Jan. 14th

RVE CLUB MEETING – Chair John Geer called meeting to order. We recited “Pledge to the Flag” & sang “God Bless America”. Meeting closed by singing club song, ”We Love Our Valley Home”.

Accompanist – Jan Delashmit
Invocation – John Geer - Andy Rooney’s “Things I’ve Learned”
Secretary Report – Maxine Topel
Treasurer Report – Sandy Novak
John Geer is checking with company that would give a 5-10 minute talk, then free screening for those interested on hearing loss .. plus donuts. More on this next week.

MANAGEMENT REPORT: Manager Craig Daves asked that we return yellow cards placed in our mailboxes about package pickup to office Concerning pool heater, repairs will be made soon; hot tub jets are working but do not “play” with settings. A new kitchen air conditioner is on order. Joe’s Air is coming to check gas smell in back room heater. IMPORTANT…If management finds WHO is picking up dog poop, then dropping in someone else’s yard, you will be in big trouble! Grace Thornton mentioned the light flickering on & off behind big hall. This will be checked into. Website for park is riovalleyestates.com

Treasurer Sandy Novak's gave her report. It was approved.

Properties chair Ron Zoeller reported curtains are on order for kitchen. Rope light replacement has been reviewed per Brock & Craig’s suggestions and proposal will be presented next week. Mark Probst said at cost of $ per chair he would clean these, looking for volunteers who would help him. Board Members -- Properties – Ron Zoeller, Mike Reiff, Larry Pavlis; Finance – Sandy Novak, Gordon Amos, Jim Moeller.

Brock Laing said entertainment chairs for next season, Marylyn & Lucy attended showcase with him last week & have booked some for next season. This Friday night, come enjoy Adam Pope & Rebel Roots, $7 pp. They were here a couple yrs ago, remember base player in particular & she was great! They feature faith, family, country & rockabilly. Brock announced D-9 has been sold with price more than 3 digits. Good news-- vacancies have been filled for Feb. 1 with Lindley Creek ($8 pp) & Feb. 22 with Kelli Marie ($7 pp). Come for potluck 5 p.m. prior to Friday entertainment with Mary Nelson & Red Tyler chairing. Good crowd last week!

Monday Night Dances begin tonight with Country Roland Jr., $6 pp .. 7-9:30 p.m. Craig & Dana Daves chair. Residents should stay away from hall noon to 3 p.m. for crew to set up & floor cleaning. If you don't know, dances are BYOB.

Free Thursday night movies will begin January 17.

Helen Curtis asks you to call 603-674-3869, when you know of someone needing card due to illness/death in family. Sam is filling in this week & next. Cards to sign are in office area. If you call Helen, leave message & name. She will return calls if she knows who called. Cards this week up for Carleen Basler, hospital with back issues, now home; Louisa Rodriguez, grandson passed away; Petra Lopez, hospital with health issues; Del Telfor, hospital with pneumonia.

Announcement from Judy Nordquist along with Lynn Stamp & Doug Novak are checking Rio Valley Estates guidelines (club not park) .. We are bringing guidelines up to date; they are printed in park directories. If you have an addition or correction, please write it up, sign your name & give to one of these folks. Turn in by Friday, Jan. 18.

Sat. morning breakfasts are on .. thanks to Ed Tice, his Moravia IA friends plus the Printys from Dunkerton, IA! Come 7 – 8:30 a.m. for pancakes & sausage.

Donna Gabbert keeps us informed with a blog. Find it at www.donnasramblingsatrve.blogspot.com ..

Club website by Judi DeKoning is RVEWTC.com .. for “members only”, the password is riovalley.

Upcoming Events:

Jan. 16 – Ladies Salad Luncheon, noon
Jan. 18 – Wellness Screening, Blood Draw, 6:30 a.m., 12 hr. fasting
Jan. 24 – Sock Hop, doors open 5:15, kitchen opens 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 30 – Bean Feed, 4:30 p.m., $2 pp, Topels chairing
Feb. 7 – Craft Sale, 8 a.m. to noon .. pies needed
Feb. 13 – Cancer Tea, 10:30 a.m., $5 pp, Dianna Bruce chairs
Feb. 17 – Farewell for Brock & Adrienne Laing, 3 p.m.
Feb. 21 – Old West Party, more info on this later
March 6 – Iowa Potluck, noon, Hovers chair
Would you like samples of Bar-B-Cuties Restaurant? Brock Laing offered to set up a time for them to bring food for tasting. More later ..

