Newburgh Senior Center

August 2015 Newsletter

29 Jefferson St.

Newburgh, IN 47630

812-853-5627

Fax: 812-853-5629

Nancy Lybarger, manager

Email:

manager:manageratnsc@gmail.com

The Place Where Seniors Congregate

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 am—2 pm

Manager’s Corner

Where has our summer gone? It’s time for our grands to go back to school. I hope all our members had some “grands” time with their kiddos this sum-mer. I enjoyed my time with one of ours just recent-ly. Pretty soon, he’ll be as tall as his mom.

July was busy around the Center. We played Jeop-ardy and learned about the 1862 Raid on Newburgh by Stovepipe Johnson and his Rebel marauders. We had a luau and started our Bridge and Euchre clubs. There has been some interest shown in playing pi-nochle. If you are interested, call the Center. Some-one else mentioned Scrabble. We are a flexible bunch around here and we welcome new members. We’ll find you something fun to do here. Promise. We’re playing Euchre on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and Bridge, alternate Tuesdays (Check our calendar for the schedule.) at 11 a.m. and Clabber every Monday at noon. For these clubs, you need to know how to play the game. If you would like to learn to play, please read the article on the inside. We are looking forward to another great Porkapa-looza in September. The pre-order forms will be available soon. We’ll let the media know when or-dering opens. Celebrity chefs are being recruited for the August 24 Celebrity Chefs Gone “Hog Wild” contest. I’m drooling just thinking about it. You can get more information from Colleen Martin’s article inside the newsletter. Colleen has recruited a great group of Celebrity Chefs. We invite all our members to come in for a “taste of Newburgh” during the competition. There, of course, will be pork but we are hoping to get a smorgasbord variety of dishes prepared by the chefs for our culinary delights.

August Birthdays

Janet Anderson 8-5 Lora Lee Brown 8-6 Susie Williams 8-7 Pastor Dan Kennedy` 8-14 Otis Bingmeier 8-14 Barbara Young 8-16 Al Johnson 8-16 Joyce Alexander 8-18 Wayne Brakel 8-20 Irma Friedman 8-25 Dick Slade 8-28 Charlotte Koewler 8-31

Celebrity Chefs Gone “Hog Wild”

Dinner

Monday, August 24, 2015, 5:30-7 pm

Newburgh Senior Center

Menu will be pulled pork “slider” or pork sundae and an assortment of celebri-ty prepared side dishes or desserts to sample and judge. Seniors, please let Nancy know if you plan on attending.

Newburgh Celebrity Chefs for 2015

*Marty Simmons, Head Basketball Coach, University of Evansville-Purple Aces *Sally Rideout, owner Rideout Public Affairs, Athena Award Winner *Father Joe Ziliak, retired Priest -St. John's-Newburgh, *Byron Douglas, Meteorologist-WFIE-Channel 14 *Brent Johnson, Rolling Division Manager, Alcoa Warrick Operations *Gerald Bowser, Town of Newburgh, Maintenance Dept. * Tom Dean, Band Director, Castle Marching Knights, Castle High School *Pat Brooks, Warrick County Treasurer, Owner-Newburgh Tax Service * Maybe another “Mystery Chef” will join us!! ****Wess Rose, Lead Chef at Vecchio's Italian Market in Newburgh, will be our Professional Chef Judge.

AARP looking for tax

season volunteers

You don’t need to be an accountant to help other sen-iors with their taxes. Dale Oberbeck says they need volunteers to greet clients, open mail and answer phones, as well as experienced tax preparers. He will be at the Center on August 11, at noon to pre-sent a program on different ways you can volunteer to help seniors get their taxes done correctly and on time.

Thanks to our

Wednesday

lunch providers

Thanks to our Wednesday lunch providers in July. Gail Moran brought us delicious Johnnie Marzetti and John and Chris Smith grilled burgers out back for a great picnic. Colleen Martin provided pulled pork for our luau.

“Celebrity Chefs Gone “Hog Wild”

DINNER-

Kicking off Porkapalooza 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015 from 5:30 to 7 pm**

Menu will be pulled pork “slider” or pork sundae and an assortment of celebri-

ty prepared side dishes or desserts to sample and judge. Seniors, please let

Nancy know if you plan on attending.

Newburgh Celebrity Chefs for 2015*:

*Marty Simmons, Head Basketball Coach, University of Evansville-Purple Aces *Sally Rideout, owner Rideout Public Affairs, Athena Award Winner *Father Joe Ziliak, retired Priest -St. John's-Newburgh, *Byron Douglas, Meteorologist-WFIE-Channel 14 *Brent Johnson, Rolling Division Manager, Alcoa Warrick Operations *Gerald Bowser, Town of Newburgh, Maintenance Dept. * Tom Dean, Band Director, Castle Marching Knights, Castle High School *Pat Brooks, Warrick County Treasurer, Owner-Newburgh Tax Service * Maybe another “Mystery Chef” will join us!! ****Wess Rose, Lead Chef at Vecchio's Italian Market in Newburgh, will be our Professional Chef Judge *****Seniors will vote for the People’s Choice Winner via secret ballot during the dinner.

Horns aplenty

Hadi Shrine Brass Band coming

to play at Newburgh Senior Center

There’s nothing like a brass band to make your hands itch to clap and tempt your toes to tap. With 15 trumpets, trombones, tubas and other brass

instruments, the Hadi Shrine Brass Band is set to light up the air at Newburgh Senior Center on Mon-

day, August 31. A pitch-in dinner will kick off the evening at 5 p.m. and the concert will begin at 6 p.m.

