NEWSLETTER May 2026

April showers bring May flowers! My tea rose bush got so heavy with

blooms that it fell over! I guess it didn’t help that I hadn’t pruned it back and

it was over 6 feet tall. Lessons learned. Ok, before I get into this month’s

news, I have a correction from last month. It seems it was being interpreted

by some that the Friends was footing the bill for the new carpeting and

hopefully new kitchen flooring for the Senior Center. Not so. This is strictly

a city-paid project and is not coming out of our funds. I guess when I stated

that “we had many irons in the fire” it was thought that we were paying for

it. Thinking back, I guess that I was perhaps speaking in the “royal we”

vernacular combining their projects with our projects as both our interests

result in a fresher, newer, safer and more attractive senior center for you all

to enjoy.

Speaking of new and fresher things, the Friends has purchased new

furniture for the lobby area. We will be getting a new couch, two love seats

and a coffee table in the art gallery area and two comfy chairs near the

puzzle table. These should arrive sometime between now and late June.

We are also waiting for a revised estimate on new classroom and dining

room chairs. We still have many items on our senior center and Friends

wish list and hopefully, we will be able to fulfill a lot of them between now

and the end of the year.

Our events for the month will include a chicken Alfredo lunch on the 12th

and chicken tortilla soup and sandwich on the 26th . Fundraiser bingo will be

on Friday the 29th .

Ralph Kraft our resident glass artist has begun work on the Wortman Park

Art Gallery sign and it will be a stunner! So that will be very exciting to be

sure.

You are probably aware that the center will be closed from May 15th thru

the 25th (Memorial Day) for the carpet laying.

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”

Roald Dahl

Karen