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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
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