PRIME December 2020

DECEMBER

A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE

A MAGAZINE FOR MATURE ADULTS

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2020

JAN CASHMAN CLEAR INSIGHT CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Hannah Stiff

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Developing Clear Insight

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Old Guy Technology

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Flowering Houseplants For Christmas

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The House of my Dreams

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The House of my Dreams

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Bozeman Senior Center’s Second Hand Rose

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Meal Service in Senior Centers

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With a lot of help from Jan Cashman F

or anyone who has picked up a copy of Prime or the Daily Chronicle in the last 4 years, you’ve seen a column by Jan Cashman, the gardening guru who offers up insights on all things lawn, garden, and houseplants. In addition to her hundreds of columns printed in the Chronicle, Cashman and her husband Jerry are wellknow in the community as the owners of Cashman Nursery. While we love Cashman’s columns on everything from Christmas cacti to prepping your yard for another long winter, we felt it was time to get to know Cashman a bit better and share more of her story with Prime readers.

Cashman was born in a small town in eastern Minnesota named Hinckley. She stayed in her home state for college and attended the University of Minnesota. After meeting and marrying her husband Jerry, the pair moved to Bozeman in 1975 to put down roots on a permanent Cashman Nursery

location. Long before then, starting in 1900, Jerry’s family began building its legacy in the nursery business. For Cashman, with 45 years spent running a nursery, it’s hard to imagine a time when she didn’t know everything about growing everything.

“I have no formal education

PRIME September 2020 / 3 in horticulture,” Cashman says. “Jerry has a bachelors in horticulture from the University of Minnesota where we met.

As the children grew and I had more time, I became more active in the business – everything from bookkeeping to sales to training staff to advertising. The business has grown, no pun intended, so it has taken more and more time for all of us to run.”

of Nurserymen. In all those discussions with Jerry and hours spent reading and listening to horticulture discussions, nothing beats learning by doing, Cashman says. With a vegetable garden, as well as annual and perennial flower gardens to tend, the hands-in-the-soil portion of her education was paramount to filling her wellspring of tips and tricks she can quickly rattle off today.

To learn all she needed to help in the family business, Cashman started gleaning information from several sources. First, she learned from Jerry. Having an in-house horticulture graduate was helpful to Cashman as she built her gardening knowledge.

She also read books, magazines, internet articles, anything she could find to shore up her informal plant education.

She’s also taken seminars from the Montana Association

Over the growing seasons, Cashman has come up with her own favorite plants, shrubs, trees, and flowers.

“I like hardwood deciduous trees that were native and remind me of where I grew up in Minnesota, the maples and paper birch,” she says. “I like colorful – warm colors of red, yellow, pink, and orange – annual and perennial flowers, especially those that make good

cut flowers for bouquets. I like flowers that are fragrant like peonies and lavender and sweet peas.”

there’s no secret formula or manual about running a family business together, Cashman says aligning at work is imperative.

These days, Cashman and her husband aren’t the only family members sharing their know-how with the world. The couple’s two sons, Joe and Mike, now work full time at the family business.

“The only secret might be that all four of our personalities seem to mesh and work well together,” she says.

“Having our sons work for us has been wonderful,” Cashman says. “I love seeing them and working with them every day.

It is gratifying that all we have worked for and built up will stay in the family. And it is great to know that they both want to stay in the business and work with us here in Bozeman.”

Cashman explains that many nursery businesses, growers, and landscapers tend to be family businesses that are passed down through the generations. While

When she’s not at the nursery, or penning columns behind her keyboard, Cashman is busy serving on the Board of Love Inc. and keeping up with her large family.

“We have seven wonderful grandchildren, ages 20 to five,” Cashman says. “(Jerry and I) have been married for 50 years.”

As for her informative columns, Cashman plans to carry on her writing with the Chronicle, exactly as she has since 2000.

“I love to write as long as it is practical and factual,” Cashman says. “No fiction for me.”

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DEVELOPING CLEAR INSIGHT

By Nancy Ruby

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magination, visualization, insight, vision, and self-reflection are all characteristics of our 6th energy center - AJNA CHAKRA (sounds like Agna).

