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Joyce Taurman 10/1 Mary Hoffman 10/1 Arlene Sande 10/2 Sandra Brazell 10/2 Diane Shearer 10/3 Laurie Hardesty Swan 10/4 Boyd Morgan 10/6 Katherine Eccleston 10/6 John Sarti 10/8 Ruth Ann Winter 10/10 Shirley Siegle 10/13 October Birthdays After taking full advantage of the long summer days, it is now time to settle into this lovely season of splendid colors and chilly days that even the warmth of the sun can’t chase away entirely. Autumn is upon us and as the march toward winter begins, we get a brief reprieve, basking in the brilliant colors only unveiled this time of year. Though we try to duplicate these hues with crayon or paint, they are never quite as true as a changing tree or the blue of an autumn sky. You touch my heart in a different way, you stunning, breathtaking, enchanted time of year! Lynn West 10/16 Mindy Horne 10/18 Frances Mengal 10/21 Inez Bobb 10/21 Dave Fowler 10/22 Judy McCubbin 10/25 Janet Koeber 10/28 Jeanne DiPrima 10/28 Jane Delay 10/29 Pamela Knowles 10/30 Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day. Shira Tamir Big Pinochle News! Is it skill? Is it luck? Is it a little of both! Ken Ehret was the big winner this past month with a double straight worth 1500 points! GOOD JOB, KEN! ---PAGE BREAK--- Dinner Club October 20, 2023 at 5:00 $15.00 per person Space is limited! *****Sign up by Tuesday, October 17, 2023***** A night of delicious food, fun, music and dancing! Menu: Appetizers Rye Bread / Bratwurst / Sauerkraut Hot German Potato Salad / Braised Red Cabbage / Apple Crisp Flu Shot Clinic The Gallatin City-County Health Department will be at the Belgrade Senior Center on Thursday, October 12 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. providing flu vaccines. Both the regular and high-dose vaccines will be available. Individuals with health insurance, please bring your insurance card. For most health insurances, Medicare and Medicaid included, the flu shot will be covered as a preventative service at no charge to you. Medicare will cover the high-dose vaccine as well. For those with no health insurance the cost is $21 per person and payable at time of service. For more information: Fall Festival Shout Out A HUGE Thank You to all who helped make the Fall Festival a success! A special thank you Debi Kemp for taking lead on the Float! Thank you to all who helped with the breakfast and Float! Marilyn Morgan, Bonnie Campbell, Pam Knowles, Bob Nelson, Charity Kauffman, Laura Elkinton, Julie Hanson, Ibis Pineiro and Debi Kemp. Thank you to all who represented the Center by riding on the Float! A special Thank You to Val Weaver, Steve Anderson, Susan Ottson, Steve Klotz and Malachi Kjersem for all your hard work in the kitchen! Mark Your Calendar! AARP Driver Safety Course: November 4, 2023 from 9:00-1:00 Call or stop by to sign up! ---PAGE BREAK--- Events at the Senior Center! October 26, 2023 7:00 - 8:30 am Belgrade Breakfast Club The best breakfast in town! Fireside Book Club: Friday, October 6. 2023 at 1:00 We will be discussing The Book of Lost Names. The book for October will be American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. October 18, 2023 at 12:00 October Birthday Lunch Blood Pressure Check October 31, 2023 Costume Day! Salad Bar & Pizza Party! Put on your favorite costume and join in the fun! Call by 10:00 to sign up! Trick or Treat Street October 31, 2023 The Center will be handing out candy at the Belgrade Chamber Trick or Treat Street. If you would like to donate individually sealed store bought candy, just drop it at the Center by Monday, October 30, 2023. This event will be held outside the Center! If you would like to dress up and pass out candy, let me know! ---PAGE BREAK--- Daily Activities After Lunch Activities Mon: 12:30 Pinochle 12:45 Arts & Crafts Tues: 12:45 SAIL Wed: 1:00 Zumba Thurs: 12:45 Sing Along *1:30 Stepping On (Oct. 19) Fri: Activities 1st Friday: Book Club Sat: 4th Sat: Quilting Group *Stepping On is full. We do have a wait list. Morning Activities Mon: 9:00 Full Body Workout 10:15 Line Dancing Tues: 8:30 Ball Room Dancing 9:30 Full Body Workout 10:45 Ukulele Class (see back page) Wed: 9:00 Yoga 10:30 Bingo Thurs: 9:30 Full Body Workout 10:45 SAIL Fri: 9:00 Full Body Workout Gallatin Valley PACKATHON for Haiti on October 21, 2023 This is your chance to pack enough school lunches for one student for a full year! Call or stop by the Center for more information on how you can you can make a difference! [PHONE REDACTED] We offer some great activities that really should have more participants