Dave Johnson #93 is working on park directories. If you have changes from last year’s info, he needs this by Jan. 25. New directories will be on sale Feb. 4.

Activity Calendars available per Judi DeKoning. If supply is depleted, office will print one for you. Give any changes to Judi, #67.

Notify editor (written notes appreciated) Mary Lou Benson, Lot #103, 956-532-9665, of items you wish to be printed in weekly newsletter. Also appreciate being notified of changes in chairman, times of activities, etc.

Lucy Johnson thanked the pie bakers & all who came to last week’s Flea Market.

Marge Rexroad is needing quilters Tuesdays, if just for tying. All are welcome to come help! She also has some blocks that need to be embroidered, pick up from Marge.

Park Breakfast is at Fiesta Tex-Mex Thursdays, 8 a.m.

Wednesday Social Hours continue .. all invited to join in. Bring snacks & choice of beverage.

Hand & Foot has changed from 7 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wed. & is played in the Dart room behind stage.

Senior Yoga resumes today after morning meeting, & is held Tuesday & Thursday at 10 a.m. with Janie Maxwell.

John Norris is working on a Picture Directory which would help the new people in our park. He will create an electronic directory to put names & faces together. This will be a snap shot type photo only, no sales of pictures. It will include a minimum of name with photo & add’l info such as home address, phone numbers, emails will be included if you like. Pictures will be taken starting this week on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 12:30 to 4:30 in big hall. No appointments, just come & go.

Golden Age Olympics sponsored by McAllen Parks & Rec has replaced the Senior Olympics our park took part in. This is open to anyone in the Rio Valley area & you can enter individually or as part of a park team. Entry fee is $7 for 1st event, $5 for each add’l event entered. A list & sign up sheet is in main hall. Park management will provide a park tee shirt for each person entering. Included are many card games, sporting games, baking, other events. For more info, contact John Norris #246.

Ladies’ Salad Luncheon is scheduled Wed., Jan. 16, with “The 3 J's” .. Janean Geer, Judy Greenlee, Judy Shivley .. chairing. It begins at noon & all should bring a salad. Cost is $1 pp. Theme is Snow White & 7 Dwarfs. See sign up sheet on back board in Friendship Hall.

Rio Grande Wellness Blood Draws will be 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 18. Pay with cash or check, no debit/credit cards. You must fast for 12 hours prior to testing.

Tickets at $6 pp (table of 8/$48) are going fast for the 9th annual Sock Hop! It is scheduled for Jan. 24. Get tickets at Barnhart's Lot #276, Ken's office or Monday meetings. Kathy Cochran filled in this morning in Ken's absence. Doors open 5:15 p.m. & not sooner, kitchen opens 5:30. Hot dogs will be sold 25 cents each, 10 cent sodas & chips. Bring small change, no large bills, for your purchases. Decorate your table, win a prize. Decorate tables beginning at noon on Thursday. Games & great entertainment by Fred Goldsberry begin at 6 p.m.

Get your $2 pp tickets for Bean Feed which will be held Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m. Dick & Max Topel chair.

Craft Sale Chair Mary Norby says all tables are sold for the Feb. 7 sale. There will be a sign up sheet for pies.

You may purchase tickets for the Cancer Tea to be held ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​February 13. This year's theme is “Lots of Love”. Chair is Dianna Bruce. Time is 10:30 a.m. with tickets $5 pp. Bring tea cup & saucer for exchange.

According to Joyce Amos, a “FAREWELL PARTY will be held for Brock & Adrienne Laing on Feb. 17, 3 p.m. in Friendship Hall. Everyone is urged to attend as we will surely miss this couple next season!

Pat Printy announced she will chair ROPA Style Show with date of March 14, 1 p.m. If you have anything you would like to model from ROPA, thrift store, Good Will, wherever, see sign up sheets.
“Apparently, it’s only appropriate to say ‘Look at you! .. You got so big!’ to children. Adults tend to get offended.”

GAME RESULTS - Place scores, winner names, complete info on dates & name of game in plastic container back of Friendship Hall. WRITE LEGIBLY!

