RSVP Summer Newsletter 2016

Seniors and The Community Rally Together to Help Oklahoma Veterans.

Would you like to join in on the cause and help crochet? You will get to meet some new friends while your at it! These ladies get together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2-3p.m. at Meadows Point Apartments located at 1225 South Cleveland. To inquire about joining please contact RSVP at 580-233-5914.

Six full bags of yarn donated by the Enid Community!

RSVP to Host Their First Annual Awareness and Fundraising Event.

Even our youth find the importance of giving back!

An evening to support and sustain the work of RSVP. This high end casual chic party will be held at the Heartland Place at the 81 Ranch this fall and will feature a seated gourmet dinner and so much more. This unforgettable night of giving will help raise much needed funds to support our programs so that 1000’s of seniors will have much needed access to: Enid Mobile Meals, Silver Lining Transportation, Commodity Box Program, Brown Bag Program, Senior Social Center, Senior Lunches, Animal Friends for Seniors, Counseling for Seniors, Handy Man Services, Library Book Club, and more. This years event will be by invitation only but with a big event comes great responsibilities.

We will need several volunteers to help make this night a success! If interested in volunteering please give us a call at: 580-233-5914. To find out more information about the private invitation attendance give us a call at: 580-233-5914.

A Note From the Executive Director What an amazing program we have. What a blessing to be a part of something so life changing and inspiring. You, RSVP volunteer, donor, and advocate, make this the best community to call home. I do mean that. Where else can you deliver a box of food to someone in need, and from that interaction have 25 Veterans in the VA hospital now having warm lap blankets? Where else do you know that because 1 lady didn’t have adequate transportation, that now 290 other seniors each month don’t have to worry about that anymore. Where else can you say, because 1 lady had to stand in the cold for too long to wait on her food, that now 288 others get their food delivered right to their doors? What other host of volunteers do you know that rally together for the good to make sure 1 isolated woman celebrates her 85th birthday bigger and better and happier than she did her 83rd?! You DO! That’s who! RSVP is a strong committed group of amazing people and organizations that come together when someone is in need, and that is why you are recognized as the state’s #1 Senior Program! Congratulations to our village of amazing people!!! Keep up the inspirational work!

Senior Social Center Booming with Excitement!

Big changes have been made and we are proud to say that the RSVP Senior Social Center is booming! Conversations, laughter and excitement fills the room everyday down at the center now. New friends are being made and old friends are rekindling their friendships. Before the changes we were serving lunch to about 80 people a month and now we are serving over 600 people a month with hot lunches!

Upcoming Event! .

UNDERSTANDING YOUR POWER OF ATTORNEY

September 21st at 12:45 p.m. .

With Guest Speaker Craig Riffel Attorney and CPA

202 W. Walnut 580-237-1447

At the conclusion of the seminar, you will have the opportunity to have a Power of Attorney prepared at no charge.

Senior Social Center Creed:

Activities that are happening at the Senior Social Center include:                

Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. All we need is a smile.

Lunch served between 11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Bingo - every Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Card Games Puzzles Dominoes Pool Table Pitch Talk with a Doc Monthly Birthday Parties Coffee with a Cop Free haircuts Free fingernail painting Blood pressure and blood sugar check Parkinson Meetings Commodity Box Program Cell phone lessons by Cynthia Stevison

Stop by the Senior Center to see when some of the activities are happening or for more information give us a call at: 580-237-1447.

Kim Blankenship Senior Social Center Director

We celebrated Independence Day with a cook-out luncheon. Over 70 people attended!

We celebrated National Senior Citizen Day with ice cream and a mobile photo booth so they could enjoy the fun right at their table!

We had 69 people who attended!

Thank you!

Amazing Things are Happening Here.

Volunteer Opportunities RSVP Senior Center is looking for several volunteers to help with cooking and/or serving lunches, Monday through Friday. You can help out once a week, twice a week or all week long! They also need help with delivering brown bags once a month and with delivering commodity boxes.

Enid Mobile Meals is looking for volunteers to help deliver meals to homebound seniors, the disabled, and veterans in Enid.

