Thank You, KCES and 5th Grade Leadership Team!

Knox County Elementary Fifth grade Leadership Team organized a day for all students in their building to wear a hat....simply by paying $1.00. A majority of the students took advantage of this—some wearing ball caps, cowboy hats, helmets, etc. The fundraising money was then donated to the Novelty Senior Citizens' for their Wreaths Across America project.  The Senior Center is hopeful to have a wreath for each veteran in the Novelty Cemetery, plus many others throughout the county. 

These students presented the money to Marsha Pinson, Thursday afternoon, September 29^th. Collected was enough money to purchase 9 wreaths. Those students are also invited to attend our ceremony in December and help place the wreaths on veterans' graves.

Thank You, Leadership Team, for organizing this day. And thanks to all the Elementary Students who purchased the privilege of wearing a hat!  

Shown are the 5^th grade Leadership Team presenting the money collected to Marsha Pinson.

L-R: Marsha Pinson, Lane, Agnes, Teryn, Collin, Noah, and  Timothy.

Corn Fest 2016 Parade Photos

Photos by Echo Menges

Edina Sentinal

Thank you Echo!

2016 Corn Fest has come and gone...

Thank You to everyone who stopped by our booth for a chat and to those who
 sponsored wreaths for the ceremony in December.
Judith Rhoades, Marsha Pinson, Gala Jessen, Barbara Poor,
Kathryn Wilkerson, Wende Wagner and Tom Bailey were on hand to share details about
Wreaths Across America with those in attendance.{ A big Thank You to KF for helping with EVERYTHING, a true McGuyver!}

The Novelty Senior Center was represented in the parade by our float

 which included Barbara Poor, Kathryn Wilkerson and Sue Ahern.

Of course Snoopy was there to the delight of everyone. 

Snoopy and a group of student missionaries from Truman State University with the Catholic Newman Center. They are active in their faith and love God. They really loved the trailer of corn!

September 1st was our monthly luncheon!

 Thursday was our monthly luncheon for any seniors in the Novelty area.  

Diana led the pledge to the US flag, and Helen Pulse blew out the candles on the birthday cake. Jeff gave the blessing for the meal that was prepared by all who attended. Besides those mentioned above, Leah Otto, Jim and Marsha Pinson, Sue Ahern, Judith Rhoades, and Pam Baker were present. Nurse Sherry Goodwin was also present to take blood pressures, etc.

This month's birthday girl!  

Thanks to Judith for doing the dishes: then a business meeting was conducted. Those staying for the meeting were Helen, Sue, Judith, Diana, and Marsha. Vice President Diana Cheatum called the meeting to order. Updated information on the WAA program was shared, and the upcoming Cornfest festivities were discussed.  We will again have the float in the parade on Saturday morning, and the booth will be in the city park during the weekend.  We are hoping to get a number of wreaths sponsored during this weekend, September 9-10-11.

I am sorry!  I was negligent in getting a post on from the August luncheon.  We celebrated four birthdays that month--so a belated Happy Birthday to Kathryn, Jerry, Freda, and Leah. (and no, I did not get their picture either.)  

 The Knox County Cornfest is Sept 9-11 in Edina Missouri.  We invite all to come join the fun there--the Novelty Senior Citizens will have a float in the parade as well as a booth for WAA.  The Cornfest is putting out a cookbook, and the birthday cake pictured, is one of the recipes from that book:
             CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE
Cake                                                        Icing
2 cups sugar                                     1 stick oleo
2 cups flour                                       4 Tbsp cocoa
1 tsp baking soda                             6 Tbsp buttermilk
1/2 tsp salt                                        1 1# box powdered sugar
2 sticks oleo                                      1 tsp vanilla
3-4 Tbsp. cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla   

       Sift together the sugar, flour, baking soda, and alt.  Meanwhile melt in a saucepan the oleo, cocoa, and water.  bringing to a rapid boil.
Pour over the dry ingredients; mix in the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla.  Pour in a 11 x 15 greased baking pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.  
     For the icing: Melt in a saucepan the oleo, cocoa, and buttermilk and bring to a boil.  Add the powdered sugar and vanilla.  Mix til smooth and pour over the cake. 

