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What my pets have taught me Over the years I’ve had many pets.

As a kid I had everything from dogs and cats to lizards and birds. Later in life, while our kids were growing up, we always seemed to have a least a dog, a cat or both. And all those pets have taught me some important life lessons.

A dog or cat doesn’t care how much money you have or don’t Terry Turner have. They love tturner174@longlines.com you for who you are not for what you have. They don’t care what you look like – even first thing in the morning. They’re not the least bit concerned about your social position either. You could

be the president of a huge corporation or a lowly writer pounding out a few articles a month for the paper and an occasional magazine. It really doesn’t matter to them. They love you no matter what.

It’s always so sad to see how some people treat those pets who give their owners abundant unconditional love and devotion. I read somewhere that your pet may be an important part of your life but to that pet you are their life.

The last pet I had was a cat. A big cat. Our youngest daughter got him and gave him the name, “Puffy” because as a kitten he was a big ball of fluff.

After graduation from high school, she moved out and took Puffy with her and a few years later married.

Then a few years after that became pregnant with her first child. The

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happy couple decorated what was to become the baby’s room. Then one day she found Puffy quietly resting in the baby’s bed. It was then she decided the cat had to go before the baby arrived.

I got a frantic call asking if we could take Puffy, who was by now an adult feline weighing in at a hefty 14 pounds. Since we already had a cat that had also once belonged to our daughter, we turned down the generous offer. A week went by and I answered another frantic phone call.

It seemed no one else wanted Puffy either and our daughter was afraid if she gave it to a shelter it wouldn’t last long because everyone would want a cute kitten not a cat roughly the size of a ’52 Buick. So Mom and Dad being the great parents they are ended up with two cats.

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other would be like saying both sides of Congress get along. After a while, they seemed to just ignore one another. Over time, Puffy became my buddy. He would follow me around the house and liked to sleep in my home office while I worked.

The problem was sometimes he thought he was still a tiny kitten and would leap up onto the desk scattering papers everywhere and covering most of the desk with his massive body.

I like to read in bed and Puffy would follow me upstairs and be in bed waiting for me each night. I would lay down and he would crawl up on me and lay on my chest. I’d hold the book in one hand and pet him with the other. If I stopped petting he would gently stick his paw in my face to remind me of my priorities.

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Therapeutic neigh-sayers Equestrian program helps vets heal

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AKRON, Ohio | When Jem Groom first walked through the door at Pegasus Farm near Hartville, Ohio, just the sight of the Christmas decorations on display at the time made him uneasy.

Groom is a veteran who suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, stemming from a battlefield incident that happened on a Christmas Eve. Since that first day, however, his participation in the farm’s Veterans’ Salute therapeutic equestrian program has helped him heal emotionally, he told participants at a recent veterans event at the farm.

Groom attributed his improvement to both his work with the horses and his interaction with the other veterans in the program, who provide support and camaraderie.

“I still have my moments,” he said, “but that’s what Pegasus Farm is for, to help us get through those moments.”

Each Wednesday afternoon, the Veterans’ Salute program offers veterans the opportunity to interact with horses and participate in riding, carriage driving or unmounted horsemanship. In building those skills, the participants gain con-

Madelyn Hastings, Akron Beacon Journal

Navy veteran Rudy Moyer pets Smokey the horse during a Veterans Day program held at Pegasus Farm in Hartville, Ohio, on Nov. 9. The Veterans’ Salute program offers veterans the opportunity to interact with horses and participate in riding, carriage driving or unmounted horsemanship.

fidence and develop trust, explained Tammi Gainer, the farm’s equestrian director.

They also learn appropriate ways to respond to challenges. Instead of reacting with anger or frustration to an uncooperative horse, the veterans learn to take a step back and figure out a better approach – a technique that carries over to their everyday lives, she said.

“These horses, they basically get to know you like you know them,” said Eric McGill, a veteran from Uniontown, Ohio, who has been participating in the program for six or seven years.

The benefits of that relationship were at the heart of Riding My Way Back, a short film that was shown at the recent event. The film tells the story of Aaron Heliker, who suffered traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder during multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and was saved from the

brink of suicide by the bond he developed with a therapy horse.

After the film, visitors got the chance to visit Pegasus Farm’s horses in their stalls.

It didn’t take long for Jeff Murray to befriend Smokey, who nuzzled the Canton, Ohio, man’s face as he gently stroked the horse’s neck.

Murray had come to the program because of his fiancee’s daughter, 22-year-old Sarah Hawke, who recently resumed riding in a different therapeutic program at Pegasus Farm after five years spent studying at the Ohio State School for the Blind.

But Murray found his own interest piqued.

He grew up on farms, he said, and he’s always had an affinity for animals. He’s also a veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder, so Veterans’ Salute intrigued him.

“They don’t tell you you’re right or wrong,” he said of the horses.

“They don’t talk back.”

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HOLIDAYS

What’s behind the feast of holiday dinner drama?

