Golden Times, July 2023

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ON THE COVER: This photo by Zach Wilkinson shows Forrest “Babe” Kreisher standing outside the gate of the Elk River Cemetery, which he’s helped keep up since 1955. The story is on Page 8.

EDITOR: Julie Breslin, (208) 848-2241/jbreslin@lmtribune.com

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Seeing an old nemesis through new eyes

Perhaps my first impression of Vietnam was colored by nightly negativity of television screens filled with the war’s progress — or lack of it — and lists of American casualties still etched in my memory from as long ago as 1975. As we entered the harbor, olive green water with floating chunks of Styrofoam and uprooted vegetation was what I first noticed.

Visas secured, we boarded a bus for a tour of the countryside, where we saw patches of goldencolored rice and learned that Vietnam exports four million tons of this staple food. Other crops included coconut, banana and mango.

Situated in some of the fields are colorful burial monuments where the landowner ancestors are believed to watch over the crops. The current government there now demands cremation, however.

At Cai Be, we clambered onto a long boat for a ride up the Mekong. These boats are covered above, but had open sides. Though it was March, it was a very warm day. Along the way, we stopped at a floating market for a refreshing drink, sipped through a straw from an opened coconut.

We passed buildings along the shore with crumbling concrete piers and older homes with exposed red brick. In a few places, narrow buildings of a more modern style had been built by wealthy individuals. Water tanks on the roofs are solar heated. Propane is commonly used for cooking. As is customary

there, several generations live in the same home.

After the boat ride, we walked a winding path through lush vegetation to a restaurant where we dined on authentic Vietnamese food. The meal included delicate spring rolls, noodles with seafood, flavorful rice and a crisp, round golden pastry ball filled with sticky rice. I wrinkled my nose at the thought of fish sauce, but to my surprise, it wasn’t fishy. Everything tasted wonderful.

At Binh Hoa Phuoc village, rice was popped in a huge cast iron vat to create a sweet treat. Snake wine was sold there

— yes, there really was a snake in it at some point. Silk jackets, crocodile belts and purses were sold at a discount prices as compared to prices in a more populated city. Dark, wooden jewel boxes, vases and wall hangings decorated with mother of pearl, hand painted art, or mosaic designs created from bits of duck egg shells, then covered with 17 layers of lacquer also were displayed for sale. More of this artistic work was seen at Minh Phuong lacquerware workshop the next day, but the lined silk jacket I bought that day was a bargain at $25 U.S. currency.

The next day’s tour took us into Ho Chi Minh city, formerly called Saigon. A mixture of old and new architectural styles blend. French colonial influence is evident in the older buildings. In the

distance, we could see the apartment building where the last of the American personnel were rescued by helicopter from the rooftop at the end of the war in Vietnam. It is scheduled for demolition next year. The sign that used to be on top was sold to an American businessman.

History lessons continued as we toured the presidential palace and were guided through narrow concrete passageways to the communications and warm rooms, as well as the more lavish ambassadors chamber and state banquet halls.

Locals told us that, after the war, many

Vietnamese sympathetic to the United States were sent to reeducation centers. Those who have relatives in the U.S. aren’t offered the same opportunity for higher education and good jobs as other citizens, and we learned the communist government tracks the brightest students and encourages them to become party members. The country’s international schools teach English. Higher education is expensive for the average person, costing as much as $150,000 per year.

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Picking a raspberry philosophy of life is berry wise

As a child, my first job was picking raspberries and blackcaps for my grandpa. He trimmed each plant, hoed the weeds in the rows and pounded in stakes with cross wires to train the growing plants. Water ditches ran down the side to keep the berries moist and plump. They were large, tasty berries that the M&K Market gladly sold for him.

They also were a lot of work. He would certainly shake his head in disappointment looking at my raspberry patch. I’m a ’60s hippy-style laissez faire grower. I’ve found, when I allow the plant to come up where it’s the happiest, it produces many more stems with larger fruit.

My raspberry bushes were loaded with yummy red fruit this year. They loved the wet spring. The result was long, arching limbs covered with berries. Since most of my garden area is covered with ivy, the insistent raspberry plants poke their way through at various locations. They’re like weeds in that way. It makes it a challenge when picking. I

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must step carefully over railroad ties, plant supports and garden tubs to reach all the berries. It’s OK. I love the wild look of my yard. It gives me the feel of living on the edge of a forest.

