February 2019
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Marilyn B. (48th Circle) Mary M. (Skillman) Florence Adeneke (Dayton Our House) Guy C. (Woodbridge/17th) Dawn M. (In-Home) Niatron Fondren (Oakland) Brittany T. (1250 Hoyt) Betty N. (Skillman) Birhane Ambaw (Dayton Our House) Angela E. (Skycroft) Tom A. (Woodbridge/17th)
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Lafayette Dolo (Portland Ave) Sadia Bashir (48th Circle) Janae Garrett (Colfax) Ladi Mshelia (17th Street) Neal H. (In-Home) Larrisa S. (Troseth) Zainab Allman (Skycroft) Gale T. (Portland Our House) Steven S. (In-Home) Natt Jaleiba (Wentworth)
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Happy Birthday!
Anniversaries
Cynthia Boateng (1250 Hoyt) 1 yr, Said Dhere (11th Avenue) 1 yr, Tiffany Garbett (Aurora) 1 yr, Megan Hinrichs (Demont) 1 yr, Myshell Johnson (In-Home) 1 yr, Wehso Nyella (29th Avenue) 1 yr, Anne Perry (1250 Hoyt) 1 yr, Jacqueline (Spande) (In-Home) 1 yr, De’ Undrae Wells (29th Avenue) 1 yr, Krysta Malchow (11th Avenue) 2 yrs, Sandy Sabey (In-Home) 2 yrs, Sahro Ahmed (Skycroft) 4 yrs, Samuel Dennis (Oakland) 4 yrs, Folakemi Olapade (Skycroft) 4 yrs, Yingmin Zhang (Glenpaul) 4 yrs, Muna Dinle (Oakland) 6 yrs, Nnamdi Osuagwu (1489 Hoyt) 6 yrs, Kevin Shobande (Oliver)6 yrs, Darolyn Gray (Development) 7 yrs, Eric Hemme (Plato) 8 yrs, Amarech Tullu (Skillman) 10 yrs, Kimberly Whitehead (Demont) 17 yrs, Anna Horn (1489 Hoyt) 19 yrs, and Jeff Hager (Plato) 35 yrs, totalling 143 years! Congratulations everyone!
In The Holiday Spirit The ladies at 11th had a great Christmas. Everyone enjoyed their presents, especially Linda, because she received a life-size cardboard cutout of Elvis Presley! ~Priscilla Johnson~ The ladies at Skillman had a wonderful Christmas along with the ladies at 1250 Hoyt. They had a huge meal consisting of chicken, ribs, mac and cheese, their favorite green jello, and sugar cookies. They exchanged and opened presents on Christmas morning with smiles on their faces. It was a very magical Christmas! ~Lina Ntakagero~
Celebrating New Year’s Eve On December 31, an all-Wingspan New Year’s Eve party took place at midnight London time in the Plato party room. People from at least 10 homes came to enjoy the hoopla together. Deb Hofbauer orchestrated the party, with help from Jeff Hager and Eric Hemme, who pulled up the countdown being observed at that time in the world, and many staff from the sites. We ate snacks, made noise with horns and rattles, and observed the countdown from London, England which took place at 6pm Minnesota time. Everyone counted down and at zero, a huge, “Happy New Year!” from 2 continents, along with loud noisemakers and applause, went up in the room. And as happens when we age, everyone was home in pajamas by 9pm. Happy 2019! ~Maureen Merrill~