BY JUDY HEVRDEJS

exception of music or a song from our past, CHICAGO | ‘Tis nothing is more evocathe holiday season, tive than a whiff or a so there will be fambite or an aroma of a ily gatherings, from familiar thing from our Thanksgiving through past,” says Castle, a New Year’s Day, with a cookbook author based cast of assorted characin North Carolina. “It’s ters and equally varied like time travel. You victuals. get that one aroma, and Which begs an answer you are just swept into to this: Why is there so a bygone era. And that much drama surroundcan be very evocative ing the food at holiday and very emotional dinners?

– either positively or This isn’t about negatively.” dietary issues – the That’s especially true vegan niece or the gluduring this season of ten-intolerant aunt. food-driven holidays, It is, though, about a when family relationhost nursing hurt feelships and tradition mix ings because guests with each person’s perignored her family’s ception of certain foods. traditional cornbread As in the guest who stuffing and dug into snorts, “We never put her mother-in-law’s giblets in our gravy!” fruit-and-nut version.

Where it gets tricky, Or table-wide pouting says Castle, is when because a cousin didn’t you put emotion on make Uncle Mike’s top of that around legendary recipe for any of the big-ticket marshmallowed sweet food-driven holipotatoes, cooking days – Thanksgiving, instead a concoction a Hanukkah, Christmas.

YouTube video insisted “You get combinations would be a hit. of people who might Maybe, suggests Sheri or might not come Castle, it’s not the food together very often. that’s fueling the drama And you know each one but the memories these of those people has very dishes trigger. special rituals, habits “With the possible

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in family relationships over time,” says Hudak, who is also clinical director of the Center for Couples and Adult Families at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine.

“There’s birth or death.

We lost someone or Larry Crowe, Associated Press added someone. Those A freezer case of frozen turkeys is seen at Market Basket in areas of renegotiation Concord, N.H., on Nov. 10, 2011. Combine family members and cooking, and the holidays are a stressful time – but there are and conflict are normal.

They’re not necessarily some simple solutions to stem the frustration. terrible – but we don’t want to have discomand expectations about of tenderness and fort.” what the food’s going woundedness.”

To temper the disto be around these holiSo what may seem days,” she says. “I don’t innocuous to you might comfort that may come with changes to a holithink there is only one hit one of those tender day ritual or tradition, table that can hold all of spots. “Particularly Hudak suggests making those issues.” when you’re with fam“a point to warn people Jacqueline Hudak, a ily,” she says. “No one before you change licensed couples and can upset you like a something that holds family therapist in family member.” value in the family.”

Philadelphia, might Another factor addIn other words, don’t agree. ing drama to the dinner make green beans “I look at other issues table, Hudak says, is amandine if everyone’s at play when someone our great expectation doesn’t eat pumpkin that whatever we do we expecting Aunt Meg’s green bean casserole pie or whatever. It’s can do perfectly. with those french-fried not simply the issue of “Life is a little bit onions on top. Or be rejection,” Hudak says. more messy than that.

“You also need to realWe promote this notion willing to negotiate ize a ‘No, thank you’ that we can always have with relatives over the selection of someone to can be experienced by things pretty neat and carve the holiday turanother person as some- tidy, then we find that, key now that Grandpa’s thing far different. We unfortunately, there gone. “How about I do all have certain places is normative conflict

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“If you are hosting a holiday meal, through marriage, through inlaws, through whatever, and you know the secret to holiday bliss for one of those guests is a particular iconic dish from their past – have it there,” says Castle, whose latest cookbook is “The Southern Living Community Cookbook” (Oxmoor House). That’s assuming it’s not imported caviar or an overly complicated dish. “It makes for good storytelling if nothing else.”

Castle also wants everybody to extend the season of goodwill and gratitude to the people they’re sharing the feast with. And maybe that means lightening up on what can and cannot be on a menu.

“I don’t believe that most people (who) go to the trouble to prepare and share a meal with people are doing it from a vindictive spot,” Castle says. “Getting together and cooking for one another can be a great act of love and sharing and tradition.”

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Cover Story

Birth of Boys Town How an Irish priest founded Nebraska’s legendary charitable group Associated Press file

BY TERRY TURNER

OMAHA, Neb. | On Dec. 12, 1917, a 31-year-old Irish priest, Father Edward J. Flanagan, opened the doors to a home for troubled and neglected boys to help them find a better life.

Before that, Flanagan ran the Workingmen’s Hotel, a refuge for down-and-out men near St. Patrick’s Church in Omaha, where he served as assistant pastor. It was there he saw a trend in the lives of those men that led from neglected child to delinquent and from there to drifter and eventually criminal.

With the blessing of his superiors, Flanagan began a search for a place to house neglected boys who lived on the streets of Omaha.

Archbishop Jeremiah Harty realized the importance of Flanagan’s work and relived him of all his pastoral duties to allow him to concentrate on his new duties. Flanagan was told the church supported his work with homeless boys, but couldn’t provide financial help. Fortunately a

Father Edward J. Flanagan, who founded Boys Town in Nebraska, is shown in New York City on Feb. 26, 1945. Father Flanagan was born in Roscommon, Ireland, in 1886 and died in 1948.

Terry Turner

The Father Flanagan House Museum is the former residence of Boys Town’s founder. A statue of Father Flanagan, a gift from the Boys Town National Alumni Association, stands in front of the house surrounded by memorial bricks honoring Boys Town alumni.

