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LONGHOUSE - NORTHSHIRE

October/November

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LanternLonghouse And Northshire Together Echoing Resident’s News

711 West 11th Street PO Box 177 Spencer, Iowa 51301

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Resident SpotlightRuth Ann Vail was born April 26th, 1927 in Greenville, Iowa to Clarence and Anna Eaton. Ruth had one sister Miriam. She attended school in Dickens till 11th grade, when their family moved to Sheldon.Ruth lived in Spencer and cared for many families in their homes, helping with household chores and caring for their children.Later she took a job at JC Penny where she worked as a sales clerk for many years.

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Ruth married John Vail on September 30th,1955 in the Little Brown Church. They had three children Nick, Cindy, and Sue. John and Ruth farmed near Sioux Rapids, raised sheep, chicken, had a huge garden and many other chores.Ruth has 5 Grandchildren Chelsea, Jamie, Austin, Samantha, and Adina and 2 Great Grandchildren Aiden and Ashtyn.John and Ruth retired from farming in 1984 and moved to Spencer. Ruth Ann enjoys reading, word puzzles, letter writing, reading the newspaper and attending various group activities here at Northshire. She can always be found with a smile and a kind word for all.

The Best Gift of All: Your visits and phone calls!!

Ruth Vail

We Invite Y ou And Your Families! We would like to invite families at meal time to spend time with their loved ones at Longhouse/Northshire. To be able to provide a nice experience for all we encourage families to let the facility know in advance of your visit. This will help us prepare a place for your family to be together and to have enough food prepared for all to enjoy. A free will donation is welcome for the meal.

LOOKING BACK AND AHEAD IN ACTIVITIESAugust started off with a quilt show by Norma, and some of the residents brought their own quilts they had made as well. The ladies also enjoyed manicures and music first of the month. Thanks to Pastor Tracy from New Life Worship for leading our Bible Study for both LH & NS. The residents got to experience the properties of KINETIC SAND, cool stuff! Movies this month were on Butterflies, and the 75th anniversary celebration of the “WIZARD OF OZ” movie.

Our highlights in September were the week of The Clay County Fair. We started out with a ride on the Lions Club wagon and then off to a Saloon Social with root beer shots, haystacks, cow pies and a real cow bell! We had cake decorating lessons and judging, butter churning, and don’t forget MIDWAY games to top off our fair week!

The SHS Football team stops by every Thursday evening to have some “TIGER” time with the residents. GO TIGERS!

In October we will enjoy Fried Bread, Halloween fun and Wine & Dine for the residents. Join us on our web site to see the October calendar of activities.

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Clay County Fair Week Here at LH-NS

It’s almost butter Norma!

Bud even had a go at butter churning.

Marianne sure was glad to get a chance to churn.

And it’s butter!

Lori, Loren, Cowgirl Vernice, Clare and Dar were all there to help with the churning.

Myrle tries to ring a boot.

Next we had a “Saloon Social” Complete with Root Beer Shots, Haystacks, Cow pies, Chips and Dip. We had cowboy hats, bandanas and sheriff badges for the residents to wear to the party.. We started off our Saloon party with some good ole western games.

Virginia, Ruby, Wild Bill of the West, and Cowboy Ness all try the horse shoe game for a ringer!

Birthday boy and Sheriff, Ted goes for a ringer!

We can’t forget Fern our cow bell ringer for the Saloon

Social, she kept us all alert.

I think this must be “Doc Cooper” of Longhouse

Saloon.

The ladies here are getting a lesson in cake decorating

from Norma.

Farmer Bob Pays Us A Visit During The Fair

A BIG THANKS to the Lions Club with their wagons for the ride around the fair. We also made a stop at the Jone’s Café for a doughnut and 7UP treat. Thanks Deb and family! Then it’s back to the Nursing Home to Churn butter with Norma.

Farmer Bob has got Ted in pig-tails!

When Farmer Bob opens his box of tricks you never know what will

come out!

Joyce got a pink bird of paradise from Farmer Bob.

Jerry Roberts made us bird feeders from tree branches put holes in them and the Sunshine Smiles helped the residents fill the holes with peanut butter to

hang outside for the birds.

Many of the residents enjoying Norma’s quilt show.

Here is one of many beautiful quilts Helene Simons has

made over the years.

Loren is looking on as Clare puts the final touches on her butterfly.

Stacie from Clay County Conservation has come to share

information on butterflies with us.

The Sunshine Smiles Gals came and played Table top Shuffle

Board with the residents.

Can’t beat coffee time with friends and family!Joyce and Vi were there to make a Mr. or Mrs. Potato head.

Many attended the Angel craft Jane lead.

Ruth, Regina and Clarian enjoyed the Summer Picnic lunch made by

Norma. MM GOOD!

2014 October/November BirthdaysOctoberRaymond Banks October 6Hazel M Barth October 25Joyce D Gacke October 4Myrna Holcomb October 22Maerene Mason October 25Thomas Pearson October 21Richard A Ries October 22Dolores Zimmer October 5Lorraine Birchard October 9

NovemberFern Archer November 18Eula M Belken November 11Ann Carrigan November 1Donna Christy November 21Lori Eriksen November 20Elvera L Kotrba November 20Shirley Ludwig November 20Eugene F Merrill November 29Gary Phillips November 17Evelyn Roberts November 5William Schindler November 15Dean Seibel November 19Rex S Travis November 5

Ron tried his hand at rose making.

Anniversaries

OctoberMr. & Mrs. Harold Gross

October 6, 1947 Mr. & Mrs. Don Maschino

October 18, 1983

NovemberMr. & Mrs. Hugh Cooper

November 3, 1979