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Thank you to all the people who donated books and puzzles this past week. We do so appreciate getting new titles to read and puzzles to piece. If you are interested in volunteering occasionally please contact Marlane at the center and set up a...

Happy New Year. Welcome 2019. I always have trouble making that change from the old year to the new year. Sometimes I get it so mixed up I even revert back to the 1900s. The Food Bank board will be meeting here on January 8th. The Public card party...

Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you to all of you for the lovely donations of books and puzzles this past week. We are enjoying the new titles. Those of you interested in Harlequin books, we have received a large supply. We also welcome large...

I hope you are all having a very good week. With the cold weather trying to set in please come play cards or games with us. There is always a puzzle going. Coffee is on, tea and hot chocolate is available. Last week activity winners are as follows:...

Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just around the corner. I love seeing all the decorations popping up all over town. We adorned the Senior Center this past weekend. Thanks to Jean Kiel and Marilyn Williamson for all the work and ideas. It looks...

Happy Thanksgiving. This week the Community Thanksgiving Dinner Team will be serving up a wonderful meal from 12:00 – 1:30 on Thursday. Deliveries will be made but please call and get your name on the list. Please call (357-2648). We will be s...

Cancer Support will be meeting here on the 20th at 11:30 with a cancer survivor speaker. Come and join us at 11:30 and then stay for lunch of Baked Potato Bar. Thank you for the monetary donations this week to the center and the donation of cookies a...

Hello All. Here it is the Monday after the time change and Kody from the newspaper had to call me and ask for the article. I think the time change messes me up more and more the older I get. I hope you are all well and enjoying this brisk fall...

Thank you to Rosalie Perrine for going through the books and making some sense of them. We need a volunteer for Mondays for the kitchen. Duties would include some prep cook work, washing dishes (we have a dishwasher), sanitizing and setting the...

Thank you for the monetary donations made this past week to the Senior Center. We appreciate your thoughtfulness. Thank you. We need a volunteer for Mondays for the kitchen. Duties would include some prep cook work, washing dishes (we have a...

I missed getting our article in the paper last week so I will play some catch up this week. It seems like there is a lot I need to tell you all, but I cannot remember what it was. I hope you all have a good week. See you at the Center. On October 16...

Good morning, everyone. I hope you are all doing well. Thank you goes out to Ralph Cross for all the squash. It was delicious. The Senior Center is in need of volunteers and an assistant cook. We need volunteers in the kitchen for sure, but also we n...

Thank you to all the Center friends for the wonderful food donations and also for the monetary donations this past week. All are greatly appreciated. Here it is the last week of September, the equinox has happened and we are moving on into a...

Hello everyone. I hope this past week was good to you. I am amazed at how quickly the leaves started to change colors. Looking forward the genealogy group will be starting their meetings on September 18 at 1:30 here at the center. Our yoga classes...

Thank you to all of you who put in the hours physically and mentally making it possible for us to have a fun Sugarbeeter Festival weekend. Those I spoke to were having a good time. Thank you to all of you who attended as it makes it all worthwhile...

Where did August go? Seems to me this month went way to fast. I had hoped we would have some time between not having to run the AC and having to turn on the furnace, but I don’t think that will happen. We are taking applications for the head cook p...

Friday we had our planned power outage and everything went off without a hitch. A huge thanks to the volunteers and staff for your patience and willingness to make a good day a great day in spite of no power. Then, this morning, Monday the 27 all the...

This week we have had a problem with some power loss that caused the air conditioning, the convection oven, dishwasher and hot water heater to not work correctly. Finally, after Brett Zarn, Schine Electric and NorthWestern Energy co-examined the...

The Cancer Support Group will be meeting on August 21, 2018, at 11:30 a.m. A representative from the Sweet Medical Center will be our speaker. We would like to incorporate more volunteers to help out at the center. We could use cooks, dishwashers,...

The annual meeting of the Chinook Senior Citizen Center was held last week with good attendance. We voted in Terry Grabofsky (incumbent) and Roger Fischer (incumbent), new inductee to the board is Ken Schubert. At the regular board meeting,...

Here comes August 2018. Where has the summer gone? Since our YAVs (Young Adult Volunteers) have left, we are looking for an exercise leader here at the center. If you know of anyone or are interested please stop by and let Marlane know. The annual me...

Thank you to The Eagles, 4-H and VFW for the donations of food this week. We appreciate your thinking of us. There will be a picnic for the YAVs (Young Adult Volunteers) this Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in the park. Thank you Lauren and Lacy for being...

Cancer Support meets July 17, 2018, at 11:30 with lunch at 12:00. Please join us and welcome Dustin Ratliff. Last week activity winners are as follows: Bingo: Marilyn Williamson and Irene Gauthier; Shanghai Rummy: Elizabeth O’Brien; Pinochle: High p...