| Musicale shares the joy of music
Wellsprings Assisted Living Center in Ontario played host to the Payette Friday Musicale Club recently when the group held its January meeting in "The Great Room" there. A program entitled"Religious Music of Many Faiths" directed by Ilo Schmid at the grand piano and organ featured Bette and Joe Hopper of Fruitland on violin and guitar with their group, as well as TVCC vocalists Madison and Kylie Montee of New Plymouth. Residents of Wellsprings were on hand to welcome the club, hear the musical performance and enjoy the cookies and punch that followed. An uplifting anthem, "On Eagles Wings," was followed by sing-a-long hymns "When the Saints Go Marching In," "Jesus Loves Me" and "Blessed Assurance." "Morning Has Broken" was sung as a lovely duet by the Montee sisters, Madison and Kylie.
Creating a caregiving ministry
Several years ago, a simple question by a fellow church member led MTSU professor James E. Taylor on a quest to help other family caregivers. "I interviewed some at my church, Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Nashville," said Taylor, a social work professor at MTSU. "They asked me, 'Why don't we have a family caregivers ministry?'" .
Working to survive
Miller, who worked for years as a home health aid, is in a training program for low-income senior citizens who want to re-enter the work force. She earns $6.15 an hour -- Maryland's minimum wage -- working 20 hours a week as part of the Senior Solutions Program, run by the Open Doors Career Center Inc. based in Aberdeen. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Frederick woman is grateful for the strong support of family and friends who help her keep life in balance as she struggles to regain financial independence. "I'm depending on a lot," she said. Her strong faith in God keeps her hopeful, she said. The money Miller earns -- $123 a week -- combined with the $816 a month she receives from Social Security, something she was forced to tap into early, are her only sources of income.
Family History: Facts And Hopes
Family histories are strange things some times. Just when you think you have a handle on where your people have come from, a spanner gets thrown in the works. In my family we've always known about my father's family to as far back as 16th century Portugal for his mother's family, and the days of Wallace and his gory bed for his father's family in Scotland. But my mother's family has always been a little more mysterious in that although we know where in Europe they were living when they came to Canada, we don't know what path had taken them to that final destination but one. As Jews they had been on the move for generations. Always being afraid to settle in deep enough to put down roots of belonging because who knew when the winds of change would whisper in the ear of the King/Prince of the city telling him it's time for the Jews to leave.
Outbreak sickens hundreds across SJ, Calaveras
Four senior care facilities remain under watch after a countywide outbreak of the gastrointestinal illness known as norovirus, which has sickened 323 care home residents in the past six weeks, according to San Joaquin County's Department of Public Health Services. The department released the list of skilled-nursing and assisted-living facilities in San Joaquin County that have reported outbreaks of the virus after The Record requested the documents via the Freedom of Information Act. Eight facilities since Dec. 14 have reported norovirus affecting numerous residents, including more than 100 sick seniors at the Manteca Care & Rehabilitation Center at 410 Eastwood Ave. Somerford Place, at 3531 Deer Park Drive in Stockton, has had two separate outbreaks since Dec. 22 and has not received its latest clearance from the Health Department.
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