If you go WHERE: Boys Town is located in Omaha, with entrances on West Dodge Road, 132nd Street, 144th Street and Pacific Street.

COST: There is no entrance fee to the campus and all sites including the museums are free. There is a suggested donation of $5 for those who want to use a tour guide CD. MORE INFO: boystown.org or 800-625-1400

friend, probably local Jewish attorney Henry Monsky, gave Father Flanagan $90 for the first month’s rent and moved several boys into a drafty Victorian mansion at 106 N. 25th St. in Omaha.

Those few boys were quickly joined by others who were either court ordered to the home, sent by concerned citizens or who just walked in on their own. To help manage the growing number of residents, Harty sent

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Nati Harnik, Associated Press

Boys Town students hold portraits of Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan outside St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha on Feb. 27, 2012.

two nuns and a novice from the School Sisters of Notre Dame to help Flanagan.

By the spring of 1918, the home was filled to capacity with 50 boys.

With help from local citizens, Flanagan and his boys moved to a much larger home in Omaha. The vacant building was once the German-American Home, but since war was declared against Germany in April 1917, the huge home

The living room of the former residence of Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan is decorated as it would have been in 1929. Many of his personal possessions are on display in the house now known as the Father Flanagan House museum.

had been abandoned.

It wasn’t long before there were 100 boys at the home.

BIRTH OF BOYS TOWN Father Flanagan knew the importance of education, but Omaha school officials were reluctant to accept his boys, since many of them had been in trouble with the law. After he guaranteed good conduct, the boys were taken to schools with a One of several life-like displays in the Hall of History tells about the daily life of the young men at Boys Town. horse and wagon.

The band wagon used by boys at Boys Town to bring entertainment around the area is on display in the Hall of History.

As more and more boys became part of Flanagan’s group, the need for bigger quarters was a constant problem.

After buying two small farms in the Florence area of North Omaha and realizing they were too small, Flanagan found a 160-acre tract of land complete with barns and a large house – but it wasn’t for sale. After an impassioned plea

by Father Flanagan, owner David Baum agreed to sell and the property soon became known as Boys Town.

That farm originally about 10 miles west of Omaha is now surrounded by the city, but has grown to include 900 acres.

There have been many changes to Boys Town over the years including opening its traditionally all-male campus to girls in 1979.

The organization now has locations in California, Nevada, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Florida, New York, New England and Washington, D.C.

Charles Gorry, Associated Press file

Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boy’s Town in Nebraska, speaks at Meiji Stadium in Tokyo on May 28, 1947, during a Japanese Boy Scout Jamboree.

The Oscar presented to Spencer Tracy for his portrayal of Father Flanagan in the 1938 movie “Boys Town” is on display in the Hall of History.

way America cares for youth and families.

A tour of the grounds TERRY TURNER, Sioux City Journal includes stately trees, Dowd Chapel in the center of the campus contains Father flowering gardens, Flanagans tomb. The 15th century design Gothic church is where visitors and Boys Town residents attend mass farmland, memorial throughout the year. statures and fountains.

One stop on the tour TOUR FEATURED can get a map of the is the Hall of History, Today, the grounds campus and a CD tella museum telling the and many of the building about the various story of Boys Town ings are open for visibuildings. The Visitor’s with artifacts and distors. The first stop on Center also has a gift plays. The museum is a tour of Boys Town shop and café serving housed in the former should be the Visitor’s breakfast and lunch. dining hall built by Center, located near All profits from the gift Father Flanagan in the West Dodge Road shop go to support the 1939. Some of the artientrance. There you work of changing the facts include the Best

One of Father Flanagan’s most prized possessions is a desk made for him by his boys. It’s made of more than 250,000 inlaid pieces of wood from 25 different varieties of trees.

Actor Oscar presented to Spencer Tracy for his portrayal of Father Flanagan in the movie “Boys Town”.

Also on the tour is the Father Flanagan House museum, which is the former residence of the Boys Town founder constructed in 1927.

The house has been restored and decorated as it was in 1929 and has many of his personal possessions on display. One of his prized possessions is a desk made for him by his boys. The desk in his

study consists of more than 250,000 inlaid pieces of wood from 25 different varieties of trees.

Visitors can also visit Dowd Chapel in the center of the campus, which contains Father Flanagan’s tomb. The 15th century design Gothic church is where visitors and Boys Town residents attend mass throughout the year.

Father Flanagan often said, “All boys need to learn how to pray, how they pray is up to them.”

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Sheldon, Iowa

South Sioux City Community Action Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259 South Sioux City Senior Center: 1501 West 29th St., 494-1500, congregate meal site St. Luke’s Heat-n-Eat Meals: 2720 Stone Park Blvd., 279-3630, Karen Bergenske Center for Siouxland: Food pantry, 715 Douglas St., 2521861 Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 274-1610 Health Care Information Alzheimer’s Association: 201 Pierce St., Suite 110, 279-5802. Information and education about Alzheimer’s disease, support groups and services. 24/7 Helpline: 1-800272-3900.