This is the energy center that allows us to have “second sight” through our “third eye”. It is located in the space between the eyebrows, within the skull. It encompasses the pituitary gland, eyes, head and lower part of the brain our ancestral seat of survival.

The sixth lets us see with an inner sense, such as the reality and truth of our life, our relationships, our self and our planet. Our sixth chakra is how we use, as Caroline Myss so wisely calls it, “symbolic sight” to interpret our dreams, as well as the signs, symbols and the divine winks that arise throughout our ordinary waking life.

This chakra helps us see the totality of our existence, click on the big picture, see the forest through the trees, and gain a bird’s eye view of our life. Just as you turned to the third chakra in the area of the solar plexus to guide you with comfort or discomfort, it is most helpful to pay attention to this seat of wisdom as you navigate your life path.

SEEING IS BELIEVING When we have a healthy sixth chakra we are willing to see “what is,” not just what we want to see or what others want us to see. We have no problem evaluating situations and we are open to learning from others. We have a calm inner wisdom that we easily share and we are the one our friends come to when they need to glean some insight about their relationships,

spiritual path, career, and so on.

We are willing to look at the light and the dark - our genius and our ignorance, our lover’s generosity and selfishness - while not becoming overly attached to either extreme. A balanced sixth chakra heightens the intellect and the intuition and makes us highly perceptive and imaginative. We understand that the universe often speaks through symbols. We might experience psychic phenomenon - quite literally seeing angels, spirits, auras, or energy.

THIRD EYE BLIND Hallucinations, delusions, illusions, obsessions, nightmares, or just a hard time concentrating are a few characteristics of an

imbalanced sixth chakra.

If our third eye is shut, we rarely use or trust our imagination, we don’t remember our dreams, and we have a hard time visualizing our future or seeing alternatives for our life. We mistake the trees for the forest and tend to have more of a myopic vision.

CLEAR VISION Ajna is best developed through meditation. Often, new meditators will report having a tingling feeling in the third eye or equate it to a headache. A tingling or pulsating sensation around the area of the third eye during or after meditation is a sign that you are opening this blocked chakra. Some of you may even see colours or images that represent clear messages for you.

An effective Pranayama (breathing technique) to help calm and open your third eye is called Brahmari, or buzzing bee breath.

Bring both hands to your face. Place the your first two finger over your eyes.

Allow the middle finger to rest alongside the nostrils and the pinky fingers at the corners of your mouth. Close your ears with your thumbs.

This Audra (hand gesture) represents quieting down your sense.

Take a deep inhalation and

PRIME December 2020 / 5 exhale with a HUMMMMM with the emphasis on the “M” sound creating a buzzing sound like a bee. Do this for two minutes or more. You can alleviate tension in the head, soothe your nervous systems, quiet your mind. This healing practice will work to open your sixth chakra.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS As we enter the holiday season, may you see clearly the many blessings that arise in each day. It is stated that when feeling gratitude, it is impossible to feel fear or anxiety at the same time. During these times of uncertainty and social

disruption, may your inner wisdom to acknowledge the ability to adapt to change, choosing actions that serve those around you while embracing the simple pleasures in life Nancy Ruby runs YogaMotion Wellness Academy in Bozeman and describes herself as an educator, joyologist and lifestyle engineer. She has been sharing her teachings in yoga and wellness education for the past 40 years. Ruby currently specializes in supporting the health and wellbeing of Baby Boomers and beyond.

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Old Guy Technology

By Jim Drummond

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ne of the old guys wandered into the waterhole this week with his iPad in hand. Most of the group carry some kind of electronic device, but usually just a smartphone.

Someone asked him why he was packing a bigger device.

With a worried expression, the fellow declared, “I need some help lads. This week I started getting an annoying “pop up” when I check my email. The “pop up” says that my email service is an unsafe site but it doesn’t tell me what to do. It gives me an

option to delete the “pop up”, but then the same message appears again a few moments later. Every time I check my email I have to cancel the same “pop up” to read each message. This is becoming quite bothersome. Does anyone know how to fix it?”

Everyone in the old guy group pushed their stools closer and eyeballed the iPad as the old fellow placed it on the table. He opened his email as we watched.