When I’m picking, my mind floats to my raspberry philosophy of life. Let me share a few thoughts:

ï Old raspberry bushes can still produce fruit, but their greatest gift is when they send out roots to produce new plants, which will bear even bigger and better berries. That’s why I love teaching. I plant the roots of ideas into young minds hoping they’ll grow into bigger and better experiences.

ï You must never let your bushes get low enough they touch the ground. As the berries ripen, they get so heavy they need to be propped

up. Slugs, robins and sow bugs love berries, too. When we get weighed down with life, it gives the scavengers a chance to take advantage of us. We need others around us to hold us up when the load gets too heavy.

ï Don’t look at the number of berries in your bowl. Look at the wonderful harvest still on the bushes. Looking at what has been accomplished is never as challenging as looking at what’s still ahead. It’s the possibili-

ties that keep moving us forward.

ï Don’t hesitate to lift branches (opportunities) and look underneath. That’s where you’ll find the biggest, juiciest berries (rewards). When you think you’ve cleaned the slate, finished, have it to your satisfaction, you often find, by looking deeper, there is much more to be had. Explore your inner abilities and opportunities to find the biggest rewards in life. What is hidden in your life that you’ve not

yet discovered?

ï When you see a berry grab it ... even if you think it’s out of reach. Take a step or two into the bush, stretch out, pick it. If you wait until you get to the other side, it will no longer be in sight and you won’t remember it’s there. I’m a huge believer in open doors. If an opportunity presents itself, I must take it. Open doors lead to fantastic experiences. Life is too short to ignore what might be the best season of your life.

ï My patch isn’t large, but it’s large enough to share with a friend the yummy taste of a bowl of berries with cream and sugar. It’s important to share the good things in life.

ï Life is like picking raspberries. It’s a challenge. Some discoveries are in plain sight, easy to grab. Others are hidden and we have to search for them. The important thing is to keep looking for the treasures, the rewards, the joy. When our bowl is full, when our heart is singing, when our soul is satisfied, we become a positive force. And like my raspberries, it brings happiness to everyone around us.

Chase Hoseley is a freelance writer and retired kindergarten teacher who lives in Clarkston. She can be reached at shoseley8@gmail.com.

Sharon Chase Hoseley/for Golden Times Fresh raspberries from Sharon Chase Hoseley’s garden.

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Joy Zipse, 90

Joy Zipse, of Clarkston, was born to Clarence and Pearl Yager in 1933 in Fort Collins, Colo. She grew up on the family ranch in the beautiful mountains up Rist Canyon outside Fort Collins.

Joy met Robert Zipse while he pursued a degree in forestry from Colorado State University. After Bob graduated, they married and moved to Clarkston in 1954. They had three children: Wayne, Brian and Jodell. Bob died in 1997, and Wayne died in 2007.

Joy was a homemaker, raising a huge garden, providing fresh and frozen vegetables all year-round. She was an excellent cook, making all the family’s meals from scratch, and even baked sourdough bread.

Joy grew up riding horses to school, doing trick riding and working on her grandfather’s dude ranch. After her kids were grown, she began riding again, at the Lewiston Roundup Grounds in the winters and trail riding in the Blue Mountains and Waha area in the summers. She enjoyed playing bridge until a few years ago and was an avid golfer at both the Clarkston and Lewiston Country Clubs.

Joy has seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Her family will celebrate her birthday with her.

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Bobbi Chandler, 95

Barbara “Bobbi” Chandler, of Lewiston, will celebrate her 90th birthday with a family picnic today at Hereth Park in Lewiston. She was born July 6, 1928, to Joveta and Dwight Latham in Winchester. Her family moved to Peola, Wash., Pomeroy and then to Lewiston.

She and Alvin Brooks were married May 28, 1946, and the couple lived in Tekoa. They were divorced in 1966.

She and James Riley married in 1969, and they were later divorced. In 1972, she moved to Grangeville where she and Jim Adamson were married. They later were divorced.

In 1974, she began her business, the Teddy Bear Lady, and she designed and made bears from her own patterns. She attended craft shows as a vendor, and sold her wares at the Nez Perce County Fair in Lewiston for 43 years.

She and Ted Chandler were married in 1990, and he died in 1997.