Proclamation Recognizes Our "Wreaths Across America" Effort

Proclamation Signing at the Knox County Commissioners’ Office - Back Row: (left to right) Diana Cheatum, Kathryn Wilkerson, Carolyn Morgret, Marsha Pinson and Wende Wagner. Front Row: Knox County Presiding Commissioner Evan Glasgow and Western District Commissioner Roger Parton. Not Shown: Eastern District Commissioner Mike Fox.

On Monday, August 15, 2016, Knox County Presiding Commissioner Evan Glasgow signed a
proclamation to honor, recognize and commend the Novelty Senior Citizens’, Inc. for their
patriotic tribute to America’s veterans. The Senior Citizens will sponsor a wreath-laying ceremony to honor all local veterans on Saturday, December 17, 2016, at the Novelty Cemetery on the east
side of Novelty.

The proclamation also requests the community’s help in accomplishing the goal of honoring all the
veterans’ graves, and in recognizing that the beauty of the red-bowed wreaths is a sign that our community remembers our veterans.

In conjunction with the national organization, Wreaths Across America, whose motto is “Remember
Honor Teach” the Novelty group has already sold sponsorships for over 100 wreaths to be laid
that day in December.

The Novelty Senior Citizens will participate in Corn Festival activities with a booth to allow anyone to sponsor a wreath to be placed on a veteran’s grave here in Knox County. If the veteran is
not buried at Novelty or Locust Hill (their two registered cemeteries), then the sponsor is asked to pick up the wreath after the ceremony and take it to their veteran’s gravesite themselves.

There are over 100 local veterans buried in  just the Novelty and Locust Hill cemeteries.
Wreaths have already been sponsored to be placed in several other county cemeteries, including Mt. Salem, IOOF in Hurdland, Bee Ridge, Newark, St. Joseph’s Cemetery and Linville Cemetery in
Edina.

Everyone is welcome to come to the ceremony at the Novelty Cemetery on Saturday, December 17 at 11:00 a.m. Please join us in honoring our veterans.
   
(photo credit to Echo Menges of The Edina Sentinel)

KCES receives donation from schoola due to senior citizens' efforts

Ladies from the Senior Center have been collecting gently-used clothing (women's and children's) as well as shoes, belts, purses, etc and sending to the online used clothing 'store' of www.schoola.com
By donating these items, the site then donates money back to our school of choice, Knox County R-I Elementary in Edina, Missouri.

Recently, principal Frances Jones received a check for $54.81 from items that we donated and schoola had sold.

The money will be used at Knox County for some Christmas art projects that all the children do each year.

We are very pleased to be able to  help our local school in this way.  If you would like to donate some items (schoola only accepts items that cost more than $15 originally, and are for women and children) feel free to leave at the Center any Tuesday morning, or contact a Novelty senior center officer.

Treasurer Marsha Pinson presenting check to Principal Frances Jones.

How important are goals?

• Committed to achievement.
• Gives focus to energy, the mind and emotions.
• Motivation.
• To achieve positive change.
• Satisfaction
• Allows measure of progress.
• Overcome procrastination.

The list can go on and on...

July was a goal achieving month for the Center.

We set and met our goal of 40 wreaths for Wreaths Across America.

Yeah!!!

We still have a minimum TOTAL GOAL to reach by November 1, 2016.

This past weekend we acquired 18 wreaths from a garage sale in

Kansas City.  All proceeds were earmarked, along with

Fill the Combat Boot, for WAA.

Good location and a great response from the community.

When December 31, 2016, comes and goes, please remember it is a

NEW YEAR with NEW GOALS.  Just because the year ends the

Wreaths Across America sponsorship does not.

Look to the future and set goals.