Sure enough, a “pop up” box appeared telling us that Outlook is an unknown server that could cause serious problems for the user as well as the device.

Someone in the group was looking at the fellows “in box.”

“Who’s sending you messages about Russian women who want to meet up with old guys?”

The first chap responded with a scowl, “Quit looking at my “in box!”

The topic right now is this annoying “pop up” warning.”

One of the gents in the group is considered the technical expert of our bunch. He jutted his chin out and

pulled the iPad closer to get a better look. He peered through the bottom of his reading glasses for awhile, then looked at the group. “This happened to me once and it was a dickens to fix.

I had to lever the back off to get to the innards, then I had to do a hardware modification to make the “pop ups” go away.”

“What was the modification?”

Someone asked.

“I had to cut a red wire that is on the right side of the circuit board. You have to choose between a green wire, and a red wire, so I chose red and used some nippers to slice right through.”

“How did you know to cut the red wire?” somebody else asked.

Our techy answered, “When you watch action movies, and a bomb has to be disabled with only ten seconds remaining, the hero always cuts the red wire. I figured red was safer than green, and it worked on my iPad.” “So the “pop ups” went away?” somebody queried.

The fellow responded, “Yup. The only problem now is that I can’t get anything in color, but everything seems to run just fine in black and white. At least I don’t have annoying “pop ups” any longer.”

The old guy with the iPad pulled it back and looked at the screen.

“Since someone here knows what to do, we may as well get it fixed.

Does anyone have a knife?”

Each old guy reached into a trouser pocket and pulled out a folding knife. One of the group handed over a Leatherman.

Somebody else was packing a screwdriver, and yet another had a pair of pliers. Someone offered leather work gloves. Nobody had a hammer, but as a group we had most of the essentials.

It took a bit of teamwork at the old guy waterhole. With two fellows holding the iPad, and some focused work with the Leatherman, and verbal guidance from most of the group, the back was removed.

Everyone bunched up to peer inside the mysterious guts of the device.

Finally someone commented, “This must be a newer version of an iPad. There doesn’t appear to be a red wire.” With a collective sigh and a look of disappointment, all the old guys settled back to their place at the table.

After a long period of silence, someone finally exclaimed, “Oh, Oh, my wristwatch just stopped working. Do any of you fellows know anything about digital watches?

Jim Drummond is a retired banker and Bozeman native.

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Flowering Houseplants For Christmas

By Jan Cashman christmas at cashmaN’s

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ou can’t beat poinsettias for a colorful Christmas plant in your home, but after Christmas, poinsettias tend to go downhill. Come January, we all are ready to move on from the Christmas theme.

There are other beautiful houseplants that are colorful but do not scream Christmas and will continue to make a good houseplant month after month, sometimes for years.

Christmas Cactus WReaths • ChRistmas tRees • FResh Boughs

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Christmas cactus, a colorful succulent is a true cactus. It is found native growing on the branches of trees in the rainforests of Brazil, not the dry climate you would expect for a cactus. Three hybrid varieties fall into

Anthurium this group: Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, and Easter cactus, each blooming around those holidays. In fact, many of the plants that you purchase called “Christmas” cactus might really be “Thanksgiving” cactus.

CARE: Christmas cactus are low maintenance and can live for years in your home.

They need good drainage but it is OK to let them get pot-bound. Keep them evenly moist, especially when they are flowering. Christmas cactus like to be in bright light but not direct sunlight.

REBLOOMING: To get your Christmas cactus to bloom by next Christmas, in early

October reduce watering.

Water only when the soil is dry. Also remember, the plant must be in total darkness 12 to 24 hours a day.

Don’t forget to reduce the temperature of the room the plant is in to 50 to 55 degrees for 4 to 8 weeks. Then bring it out into a warmer, brighter, room and resume watering on a regular schedule.

Cyclamen

Cyclamen’s array of longlasting flowers in various colors and their variegated leaves make them a popular houseplant in Northern climates where you can’t grow them outside. There are 23 species of cyclamen native to the Greek Islands and the

PRIME December 2020 / 9 Mediterranean Basin east to Iran. Cyclamen are grown from a tuber and go dormant in the summer. They are poisonous to pets.

