RVE CLUB MEETING –Chair Judy Nordquist called meeting to order. We recited “Pledge to the Flag” & sang “God Bless America”. Meeting closed by singing club song.
Accompanist – Jan Delashmit
Invocation – Paul Delashmit
Secretary – Dana Daves, sub for Virginia Baker
Treasurer – Sandy Olson
If you’d like your blood pressure checked, Nancy Gonnerman is behind the stage (quilt room) on Mondays 8:30-9 a.m. before our morning meeting.
Managers’ Report – None today. . Website for park is riovalleyestates.com, After Christmas, Jan O’Dell will have white poinsettias available for planting.
Board Members -- Properties – George Morgan, Lynn Stamp, Jose Ponce; Finance – Vicki Davis, Janel Baker, Sandy Olson. If you have issues to present, contact any board member. They sit in a group toward the right front of Friendship Hall prior to Monday meeting.
Dana Daves gave Secretary report in absence of Virginia Baker who hasn’t arrived at RVE yet, approved.
Sandy Olson gave Treasurer’s report, accepted.
Lynn Stamp reported for Properties Committee. Please note Properties committee members shown above have keys to buildings, kitchen, etc. If you are chairing an event, you may sign out a set of keys from them, then sign keys back in when returned after event. Dance chairs & Entertainment chairs have a set for the season.
Judy Nordquist informs us a place is needed to store plastic bags that are made into floor mats.
TY to Patty Lamp & Phyllis Branstetter who served coffee & donuts today. If anyone is interested in buying the donuts for any particular Monday meeting, see chair Judy Nordquist.
Dances are scheduled for 2023 according to chairs Craig & Dana Daves. First dance will be Jan. 2 to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Each month there will be a “special theme” dance that Dana will announce. Schedules are on back wall.
Marylyn Mason & Lucy Johnson, Entertainment chairs, report Friday night shows are scheduled with no cancellations this season. The Cleckler Elementary School Children’s Choir will perform Friday, Dec. 16, 6:30 p.m. We’re asking for $5 pp. All money will be given to the school.
Marylyn chairs a Christmas Eve Social on Friday, Dec. 23. She is in need of some cookie bakers for the social.
If you don’t have an RVE name tag, check with Donna Gabbert who makes these, $3 each. We encourage folks to purchase & wear them.
Donna Gabbert puts cards in office area for your signature. If you know of someone needing card due to illness or death in family, call her at 956-968-6684. This week, cards were up for: Jackie Jacobs, gallbladder surgery, in Minnesota; Judy DeKoning, surgery for broken shoulder after a fall.
Donna Gabbert keeps us informed with a blog. Find it at www.donnasramblingsatrve.blogspot.com Her email is bodogabby@aol.com.
Prayer for Good Health for Seniors
“God grant me the Senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into
the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.”
Upcoming Events:
Dec. 2 – Park Patio Sale, 8 a.m. to noon
Dec. 6-7-8 – Directory pictures, sign up sheet
Dec. 8 – Chicken Dinner, Kunkels chair, $10 pp tickets on sale
Dec. 10 – Puppy Pics on decorated stage, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dec. 16 – Cleckler School Children’s Choir Program, 6:30 pm
Dec. 23 – Christmas Eve Social, Marylyn Mason chairs, time?
Thanks to Chuck & Nancy Gonnerman and their committee who planned our Thanksgiving Day Dinner. Think everyone went home with full tummies! Chairpersons are needed for next year. A set of keys were found in the kitchen after the dinner. If yours, contact Judy Nordquist.
A Christmas Toy Drive Box will be placed in the office lobby soon. Organized annually by the Weslaco Police Dept., park residents may donate for this drive.
Donna Gabbert reports a Park Pictorial Directory will be done this season. First group of pics will be taken Dec. 6-7-8. Donna can be reached at lot 270 to set up your appointment. To clear up any misunderstanding, everyone photographed will be included in the directory free. You may purchase album for $20 . Your portrait will be given to you on a CD or bring a USB storage device instead, cost is $20.00 for the CD . Those not coming to The Valley this year may also be included by sending a picture & $5 to Donna. A USB thumb drive & digital file will be available. We may have a second session in mid-January for those who arrive after the holidays. Directories should be available by March 2023. Besure to bring a check or cash with you on the day of your appointment.