She and Howard Jackman were married May 12, 2013, in Lewiston.

She has one son, four grandchildren, 10 greatgrandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild. Her twin sons died shortly after their birth in 1948 and one son died in 2007. She also has 13 stepchildren, and numerous stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.

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Peggy Keller, 95

Peggy Keller was born on Friday the 13th in 1928 to Lee and Nellie Brooks in Mansfield, Wash.

While working in the Okanogan Valley, Wash., apple orchards, she met Bart Hepburn, and they married. They moved to Lewiston, where she had four children. Peggy later married Lew Keller, and they enjoyed years of traveling and camping. She managed the Safeway snack bar until it closed, then worked at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center until she retired. Her children will be celebrating her birthday with her.

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Virigina Holloway Earl, 85

Virginia Holloway Earl was born in 1938 at the “Garden of Eden” in her grandparents’ house at Elkhorn Springs in Sun Valley, Idaho, across the canyon from Promise and just a little way from Paradise. The family moved to Asotin Creek, and she has been a lifelong resident since. After graduation from Asotin High School in 1956, she married Lee Earl. They have three children — Donna, Eddie and Aaron — who have given them 12 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Virginia drove school bus for many years and worked at the Asotin Post Office for more than 30 years, retiring as the postmaster. She enjoys sewing, quilting and keeping in touch with her lifelong classmates and friends. She and Norm still live in Asotin. Their children will hold an open house from 1-4 p.m. July 22 at the Asotin Lions Hall.

Water under the bridge of 1951

et’s take a look at our Lewiston area of 70plus years ago, in the middle of the 20th Century.

In the spring of 1950, Spokane didn’t have any lilacs for its Lilac Festival. Lewiston saved the day for its frostbitten neighbor by sending the city huge truckloads of the beautiful flowers.

Then in the fall came a whiff of something less refreshing: industry. On the morning of Nov. 20, 1950, Lewiston and Clarkston residents turned up their noses as they got the first smell of the area’s newest big industry: the brand new pulp-and-paper plant at Potlatch Forests Inc. The $12 million mill operation began Dec. 28, 1950, and employed around 300 people.

Its opening gave the area economy a big boost, and drivers liked the quick trip across the Clearwater River on a newly built bridge.

In 1951, the four-lane bridge opened at the bottom of 21st Street in east Lewiston. I lived on 22nd Street, and the bridge was in my back yard. It replaced the rickety 18th Street bridge, which some said should have signs at each end saying, “Congratulations, you’ve made it again.”

What happened next shocked and angered north central Idaho residents. At the opening of the Idaho Legislature in Boise on Jan. 9, 1951, the newly elected Idaho governor — Len Jordan, of Grangeville — pro-

posed closing the Northern Idaho College of Education (NICE, now LCSC) in Lewiston. The legislature agreed and didn’t fund the school or the Southern Idaho College of Education.

I graduated from Lewiston High School in 1951 and had played a lot of baseball. I played for the 1949 and 1950 American Legion Idaho state baseball champions under coach Ced Kinzer, who was the NICE coach at the time, and I would probably have gone there to play more baseball for him. Instead I went to the University of Idaho, and when I graduated in 1955, Idaho reopened NICE as the Lewis-Clark Normal School. I think closing NICE was a foolish political decision.

The Korean War had started in 1950, and U.S. troops fought with South Korea against North Korea. On May 6, 1951, Battery C of the 148th Field Artillery of the Lewiston

With raindrops dampening his jacket, Don Scholes (left) lifts Barbara Sidwell up to the train window to give a last-minute goodbye kiss to Pfc. Franklin Silverson in this photo published in the May 7, 1951, Lewiston Tribune. Silverson was a member of the Lewiston unit, Battery C of the 148th field artillery, which was leaving Lewiston for active duty at Camp Carson, Colo.

national guard was ordered into active federal duty. Among the 88 enlisted men and five officers activated and sent to Camp Carson, Colo., were two of my 1951 LHS classmates. Although the class wasn’t scheduled to graduate until May 28, 1951, Byron Gage and Don Ogston were awarded their diplomas when they left for active duty. Hundreds of area people gathered in a drenching rainstorm at the train depot to see the 148th off.