CARE: Cyclamen prefer a slightly acid soil and plenty of humidity so mist occasionally.

REBLOOMING: After the plant blooms, it goes into dormancy. At that time, water well; then put the plant in a cool, dark room for 2 to 3 months. Let the leaves die back. Then, feed with ½ strength fertilizer and bring your plant into the warmth of your home.

Anthurium

Anthurium is commonly called by its genus name: anthurium. This genus of about 1000 species is native from northern Mexico to northern Argentina. Its flowers bloom in many colors; the most common color is a showy, bright red.

Anthuriums are epiphytes or “air” plants, meaning they grow on other plants, not in the soil. All parts of the plant are poisonous.

CARE: As a houseplant anthuriums need little care.

They are not fussy about room temperature. Let your plant dry out between waterings and fertilize once a month with a houseplant fertilizer at ¼ strength. Repot as necessary.

There are other houseplants

that suit the Christmas season. If you live in an apartment or have a small living room, try a Norfolk Island pine for a Christmas tree. Small Norfolk Island pines will fit on a table and look Christmassy decorated with a few small balls and ornaments. Amaryllis bulbs are a popular gift and grow into a houseplant with huge bright red flowers that say “Christmas”.

Remember the value of living houseplants. Use them to teach your children responsibility and plant care.

Houseplants not only beautify your home, but purify and add oxygen to the air, relieve stress, and improve your mental well-being.

Jan Cashman has

operated Cashman Nursery in Bozeman with her husband, Jerry, since 1975.

Christmas Cactus

Cyclamen

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ome of you may remember a story I wrote several years ago about outhouses. In that little tale I explained how fascinated I have always been with these outdoor potty rooms.

I have outhouse paraphernalia everywhere; coin banks, tree ornaments, calendars, towels, pictures, an outhouse quilt I made years ago, a night light, knickknacks, you name it. If it is an outhouse item, I have it or want it if I don’t happen to own that particular trinket. I am not sure why I have such an interest in these artifacts from the past, but I do.

When I lived in eastern Montana, I had an old outhouse that I salvaged from the research center which I stationed beside my garden. It made a great tool shed, as well as a marvelous conversation piece, and I smiled to see it stand proudly by the garden’s edge.

The House of my Dreams

By Lois Stephens

Moving to Virginia City placed me in outhouse heaven, so to speak. This old town has many decrepit old buildings throughout the town, many of which were former outhouse structures. Besides the normal one-hole facilities people generally see, there’s an old twoseater down by the train depot, and a double-decker outhouse located in an alley behind the Fairweather Inn. Double decker outhouses in particular have always caught my fancy. They seem special, somehow, and I love the reason for their existence. It seems that back when people routinely used their outdoor facility for

lack of indoor plumbing, and when winter invariably dumped several feet of snow on the ground, the door on the lower level of the structure became impossible to open. Therefore, the second story came in handy, people could scamper through the snowdrifts, sprint up the stairs to the second floor, and answer nature’s call without the necessity of trying to shovel a foot of snow from the downstairs door.

I have always wanted a twostory outhouse, not necessarily a working one, but a two-story outhouse nonetheless, just because I like these structures, and if I am going to have one, it may as well be twelve feet tall and have two levels. Why have a hovel when you can have a castle?

The opportunity finally arrived for me to realize my dream.

For the past two winters, my husband worked part time at a saw mill. He brought home mismatched chunks of timber that couldn’t be sold as dimensional lumber. He figured these slabs would make excellent firewood. I pointed out to him that they would make an even better two-story outhouse.

It took a little persuasion to sell him on the idea, but he decided that such a structure would be fun, and it would certainly fit into our landscape and our life style.

Our original intent was to build our little outdoor facility back in our woods, but then the neighbors got wind of our plans.

He decided that our woods were

PRIME December 2020 / 11 far too scary and menacing, too much like a Hansel and Gretel forest, full of cackling witches and trolls just waiting to discover someone with his or her pants down, and both he and she decided the house of my dreams ought to be situated somewhere between the two residences. That way they could take advantage of the edifice if needed.

We decided on an appropriate location, we dug four holes, we set the corner posts, and the project got off to a great start.

