Sue Flynn and Mary Pierce attended the first meeting for Relay for Life. Each team was to bring a purple dessert and $5. The best dessert winner took home all the donations for their team.
They also handed out spirit points if you wore purple and a purple pilgrim hat. Thanks to Patti Hill and Carrie Solberg for making the hats that Sue and Mary wore.
(Courtesy of Sandra Gilbert-Abel)
There will be some fundraisers in our park to help our Over the Rainbow-For The Cure teams to collect for this project that will end in late March. The donations are for all kinds of cancer, so be generous and help the teams.
One of our improvements was recently completed. The sod was put into place on the horseshoe and bocce courts. The volunteers did this on a rainy day, but it was completed. We will have nice looking courts to play on, so thank you for all those that helped to complete this project.
Thanksgiving at Rainbow Village is a special time to count our blessings with each other. It takes a lot of preparations to prepare a turkey dinner for all of us to share in our social hall. Our chairs were Harry Hersey and Doug Jones.
On Wednesday, you could smell the turkeys roasting, and at 1 p.m., his helpers picked the turkey off the bones. There also were helpers to prepare the trays with turkey and filling for each table to be served.
On Wednesday night, the tables were set up for the hostesses to decorate. On Thursday morning, the gravy was made, and the turkeys and dressing were heated up for the meal.
At 12:30 p.m., residents arrived with their covered dishes, and at 1 p.m. sharp we were all sitting down to enjoy our Thanksgiving meal after our pastor, Jim Austin, said the blessing on the food and for all the other blessings that were bestowed upon us all over the year.
We all enjoyed the tasty meal and fellowship with each other.
All in all, it was a great day with many helpers who did a great job. Thank you Harry, Doug and all their helpers.
After Thanksgiving, residents come back to Rainbow Village from the cold North. Each day more arrive, and we greet them with a hug or handshake. We are so happy to see each other. We are like family.
We will be having a Christmas bazaar on Dec. 13 from 8 a.m. to noon. Judy Hersey-Phillips is the chair, and there will be a big rummage sale.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus will make an appearance from 11 a.m. to noon. Come and visit the vendors, good food, bake sale, and maybe do some Christmas shopping.
We are looking forward to the upcoming Christmas activities like the annual Christmas tea, the Christmas bazaar, cookie exchange, Toys For Tots, Christmas caroling and our Christmas Eve service.
By Sandra Gilbert-Abel
Published December 10, 2014
