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Current
Activities: Third Quarter 2004
September
2004
Everyone
is invited to a Saturday Workshop from 9-12 on October
23rd at Rivertown Resource.( Coffee and Pastry) This
will be our monthly meeting for October. We need to discuss
our plans and vision for the next six months. Our Strategic
Planning Meeting, in August, gave us the tools to implement
a new program for the benefit of all of us currently
involved with AEWF. If you have a friend who would like
to get invoved please have them join us for the morning.
Our Board Meeting on Tuesday morning, September 21st,
was poorly attended. In the future please contact our
Chairman of the Board, Sharon Beswick, at 757-0905 know
if you are unable to attend or leave your message at
AEWF 978-1883. Is the meeting time inconvient for you???
At Tuesday's meeting we discussed the possibility of
changing the time to an evening meeting. I would like
your feed-back about this and what day and time is best
for you. If we don't have a quorum then nothing can be
authorized. Your participation, and point of view is
critical for the continued success of our foundation.
At Tuesday's meeting the Wish Committee reported a successful
Wish #35 for our "sushi dinner" recipient,
Henrietta Woltz, thanks to Sharon Beswick, her mom Thelma
and Brenda Perry. Tuesday afternoon Sharon and Mary delivered
Wish #36. Julian Ignacio is now enjoying the comfort
of a window air conditioner thanks to Gary Segrest and
Jim Kyle at Orchard Supply. Brenda Perry requested that
we okay funds for Wish #37. More on that in my next message.
Our office has a new HP printer and copier and also a
shredder. I have had a couple of calls for volunteer
opportunities. I will be meeting these people next week.
Roger Henry will be speaking to the Ambrose Lion's Club
on Tuesday, Sept. 28th and Peni Augustine and Sharon
will speak to Kiwanis Club on Ocober 12th. Antioch Lions
will give us a date next week for November. Some big
news is that Carolyn Lamar with Diablo Lions Club wants
to organize a golf tournament for September 2005 for
the benefit of AEWF. They will have it at Oakhurst Golf
Club in Clayton which would be great exposure for us!
Dave Sanderson, our Golf Expert, will help with the initial
planning. Greta and Peni, are you ready to help with
the "wine hole"?? More on that later! AEWF
was also asked to participate on a panel for Caring Hands
yesterday at John Muir. The theme was Aging with Health
and Grace. The committee asked if I would show the video
as the introduction to the program. It was a wonderful
way to show the 150 people in attendance how rewarding
our work is. Brenda Perry was also on the panel representing
Antioch Senior Center. Sharon Beswick, her mom and a
couple other friends were in the audience.
Thanks to those who offered to work at our booth #324,
at the Rivertown Jamboree this weekend. Susan & Jim
Davis have their family involved to help too. Call Susan
if you want to help and did not get a chance to sign
up at the meeting (757-3714). We will be collecting "loose
change" for the wishing well and giving out our
brochures and sticky note pads. We will have face painting
thanks to Jess, Jonathan Davis' girlfriend, and Jennifer
Davis will have some Krispy Kreme donuts donated for
our booth. Thanks so much to the Davis family!!
Please call Sharon or the office to RSVP for October
23rd.I know Ken Radtke, Rebecca and Terry are ready to
share some ideas with us, and hopefully most of you will
be able to come. Thanks! Also call if you want to be
on the "Stirring or Planning" Committee for
the Heart to Heart Ball, February 12, 2005. They will
be meeting soon.
Wish List
We need to find someone who will help us write a grant
for a small fee
We need some of you to give a couple hours on the computer
to update our database
We need names of businesses that may consider cash donations
or sponsorship for our Heart to Heart Ball
We need the names of friends, neighbors or relations
that have houses, condos, vacation timeshares, airline
miles that they would be willing to donate for our auction.
Thanks,
Mary C.
July
2004
Our Board Chairman, Sharon Beswick,
has announced there will be no meeting in July
due to everyone's
vacation and work schedules. We will meet on Saturday,
August 21st from 9:00-1:00, for a Strategic Planning
Meeting for 2004-2005. All "Friends of the
Elderly" are encouraged to attend. If you
have a friend who may like to get involved by helping
on the Wish Committee or work on the Heart to Heart
Ball please invite them to join us. The theme will
be Refresh/Reflect/Re-energize!! Please let me
know if you can or cannot be there because lunch
will be ordered accordingly.
We will have a display table at All County Day
at John Muir Hospital on July 14th. This is sponsored
by SHARE/ a networking organization for all Health
Agencies working with seniors in CCC. We have also
been asked to speak to about 12 social workers
at Richmond Kaiser on July 21st. Let me know if
any of you have an organization ( Kiwanis, Rotary,
Lions, Chambers, Senior Centers) or church group
that we can show our video to in the next few months.
We are especially trying to get to places over
the hill!! The Celebrity Bocce Tournament is July
31st. Please let me know if you would like to participate
on the AEWF Team. Are you game Vince??
Keep in touch and come by or call the office anytime.