My husband worked diligently for several weeks measuring, cutting, and screwing boards into place. He found two odd shaped windows for the upper level, and the neighbors donated a window for the main

level that had frosted glass which would discourage any peeping Toms (or demented witches that ventured out of our Hansel and Gretel forest) who might be lurking behind the trees to spy on the poor unfortunates sitting on the throne at ground floor.

My 5’ by 5’ dream house took shape and form. It looked wonderful. My husband built a wall ladder, similar to what you might find in an old barn, to climb to the second level.

By then he had decided the second floor would make a great reading area for me and my neighbor, so he put down some leftover flooring, built wooden benches on two sides of the tiny room, and made the room quite comfortable and inviting. The windows allow a lot of light on

the second level, and the space, although tiny, works quite well.

My neighbor and I decided it would make more sense to enjoy an adult beverage along with the spectacular view when sitting up there rather than to read books, although we could always read while we waited our turn to use the first level. The view from one window looks out across the mountains and down to Virginia City, the view from the other window faces the garage and our dark fearsome forest that so frightens our neighbor.

My husband likes the upper level so well he figures he might use it for his own hideaway on occasion.

I think my dream house looks great. Of course, this structure is not heated, it is not a true

two story working outhouse, it is not air tight, but after all, it IS an outhouse, designed for fun as well as function, but it is not a living space. It is perfect, it is what I wanted, it is my dream house, and I am content. I have my cabin on the mountain, my little office, and a double decker outhouse. What more could I possibly want?

Lois Stephens brings personal experience of the aging process to Prime Magazine.

She enjoys writing about her observations of becoming a member of the senior citizen age group. She lives and works in Virginia City.

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Investment Lessons From 2020

By Nathan M. Kirby

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f you’ve recently become a widow or widower, you’re obviously dealing with an enormous emotional burden, and coping with your grief can seem like a full-time struggle. Unfortunately, the business of life must go on – and the financial moves you make at this time can have a big impact on your life.

As the year draws to a close, it’s fair to say that we’ve all learned something about the social, political, physical and environmental forces that have affected everyone.

And, in some ways, our lives will be changed, perhaps permanently. But as an investor, what lessons can you learn from 2020?

Here are some to consider: • The markets look ahead.

Here’s something many investors discovered in 2020: Investment prices don’t always move in the same direction as the overall economy. This might not have seemed apparent right after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in midFebruary, as the overall

economy and the stock market took big hits. But just about five weeks later, the markets began a rally that lasted several months. During this time, the economy also recovered somewhat, but still remains on weak footing.

From war to global financial meltdowns, the market has seen it all. But even at the height of these events, when the markets might be most affected, individual segments or industries can do well.

For example, in the current What can explain this environment, when many discrepancy between the people have been forced to markets and economic work and shop from home, activity? Essentially, economic and get their entertainment numbers, such as the online, it’s probably not unemployment rate and gross surprising that some parts of domestic product (GDP), the technology sector have reflect what’s happening seen their economic activity today, but the markets grow, along with their stock are always looking toward prices. Here’s the key point: tomorrow, which means they Investment opportunities are anticipating a stronger always exist, especially in economic recovery and the times of market stress – and results that come with it, such smart investors will find them as greater corporate earnings and incorporate them into in 2021. No one can say for their portfolios in a way that’s sure what the future holds, appropriate for their goals but you can usually know and risk tolerance. the market’s opinion by its • Patience and discipline performance. can pay dividends. As • Opportunities will always exist for investors. Although the coronavirus seems unprecedented, the equity markets have rebounded from many crises before it.

mentioned above, the stock market dropped sharply in the weeks immediately following the pandemic, but then gained steadily for months afterward. Investors

who tried to “cut losses” and exited the market likely did so at the wrong time and missed out on the beginning of the upturn. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon – investors who overreact to market declines often find themselves on the investment sidelines just when a new rally begins. Rather than being reactive in this way, you may be better off sticking with a long-term investment strategy, and buying and selling investments only when it makes sense for your situation, such as when you need to diversify your portfolio.

For many reasons, it’s unlikely that we’ll see anything exactly like 2020 again. But some of the investment lessons we learned are applicable in every year – so keep them in mind for 2021 and beyond.