One other notable happening of a little more than 70 years ago was that professional baseball came to Lewiston. In 1952, the minor league team was called the Lewiston Broncs, and the team played games at Bengal Field for 20 years, until 1972.

I remember these few tidbits of history, and hope you enjoyed hearing about them.

Riggs, 90, is a lifetime Lewistonian. He’s an avid Warriors fan, a retired educator, coach and school superintendent and volunteers his time at the Nez Perce County Historical Society. He can be reached at bdriggo@gmail.com.

Surprises — here, there and everywhere

Ihave an abundance of relatives in Austria, and when I began traveling to Europe I visited them often. I grew to love them as they enriched my life with family stories. They also gave me good advice about places to visit in Europe. Two must-see towns were Grado, Italy, and Pula, Croatia. However, they didn’t say why, just that I should see them.

I was living in Slovenia at the time and had bought a car, so when my husband, Elwyn, visited, we set off for a sunny weekend in Grado. It is a charming resort on the Mediterranean with broad beaches and many posh hotels. Just before we arrived, we came upon a parking lot in front of a huge open gate. It looked intriguing, so we got out and began to stroll along a narrow raised walkway lined on both sides with tall trees. Periodically there were sections of ancient carved Roman walls with inscriptions. This had been a Roman port named Aquileia with piers, docks and ramps for the shipping trade. It was amazing, and even more so because other ruins scattered around here and there featured columns and mosaic floors. Through the centuries, the sea has receded and the shoreline now is quite a distance away. The walkway ends at a huge basilica backed by a World War I cemetery.

The church was open

so we decided to explore. One step inside and whoa! It was an astounding sight. The huge floor is covered with intricate mosaics of Bible stories. At that time, the floor was covered with lengths of red carpeting so that we could stroll along and closely examine the mosaics. Here is Jonah being swallowed by the whale; over there the disciples are catching fish; on the left Lazarus is being raised from the dead. Those are only a few of the many scenes. For centuries there had been a wooden floor elevated 6 feet above the mosaics. Not long before we were there, the church elders had decided to replace the floor, and it was then they discovered the treasure hidden beneath. It is said to be better than any mosaic floors found in Rome. That’s easy to believe.

We went on to find a little hotel in Grado with delightful owners who became our good friends over the years. The gelato and seafood restaurants became a standard go-to for us. In the center of town is a sunken, openair site with more Roman ruins that can be viewed from above. Wonderful

Roman relics are everywhere.

On another weekend, Elwyn and I decided to venture south through the Istrian Peninsula to Pula. The drive is unusual because along the little country roads we saw large

circular depressions in the landscape. That area is a limestone karst and in some areas the stone had dissolved away into caves that eventually collapsed, creating these sinkholes. Locals sometimes planted vegetable or flower gardens at the bottoms. Alongside the roads, folks had stands where they sold honey and homemade cheese (known as cheap sheep cheese). Shelves also held bottles filled with colorful schnapps of various kinds. Sadly, after Croatia joined the European Union, those types of stands were banned.

We drove into Pula on a broad, curving avenue lined with trees. It was a lovely quiet day without

much traffic — a very pleasant entry into the town. Elwyn, expecting something special, commented, “Well, this isn’t much!” Two seconds later, we rounded a curve and saw right in front of us, filling up our windshield, an enormous Colosseumlike Roman amphitheater. It was breathtaking. We burst out laughing. Not much! Yes it was indeed much, very much.

It was built between 29 B.C. and 67 A.D. at the same time as Rome’s Colosseum. It’s one of the largest amphitheaters in the world and holds as many as 20,000 spectators.

After exploring it thoroughly, we wandered into the town center for

lunch. Another treasure: in the shady square stands a Greek-style building which resembles a miniature Parthenon.

Whenever friends or relatives visited I took them to those two wonderful sites. Once when I took a Norwegian friend to Aquileia, a choir was singing in the basilica. It was magical! Now visitors can view the mosaics from Plexiglas platforms suspended over that glorious floor. Surprises like these are what make life wonderful.

Johnson, of Grangeville, worked in three different European countries — Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovenia — in the 1990s and early 2000s. She can be reached at johnsondixie@hotmail.com.

Heputinhistime—andthensome

Elk River resident Babe Kreisher recently retired from the town’s cemetery district board after about 65 years of service

By KALI NELSON FOR GOLDEN TIMES

ELK RIVER — Roughly 65 years ago, Forrest Kreisher joined the Elk River Cemetery District board to finish the term of Carl Jockheck.

