Take Off Pounds Sensibly 0233, HOULTON
by Lois Downing
Take Off Pounds Sensibly Chapter 0233 of Houlton met at the Aldergate building on High Street for its Friday, Dec. 14, meeting. Leader Diane Folsom was in charge. Eleven TOPS members and five KOPS (Keep Pounds Off Sensibly) were in attendance.
Roll calls were given and Aileen Smith was welcomed into the KOPS group for the first time. Reports were given by assistant weight recorder Joanne Scott and secretary Brenda Lacostic. I took home the skinny dish. The runner-up in weight loss was Lacostic.
A new contest will be started after Christmas. Barbara Troy led us in several minutes of exercises. For the program we were given two words to develop into other words with the same letters. It was a fun project. Charlotte Marley read a few remarks pertaining to weight loss.
For information on the chapter you may call Charlotte Marley at 757-8483 or Betty Ivey at 532-9653. Weigh-in is every Friday at 8-8:45 and meetings start at 9 a.m. and usually end an hour later. Come, enjoy, socialize and take off weight.
Island Falls News
Peter and Cheryl (Sewall) Connelly left last week for their winter home in Vero Beach, Fla. and stopped in at Scarborough to visit with Cheryl’s sister and husband, John and Gail Kennett. On their way south, Peter will return sometime in January to continue helping with the work on the restoration of the red brick garage into a restaurant. All are hoping it will be done sometime in March, just in time to welcome good weather.
On Dec. 12, the residents of Green Valley were at the snowmobile clubhouse where they were entertained by the musical group called the RFD Gang which is headed by John Birmingham, Patten, assisted by vocalist Jackie Pratt of Stacyville. The group played and sang many Christmas songs and also many country western songs as both were greatly popular with the Green Valley residents.
The RFD musical group also plays every Thursday at the Sherman gym and many people from the surrounding area attend this very popular event some even arriving from Canada to play with the group and dance, also. I had a good look at the spikehorn deer a few days ago just at dusk when I looked out my kitchen window and there he was busily eating what sunflower seeds he could get from my feeder. We looked at each other for a minute then he calmly continued to eat away.
I cut up an apple, broke up some bread and took it out but he had departed before I got there. I left the bread and apples and it was gone next morning, so guess he returned when he figured it was safe. Have discovered that I not only have two red squirrels, but three. They were having a ball the other day chasing each other from the feeders and chattering away in quite an angry tone, too. I have greatly enjoyed seeing the pair of cardinals at my bird feeders this winter. I see them every day and always keep the seeds on the ground for them, in case the feeders are empty. Doesn’t take long for the blue jays to empty them and also to eat all the peanut butter and lard mixture that all the birds really like. Keeps me busy mixing it up and taking it to the hungry birds.