Dakota County Health Nurse: 402-987-2164 Iowa Department of the Blind: 1-800-362-2587 Lifeline: Personal emergency response system: St. Luke’s, 279-3279; Mercy Medical Center, 279-2036 Mercy Medical Center: Community Education, 2792989 Siouxland Community Health Center: 1021 Nebraska St., 252-2477 Siouxland District Health: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119 or 1-800-587-3005 St. Luke’s Health Professionals: 279-3333

Home Health Care

Boys and Girls Home and Family Services: 2101 Court

Handicap Accessible

St., 293-4700 Care Initiatives Hospice: 4301 Sergeant Road, Suite 110, (712) 239-1226 Geri-Care: Transit Plaza, 276-9860 Home Instead Senior Care: 220 S. Fairmount, 258-4267, non-medical home health Hospice of Siouxland: 4300 Hamilton Blvd., 233-4144, nursing care, home health aide/ homemaker, social services Mercy Home Care: 801 Fifth St., Suite 320, 233-5100, 1-800-897-3840, home health aides/homemaker services, therapy services REM Health of Iowa Inc.: 2212 Pierce St., Suite 200, 233-5494, skilled nursing care, home health aides, homemaker services, waivers Siouxland District Public Health Nursing: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119, skilled nursing care in home, home health aide, homemaker services St. Luke’s Home Care: 2905 Hamilton Blvd., 279-3279.

In-home nursing, therapy, home medical equipment and supplies, lifeline program Tri-State Nursing Services: 621 16th St., 277-4442, skilled nursing care, Home Health aide services, services ordered by a doctor Synergy Home Care: Kim Kreber, 600 Stevens Port Drive, Suite 102, Dakota Dunes, S.D., (605) 242-6056

Home Maintenance

Siouxland Aging Services: 2301 Pierce St., 2796900, CHORE service, yard maintenance, heavy cleaning

To learn more about our affordable housing services, call (712) 548-4108.

For Telecommunications Relay Service, Dial 711.

Seniors 62 & older, handicapped & disabled.

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620 14th Ave NE • LeMars, IA 51031 All faiths or beliefs are welcome. 11-G1924

Management: 1309 Nebraska St., 255-3665, contact Hospitals leasing department. Martin Mercy Medical Center: 801 Towers, 410 Pierce St.; Shire Fifth St., 279-2010 Apartments, 4236 Hickory UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Lane; Centennial Manor, 441 Medical Center: 2720 Stone W. Third St. This is subsidized Park, 279-3500 housing, rent is based on income.

Siouxland Surgery Center: 600 Sioux Point Road, 605Prime Assisted Living: 725 232-3332 Pearl St., 226-6300. Affordable, spacious one-bedroom Housing assisted living apartments for Sioux City persons 65 and older. Income Bickford Senior Living, guidelines apply. Accept all Assisted Living & Memory sources of payment including Care: 4020/4022 Indian Hills Title 19 and private pay.

Drive, 239-2065 or 239River Heights: 2201 6851, Nicole Gosch, director.

Gibson St., 202-2733. This is Family owned and operated, subsidized housing that is not individualized “level of care”, respite (short stay) welcomed. handicapped accessible.

Siouxland Aging Services Countryside Retirement Inc: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900.

Apartments: Lilac Lane, 276This is subsidized housing, rent 3000 based on income. Evergreen Floyd House: 403 C Street, Terrace, 2430 West St., Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, (712) 258-0508; Riverside Gardens, 943-7025, Affordable, multiple 715 Bruner Ave., 277-2083; levels of care, studio, oneFairmount Park Apartments, bedroom, respite 210 Fairmount St. Holy Spirit Retirement Sunrise Retirement Apartments: 1701 West 25th Community: 5501 Gordon St., 252-2726 Drive, 276-3821; 64 one- and Maple Heights: 5300 Stone two-bedroom ground level Ave., 276-3821, contact homes with attached garage, Jennifer Turner. This is some with den and sunroom. subsidized low-income housing War Eagle Village with rent based on income Apartments: 2800 W. Fourth NorthPark Senior Living St., 258-0801, subsidized Community: 2562 Pierce St., housing based on income 255-1200. 48 independent Community Action Agency living apartments, 57 of Siouxland: 2700 Leech supervised living apartments Ave., 274-1610. Carnegie Place and three respite apartments Apartments, Sixth and Jackson Northern Hills Retirement sts.

Community: 4000 Teton South Sioux City Trace, 239-9400. Studio, oneAutumn Park Apartments: bedroom and two-bedroom 320 East 12th St., 402-494apartments 5393 Northern Hills Assisted Dacotah House: 316 East Living: 4002 Teton Trace, 23916th St., 712-274-9125.

9402. Studio, one-bedroom Subsidized housing, you must and two-bedroom apartments be over 62 or handicapped.

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LIVES

Senior Activities Nutrition program Persons 60 years and older,

and their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served Tuesday-Friday at Riverside Lutheran Church, 1817 Riverside Blvd. ; on Monday at Riverside Gardens’ Community Room, 715 Bruner Ave. Fairmount Park, 210 S. Fairmount St. and Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St.

A suggested contribution is $3. 75.