Mark & Linda Kunkel #411 are chairing Mabel’s Chicken Dinner Dec. 8 in Friendship Hall. See Kathy Cochran or Julie Lawrence for tickets at $10 pp.
Marylyn Mason has scheduled a “Puppy (Cat?) Pics with Santa Claus” that will be open to our residents and those from other parks as well. There is a 25 lb. limit with pictures to be taken on our decorated stage in big hall on Dec. 10, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info, call Marylyn at 816-616-8320.
Marylyn Mason is needing 100 wine bottle corks for a craft project. She is also requesting that 5-6 ladies might volunteer to assist her in various activities while her co-chair Lucy Johnson is gone over the holidays. Contact her at #417.
Memory Book is located in card room. If anyone notices a name/obituary is not included of someone we lost this past year, contact John Norris.
Looking Ahead ..
Get ready for the Kentucky Derby Dance Party to be held Thursday, Jan. 19, with Robert & Mary Norby. chairing. Mary says “be thinking about a Derby hat.” Tickets will be available after Christmas. There will be food, horse races, much fun. Steven May will entertain.
Our annual Craft Sale is scheduled Thursday, Feb. 2. We have a new chair, Julie Lawrence. More info will be announced soon.
The past few years a Corn Beef Dinner has been held in March, celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Previous chair Chuck Gonnerman can give you info on this. He declines to chair so we are needing new chairperson. Don’t be afraid to step up, even if you are new. Others will help you.
All activities in Friendship Hall should be cleared with Virginia Baker on Club Secretary’s Calendar. Until she arrives in December, Dana Daves has the Calendar. Judi DeKoning posts monthly activities on back bulletin board.
Editor Mary Lou Benson sends info to news media including Winter Texan Times, Monitor, Winter Texan Connection & Welcome Home Winter Texan to announce activities that are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Get written info to editor 3 weeks before event please. PAID ads are sent to media by the chairperson of the activity.
Editor thanks all for written notes for newsletter. Some items are edited for content & size. Newsletters are available Monday mid-afternoon by back door in card room. Some may be found in office lobby area. Editor says thanks for thoughts & prayers since husband Tom Benson’s illness. He appreciates you all!
GAME RESULTS: Place scores, winner names, complete info on dates & name of game in the plastic container back of Friendship Hall. Please write legibly.
BEAN BAG –
CANASTA – Table of 4 –
Nov. 21 – Fran Hryniw, Jean Stamp 26855
CRIBBAGE -
DOMINOES – Mexican Train – Nov. 20 – Mardell Blom, Judy Greenlee Nov. 20 – Fran Hryniw, Janel Baker Nov. 22 – Phyllis Branstetter, Mardell Blom, Jean Stamp, Ann Johnson, Marge Reishus Nov. 27 – Marge Reishus, Fran Hryniw, Janel Baker, Patty Lamp, Dick Topel
DUMMY RUMMY – Nov. 26 –
1st – Nancy Argo 223 2nd – Sandy Lenius 248
3rd – Doug Novak 310 4th – Sue Barnhart 312
GOLF –
PINOCHLE – Single Deck
SHUFFLING –
TEXAS HOLD’EM POKER – Nov. 18 –
1st – John Quail 2nd – Jean Stamp 3rd – Lynn Stamp
Nov. 25 –
1st – Lynn Stamp 2nd – John Quail 3rd – Jean Stamp
TIC – Nov. 23 –
1st – Mardell Blom 168 2nd – Agnes Moore 176
3rd – Vic Greenlee 196 4th – John Norris 215
Some One-Liners About God
Give God what’s right .. not what’s left.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma ..
but never let him be the period.
Don’t wait for six strong men to take you to church.
We don’t change God’s message. His message changes us.
The church is prayer-conditioned.
Plan ahead .. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord.
Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
Read the Bible. It will scare the hell out of you.
And this one ..
NEVER GIVE THE DEVIL A RIDE.
HE WILL ALWAYS WANT TO DRIVE.
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