Nathan M. Kirby Edward Jones

Financial Advisor

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Bozeman Senior Center’s Second Hand Rose Bozeman Senior Center’s Second Hand Rose is open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from noon – 3p.m. and Fridays 9:00a,m,-3:00p,m, The Book Store is open on Tuesdays from noon – 3p.m. These dates and times are subject to change.

Also at the Bozeman Senior Center, you can purchase frozen soups and casseroles.

These are in 16 ounce containers and the cost is $2.00. Look at our website www. bozemanseniorcenter.org to find out what is available: it can be Chicken Noodle Soup to Pork Teriyaki over Noodles. Please pick them up between 11:00 – 11:30 at the back door near the kitchen. Come in the door and JoAnn will accept your money and give you your order. Please pay with cash (exact amount) or check.

The Bozeman Senior Center is holding Zoom Exercise Classes. We are offering:

*Balance & Yoga taught

by Melanie Simmerman Mon/Wed1:00pm - 1:30pm Balance; 1:35pm-2:30pm Yoga Email: jennylind50@yahoo.com *Strong People (aka Strong Women) taught by Susie Becker Mon/Wed/Fri @ 8:30 am – 9:30 am Email: susieb@localnet.com *Tai Chi taught by Pat Holm Tuesday @ 11:00 am Email: holmrp@yahoo.com *Aerobics taught by Rina Donaldson Mon/Wed/Frid 9:30 – 10:20 am Email: rinadonaldson@hotmail.com

We will be adding classes as the year goes on. You must be a member of the Bozeman Senior Center and the cost is $20.00 a year. Then there is a $10.00 a month exercise fee.

Please call the Bozeman Senior Center at 586-2421 to get a membership form.

Bozeman Senior Center Travel News Judy Morrill, Travel Director 14judymorrill@gmail.com Bozeman Senior Center: 586-2421 We are all anxious to, again, be a part of the Bozeman Senior Center travel program and enjoy traveling on day trips and longer trips throughout the United States and abroad. If you have any questions, or want me to send you brochures, please send me an e-mail and I will get back to you.

If you don’t have internet, please call the 586-2421 and the Senior Center staff will get the message to me. We have one international trip for 2021.

*Germany’s Cultural Cities, Sept. 9 - 19, 2021 Great itinerary including: Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, Hamburg, Castle Stay, Neuschwanstein Castle, Munich, the Glockenspiel, and optional tours of either BMW World, or the Dachau Memorial.

Deposits due by March 1, 2021.

Fun trips within the United States are also going to be great get away. *The Best of New Orleans, May 16 - 20, 2021

A great trip to New Orleans in the springtime. Fly to New Orleans, stay at the Bienville House for four nights. Highlights of the trip include: the National WWII Museum, a Cajun Swamp Boat Tour, tour of the historic sights in New Orleans, visit the spectacular antebellum Oak Alley Plantation, see a live Jazz show, and enjoy a Natchez lunch cruise.

Deposits due by January 10, 2021

*Mackinac Island, the Grand Hotel and Niaagara Falls, Oct. 14 - 21, 2021 Fly to Detroit, Michigan. Visit the Henry Ford Museum. Motorcoach to Mackinac Island and stay in the Grand Hotel for two nights. You will thoroughly enjoy this elegant experience. Travel on one of the world’s longest suspension bridges, visit Frankenmuth and the fun shopping in the Bavarian style shops. Motorcoach to Canada to Niagara Falls in all its glory. Spend two nights at Niagara Falls, including a cruise close to the falls aboard the famous Maid of the Mist.

Deposts due by March 1, 2021

*Christmas in the Smokies December, 2021

Brochure for this trip is not available yet.

More information as it becomes available.

PLEASE NOTE: For more information on any of these trips, call 586-2421 and ask for Judy.

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Meal Service in Senior Centers: The Gallatin County Nutrition program includes four sites: Bozeman, Manhattan, Three Forks and West Yellowstone. The meals-on-wheels and congregate meal programs at all sites provide excellent opportunities for seniors in our county to remain social while enjoying a nutritious meal.