Reservations are required a day in advance by calling the Sergeant Bluff site at 9434669 or the Connections Area Agency on Aging nutrition office at 279-6900 ext. 25. For more information about other available meal sites, call 2796900.

Siouxland Center for Active Generations Siouxland Center, 313 Cook St.

is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Weekly classes, programs: Dec. 1: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30

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am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, 11:30 am Lunch, 1:00 pm American Mah Jong, Pinochle, Woodcarving, 2:00 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 2: 8:30 am Penny Bingo,

9:00 am Senior Yoga, Mexican Language/Culture, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Tap Class, 12:30 Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 3: 9:00 am Chorus,

Intermediate Spanish, Senior Yoga, Novice Dup. Bridge Game, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Chess Group, Beginner Tap Practice, 3 Mile Walk, 10:30 CNOS Injury Screening, Talk Show, 10:45 am Guitar Practice, 11:00 am Drama Group, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Choreographed Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, 1:00

pm Scrabble, 500, 2:00 pm Briar Cliff Class, 2:40 pm 1 Mile Walk Warm Up, 3:00 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 4: 8:30 am Penny Bingo,

8:45 am Beg. 1 Line Dance, 9:00 am Yoga, 9:30 am Drum Circle, 9:45 am Beg. 2 Line Dance, 10:00 am Walking Off Pounds, Senior Yoga, Men’s Club, Intermediate German, 11:00 am Beginning German, Advanced Line Dance, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Chinese Classic Mah Jong, 12:30 pm Canasta, Penny Bingo, Bridge, 1:00 pm Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter.

Line Dance, Woodcarving, Bridge Group, Cribbage, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 5: 8:30 am Exercise Plus 50, 9:30 am Fitness, 10:00 am Beginners Ping Pong, Blood Pressures, 10:30 am Pool Shooting For Women, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Basic Tap, Bridge Group, 1:00 pm Open Craft Time, Bridge, 500, Scrabble, Friday Dance

Dec. 8: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30

am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, Lunch, 12:30 pm Movie, 1:00 pm Birthday Party, American Mah Jong, Pinochle, Woodcarving, 2:30 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 9: 8:30 am Penny Bingo, 9:00 am Senior Yoga,

Mexican Language/Culture, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds, 10:30 am Crafts, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Tap Practice, 12:30 pm Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 10: 9:00 am Intermediate Spanish, Senior Yoga, Novice Dup. Bridge, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Chess Group, Beginner Tap Practice, 3 Mile Walk, 10:30 am Talk Show, 10:45 am Guitar Practice, 11:00 am Drama Group, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Choreographed Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, 1:00 pm Scrabble, 500, 2:40 pm 1

Celebrating achievements.

Anniversaries

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Mile Walk Warm Up, 3:00 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 11: 8:30 am Penny Bingo,

8:45 am Beg. 1 Line Dance, 9:00 am Yoga, 9:30 am Drum Circle, 9:45 am Beg. 2 Line Dance, 10:00 am Walking Off the Pounds, Senior Yoga, Men’s Club, Intermediate German, 11:00 am Beginning German, Advanced Line Dance, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Chinese Classic Mah Jong, 12:30 pm Canasta, Penny Bingo, Bridge, 1:00 pm Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter. Line Dance, Woodcarving, Bridge Group, Cribbage, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 12: 8:30 am Exercise Plus 50, 9:30 am Fitness, 10:00

am Beginners Ping Pong, Card Design Class, Blood Pressures, 10:30 am Pool Shooting For Women, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Basic Tap, Bridge Group, 1:00 pm Open Craft Time, Bridge, 500, Scrabble, Friday Dance

Dec. 15: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30

am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, Lunch, 12:30 Movie, 1:00 pm American Mah Jong, Pinochle, Woodcarving, 2:00 pm Super Strong Seniors with Kelly

Dec. 16: 8:30 am Penny Bingo,

9:00 am Senior Yoga, Mexican Language/Culture, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Tap Practice, 12:30 pm Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 17: 9:00 am Chorus,

Intermediate Spanish, Senior Yoga, Novice Dup. Bridge Game, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Chess Group, Beginner Tap Practice, 3 Mile Walk, 10:30 am Talk Show, 10:45 am Guitar Practice, 11:00 am Drama Group, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Choreographed Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, 1:00 pm Scrabble, 500, 2:40 pm 1 Mile Walk Warm Up, 3:00 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 18: 8:30 am Penny Bingo,

8:45 am Beg. 1 Line Dance, 9:00 am Yoga, 9:30 am Drum Circle, 9:45 am Beg. 2 Line Dance, 10:00 am Walking Off Pounds, Senior Yoga, Men’s Club, Intermediate German, 11:00 am Beginning German, Advanced Line Dance, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Chinese Classic Mah Jong, 12:30 pm Canasta, Penny Bingo, Bridge, 1:00 pm Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter.

