A couple of notes that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook. My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.
Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active.
02Jan2009 On New Year’s Day we went to Mike and Linda’s and had a potluck with two other couples: Mike and Carol Burdette and Sam and Judy Pugh. Chris was back from Florida and he helped make some of the food. David called us to pick him an offer we can’t refuse. So we took David to Culver’s for a grilled cheese sandwich, fries and a Coke and then to Menard’s.
New Year’s Eve we went with Mike and Linda to the Marriot Courtyard in Ankeny for dinner and a dance. The meal was great and so was the band, Flipside.
Sad news that our friend Harry Cunningham lost his battle with cancer on New Years’ Day. The funeral is next Friday.
06Jan2009 I attended the first official board meeting of Hope Village. This is a big dream to establish a large self-contained ICF/MR village in Des Moines for an adult MR/DD population. The board is made up of very impressive members. The process of defining our mission and vision statement was a case study in how to collaborate. It was respectful and purposeful discourse with a result that reflected each person’s input.
07Jan2009 On the evening of the 7th we went to a visitation in Johnston. Our friend Marilyn Paul’s father died at the nursing home. He was 93, afflicted with Alzheimer’s, blind and lost his wife (Marilyn’s mother) in the previous year so his passing was not much of a surprise. We ran into an old friend, Howard Scott at the visitation. Howard once worked at GuideOne in auto underwriting and as a marketing rep. When he left to run his agency I took over his territory (IA and MO) in 1980.