BOWLING – Jan. 11 –
Women’s High Game & Series – Venita Lingle 156 & 434
BRIDGE – Jan. 8
1st – Sue Shaffer 3450 2nd – Dick Gibson 2140
Jan. 10 –
1st – Catherine Donovan Score? 2nd – Maud Fisher Score?
Jan. 12 –
1st – Ed Hover 3150` 2nd – Dolores Mason 2490
CANASTA – Table of 4 –
Jan. 7 - Janean Geer, Patty Lamp 29870
Jan. 9 – Donna Gabbert, Nancy Argo 30240
Jan. 11 – Jewel Kruckman, Judy Greenlee 22865
Table of 6 – Jan. 9 -
Grace Thornton, Jean Stamp. Janean Geer 37495
Jan. 11 –
Marge Rexroad, Donna Gabbert, Fran Hryniw 34925
CRIBBAGE – Jan. 9 - 1st – Millie Ricke 677
2nd – David Clement 677 3rd – Grace Thornton 650
DOMINOS – Mexican Train – Jan. 8 – Marge Reishus, Dottie Sanders, Dick Topel, Catherine Donovan, Darlene Bryant, Michael Mattingly, Donna Gabbert, Ron Baker, Mary Lou Sirovy, Fran Hryniw, Janel Baker, Virgil; Tyler, Ann Johnson Jan. 13 – Mary Lou Sirovy, Grace Thornton, Dottie Sanders, Dick Topel, Vic Greenlee, Janie Maxwell, Virgil Tyler, Ann Johnson, Fran Hryniw, Virginia Baker, Mary Christianson, Janel Baker
DUMMY RUMMY – Jan. 12 –
1st – Judy Greenlee 215 2nd – Venita Lingle 221
3rd – Denny Argo 244` 4th – Robert Lingle 252
EUCHRE – Date?
1st – Allen Swanson 47 2nd – Jewel Kruckman 42
GOLF – Tierra Santa –
Dec. 20-Low Gross-Mark Fisher76 Low Net -Neil Kommer 72
Jan. 4-Low Gross-Mark Fisher 76 Low Net - -Vic Greenlee 73
Jan. 7-Low Gross-Mark Fisher 79 Low Net - -Neil Kommer 77
Palmview –
Jan. 8 Low Gross-Mark Fisher 77 LowNet -- Vic Greenlee 69
PINOCHLE – Single Deck – Jan. 12 –
1st – Raymond Davis 440 2nd – Sharon Bussinger 437
SHUFFLING – Jan. 8 – Dave Johnson, Robert Lingle, Ross McAuley, Dick Topel, Ron Henderson, Jim Moeller Jan. 11 – Jim Moeller, Ross McAuley, Dave Johnson, Dick Topel
TEXAS HOLD'EM POKER – Jan. 12 – 1st – Harriet Stromer
2nd – Jim Rader 3rd – Lynn Stamp
TIC – Jan. 9 – No scores were written down!
1st – April Walling 2nd – Patty Lamp
3rd – Gene Valley 4th – Dana Daves
Editors note .. REMEMBER WHEN ??

Telephones .. First one my family had was a party line phones…then dial desk phones. And now cell phones? First we had flip phones, then Smart phones smarter than us? Now I have an I phone. We seniors have come a long way!!

On to computers .. I remember when beging working at Farm Bureau keeping books with a pencil & handwritten ledger in 1972, typing the weekly Spokesman page on an electric typewriter…. I thought what a magical machine that was. AAAH…an even more magical machine when I had to do all this on a computer!! That was the beginning of a headache.

Yesterday…..after church, golf & ice cream…we made a trip over to our friendly tech guy at Best Buy better known to Tom & me as The Geek Squad. We took our somewhat antique computer to him .. he worked diligently (?) and was successful in SELLING US A NEW COMPUTER!

Thus .. your newsletter is LATE .. and I thank my park guru computer friend Judi DeKoning for letting me use hers. I’m picking up my brand NeW model later today.

SHOULD WE SENIORS REALLY BE ALLOWED TO EVEN HAVE CELL PHONES AND COMPUTERS? I AM HOPING Tom & Ken don’t decide they now need a new boat for fishing !!!

That’s All Folks – Til Next Time !!