Line Dance, Woodcarving, Bridge Group, Cribbage, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 19: 8:30 am Exercise Plus 50, 9:30 am Fitness, 10:00 am

Card Design Class, Beginners Ping Pong, Blood Pressures, 10:30 am Pool Shooting For Women, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Basic Tap, Bridge Group, 1:00 pm Open Craft Time, Bridge, 500, Scrabble, Friday Dance

Dec. 22: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30

am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, Lunch, 12:30 pm Movie, 1:00 pm Parkinson’s Group, American Mah Jong, Pinochle, Woodcarving, 2:30 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 23: 8:30 am Penny Bingo, 9:00 am Senior Yoga,

Mexican Language/Culture, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds, 10:30 am Crafts, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Tap Practice, 12:30 pm Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 24: Closed for Christmas holiday Dec. 25: Closed for Christmas holiday Dec. 26: Closed for Christmas holiday Dec. 29: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30

am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, Lunch, 12:30 pm Movie, 1:00 pm Parkinson’s Group, American Mah Jong, Pinochle, Woodcarving, 2:30 pm Fitness with Kelly

Dec. 30: 8:30 am Penny Bingo, 9:00 am Senior Yoga,

Mexican Language/Culture, 9:30 am Painting Class, 10:00 am Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Tap Practice, 12:30 pm Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 pm Ping Pong

Dec. 31: 9:00 am Chorus,

Intermediate Spanish, Senior Yoga, Novice Dup. Bridge Game, 9:30 am Painting Class, Novice Dup. Bridge Game, 10:00 am Chess Group, Beginner Tap Practice, 3 Mile Walk, 10:45 am Guitar Practice, 11:00 am Drama Group, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Choreographed Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, 1:00 pm Scrabble, 500, 2:00 pm Briar Cliff Class, 2:40 pm 1 Mile Walk Warm Up, 3:00 pm Fitness with Kelly

Calendar Arts & Theater

THROUGH DEC. 14 RENT, LAMB Arts Regional Theatre, 417 Market Street (btwn Hamilton & downtown).

Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the TONY Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages. 7 p.m.

Thur, Fri, & Sat and 1:30 p.m.

Sunday. 7 p.m. -9:45 p.m. $23/$18/$13. 712-255-9536. www.lambtheatre.com.

THROUGH FEB. 1 Mid-Century Mix: Art from the 1950s, Sioux City Art Center, 225 Nebraska St. Culled from the Art Center’s Permanent Collection, the artworks in this exhibition were created during the 1950s. Artists in the exhibition represent styles and ideas that developed during this time, as well as artists who looked back to earlier styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. www. siouxcityartcenter.org.

THROUGH FEB. 28 Sioux City Camera Club exhibit, Betty Strong

Encounter Center, 900 Larsen Park Road. “The Sioux City Camera Club” exhibit will share images of a broad range of subjects, from a pet coyote to the Sgt. Floyd Monument photographed from a drone. Many of the images connect with the area’s rich Corps of Discovery history. Opening program at 2 p. m Nov. 16 will include Sioux City photographer and Camera Club member Steve Paulson’s slideshow about digital photography’s development and its rapid improvement in camera sensors and image quality.

712-224-5242. www. siouxcitylcic.com.

THROUGH APRIL 1 Jackson Pollock ‘Mural’, Sioux City Art Center, 225 Nebraska St. Jackson Pollock’s Mural, considered to be the most important modern American artwork ever made. www. siouxcityartcenter.org/.

DEC. 6–DEC. 7, DEC. 13 Disney’s Sleeping Beauty KIDS, LAMB Arts Regional Theatre, 417 Market Street (btwn Hamilton & downtown). It’s Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday, and three fairies Flora, Fauna

and Merryweather must use their magic to save her from the spell of evil sorceress Maleficent! Shows 2 p.m.

Dec. 6 & 13 and 6 p.m. Dec. 7. Great for ages 3 and up. 2 p.m. -2:45 p.m. $9/$13. 712255-9536. www.lambtheatre. com.

DEC. 11–DEC. 21 A Tuna Christmas, Sioux City Community Theatre, 1401 Riverside Blvd. Two actors, 21 characters, 364 costume changes and 1,003 laughs in this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna. It is Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas.

Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yule tide activities, including a hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of “A Christmas Carol” is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. 7:30 p.m. 712233-2788. scctheatre.org.

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Or need some extra $ each month?

Consider joining the Senior Companion Program.

Senior Companions provide friendship, understanding and assistance to homebased adults in your community.

Volunteers, age 55 and older, may receive a Federal tax-free stipend that does not affect any type of assistance.

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Phone: 712-577-7848 or 712-577-7858

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Calendar DEC. 6 Lutefisk and Meatballs Dinner, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 31903 475th Avenue, Elk Point, S.D. Menu: Lutefisk, Meatballs, Potatoes, Green Beans, Melted Butter, Cream Sauce, Herring, Rye Bread, Lefse, Flat Bread, Sweet Soup, Krum Kaka, Rosettes and Coffee. Bake Sale available.

Chartered bus and dinner combo from Sioux City to St. Paul Church, rural Elk Point adults: $20, Children Benefit & age 10 and under: $10.

Fundraiser Dinner only: $15, Children THROUGH JAN. 4 age 10 and under: $5.

WMS Light Up the Handicapped Accessible.

Night, West Middle School, 4-7:30 p.m. 712-277-4043.