Both components are equally as important in keeping our seniors healthy and active while preventing loneliness and isolation.

All of our sites have outstanding and dedicated kitchen staff who go above and beyond to prepare nutritious meals for seniors in our communities. The goal of the Gallatin County Nutrition Program is to keep older citizens independent and in their homes as long as safely possible.

Eligibility: The nutrition program is available to all seniors over 60 who are in need, but we especially target older clients (over the age of 80), the low income, the frail, and the lonely depressed individual trying to remain independent in their own home or apartment. Seniors may come to the senior center and enjoy a nutritious meal in a comfortable social setting with other seniors. Those who are homebound may enjoy meals-onwheels delivered by wonderful volunteers each day. It is also our goal to keep all our programs and services as affordable as possible.

Our suggested donation is $4.00/ meal for those 60 and older. No one is turned away for inability to pay.

If you are 60 or older, you may pay whatever you can afford. Individuals under 60 are also welcome and encouraged to eat at our sites, however the cost is $6.00/meal and is not a suggested donation.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID-19, our senior center sites will not be open to the public until Phase III of the Governor’s Reopen Montana Plan. However, we are still delivering meal-on-wheels daily and providing grab and go meals at each site.

Please call any of our sites for more information on operations or to get assistance on how we can help you.

Bozeman – Meals are served and delivered 5 days per week at 12:00 noon. Frozen meals can be picked up at any time for individuals who cannot come for the meals that day. We also offer frozen soups and casseroles in 16 ounce containers for $2.00. Call 586-2421 for more information regarding meals-on-wheels or frozen soups and casseroles.

The Bozeman Senior Center has lots of jigsaw puzzles. If you would like some puzzles, call us at 586-2421 and tell us what piece count you would like. 3 puzzles will be bagged and delivered to your house if you live in the city limits.

If you live out of the city limits, we can make arrangements for you to pick up the puzzles. Call us at 586-2421.

Manhattan - Manhattan seves and delivers meals 3 days a week (Tuesday-Thursday) at 12:00 noon.

Call 284-6501 for more information.

Three Forks - Three Forks serves and delivers a noon meal 3 days a week (Tuesday-Thursday). Call 2853235 for more information.

West Yellowstone - West Yellowstone serves and delivers a 12:00 noon meal on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Call 646-7715 for more information.

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Bozeman Menu

Manhattan Senior Center Menu

Shannon Bondy, shannon@bozemanseniorcenter.org (Executive Director) Kristi Wetsch, krisi@bozemanseniorcenter.org (Director Program & Marketing)

1 - Salad, Chili, Corn Bread, Vegetables, Dessert

807 North Tracy • (406) 586-2421 • www.bozemanseniorcenter.org

102 East Main St., Manhattan, MT • 284-6501

2 - Cottage Cheese, Chicken Sandwich, Tater Tots, Vegetables, Oranges 3 - Fruit, Beef/Broccoli, Rice, Vegetables, Cake

There are no meals served at the center so these meals will be delivered to anyone 60 or over who live in the city limits or you can pick up your meal. You need to call before 4:00 the preceding day. You can pick up the meal at 10:45 a.m. We will send you an invoice at the end of the month. Call us at 586-2421 to get on the schedule to start eating “Fay’s Fabulous Food.”

The cost of the meal is a suggested donation of $4.00 for people 60 and over.

This menu is subject to change due to the availability of food.

1 - Fresh Fruit, BBQ Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Steamed Vegetables, Peach Pie 2 - Mixed Fruit, Beef Stew, Biscuit, Steamed Vegetables, Jello 3 - Tossed Salad, Baked Cod, Rice Pilaf, Steamed Carrots, Cottage Cheese with Fruit 4 - Mixed Fruit, Taco Salad, Chips N Salsa, Spanish Rice, Sugar Cookie 7 - Mixed Fruit, Swedish Meatballs, Buttered Noodles, Steamed Vegetables, Bread,