Kreisher couldn’t have known it at the time, but the Elk River native would remain on the board until April, when he retired from his post at the age of 91.

Kreisher recently was honored for his service to the board and the community, his photo appearing on the Facebook page of the Elk River Cemetery District – Three Pines Cemetery with the district’s current board members, Marsha Martin, DeEtta Mitchell and Tim Brinkley.

“The Elk River Cemetery District Board would like to thank Forrest ‘Babe’ Kreisher for serving as the Board Chairman for the past 69 years,” reads the Facebook post. “Mr. Kreisher has volunteered most of his life keeping the Three Pines Cemetery in Elk River, Idaho, beautiful for the community.”

The board is in charge of maintaining the grounds in and around the Three Pines Cemetery in Elk River through hiring maintenance employees, finding funding for improvement projects and managing plot fees and policies regarding burials. Board member elections happen every two to four years.

The first cemetery in Elk River was called Ridgewood and was founded in 1912. The land was separated into different areas for religious denominations and fraternal orders present in town. In

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TOP: Forrest Kreisher, former president of the Three Pine Cemetery board, poses for a portrait outside of the Elk River cemetery office. Kreisher said when he took over in 1955, many cemetery upgrades were accomplished including fencing the area, mapping and marking grave sites, and adding an office building and storage shed.

RIGHT: Della and Forrest Kreisher pose for a portrait on the porch of their Elk River home. Both served as board members of the Three Pines Cemetery for more than 60 years, with Forrest acting as president and Della as secretary.

1921, the residents of Elk River became concerned about the state of the cemetery and a group of men went to work cleaning up the brush, trees and stumps. They also built a fence and formed a cemetery association.

The Catholic cemetery created in 1912 was abandoned after 1921 and all who died were, from then on, buried in the Three Pines Cemetery or the Oddfellows Lodge area. Kreisher said wasn’t until after 1955 that the Catholic cemetery was cleaned up again, but no new burials happen in that area.

The Clearwater County commissioners voted to make the cemetery a taxing district in May 1958. Elk River District Clerk Shelley McLam said that move made it possible for an elected board to have access to property taxes and it required board members to follow state law. The first board consisted of Jockheck, Eugene Friend, Frank Currier and Tom Lower as the hired maintenance man.

Kreisher met his wife, Della, in 1955 during his service in the U.S. Army, and they married in February before moving to Elk River. He was formally appointed to the board in 1960 according to the old minutes, McLam said, but it was possible he had been involved in cemetery maintenance for a few years prior. In 1968, Kreisher was named chairperson of the board and continued the work on the cemetery.

“I’m not bragging about myself,” he said. “I wanted it as nice as possible for people buried there.”

Della Kreisher served as the board’s secretary for 55 to 60 years, retiring in 2020. Through the years, the Kreishers, other board members and volunteers worked to improve the

cemetery by removing brush, building an office and water pump house and installing flower hangers and a new gate. The gate, Kreisher said, was made by a man in Texas and painted by Deary Auto with car paint to preserve it.

In addition to upkeep of signage and fencing around different sections of the cemetery, volunteers have added a section for pets.

“I look at it and admire all the work we put into it,”

Kreisher said.

Kreisher said he is a lifelong resident of Elk River and graduated from the Elk River Public School, which was closed in the 1990s. As a child, he taught himself to yodel and remembered how people would know he was on his way to school from his yodeling.

In his childhood, Kreisher, his siblings and mother would pick huckleberries in the mountains around Elk

River to fill a washbucket or two and then drive around the area to sell them for a quarter a gallon.

“I had a good life,” Kreisher said. “We made our own fun.”

He was a log scaler for the Potlatch Forest Inc. before his military service and returned to the job when he moved back in 1955. He worked in logging for more than 30

years in various roles for a few different companies that came into town.

Kreisher retired from logging in 1992 when Potlatch left Elk River for the last time. Now, he spends his time with his wife at their Elk River home and occasionally practices his yodeling.

Nelson can be reached at knelson@dnews.com.

