the Ruby Princess from Venice to Barcelona via Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, Naples, Capri, Rome, Florence, Pisa and Barcelona. Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Coming in 2010: Oberammergau Passion Play; Tour of Germany and Austria. $2,759 pp/double occupancy (plus airfare) Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Other tours offered to AARP members by outside groups:
One day on your own in New York City, Saturday, November 22, $99 pp. Bus leaves F’burg 4 AM, arrives NYC approx. 10:30 AM; leaves NYC promptly at 7:30PM, back in F’burg approx. 12:30 AM Info: Carol Zacheis at 972-6945 or cell 540-848-5305
Alaska Discovery Cruise Tour August 16-28, 2009. Twelve-nights Holland America Line. Cabin prices from $3,748 to $6,078. Price includes: round trip air from Dulles to Anchorage and back from Vancouver, 3-day, 2-night stay in Anchorage allowing tour of city, visit to Alaska Native Heritage Center; a 2-night experience in Denali National Park, Tundra Wilderness Tour. Info: Skip Poole at 972-7354
Highlights of September 15, 2008
Regular Meeting
· Bob Pfile, Program Chairman introduced Alan Rasmussen Suicide Prevention Director for the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board. His speech informed the members how to recognize behaviors that might lead to suicide and where to obtain help for the individual.
· The Players gave a short excerpt from their upcoming presentation Oh Frank to be presented November 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15.
· Vice President Dick Martin (in the absence of President Wascalus) said that the date for the next meeting was incorrect and the correct date is October 20, third Monday of the month. He announced those honored by LOWA are Carolyn & Boyce Wray, Bill Nowers, Norma Ervin and Hank Lewis.
· More help is needed for the November 4 Chicken dinner.
· John Trach mentioned that the New York picnic was a success and $425 was raised from a 50/50 drawing half of which was donated to Sheltering Arms. He also asked for a Chairman for the picnic next year.
The Program Committee needs more volunteers and the Nominating Committee would like more volunteers to work on the Board.
· Carol Zacheis announced a six-hour tutor training program October 8 for those who would be interested in helping those who want help learning to read. Call Carol.
· Dick Bradie announced a scam whereby someone calls saying they are doing a survey for Medicare. Don’t talk to them.
· 50/50 was won by Helen Markart
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE
(This is from an internet article that circulated recently that is relevant today.)
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. In 1917 the National Women’s Party used open public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
The warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.’ Affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food—all of it colorless slop—was infested with worms.
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party—remember to vote.History is being made. http://memory.loc.gov/, type “Women of Protest” in search box.
Articles Needed for Charitable Causes
Rosemary is still collecting clean unused envelopes for greeting cards, mainly 5" by 7"; used & unused Christmas and all occasion cards; coupons for education, such as Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and Campbell's soup labels. Rosemary is also looking for fishing rods for the veterans at the Perry Point Veteran's Hospital in MD.
Bill Walker will be collecting eye glasses for the Lions Recycling Center at AARP meetings.
Betty Hughes needs the following items for the OC Animal Shelter: towels, blankets, canned cat and dog food and kitty litter. Betty is also collecting eye glasses for the Lions eye glass recycling program.
Items for Sheltering Arms and donations for the Food Bank can also be brought to the meeting. The Food Bank is asking for boxes of “Helpers”—hamburger, tuna and chicken.
A special thank you goes to all those who save these items for charity.
Rebecca Bigoney, MD, a Board Certified Internist, will be the speaker at the October 20 meeting of AARP, Chapter 5239. The subject of her talk will be Healthy Aging, which includes managing medical emergencies and daily care of senior citizens. She currently serves in the capacity of Collaborating Physician with the Senior Care Services Department of Mary Washington Hospital. She is also the Director for Ethics Services at Medicorp Health System and serves as Physician Support for the Care Management Department. She is an Attending Physician on the Palliative Care Unit at Mary Washington Hospital. With her background in the medical field she will be a most enlightening program for this AARP group.
Dr. Bigoney received her under-graduate degree from Emory and Henry College, her MD from Medical College of Virginia, where she also did her Internal Medicine training. She received a Masters in Clinical Ethics from the University of Virginia. She is certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
The program will be held on Monday, October 20, at the LOW Clubhouse. Sweets and coffee will be served at 9:30 AM, and the program will begin at 10AM.