The concert will last about an hour, so everybody who needs to be home before dark can get there. The concert is free; howev-er the usual tip jar will be available to show appreciation.

The band members will share sto-ries and answer questions as part

of the concert. It should be an enjoyable evening

for all and we hope you will let your friends and neighbors know about it so they can participate.

The Center will provide the meat entre for the pitch in dinner and everyone else should bring a side dish to share with others.

Special programs

planned at NSC

We try to provide a variety of programs to keep all our mem-bers interested. Some pro-grams are entertaining and some are educational. With luck, most are both. On August 4, 11:45 a.m., we’ll be having a program on foot care by the Indiana Foot and Ankle Clinic on Peachwood in Newburgh. On August 5, noon, the New-burgh Police Department Ca-nine Unit will visit and talk about that program, along with teaching safety tips for Seniors. Carolyn Schmidt will be here on August 20, 11:45 a.m. to talk with us about nutrition. Cards with Jane is going back to meeting at noon, in August on the 21st. And on August 28, Vicki Seibe will present a program on cop-ing with Sjorgens Syndrome. We hope you look forward to these special programs and will invite others to participate. Clabber meets on Mondays, Euchre on Wednesdays and Bridge on alternate Tuesdays.

AARP Experience Corps is looking for classroom tutors to help two or three days a week in the EVSC, starting September 14. Training for volunteer tutors starts August 3, but other arrange-ments may be made if this is not convenient. Call 812-402-3170 to set up an appointment .

Volunteers are asked to spend 30 hours in the classroom each month. There is a small stipend. Ms. Outlaw and Mrs. Taylor are leading the program for EVSC.

AARP Experience Corps looking

for tutors for Evansville schools

Happy

Anniversaries

Happy anniver-sary to Jack and Agnes Spillman, who were mar-

ried August 4, 1956. Also happy anniversary to Bud and June Huber who were mar-ried August 10, 2008.

In Sympathy

Cora Lee Grant passed away July 23. She had been active with NSC for several years. Her husband of 63 years, Bennie, survives, as well as five children, six grand-children, nine great-grand-children and her sister.

Euchre, Bridge

lessons offered

If you would like to learn to play Euchre, lessons will be offered on Thursday mornings, 10-11 a.m. at the Center. Please contact Nancy if you would like to participate. Jan Tucker will teach two free sessions of Easybridge! Here on August 26 and Sept. 2, at 9 a.m. We are looking for instructors in Pinochle, too. If you can help, we’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to learn, call us. If you are interested in Clabber, we have a volunteer who will give you the intro and play a hand. There has been interest ex-pressed in launching a Scrabble group and a book club and a Bible study group. If you would like to participate in (or be in charge of) any of these, please call Nancy Lybarger at 812-853-5627.

Thanks to our Center

activity sponsors

*Town of Newburgh — Provides our building,

maintenance and services.

*Bayer’s Plumbing (812) 853-2305 — Sponsors

Fruitful Fridays and Sundae Fridays.

*Heritage Federal Credit Union — (812) 253-

6928 — Our Internet Café/Printer sponsor.

*Titzer Funeral Homes (812) 853-8314 — Spon-

sors our monthly birthday cake.

*Zion United Church of Christ Newburgh —

Our hospitality sponsor.

*Women’s Club of Newburgh — Landscaping

and flowers sponsor.

*Ohio Township — Activity sponsor.

If you would like to support the efforts of the

Newburgh Senior Center, please contact us at

(812) 853-5627 or email our manager, Nancy

Lybarger at manageratnsc@gmail.com.

Thanks to our Day Sponsors for August

August 13 is sponsored by Bill and Carol Woerz in loving memory of Jim and Virginia Bennet, on what would have been their wedding anniversary. Thank you, Bill and Carol, for including the Center in this sweet memory of Carol’s parents August 29 means Happy Birthday to Jan Larson. Jan’s husband, Blake Larson, is an NSC board mem-ber. We thank Jan and Blake for being active support-ers of the Center and many other organizations in

Newburgh. Happy Birthday, Jan! If you would like to be a day sponsor to celebrate the special days in your life or to remember those who are dear to you, please call the Center. Colleen Martin, one of our board members, is in charge of this program. Being a day sponsor gets your message on the board out front and helps the Center provide entertaining programs and activities for our members.

Miscellaneous reminders

Remember to use your eScrip card when you shop at Schnucks and several restaurants in the area. We re-ceive a donation each time you use your card. The knitting ladies have begun another project. They are making dishcloths and will be selling them at one of our events. They always welcome new folks, Tues-days, 10 a.m. The iSenior volunteers are here each Tuesday, 10-11 a.m. until school starts in August. They will help you figure out your high tech electronics, such as Smartphones and iPads. You don’t need an appoint-ment. As well as Facebook and Twitter, you can check our web site for updates. Our web site is newburghsen-iorcenter.com and our Facebook address is face-book.com/newburghseniorcenter.

Important dates in August

that we will be celebrating

August 1 — National Mustard Day. Eat mustard to relieve muscle cramps.

August 3 — National Watermelon Day. Do not swallow the seeds. Watermelons will grow in your belly.

August 13 — National Lefthanders day. Research shows that it helps your brain when you do things with your “off-side” hand. If your are right-handed, try doing things with your left. Do not do this with matches, lighters or other flammables.

August 14-15 VJ Day (World War II victory over Japan. Two days are listed because of the Inter-national Date Line.

August 16 — National tell a joke day. Bring your favorite joke to share.

August 21 — National Senior Citizen Day. Go us!