January 2018

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Happy New Year from all of us at Prairie View! We hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating the Holidays with your family and friends. We all had a wonderful time decorating for Christmas. We decorated five trees located around our building and made Christmas tree ornaments and reindeer using candy canes in arts and crafts. During the month of December we enjoyed music from all the carolers who volunteered to sing to us, along with Shirley Brandt on the 1st and Denny Nelson who provided us with wonderful music at the resident Christmas party on the 21st. Our Christmas party was complete with many goodies and Santa and Mrs. Claus who handed out the presents to our residents. We watched a lot of Christmas movies in December, one of our favorites were “Miracle on 34th Street”. The 2nd and 3rd grade students at the Sanborn Christian School sang to us on the 14th, they shared many of their Christmas songs. During the Holidays we wanted to shout out to all our wonderful volunteers who take the time to help with many of our activities. Esther DeBoer provided a great program for our December birthdays. Thank you Esther! On the 29th of December we ended the year by ringing in the New Year 2018. We had a great time talking about the past year and thinking of what the New Year would bring. In January we look forward to staying busy with a variety of activities. We will continue to enjoy fitness fun, happenings, bible study and playing cards along with some special programs. Our activity department is always open to any ideas; feel free to share yours with us. A friendly reminder that if you are sick, to please visit another time.

Until next time,Anna Wallace

Activity Director

From the Activities Department

Mark and Sue Schultz dressed as Santa and Mrs. Claus for our Christmas party.

Denny Nelson provided our

entertainment at the

Christmas party.

He plays all kinds of music, specializing in country music.

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Featured Resident of the Month: Alma Haden Our resident of the month is Alma Haden. Alma came to us from her home in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She was born on January 22, 1927 at her parents’ home near Valparaiso, Iowa. Her parents were Nels and Lillian Nelson. She was the youngest of 6 children. She had three older brothers, Wilbur, Leroy, and Lester, and two older sisters, Wilma and Pearl. She grew up on different farms around the Valparaiso area attending country school through the 8th grade before moving into Sac City, Iowa. Her fondest childhood memories were of playing with her siblings. They would make and play with “stick horses” and even transformed an old abandoned car body frame located in a grove near their house into a play house. Alma also remembers her family gathering in the evening to have a time of Bible Study together and then her mother would play hymns on the piano and the family would sing together. She met her future husband, Dean Haden, in the winter of 1949 at a basketball game they were both attending. They enjoyed going roller skating andattending church together. They were married onFebruary 12, 1950 at the First Baptist Church of Sac City, Iowa. Alma and her husband had 5 children, Susan of Iowa City, Iowa, Kenny of Tifton, Georgia, Janet of Silverton, Oregon, David of Gaza, Iowa, and Deann of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Alma lived and worked alongside her husband running their 160 acre farm near Lytton, Iowa. She grew vegetables, canned, raised chickens, sewed clothes for her family and helped with all aspects of farming. She volunteered at school and church and always enjoyed welcoming people no matter who they were or

where they were from. Alma also enjoyedgrowing flowers and making floral

arrangements, baking cookies, pies, and cinnamon rolls. She was an active “room mother” at school for her children, a Sunday school teacher and a Campfire Girls leader. After her husband passed away she continued to run the farm for 19 years until she moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa in

1997. She continued to be involved with her grandchildren, children, neighbors,

family and friends. She sewed, knitted and baked, often donating her homemade items to

schools or offering them to her guests. Alma thoroughly enjoyed making costumes for Christmas

pageants or school plays. She enjoyed taking many photographs and putting together memory and history books for her children and their families. Alma also had a knack for refinishing furniture and restoring antique pieces. She has traveled many places including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, California, Oregon, and South Dakota going to visit relatives, stopping for a visit anywhere on a farm were her favorites. Alma moved to Prairie View on February 24, 2016. Her favorite thing about Prairie View is the lovely rose bush outside her window in the courtyard.

PHOTO BY JON’S GALLERY OF PRIMGHAR, IOWA • PHONE 712-757-3492

JanuaryBirthday Party

Monday, January 8th at 2 p.m., in the Activity Room. Please RSVP the number of guests coming for the birthday party, to Anna at 930-3228. SEE YOU THERE!

Residents BirthdaysHelen Van Kekerix ...................... January 1Ilene Brandt .............................. January 12Alma Hayden ............................. January 22Pat Stringer ............................... January 23Lois Tjossem .............................. January 24Elmer Van Kekerix ................... January 29

We are in need of people who arewilling to help with our activities here

at Prairie View Campus.Contact Anna Wallace at

712- 930-3228 for more information!

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DAILY:11:25 Devotions3:00 Social Hour

HappyNew Year

2018!

9:30 Happenings10:45 SmallGroup2:00 Making NewYear’s Resolutions

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 Put AwayChristmas Decorations

9:30 Bible Study10:45 Small Group2:00 Cards &Games

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 Bingo 7:00 Dance Night

9:30 CRC2:00 ChurchAmerican Reformedof Primghar

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 BirthdayParty

9:30 Happenings10:45 Small Group2:00 Sing-A-Long

9:00 Manicures10:00 Price is Right2:00 Bowling

9:30 Bible Study10:45 Small Group2:00 SCS Kids4th & 5th Graders

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 Bingo

9:30 Fitness Fun

9:30 CRC2:00 ChurchUnited Methodist of Sheldon

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 Happy Hour

9:30 Happenings10:45 Small Group2:00 Cards with Friends

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 WordGame2:00 Music byDenny Nelsen

9:30 Bible Study10:45 Small Group2:00 Arts & Crafts

9:30 FitnessFun10:00 Word Game2:00 Bingo

9:30 CRC2:00 ChurchGrace Evangelical Free ofSanborn

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Game2:00 Yahtzee

Wear OurFavorite PJ’s

9:30 Happenings2:00 Reminisce

Miss MatchDay

9:00 Manicures2:00 BalloonVolley

Crazy HairDay!

9:30 Bible Study2:00 HometownMeeting

Wear ASmile Day!

9:30 FitnessFun10:00 Word Game2:00 Bingo

Wear Purple!

2:00 SheldonDance Team

9:30 CRC2:00 ChurchPresbyterian ofPaullina

9:30 FitnessFun10:00 Word Game1:30 P.V. Aux.2:00 Penny Pitch

9:30 Happenings10:45 Small Group2:00 & 6:30 Movie/Popcorn

9:30 Fitness Fun10:00 Word Games2:00 Cards/Games

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SPECIAL NOTICEIt is the policy of Prairie View campus to admit, assign within the facil-ity, treat and provide all services of the facility to all residents without regard to race, disability, color, national origin, age, sex or religion.

JanuaryStaff Birthdays

Please help us wishthese staff members a

Happy Birthday!Rachel Boardman ...... Jan. 1Ikyeda Lloyd .............. Jan. 2Sallie Reuter .............. Jan. 2Tara Pennings............ Jan. 6

Rhonda Scholten ......Jan. 11Nelson Momanyi ...... Jan. 16Anali Cazares .......... Jan. 17Amanda Swancutt ... Jan. 18Heidi Postma ........... Jan. 29Kinley Baatz............. Jan. 30

Happy Birthday

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Residents and visitors all had fun with Mrs. & Mr. Claus.