3301 W. 19th Street. www.stpaullutheranelkpoint.

The West Middle School com.

Technology Department DEC. 18 will be displaying a holiday 47th Annual Boys Club light show every Friday Christmas Auction, Corner and Saturday night. The Pocket. The Boys Club of entire show of over 70,000 Sioux City will host two lights will be set to music.

Christmas Auctions to raise 6-10 p.m. Free/Donation funds and help support Accepted. 712-490-6797. over 700 Siouxland boys wmslights. weebly.com/. with after school and DEC. 2 summer programming.

47th Annual Boys Club On Dec. 2 and 18, Stabe Christmas Auction, Bob Auctioneers will auction off Roe’s Point After, Transit locally-donated products Plaza. The Boys Club of and services including trips, Sioux City will host two jewelry, toys, tools and gift Christmas Auctions to raise certificates just in time for funds and help support the gift-giving season! Both over 700 Siouxland boys events are free to attend with after school and and bidders will have the summer programming. opportunity to take home On Dec. 2 and 18, Stabe great gifts and support Auctioneers will auction off meaningful programs for locally-donated products Siouxland boys, especially and services including trips, those who need us the jewelry, toys, tools and gift most. 5 p.m. 712-258certificates just in time for 5545. the gift-giving season! Both Classes & Lectures events are free to attend THROUGH DEC. 9 and bidders will have the CLIMB support group opportunity to take home for children, June E Nylen great gifts and support Cancer Center, 230 Nebraska meaningful programs for St. June E. Nylen Cancer Siouxland boys, especially Center is offering emotional those who need us the support for children who most. 5 p.m. 712-258have parents or other 5545.

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DEC. 13 Aaron Neville, WinnaVegas Casino Resort, 1500 330th St, Sloan, Iowa.

Doors open at 7pm • Located in the event center.

All ages welcome 8 p.m. -11 p.m. Advance tickets $35/ day of $45 reserved seating.

Advance table seating $55/ day of $65 includes 2 drink tickets. 800-468-9466. https://winnavegas.com/ events/aaron/.

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close family members diagnosed with cancer. The group is for children ages 5 to 13 and is held for six consecutive weeks starting Nov. 4. Dinner is provided for children and parents.

For more information or to register, please call Krista McCullough at the June E. Nylen Cancer Center’s Radiology Department at 712-252-9421 5:30-7 p.m.

Committee member will be present to talk about how you can be more informed and active in recycling efforts. 11 a.m. -noon.

712-258-0838. www. woodburyparks.com.

DEC. 9 Nature Tales, Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Road. Preschoolers, join us with an adult for this special story

4th Tuesday of the month, or call 255-2933 x 221 to schedule a consultation at a time convenient to you.

6-7:30 p.m. 712-255-2933 x 221. www.siouxcitylibrary. org.

woodburyparks.com.

Comedy

DEC. 3 Midnight Swinger, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street. More than just a DEC. 30 stand-up comedian, the Survival Shelters, Dorothy Midnight Swinger is proud Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 to be called a throwback entertainer. That’s right, an Sioux River Road. Are you entertainer! The Swinger looking for something fun believes in more than just standing behind the microphone and telling jokes, and doing more than just a simple “comedy show.

Regency Square redefines ” The Midnight Swinger puts on a spectacle that leaves the meaning of healthy the audience LAUGHIN’, living.

SINGIN’ and SWINGIN’.

Must be 21 or older to Whether you need short- attend. 8 p.m. -11:30 p.m. term rehabilitation to get Ticket prices starting at 844-222-7625. www. you back on your feet or $15. hardrockcasinosiouxcity. you decide to call Regency com.

Square home, we’re here for DEC. 6 Lock N’ Load Show you.

Live!!!, This is not your Gain peace of mind knowing your health and daily living needs are average internet broadcast!

Lock N’ Load is a weekly being taken care of round-the-clock. internet radio show. 6-8:05 p.m. 712-389-7964. www.

Make Regency Square your place to be happy. locknloadshow.com.

DEC. 10 Hal Sparks, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street. As a member of the famed Second City Troupe, his quick wit and affable personality quickly gained him recognition and acclaim and he was named the “Funniest Teenager In Chicago” by the Chicago to do during winter break? time about Wolves. We’ll DEC. 3 Sun Times. Must be 21 or hike too, weather permitting. Kids 8 and up are invited to older to attend. 8-11:30 Recycling in Sioux City Please pre-register by calling bring a lunch to the Nature p.m. Ticket prices starting at an Update, Dorothy Pecaut 712-258-0838 or email Center for a program on $15. 844-222-7625. www.

Nature Center, 4500 Sioux building survival shelters in tkruid@sioux-city.org. 10 hardrockcasinosiouxcity. river Road. Come learn the woods.

This program a.m. -11:30 a.m. com. about updates to what can will take place almost DEC. 23 DEC. 31 and cannot be recycled entirely outdoors, so be sure Library Tech Talk, Sioux Dueling Pianos, Hard in Sioux City. Melissa to dress accordingly. Class City Public Library, 529 Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux Campbell, Environmental size is limited. Pre-register Pierce St. Demos and oneCity, 111 3rd Street. Dueling Analyst for the City of Sioux by calling 712-258-0838 or on-one assistance with pianos is a collection City and Carrie Radloff, email jhenning@sioux-city. tech devices. Meets the CALENDAR, PAGE 19 Environmental Advisory org 11 a.m. -1 p.m. www.