than they do! As way of reminder, the following activities are available for you!! Art & Crafts: Monday at 12:45 - Bring your own project to work on or just drop by and work on something provided by the group! Bingo is back on the schedule—Wednesday at 10:30! Come play and stay for lunch! Sing Along: Thursday at 12:45 - I KNOW there are more singers out there who would love to stretch their vocal cords! ---PAGE BREAK--- You Only Turn One Once I will not presume that everyone will be interested in this little tidbit of infor- mation about Dave and Lisa (me) so I give you full permission to move on to the next page but for the rest of you, here it is - We had a wonderful English Cocker for 16 years named Elway. (Yes, we are Bronco fans!!) He was 1 in a million. Everything about him was perfect for our family. We raised him along side our daughter and he even helped walk her down the aisle when she got married. (That wasn’t planned. We just forgot to put him away and since he followed Dave everywhere, it was inevitable!) Elway passed away in 2006 and took a huge section of our animal loving heart with him. For reasons I still can’t comprehend, I thought it would be the most wonderful idea in the world to throw our hearts right out there again to get beat up and destroyed so in December of 2022, we got a puppy! A sweet little 8 week old American Cocker who is NOTHING like Elway! He’s wild and crazy, loves to chew anything he can get his mouth on and Dave spends more time chasing him around than vise versa. His name is Sir Remington from the House of Cocker—Remi for short. We are all learning a ton and he has added so much to our lives! He gets to hang out with us at the Center and pretty much every- one who meets him thinks he’s pretty sweet (I am positive that’s not the case for all who have had the pleasure of being jumped on or barked at and to those I apologize from the bottom of my heart! We are all work in progress). But now I come to the reason for this rambling dissertation! Since we look for any reason to party: Remi’s First Birthday Party October 5, 2023 Join us for lunch and help us celebrate! Menu: Salad Bar Chili Dogs Tator Pups (Tots) And variety of “puppy themed” edibles! Call before 10:00 to sign up. ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- -The Labrador Retriever has been on the AKC’s top 10 most popular breeds list for longer than any other breed. -A dog’s nose print is unique, much like a person’s fingerprint. -All dogs dream, but puppies and senior dogs dream more frequently than adult dogs. -A dog’s sense of smell is legendary, but did you know that their nose has as many as 300 million receptors? In comparison, a human nose has about 5 million. -Dogs’ noses can sense heat and thermal radiation, which explains why blind or deaf dogs can still hunt. -Yawning is contagious — even for dogs. Research shows that the sound of a human yawn can trigger one from your dog. And it’s four times as likely to happen when it’s the yawn of a person your pet knows. -Dogs curl up in a ball when sleeping to protect their organs — a holdover from their days in the wild, when they were vulnerable to predator attacks. -The Australian Shepherd is not actually from Australia. In fact, they are an American breed. -The Labrador Retriever is originally from Newfoundland. -Human blood pressure goes down when petting a dog. And so does the dog’s. -There are over 75 million pet dogs in the U.S. — more than in any other country. -A person who hunts with a Beagle is known as a “Beagler.” -Dogs are not color-blind. They can see blue and yellow. -All puppies are born deaf. -Dalmatians are born completely white. They develop their spots as they get older. -Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. We humans have between 2,000 and 10,000. -A study shows that dogs are among a small group of animals who show volun- tary unselfish kindness towards others without any reward. A Few Fun Facts About Our Four-Legged Friends Golden Retriever, Husky, Poodle, Labrador Retriever, German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, Irish Setter, Rottweiler, Basset Hound, Alaskan Malamute, Bulldog, Doberman, Boxer, Pomeranian, Dingo, Chihuahua, Yorkshire Terrier, Dachshund, Collie, Beagle ---PAGE BREAK--- It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! Calling all Ukelele Players! We will start working on Christmas music this month! If you are a beginner and would like to catch up to the Tuesday morning group, let us know you are interested in learning to play by calling the Center and we will put together a beginner class.