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4 Senior Talk, continued from page 15 mate there were 30 people having lunch. Lisher told me they can serve as many as 62 and get much bigger crowds in the spring and fall when people are home and the roads are better
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for driving. In the summer, she said, many people are visiting family elsewhere or have family visiting them and just tend to be busier so they get about half the people. In the winter, there are the snowbirds, illnesses and bad roads to contend with but they still serve numerous people in the area. The ladies don’t do it all by themselves. Bud Holt helps out by arranging entertainment and taking money as people come in to eat. A few others help out by setting up for lunch and picking up afterward, as well as serving food. The senior meal could always use more volunteers to lighten the burden on Lisher and Lewis, but in the meantime they are making do. Another thing different about this senior lunch, compared to the others I have at-
MOND A Y, A U G U ST 5 , 2 0 1 3 tended, is that after people are done eating they don’t all just get up and leave. Many linger and chat with others, and everyone knows that’s when the world’s problems get solved, just after you’ve finished a good meal. I sat next to Carol Bartlett and enjoyed hearing about the sun bonnets she makes. As stated in this column before, I am a hat person. So it’s perfectly natural that my lunchtime conversation include the topic of hats. Bartlett moved to the Juliaetta-Kendrick area about seven years ago. She and her late husband ran the market in Culdesac until the doctor told her husband the stress was too hard on his health. She is very involved in the community and can be found at the center’s lunches on a regular basis.
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