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Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa. Oregon Page Four Town And Country Garden Club Social Scene H*****tot*«*»«o*tow*o**1H Mrs. WUton Jackson. Mrs Nellie Wahlert and Wilton's mother. Mrs. Nora Thompson went to Terrace Lake on Wednesday and remained through the week end. They were joined over the weekend by WUton. Tommy. Megan and JRl. who was home from Eastern Oregon State College at La Grande e e e A VALENTINE PARTY WAS HOSTED by the Owyhee Garden Chib last Friday at Malheur Memorial Nursing Home Residents pictured are from left back. Martha Sherod. Maki Saito. Kane Nakamoto. Mvrtie Shaw. Mrs. Bertha Russell Of Lanlon. Montana visited two days last week at the home of her brother and sister-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Stuns They also visited at the Gene Stuns home e e e Mary Wallington. Emma Wimp. Nellie New tall. Viola Custer and Blanch Boydell. Foreground are Emma Singer. Raymond Gutierrez and Hazel Vinsonhaler. (hey her Garden Club Clayton Jensen returned home last Tuesday from St. Luke's Hospital in Boise »here he had undergone surgery Mrs. Jensen says he is recovering and doing fine e e e SENIOR Œ.ZEN ACTIVITIES Hosts I (dentine Party Owyhee garden club social The dining room of Mal heur Memorial Nursing Home was the scene of a cookie party. Friday. Feb ruary 13. when Owhyee Garden Club members and Jan Wilson’s 6th grade students, combined efforts for an hour of Valentine celebration and visiting. The students had made Valentines, which they per sonally presented and they also served cookies and punch to the wheelchair patients and nursing staff. Club members had pre pared colorfully wrapped gift packets of fruit and home- baked cookies which the residents were given to take to their rooms. Following the party. Ellen Strickland, president, called Happy Birthday February 21 - Kathy Da me Is. Steve Schoeneman. Noah Bass. Roger Blaylock. Evelyn Griffin and Ray Mahaffey February 22 - Max Urry. Martha Krause. Don Taylor. Hazel Herrtnan February 23 - Peter Rod riquez and Barbara Haney February 25 - Don Savage Ellen Brittingham and Geo rge Rodriquez. Jr. February 27 - Nellie Tan ner, Vickie Savage. Walter Ashby and Karen Fife February 27 - Clarice Poor. Eugene Stephen. Jay Stoen. Tom Jackson. Terry Fife February 28 - Dirk Sappe. Nancy Vielma. Betty Gu tierrez. Joe Ableman. Garry Fife, Debbie Simantel and Terry Lynn Morrison a short business meeting at the Twilight Cafe. Attending were Eve Stubsud. district director; Betty Nielsen. Lo uise Counsii, Clara Price. Polly Holub and Sono Arai. The next meeting will be Friday, March 12 with Martha Langley as hostess and Eleanor Brewer, co-boa tess. The program will be "lawn care." Anyone interested is wel come to attend. iVvssa Ladies Attend Meeting Mrs Erma Sparks and Mrs. May Bretz attended a senior citizens program of the Eastern Oregon Conference. February 11 and 12 at the Sun Ridge Motel in Baker. Mrs. Bretz represented the Nyssa Senior Citizens and Mrs. Sparks is a board member of the Advisory Council for the Area Aging. The ladies attended five sessions and report the conference was most infor mative PINOCHLE PARTY The Pinochle Pal Card Club met Saturday evening at the home of Mrs Hazel Sewnght. Guests for the evening were Mrs. Agnes Ashcraft and Mrs. Wilma Ostrom. Winners were Mrs Ashcraft. Mrs. Erma Sparks. Mrs. Alma Topltff and Ola Chard The Club will meet at Mrs. Hattie Warrens on February President Orma Cleaver called the meeting of the Nyssa Senior Citizens to order February 11. by asking all twenty-six members and guest, the Rev. John Worrall to salute the flag Kenneth A. Dan ford. MD, The Rev. Worrall discus of Nyssa attended the 26th sed the senior citizen housing annual course for Physicians project. It is hoped the in Family Practice at Mount building will be underway by Zion Hospital and Medical June. Twenty units will be Center. San Francisco, on built instead of the proposed February 11-13. The course is 40. but it is hopeful that by approved for credit under the the time the 20 are built, California Medical Associa money will be available to tion's Program for Continu build 20 more ing Education. The minutes and the Areas of emphasis during treisurer's report were read the three-day program in and approved, with the bills cluded adult medicine, com allowed. Correspondence mon problems in surgery, the was read and Orma Cleaver management of intractable gave a report on the Great pain, family planning and Decisions class that some of other patient care concerns of the senior citizens are atten the primary physicians. ding Siz members of the senior citizens attended the Enjoy Nyssa Planning Meeting. They are anxious to help do thetr part and be active on Last Thursday, bingo was these planning committees. enjoyed by fifteen residents There was discussion on the of the Malheur Memorial chib joining the State Council Nursing Home. A great many of Senior Citizens whose guests were on hand to help headquarters are in Salem. play and participate in the The Club decided to join this selection of prizes. council as a group, because it Beads, pins, cards, co is less expensive as a group lognes. and handkerchiefs than individual membership. were selected by the follow Erma Sparks and Anna ing winners: Mary Walling Marostica were named on the ton. Angie Cook. Olive hospitality committee. Merle Graham, Martha Sherod. Johnson and Anna Marostica Viola Custer. Kane Naka will be the cleaning commit moto. Nellie Staples. Nellie tee for March There were New bill. Emma Wimp. Leo two nurses to take blood Hatfield. Olive Taylor. Min pressure nie Umbarger, and Kelly Wyatt Smith closed the Petroff. meeting with prayer pre Many thanks to our helpers ceding the potluck dinner. and for the many prizes being donated. They are greatly Journal Classified* appreciated, both by the winners, and those conduc Bring Results! ting the games. Local Doctor Attends Course Resident* Bingo dame» Thursday, Fabruary 19, 1976 Mrs. R. G. Larson had as her houseguest from Friday nil Sunday, her grandson. Jim Larson of Nampa. