Consider donating to the Senior program’s endowment fund

By Dolores Saurer | The Daily Journal

Published Monday, October 8, 2007

About this time of the year, many folks are starting to think about year-end donations to their favorite charities. Traditionally, this, too, is the time for the annual Giving Campaign of the Senior Citizens Program.

This year, money raised from this fund-raising drive will serve as a source of support for our Endowment Fund. Endowment Funds are a sign of a fiscally responsible, well-prepared and forward-looking non-profit ready to weather economic downturns and ensure long time survival. Only the interest generated by this fund may be spent — but as the fund grows, so grows the amount of interest.

Our Giving Campaign fund drive continues through Dec. 31. Since the Senior Citizens Program is a non-profit organization, all donations are tax deductible. We appreciate your thinking of us as one of your favorite charities.

What's up for the next two weeks? Let's start with free ear wax and hearing aid cleaning with John Armstrong on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 10:30 a.m. Call 736-6842 for an appointment.

The 16th is special because we have our first meeting with our new Adopt-a-Class who will join us to get acquainted and tour the Senior Center at 12:45 p.m. After the tour, there will be Halloween crafts followed by refreshments. Once again, this year, students in our Adopt-a-Class are third-graders from Lynette Ringquist's class.

The only difference — she now teaches at Cleveland Elementary School. Join us for the opportunity of sharing between youth and seniors.

The popular Blood Washed Band will entertain at the Center at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19. Make an advance reservation and plan to stay for the meat loaf noon meal afterward.

Attorney Jamison (Jay) Cichosz will be at the Senior Center on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 1 p.m. Consultations are free but an appointment is necessary (736-6842).

The Driver Improvement Refresher class will be offered by Commuity Education at the Area Learning Center on the 16th from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Register and pay the $18 fee in the Community Ed office.

We have started to plan for the October issue of the Golden Page. Please submit your articles, stories and poems in the senior office within the next two weeks. Seasonal material might include holidays, Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or memories of snowstorms (or nice days) of winter. Topics are really not limited so put on your "thinking cap" and start writing.

It's not too often we find a quotation from G.K. Chesterton, but I rather like this one: “The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

Dolores Saurer is a member of the Fergus Falls Senior Citizens Center.