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M11 Beef franks/tater tots/coleslaw

18 Chicken salad/beets/melon/biscuit

25 Cod/wild rice blend/broccoli/juice/fruit

W TH F

14 Roast beef and provolone sandwich/salad bar

13 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/ corn/applesauce/roll

20 Tater tot casserole/green beans/ beets/fruit cocktail/cook’s choice dessert

27 Pronto pups/mac and cheese/veggie medley/pickled beets/peaches

21 Ham and Swiss sandwich/salad bar

28 Chicken salad sandwich/salad bar

MOSCOW SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM — When: Noon, Tues./Thurs. • Where: 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. or call (208) 310-3779 for delivery. Cost: $5 suggested for seniors 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors. • Notes: Soup (starting at 10:30 a.m.), salad bar (at 11:30 a.m.) and dessert are available daily. Menu is subject to change. • Online: users.moscow.com/srcenter.

6 At Latah Co. Fairgrounds: Chicken/Potato Salad/melon

13 Waffles/omelet/sausage patty/veggie mix/fresh fruit

20 Pulled pork sandwich/baked beans/potato salad/fruit

W TH F

27 Lasagna/bread/salad/veggies/cottage cheese/melon

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

4

HOT: Southwest beef casserole/corn

SACK: Tuna/cucumber salad/lemon snow

THOT: Barbecue meatballs/ rice/carrots

SACK: Tuna/green salad/cookies

HOT: Pork loin roast/stuffing/ cauliflower

SACK: Egg salad/ coleslaw/peaches

HOT: Chicken/ roasted potatoes/squash

SACK: Roast beef/ crudites/apple slices

HOT: Salisbury steak/scalloped potatoes/peas

SACK: Krab salad/cottage cheese/brownie

10

HOT: Chicken cordon bleu/ pasta/veggies

SACK: Ham/watermelon/chocolate pudding

16 17

HOT: Ribs/ pork-n-beans/ cabbage

SACK: Egg salad/crudites/pudding/Oreos

HOT: Chickenfried steak/ potatoes/corn

HOT: Meatloaf/potatoes/ mushrooms

SACK: Egg salad/ 3-bean salad/cake

12

HOT: Carved ham/yams/ broccoli

SACK: Turkey/pasta salad/cobbler

HOT: Southwest beef casserole/corn

SACK: Tuna/cucumber salad/lemon snow

HOT: Roast beef/potatoes/ mixed veggies

SACK: Turkey/potato salad/peaches

23 24

SACK: Ham/pea salad/ butterscotch pudding

31 11 1

HOT: Chicken cordon bleu/ pasta/veggies

SACK: Ham/watermelon/chocolate pudding

HOT: Chicken pot pie/ squash

SACK: Ham/broccoli salad/brownie

25

HOT: Barbecue meatballs/ rice/carrots

SACK: Tuna/green salad/cookies

HOT: Meatloaf/potatoes/ mushrooms

HOT: Tuna noodle casserole/ green beans

SACK: Pastrami/ potato salad/orange

HOT: Pasta bolognese/ peas

SACK: Chicken salad/ chips/applesauce

20 19

HOT: Enchilada casserole/ corn

SACK: Pastrami/ cottage cheese/pears

HOT: Pork loin roast/stuffing/ cauliflower

SACK: Egg salad/ coleslaw/peaches

13 15 14

SACK: Beef/black beancorn salad/cookies

HOT: Tater tot casserole/baby carrots

SACK: Pastrami/ spinach salad/cookies

HOT: Chicken strips/jojos/ cauliflower

SACK: Roast beef/broccoli salad/fruited Jell-O

22 21 18

HOT: Chicken/ roasted potatoes/squash

SACK: Roast beef/ crudites/apple slices

HOT: Chili/ mac-n-cheese/ green beans

SACK: Chicken salad/ banana/fruit crisp

6 27 7 28 8

HOT: Salisbury steak/scalloped potatoes/peas

SACK: Krab salad/cottage cheese/brownie

HOT: Chicken Alfredo/peas

SACK: Krab salad/coleslaw/ tapioca pudding

HOT: Tuna noodle casserole/ green beans

Meals are delivered to established clients between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 365 days of the year, with delivery guaranteed by 1 p.m. each day. Individuals can have a Hot meal delivered to their residence for $4 per day or a hot meal and a sack lunch for $5 per day. More information is available by calling (208) 799-5767. Menus are prepared by St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and are subject to change.