Welcome December! To those of you who came out to our Thanksgiving meal, we hope you enjoyed it and had a nice time sharing with friends and other community members. It is so nice to see neighbors enjoying an event together.
We would like to give a huge THANK YOU to all organizations, businesses, and every individual or family that has donated Christmas gifts for the seniors this year. We live in a wonderfully generous and giving community. We will be accepting donations until December 11. We will need the time left to get the gifts ready and to deliver them before we close for Christmas.
The Senior Center will be having a Christmas lunch buffet on Wed., Dec. 17, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Come in and join us to celebrate the season!
There will be gift giveaways and Santa will be here to spread holiday cheer too. The meal will be the usual lunch price of a $4 suggested donation for 60 yrs and older. If you are under the age of 60, the meal cost will be $7 per person. It is always a great meal and a good time.
The Senior Center will be closing at noon on December 23, and we will reopen on January 5. We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Look for every reason, big or small, to be grateful this season.
The food boxes happening this month are the CSFP (Senior Cheese Box) at the Tri-Pointe Church of God in Mio on Dec. 12, at 12 p.m. This food box does require an application first and approval from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan before your name will be added to the list for pick up of the box.
The Together We Can Food Pantry will be handing out boxes on Dec. 18 from 11:30 a.m.– 2:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds. They ask that you bring ID to show you live in the county and a banana box if you have one. If they run out of food boxes, they will be gone before 2:30.
The Council on Aging for the month of October delivered 2,820 meals to our Home Delivered Meal clients and served 672 meals to congregate diners that come in for lunch Monday through Friday.
The monthly Board meeting will be on Mon., Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. Members of the public are welcome to attend the meetings.
Don’t forget exercise class is on Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. There will be no classes on Dec. 23 or 30.
Euchre is played on Wednesday afternoons at 12:45 p.m. There will be no euchre on December 17, 24, or 30.
December’s full moon, also called the Cold Moon, will be beautifully shining on the 4th. It will reach its peak at 6:14 pm. It will be the third and final supermoon of the year and will appear higher in the sky than any other full moon, hope you get to see it!
Don’t forget to be grateful for at least one thing daily. Have a joyful month and keep smiling!
Suzanne Barker is the Director of the Oscoda County Council on Aging. To contact her please call 989-826-3025.