Fruit Crisp

8 - Tomato/Cucumber Salad, Hamburger Casserole, Bread Sticks, Vegetables, Pudding 9 - Pasta Salad, Chicken Strips, Vegetables, Fries, Fruit 10 - Caesar Salad, Baked Fish, Sweet Potatoes, Vegetables, Cookies 15 - Salad, Beef Stew, Warm Cinnamon Apple, Bread Stick, Cookie 16 - Banana, Potato Soup, ½ Grilled Turkey and Swiss, Vegetables, Chips 17 - Cranberry Salad, Baked Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Green Beans, Pie 22 - 24 - Closed 29 - Jello, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Vegetables, Roll, Brownie 30 - Salad, Ham/Hash Brown Casserole, Vegetables, Dinner Roll, Fruit 30 - Frog Eye Salad, Beef Roast, Vegetables, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Dessert

Three Rivers Senior Menu

8 - Fruit, Crab Cakes with Remoulade Sauce, Spinach, Rice Pilaf, Roll, Jello

19 East Cedar St., Three Forks • 285-3235 • Director: Jean Farnam • 570-0800

9 - Tossed Salad, Chili, Cornbread, Fresh fruit, Cookie

1 - Green Salad, Spaghetti, Garlic Bread, Corn, Chocolate Cake

10 - Holiday Lunch: Bacon, Pea Salad, Brown Sugar Mustard Glazed Ham,

2 - Fruit, Chili with White Beans, Corn Bread, Baked Potato, Ice Cream

3 - 3 Bean Salad, Ham and Scalloped Potatoes, Fruit, Stewed Tomatoes, Pudding

Sweet Potato Casserole, Green Beans, Dinner Roll, Lemon Bar

11 - Fresh Fruit, Italian Sub, Pasta Salad, Chips, Ambrosia Salad

8 - Cucumber Salad, Swiss Steak, Rice, Green Beans, Apple Cobbler

14 - Fresh Fruit, Cabbage Roll, Steamed Rice Pilaf, Buttered Carrots, Applesauce

9 - Pea Salad, Turkey and Noodles, Beets, Ice Cream

15 - 3 Bean Salad, Roast Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Cottage Cheese w/Fruit

10 - Broccoli Salad, Roast Beef, Potatoes, Carrots, Fruit

16 - Marinated Vegetables, Beef Taco, Spanish Rice, Mixed Corn, Corn Bread

15 - Green Salad, Hamburger Gravy over Mashed Potatoes, Pickled Beets, Cake

17 - Tossed Salad, Lasagna, Green Beans, Garlic Bread, Jello 18 - Fruit, Hot Beef Sandwich, Seasoned Wedge Fries, Coleslaw, Cookie 21 - Closed 22 - Closed 23 - Closed 24 - Closed 25 - Closed - Merry Christmas 28 - Fruit, Orange Chicken, Steamed Rice, Stir Fry Vegetables, Fortune Cookie, Brownie

16 - Fruit, Taco Salad 17 - Christmas Dinner: Green Salad, Ham, Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, Fruit Salad 22 - 24 - Closed 29 - Green Salad, Polish Sausage, Sauerkraut, Potato, Broccoli, Cookies 30 - Green Salad, Lasagna, Corn, Bread Stick, Apple Bread Pudding 31 - Spaghetti Salad, Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Peas,

Sliced Apples with Carmel

West Yellowstone Senior Center 2 - Green Salad, Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Cake

29 - Tossed Salad, Pork Roast with Gravy, Parmesan Potato Halves, Spinach,

4 - Green Salad, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Mixed Vegetables, Brownie

Pineapple

9 - Green Salad, Chicken Ala King, Egg Noodles, Biscuit, Cake

30 - Fresh Fruit, Twice Baked Potato Soup, ½ Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich,

11 - Green Salad, Chili Mac and Cheese, Corn, Brownie

16 - Green Salad, Tuna Casserole, Mixed Vegetables, Biscuit, Cake

Chips, Pasta Salad, Jello

31 - New Year’s Lunch: Tossed Salad, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Wild Rice Pilaf,

Steamed Carrots, Dinner Roll, Dessert Bar

18 - Green Salad, Pork, Mashed Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Brownie 23 - Green Salad, Prime Rib, Baked Potato, Asparagus, Cake 25 - Closed - Merry Christmas 30 - Green Salad, Pot Roast, Pork Roast Vegetables, Biscuit, Cake

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