We currently have 6 routes available. You can deliver once a week, twice a week, or once a month, whatever you would like to do. Pick up the meals at either hospital around 10:45am and deliver your route, and within an hour you have changed lives!

Forgotten Ministries Mercy House is looking for volunteers to work in a variety of ways. They need volunteers from 4pm-8pm Monday through Friday to work at the front desk scanning badges, washing and drying laundry, cooking and prepping meals and cleaning.

The Living Center is looking for a volunteer to come out every Thursday from 2-3pm and play Yahtzee with the residents as well as keep score for multiple players and assist rolling the dice for others.

Cherokee Strip Community Foundation is looking for a volunteer to work the receptionist position for Mary Stallings.

Computer knowledge would be a great benefit to her! For more information please call: 580-234-3988.

The American Red Cross is looking for that special Fire Response Volunteer. If you feel like you would enjoy this life changing volunteer opportunity, please call the RSVP office for more information on how to get involved. 233-5914 The Girl Scouts are looking for volunteers to help with sewing lessons and for Troup leaders. If you are interested, please call the RSVP office to set up your appointment to help!

Salvation Army needs volunteers on Thursday evenings for nursery care. They are presenting life changing classes for those who are ready to turn their lives into treasure and hope. They desperately need a volunteer to help with the nursery so it does not deter the parents from seeking this amazing opportunity. Call RSVP to learn more. They will also need volunteers to sign up for Christmas help, so you can get in early, you can call now to register to volunteer for Christmas, too!

Boy Scouts of America are looking for interested Leadership volunteers. If you fit this criteria, please consider helping them. For more information, contact the RSVP office.

HT Holden Christmas Ornaments Commemorating the 10th Annual HT Holden Ornaments. .

2016 marks the 10th year that RSVP has been selling these unique keepsakes. HT Holden so graciously created the ornaments to help provide funding to keep our programs going and to help our seniors throughout our community. Each of these delicate three-dimensional solid pewter ornaments shine with their very own story. Pre-orders will now be taken through the RSVP office!

Quantity is very limited so make sure and get your order in as soon as possible. Stop by RSVP at 602 S. Van Buren to put in your pre-order or call today!

Secret News……….. .

2007 HT Holden Ornament

The 2007 ornament, which was the very first ornament that was ever created, is coming out of the vault and only 100 are available, so order yours now! They are $167 per ornament. The reason is that for the 100 ornaments sold = 100 Enid Mobile Meals donated to a senior in need. Complete your collection and keep an area senior fed. Let your Christmas be their Christmas too!

Non-Profit Organization POSTAGE PAID Permit # 73 Enid, Oklahoma 73703 602 S. Van Buren Enid, Ok 73703

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How Will You Be Remembered?

You’ve lived your life with purpose, cared for others and made a difference in this world. Now, you can leave a legacy of hope for seniors struggling to meet their basic needs. By leaving a gift to RSVP of Enid in your will or trust, you can be remembered for generations to come as someone who made a difference for vulnerable seniors in your community.

The Big Game comes once a year, but tackling hunger is an everyday issue for our low-income seniors here in Enid. That’s why we’re asking you to help us tackle hunger by hosting a Hunger Bowl Challenge food drive from October 1 – October 28. .

Participation is easy, simply follow the playbook below and help make a difference in your community.

Once collections are made, donations can be delivered to RSVP, or we can schedule a pick up. For more information on hosting a food drive, or to schedule a pick up, contact RSVP at 580-233-5914.

2016 Souper Bowl Playbook: DRAFT players, employees, church group to your roster.

MAKE A CALL. Give us a call 233-5914 so we can get you registered and schedule a time so we can drop off the food drive box to you.

TACKLE hunger by bringing canned goods and other non-perishables to your hunger bowl party, business, classroom or church.

SCORE more by collecting money donations to help tackle hunger.

HUDDLE up and take a SNAP. Share photos of your food drive on Facebook and Twitter using #RSVPHungerBowl.

Become a CHAMPION in your community by helping us get one yard closer to beating the fight against hunger. Winners will be announced at our annual fundraising “Denim & Diamonds” event.

Saturday, November 5th, 2016.

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