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Quarterly Elder Birthday Party

LdF Senior Center Dining Room (Wellness Ctr.)

Friday, April 28, 2017

5:00-7:00 PM

The LdF Senior Center would like to celebrate your birth-day by treating you to dinner and play bingo for prizes.

We will be celebrating January, February and March Birth-days. Our Birthday Elders will receive a small token of our appreciation at the dinner.

All Elders are welcome to come to the dinner and partici-pate in the games. Please no children. Please call Joely @ 715) 892-0691 if you need a ride.

Easter Candy Guessing Game

Back by Popular Demand

One guess per day. Winners will be announced and presented with their Jar of Easter candy on Thursday, April 13, 2017.

SENIOR MOMENTS

April 2017

Lac du Flambeau Aging & LTC Program

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Program News

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Nutrition Article

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Fun Page

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April Birthdays

Staff Contact Info.

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Senior Center Menu

April Activities Calendar

The Senior Center will

closed 1/2 day Friday, Apr.

14th. Meals will be

delivered to home-

bound clients and dine-in

participants may pick their

meal up from 9:30-11:30.

We will be closed on Monday, Apr.

17th for the Easter holiday. All par-

ticipants and Tribal Elders may en-

joy a meal at the Eagles Nest.

Cooking Tips for One or Two

It can be tricky when cooking for one (or even two) to make the most of your ingredients and to minimize dishes — particularly when many recipes focus on making a meal for a family and serve four to six people. But just because you have a smaller household doesn't mean you should aban-don the kitchen for takeout. "The best part of cooking for one is that there are no worries about what anyone else wants for dinner. You have the flexibility to enjoy beans with salsa and avocado or a quick omelet with veggies for dinner if you want," says Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson Marisa Moore, MBA, RDN, LD.

The first step to dinner-for-one success is to make cooking healthy meals a priority. Planning ahead and arming yourself with a few tips and tricks will put you on the path to triumph in the kitchen. According to Moore, the best strategy when cooking for one is to become friends with your freezer. "Instead of scaling down, cook up full recipes: cook once, eat twice. Save time, money and clean up by freezing soups, chili, pasta dishes and extra vegetables," she says. "Pull these 'frozen meals' out when you don't feel like cooking or just need a quick meal."

Here are more kitchen tips for one:

Grains

Cook a batch of whole grains such as brown rice or barley and freeze in individual portions

using a muffin pan. Once frozen, the discs can be stored in a zip-top bag.

Have a six-pack of whole-grain English muffins or a whole loaf of bread? Tuck those extras

into the freezer for another day; wrap them tightly in plastic wrap to prevent freezer burn. Visit the bulk bins at your local health food and grocery stores. You can buy exactly what

you need with no waste and it's often less expensive per pound. In addition to grains, you can score a deal on dried herbs and spices as well as nuts, seeds and dried beans.

Veggies and Fruits

"If you're not able to go food shopping a few days a week (most of us aren't), embrace frozen

produce," says Moore. "Frozen produce can be just as nutritious as fresh and it's there when you need it. Just choose options without added sauces and sugar." Since they're al-ready chopped up, frozen fruits and veggies are ready to add to smoothies, soups and stir-fries. And because they're frozen, there is no rush to use them before they spoil.

Bulk bags of fruits and veggies are only a better deal if you eat them before they spoil. Only buy what you can reasonably eat before the produce perishes: take extra grapes or cherries out of the bag and pare down that bunch of bananas to what you'll eat.

"Be strategic. Enjoy your most perishable fresh produce like berries and spinach in the week. Save heartier produce like cabbage, carrots and potatoes for meals later in the week," suggests Moore.

Protein: Meat, Poultry, Eggs, Beans

Eggs can make a meal happen in a flash, anytime! They are an excellent source of protein and contain a bounty of nutrients such as vitamin D and choline. You can hard-boil a few on the weekend to have as an easy breakfast, snack or quick salad addition.

Buy a whole package of meat or poultry and wrap individual portions in freezer-safe paper;

label each with the date and contents.

A potato masher can easily tame a can of pinto beans into delicious refried beans — a pinch of cumin, garlic and chili powder and you're ready to eat!

http://www.eatright.org

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Fun Page. . . . A woman gets on a

bus with her baby.

The bus driver says; “Ugh, that’s the ugli-

est baby I’ve ever

seen.”

The woman walks to

the rear of the bus

and sits down, fum-ing. She says to the

man next to her:

“the driver just in-

sulted me”.

The man says: “You go up there and

tell him off! Go on, I’ll hold your

monkey”!

It’s almost that time…

Administrative Office:

Sharon Thompson 715-588-4385

Mary Samuelson 715-588-4388

Leslie Johnson 715-588-4351

Drivers/Activities:

Sed Armstrong 715-439-5791

Joely Armstrong 715-892-0691

Bernard Lemieux 715-439-5797

Kitchen: 715-588-4360

Deanna Poupart Roz Poupart

Nancy St. Germaine

ADRC of the Northwoods:

1-800-699-6704

Elder Advisory Board Members:

Phillip “Bub” Chapman, Sr., President

John LaBarge, Vice-President

Sarah LaBarge, Treasurer & Secretary

Nutrition Board Members:

Sally LaBarge, Chairperson

Phillip “Bub” Chapman Sr.

Rosalind Poupart

Mildred “Tinker” Schuman

John Malinowski

APRIL 2017 Frank Cobb 4 1 Patricia Mitchell 4 18

Maggie Hume 4 1 Kay Guthrie 4 18

Robin Thompson 4 1 Betty Graveen 4 19

Anita Snow 4 2 Sheryl Ashby 4 19

Lee Batiste, Jr. 4 3 Virginia Seneca 4 19

Beverly Bauman 4 4 William Cobb, Jr. 4 19

Loren Burgess 4 4 Scott Chapman, Sr. 4 20

Wallace Soulier 4 4 Carol Maulson 4 20

Florence Ninham 4 5 Geraldine A Brown 4 21

Gayle Allen 4 5 Janice Peterson 4 21

Paul St. Germaine 4 5 Sarah Eickenberg 4 21

Bernard Sunn 4 6 Vera Batiste 4 21

Lee Batiste, Sr. 4 6 Arlene Skavland 4 22

Bonnie LeSieur 4 9 Bert LaBarge, Sr. 4 22

Deanna Poupart 4 9 Peter Poupart 4 22

Josphine Smith 4 9 Sue Vazquez 4 22

Patricia Bencz 4 11 Charlene Bickford 4 24

Jack Burke 4 11 Donna Rudy 4 24

Thomas Maulson, Jr. 4 11 Crystal Poupart 4 25

Wanda LaBarge 4 11 Joseph Thompson 4 27

Sharon Harty 4 13 Mary Quinn 4 27

Terry Doud 4 13 Patrick Day 4 28

Augustine Allen 4 14 Michelle St. Germaine 4 28

Gordon Allen 4 14 James Kleinsteiber 4 29

Nancy Peterson 4 15 Linda Christensen 4 29

Janice Vetterneck 4 16 Sheila LaBarge 4 29

Sharon Jo Batiste 4 17