WANTED
Refreshment Committee People
Do you like having coffee and sweets at the meetings. If so, then volunteer be on the Refreshment Committee. We are looking for two to four good people to take over in January. The main duties are getting to the meeting site early and making and putting out the coffee and the sweets that are brought by the members. Contact the Kathleen Bradie at 308-5507.
BIRTHDAYS FOR OCTOBER
(Libra and Scorpio)
Rose Bianco—Janet Bloom
Boyd Bowers—Joyce Bowers
Janet Buccola—Judy Carter
Irene Daehnke—Theresa Danoy
Dave Dietz—Sherman Embrey
James Fargo—Robert Girman
Chris Grimley—Lee Anne Hamilton
George Lenwell—Marti Martin
Grace McEuen—Nell Meador
Agatha Mucciacciaro—Ruth Price
Bernie Palowitch—Bobbie Prees
Leon Strain—Marti Williams
NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to the following new members:
Gay Grant, Bob Simpson, Peggy Simpson, and Margaret Thode
SUNSHINE REPORT
A Get-Well card was sent to Anna Hoehn in September.
If you know of a member who needs cheering up, contact Carolyn Durphy at 972-3306 or Helen Markart at 972-2697.
NOTES BITS AND PIECES
Nominating Committee
by Carolyn Durphy, Chairperson,
Your nominating committee members, Kathleen Bradie, Carolyn Durphy, Betty Hughes, Hank Lewis and Carolyn Wray have been contacting members to run for offices in AARP Chapter 5329 for the year 2009.
A slate of candidates to be considered for office has been drawn up, and the names will be presented at the October monthly meeting. The election will be held at the November meeting, where addition-al nominations may be made from the floor.
ELECTION DAY BBQ
by Jim Moore, Tickets, BBQ Dinner
Tuesday, November 4, 2007 is Election Day and also the date of AARP’s Chicken BBQ dinner, which is served downstairs in the Clubhouse from 11 AM until 6 PM. After three or more years at $7 a ticket, Dwight Mottet, AARP’s Chief Chicken in Charge, reports that this year the ticket price will be $9 a meal due to rising costs to our suppliers. This annual event has been the major fundraiser for our chapter, supporting approximately twenty-three charity organizations in the past.
Thanks to all who have already volunteered to help with this project. A few more volunteers are needed. Following is a list of the team captains. Call them if you are able to help on their function.
Harvey Miller, 972-2147, Cooking
Joyce Bowers, 972-9325, Serving Line
Rosemary Walker, 972-1375, Dining Room
Jim Moore, 972-9355, Phone Follow-up for tickets (end of Oct)
Members received four tickets on September 29. These need to be sold if at all possible. However, make sure the money and any unsold tickets are returned at the October 20, AARP meeting, or mailed to AARP Chapter 5239, PO Box 945, Locust Grove, VA 22508.
Additional information and extra tickets will be available at the October 20 meeting, or from Jim and Jan Moore, 972-9355, Bill and Norma Lanier, 972 3219, or Bill or Rosemary Walker, 972-1375.
Battlefield Piedmont Regional TRIAD Senior Conference
by Dick Bradie, Locust Grove TRIAD
Seniors and Care givers, get ready. It’s time for the annual Battlefield Piedmont Regional TRIAD Conference and get-together. As usual we are going to have informative and interesting speakers, topical exhibitors, great giveaways, complimentary lunch, terrific door prizes and, as always, good fellowship. This will all take place on October 17 at the Madison County Volunteer Fire Department located at 1223 North Main Street in Madison County. Things will get underway at 9 AM and end at 2 PM with a lunch of fried chicken, freshly cooked onsite, served with mashed potatoes and green beans at 11:30 AM. Dessert, water and other drinks will be provided. Remember, it’s all free. Come and hear our speakers pass on information on current, brand new scams and other important issues that will help keep seniors free from crime and promote their general safety.
Video Volunteers Needed
by Dick Martin
AARP Chapter 5239 volunteers have been videotaping monthly meeting speakers for rebroadcast on LOW’s Channel 18 for the past seven years. If you are adept at videotaping—or are interested in beginning to learn the video process—we ask you to join the Speaker Videotape Committee.