Mary Chapman 978-1883 fax 978-1884
Hi
Everyone,
Thanks to all of you who responded to my last e-mail and gave me the go ahead on Wish #33. Pauline
Kelleher, from Moraga, will have her wish come true on July 28th. We are flying her sister Marcella from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to be here for Pauline's
49th Wedding Anniversary. Pauline's daughter and family will also be here from India for this special occasion.
Marcella and her husband John will be staying at the Holiday Inn, Walnut Creek for 10days, at a reduced rate
to AEWF, thanks to the general manager, Jeff Hirsch.The Contra Costa Sun has been approached about doing
some publicity. I may call on a couple of you to be available for a picture or comment.
Another wish request came in yesterday. The social
worker will get back to me tomorrow about the
details. Do any of you have a contact with rentals
at The
Pajaro Dunes? (near Monterey)
On July 14th Marilyn Weible and I networked at
the All County Day at John Muir Hospital. All
health
agencies (profit and not for profit) that care
for seniors were in attendance. We made quite
a few promises
to do an inservice presentation about AEWF so
I will let you know if they set up some dates
for us to
speak. I was hoarse by the end of the session.
A Senior Theatre Co., called Stagebridge, did
a presentation
which was hilarious and so entertaining.( I even
learned what furniture disease is for seniors-
it is when your chest goes into your trunk!!
)
Tomorrow I will be giving a presentation to some
of the medical social workers at Kaiser Richmond.
Roberto Garcia, one of our newest board members,
made arrangements for us to do this. Before the
presentation I am going to go by and finally
meet Barbara Jackson,
the lady who went to Alabama (Wish #30). Her
wish was to see her hometown and relatives and
friends.
She lives in Richmond.
Our Bocce Ball Team "Wish Grantors" is
set to go on July 31st at Chichibu Park from 9:00-12:00.
If any of you are in the neighborhood, come on by
and watch us laugh. This event is a fundraiser for
the Antioch Rivertown Committee. Good Luck to Roger & Martha
Henry, Heidi Branson, Bill Chapman and "sub",
Mary Chapman.
Remember to mark August 21st on your calendar
for our Strategic Planning Meeting, Refresh/Reflect/Re-energize
at Rivertown Resource Community Room 9:00-1:00.
Our
facilitator will be Nancy Kaiser who was one
of the founding directors of AEWF. This will
be a great
way to begin a new year with Sharon Beswick at
the helm of a newly elected Board of Directors.
Please
E-mail, call or fax me if you cannot make it
or call Sharon at 757-0905.
I am attaching the June Minutes from Peni for
your review. Thanks to Monica Culcasi for working
with
me to have a "professional" newsletter
soon. Thanks Jim Lanter for the suggestion for
the purchase of a new printer. Thanks Sydney for
putting
AEWF on the agenda for the East Co. Networking
Meeting in September.Would you believe Brenda already
has
the idea and floor plan for the Heart to Heart
Ball 2005!!
Stay cool and stay in touch.
Mary Chapman
978-1883 fax 978-1884
August, 2004
All
of you should have received an invite to our August 21st
Strategic Planning Meeting. It will be a Saturday Workshop
from 9-1 with lunch. Please let me know as soon as possible
if you can or cannot attend.
On July 31st "The Wish Grantors" Bocce Team
represented AEWF at Chichibu Park. It was the most
teams the Rivertown Jamboree Committee had ever had
so we were
there for awhile but thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
The first game we were behind 11 to 1 and believe it
or not
The Henrys, Bill Chapman and Heidi Branson came back
and WON!! Unfortunately, we lost the next two but we
gave the other teams a run for their money. Our cheerleaders
were the Henry's grandsons!! The best part of the day
was the tri-tip lunch cooked by our very own Leo Fontana
and crew.
Wish #33 for Pauline Kelleher in Moraga has been completed.
The Contra Costa Sun, a weekly supplement in Moraga/Lafayette,
had a great article about our foundation and this wish.
I will get you a copy to look at at the meeting. Pauline's
wish was to have her sister here for ten days to celebrate
Pauline and John's 49th wedding anniversary. Her sister
flew from Edmonton, Canada.
Wish #34 for Ed Harbaugh from Brentwood, Summerset 1,
will begin on August 23rd. Ed's wish is to go to the
ocean, At The Dunes, for a couple of days with his wife
and daughters. Peni Augustine went to visit with Ed and
said he is so nice and so excited to go on this trip.
He will be staying at a condo with a huge deck overlooking
the ocean, for four days thanks to AEWF. The Brentwood
Press is interested in doing an article for us.
I gave a presentation at Kaiser Richmond in July and
I went early so I could go by and meet Barbara Jackson,
Wish #30, since she lives in Richmond. This is the
woman AEWF sent to Louisiana to see her hometown and
family
and friends. She had a whole scrapbook to share with
me of the pictures of the wonderful "Welcome Home" party
they gave her. She is so appreciative of what our foundation
has done for her. I met her son James who had traveled
with her and is her caregiver. If any of you would
like to go visit Barbara she would love the company.
She is
confined to her home because of end stage COPD.
Mary Chapman
info@elderlywish.org
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