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of some of the best entertainers in the industry.

Their highly engaging and entertaining performances get the crowd engaged and on their feet. It’s both a comedy and music show rolled into one. Must be 21 or older to attend. 8-11:30 p.m. 844-222-7625. www. hardrockcasinosiouxcity. com.

Community

THROUGH DEC. 7 Airwave Classics, Sioux City Public Museum, 607 4th St. A selection of historic radios, accessories and microphones from the collection of the late Sam Seldon, longtime chief engineer at KTRI radio and KSCJ radio in Sioux City.

712-279-6174.

THROUGH DEC. 28 History of Sioux City Journal, Sioux City Public Museum, 607 Fourth St. Exhibit looks at the history of the news organization, from its founding by young lawyer Samuel Tait Davis to its current role today.

Features Journal artifacts, photos and original pieces of the old newspaper office on Douglas Street.

712-279-6174. www. siouxcitymuseum.org/.

THROUGH DEC. 7 Nature’s Kaleidoscope: Digging into the Past, Sioux City Public Museum, 607 4th St. A world class collection of agates, geodes, minerals, fossils, petrified wood and meteorites. 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Sioux City Public Museum, 712-2796174.

DEC. 3 Wednesday Night Fellowship Dinners, First Presbyterian Church, 608 Nebraska St. Free will offering accepted. Open to the public. 5:30 p.m. -6:15 p.m.

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DEC. 4 SCHEELS Crazy For Christmas Kids Klub, Scheels, 4400 Sergeant Road Join us for Christmas fun! Christmas is almost here! Are you ready? Do you have your list ready for Santa?Join SCHEELS as we help you make your list for Santa!Please meet under the tree!Ages 4-12 6 p.m. -7 p.m. 712-252-1551. www. scheelscommunity.com/ events.

DEC. 4 Sioux City Camera Club Meeting, First Presbyterian Church, 6th Street & Nebraska Street The Sioux City Camera Club holds two meetings monthly, 7-9 p.m. on the second and last Thursdays of the month during the school year (except during NOV. and DEC. when meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays. ) Visiting photographers and shutter buggers are welcomed to attend. Meetings are held at the Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church, 6th Street and Nebraska Street in Sioux City. Enter through the lower-level off the rear parking lot. Sioux City Camera Club’s first meeting of the month is on an educational topic involving the art and science of photography. The results of the monthly photo competition are reviewed at the second meeting of the month. The public, visiting photographers and shutter buggers are welcomed to join us for fun, photography lessons and fellowship. 7-9 p.m. 712-234-2729. www. sccameraclub.org.

DEC. 5 Sioux City Center for Active Generations Dance, Siouxland Center For Active Generation, 313 Cook St. Shirley’s Big Band Sound variety music. 1 p.m. -3:30 p.m. 712-724-6136.

DEC. 6 Understanding Iowa’s School Finance Formula, First Congregational Church, 4600 Hamilton Blvd. The League of Women Voters of Sioux City will host a public panel discussion on “Understanding Iowa’s School Finance Formula. ” A brunch will follow. 10 a.m.

-noon 712-251-1008.

Le Mars Sertoma Lighted Christmas Parade, Parade Route: line up begins at 5 p.m. on the Boulevard (8th ST S). The Parade travels north on Central Ave. through the Le Mars downtown to 2ND St. NW before dispersing. 6 p.m.

DEC. 6–DEC. 14 Pioneer Village Christmas Wonderland, Plymouth County Fairgrounds Century Hall, Le Mars, Iowa. 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday.

DEC. 7 Open Mic Afternoon at Pierce Street Coffee Works, Pierce Street Coffee Works, 1920 Pierce St. Grab a cup of coffee and test your musical skills at the Open Mic Afternoon every Sunday at Pierce Street Coffee Works. 1 p.m. -3 p.m.

Siouxland Pride Alliance potluck, First Unitarian Church, 2508 Jackson St. Potluck for the LGBT community and friends on the first Sunday of the month. 5:30 p.m. 712-2232747.

DEC. 8 Lunch N Learn, Business Builders luncheon sponsored by the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce and the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Plymouth County.

Speaker Scott Langel, Le Mars City administrator. Call 712-546-8821 or 712-5467835 to make reservations. noon $15.

206 Port Neal Road • Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054 712.943.3837 Specialized transitional Care

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Walkers, wheelchairs, canes, bandages, Depends and much more. We give flu & shingle shots.

Newly Expanded Home Health Care Department “We Give Service The Way You Prescribe”.

Free cItYWIDe DelIVerY

Insurance Billing: We do Medicare and Insurance billing for you. On blood Glucose Strips and Lancets.

greenville Pharmacy

Home HealtHcare

2705 Correctionville Rd. Sioux City, IA • 712-258-0113

Open 9-9 M 9-8 T-F 9-5 Sat. 10-4 Sun.

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