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Larson • • • Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penrod were their son and daughter tn law Mr. and Mrs. John Penrod of Idaho Fails. They spent Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fishback of New Plymouth and nturned to their home from there. • • • Janet Dail of Kuna, was a weekend guest at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dail. The Dails and daughters. Janet and Sharon were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Haney and family. • • • Don Ballou, who is tn the Navy, is visiting now in the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Ballou. He has been stationed at Great lakes. Illinois but following his leave will be going to a new base at Orlando. Florida. • • • Mr and Mrs Mark Noel of Apple Valley. Mr and Mrs Bud Noel and son of Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. Alan McCool and infant daughter of Tacoma. Washington, Mr and Mrs. John Summers af Donnelly; and Mrs. Dine Clapper of Tulsa. Oklahoma were all Sunday visitors of Mr and Mrs Frank Byers. • • • Mrs. Ethel Lay, who is hospitalized in Boise, to improving and may get to come home for a few days, reports her sistar, Mrs Frank Byers. She will then be sent to Portland where she and a sister in-law will be schooled in the handling and operation of a kidney ma chine. a a a Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dail and Sharon attended a family conference meeting spon sored by the Northwest Mountain Missions at Pine Wood in McCall. February 6 thru February 8. a • • Mr. and Mrs. Elton Clapp. Mrs Nets Mae Wiley and Emily were Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Manin Wiley in Caldwell Mrs (Tapp and Neu Mae called on an old friend. Mrs Lodima King at the Odd Fellows Home. Mrs. King is recovering from a slight stroke. They enjoyed sharing a singing Valentine party for the home residents given by members and officers of Rebekah Lodges. Sculpture And Art Exhibit At TVCC There will be an eshibit of sculpture, drawings and pri nts by Dmitri Hadzi and Hugh Townley, February IS • 28 in the Library Gallery of the Treasure Valley Community College Weese Building There wH be an opening reception Sunday, February 15 from 2 to 4 p m. Hugh Townley is Professor uf Art at Brown University in Providence. Rhode Island He had ezhibited throughout the U. S. and Europe and has won many awards including the Rhode Island Governor's Award for the Arts. Dmitri Hadzi is from Rome and is currently in the United Slates as Guest Professor at Harvard He is working on a major sculpture commission for the Federal Building in Portland. Oregon Hadzi has eshibited world wide. His work has been shown and is in the collec tions of such museums as the Guggenheim and the Mu seum of Modem Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran in Washington, D. C.. the National Gallery in Rome, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery in London, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. the San Francisco Museum of Art. the Montreal Museum uf Fine Ans. the Loa Angeles County Museum and the Museo del Prado in Madrid Both artists were among six sculptors invited to be part of the Oregon Inter national Sculpture sympo slum sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission in 1974. I his exhibit was brought to Oregon through the effort of Nancy Kem uf the Kern Gallery tn Bend and has traveled throughout the state It has recently been on eshibit at the Rogue Gallery in Medford and the Portland Art Museum. Saito Named To EDC TVCC Joe Saito. Ontario onion grower and former president of the Malheur Onion Gro wer's Association for sis years, has been appointed a Member at Large of the Oregon Economic Develop ment Commission (EDC) by Governor Bob Straub. Saito Is a board member of the Agri-Business Council of Oregon and he also has served on the board of the Treasure Valley Community College for 12 years. At present, he is chairman of the Eastern Oregon and Idaho Onion Promotion Kingman Kolony Maws Mrs. Bill Toomb attended the Special TOPS meeting at Adell Dockten in Adrian Tuesday evening. Thu was a graduation meeting for Linda Simpson and Bea Groaanickle Mrs. Bill Toomb attended the Bible Study meeting al the Smith home in Big Bend, Tuesday, (where the W. C. Van DeWaters used to live) Time is 1:30 to 3 p m. Anvone is welcome They meet every week H0TP0INT WHITE SALE! 6 CYCLE CONVERTIBLE DISHWASHER THAT SCRUBS POTS TOO I f PRICES SLASHED ON OVERSTOCK \c ^OF WHITE HOTPOINT APPLIANCES! ySAVE30^79« •••< n DELUXE 3 SPEEDS WASHES UP TO 18 lbs HEAVY MIXED FABRICS DDELUXE PERMANENT-PRESS DRYER WITH POLY-KNIT CYCLE 30* EASY-CLEAN ELEC TRIC RANGE WITH WINDOW. CLOCK A TIMER! Model RB62ST J«« SAVE $50ÄNr PAIR WasAa.ModMWl WMOO TWO-DOOR 13.7 CU. 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