SENIORS PLANNING ANNUAL MEETING.Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist LANCASTER - Friends of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Senior Center aregearing up for their annual meeting at 1 p.m. Dec. 13. President Ann Bell Ann Bell (born 29 April 1940) is a Cheshire-born British actress, probably best known for playing prisoner of war Marion Jefferson in the BBC World War II drama series Tenko during the early 1980s. says it will be a good time for people unfamiliar with the organization to find out what it's all about. ``We're all volunteers and we spend a lot of time planning center activities and working to address any concerns about the center that are brought to our attention,'' she said. ``We want to thank all our members who continue their support every year. It's their cooperation that helps make our activities so successful.'' New officers and board members will be elected and installed at the meeting in the multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room at the center, 777 W. Jackman St. ``Anyone who would like to become involved in any way, as a member,candidate for office or to chair a committee, is invited to let the office personnel know,'' said Bell. Entertainment will be provided by the Happy Singers, and refreshments will be served. Seniors with questions about Medicare and other health insurance cannow receive assistance. The Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program provides free counseling and advocacy by a trained counselor, Mary Jones. Through the Center for Health Care Rights, Jones is available by appointment at the Antelope Valley Senior Center on Thursday afternoons. She can help with questions on Medicare coverage, claims and costs, HMOs, Medicare supplemental insurance, long-term care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. insurance and related issues. Call the senior center at (661) 726-4400 to schedule an appointment. Like clockwork, the time has come again to refinish re·fin·ish tr.v. re·fin·ished, re·fin·ish·ing, re·fin·ish·es To put a new finish on (furniture). re·fin the senior center's multipurpose room floor. The center will be closed for that purpose from 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, after the noon meal, and won't be reopened until 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 23. This will not affect the service of noon meals at the Palmdale Senior Center, 1002 E. Ave. Q-12. For additional information, call the office before 1 p.m. Jan. 13. For information on the meals program, call the Antelope Valley Committee on Aging, (661) 945-3223. Menus for the week at the senior life nutrition sites in Lancaster andPalmdale have been announced. All meals include bread, margarine andcoffee, tea or milk, for a suggested donation of $2. Monday: Mushroom chicken, rice pilaf, cooked cabbage, lettuce salad, juice, apple. Tuesday: Lasagna, chicken soup chicken soup Chicken broth Folk medicine Jewish penicillin A fowl broth with a long tradition as a home remedy for URIs, which may be a nasal decongestant, inhibit growth of pneumococci in vitro, and stimulate immune responsiveness in WBCs Mainstream medicine A , spinach, garden salad, vanilla pudding. Wednesday: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, minestrone soup, Normandy vegetables, cottage cheese cottage cheese a soft, uncured cheese made from soured skim milk; most of the lactose is removed with the whey. Used in low-residue diets for dogs and cats. , cookies. Thursday: Hot turkey sandwich, bread dressing, parslied carrots, tossed salad, juice, gelatin gelatin or animal jelly, foodstuff obtained from connective tissue (found in hoofs, bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) of vertebrate animals by the action of boiling water or dilute acid. . Friday: Pastrami sandwich, potato salad, corn, creamy coleslaw cole·slaw also cole slaw n. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise or a vinaigrette. , juice, pears. |
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