You will receive full start-to-finish training. Once you are comfortable and experienced, we will fit you into a schedule with others that suits your activity calendar.
To volunteer, or to get more information, contact Dick Martin at 972-5242 or email at doodoo1066@Verizon.net.
TRIPS AND TOURS
Fall Foliage Vintage Train Ride—October 25, Round-trip bus transportation from LOW LLCH 10 AM. There is now a waiting list for this trip. Info: June at 972-2409.
Southern Holiday Festival of Shows—Bus tour to Myrtle Beach, December 1-4. $405 pp/double occupancy. Four days/three nights; includes three Christmas shows, including Le Grande Cirque; backstage tour of the Alabama Theater; tour of Charlestown, SC; wine tasting. Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Mediterranean Cruise—July 3-15, 2009. From $4156 pp/double occupancy. Price includes Round-trip air fare from Dulles, 12-day cruise on the Ruby Princess from Venice to Barcelona via Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, Naples, Capri, Rome, Florence, Pisa and Barcelona. Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Coming in 2010: Oberammergau Passion Play; Tour of Germany and Austria. $2,759 pp/double occupancy (plus airfare) Info: Ruby at 727-7579.
Other tours offered to AARP members by outside groups:
One day on your own in New York City, Saturday, November 22, $99 pp. Bus leaves F’burg 4 AM, arrives NYC approx. 10:30 AM; leaves NYC promptly at 7:30PM, back in F’burg approx. 12:30 AM Info: Carol Zacheis at 972-6945 or cell 540-848-5305
Alaska Discovery Cruise Tour August 16-28, 2009. Twelve-nights Holland America Line. Cabin prices from $3,748 to $6,078. Price includes: round trip air from Dulles to Anchorage and back from Vancouver, 3-day, 2-night stay in Anchorage allowing tour of city, visit to Alaska Native Heritage Center; a 2-night experience in Denali National Park, Tundra Wilderness Tour. Info: Skip Poole at 972-7354
Highlights of September 15, 2008
Regular Meeting
· Bob Pfile, Program Chairman introduced Alan Rasmussen Suicide Prevention Director for the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board. His speech informed the members how to recognize behaviors that might lead to suicide and where to obtain help for the individual.
· The Players gave a short excerpt from their upcoming presentation Oh Frank to be presented November 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15.
· Vice President Dick Martin (in the absence of President Wascalus) said that the date for the next meeting was incorrect and the correct date is October 20, third Monday of the month. He announced those honored by LOWA are Carolyn & Boyce Wray, Bill Nowers, Norma Ervin and Hank Lewis.
· More help is needed for the November 4 Chicken dinner.
· John Trach mentioned that the New York picnic was a success and $425 was raised from a 50/50 drawing half of which was donated to Sheltering Arms. He also asked for a Chairman for the picnic next year.
The Program Committee needs more volunteers and the Nominating Committee would like more volunteers to work on the Board.
· Carol Zacheis announced a six-hour tutor training program October 8 for those who would be interested in helping those who want help learning to read. Call Carol.
· Dick Bradie announced a scam whereby someone calls saying they are doing a survey for Medicare. Don’t talk to them.
· 50/50 was won by Helen Markart
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE
(This is from an internet article that circulated recently that is relevant today.)
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. In 1917 the National Women’s Party used open public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
The warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.’ Affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food—all of it colorless slop—was infested with worms.
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party—remember to vote.History is being made. http://memory.loc.gov/, type “Women of Protest” in search box.
Articles Needed for Charitable Causes
Rosemary is still collecting clean unused envelopes for greeting cards, mainly 5" by 7"; used & unused Christmas and all occasion cards; coupons for education, such as Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and Campbell's soup labels. Rosemary is also looking for fishing rods for the veterans at the Perry Point Veteran's Hospital in MD.
Bill Walker will be collecting eye glasses for the Lions Recycling Center at AARP meetings.
Betty Hughes needs the following items for the OC Animal Shelter: towels, blankets, canned cat and dog food and kitty litter. Betty is also collecting eye glasses for the Lions eye glass recycling program.
Items for Sheltering Arms and donations for the Food Bank can also be brought to the meeting. The Food Bank is asking for boxes of “Helpers”—hamburger, tuna and chicken.
A special thank you goes to all those who save these items for charity.
