Winnett News

WINNETT SENIOR NEWS

Nov 7 - Twenty-nine seniors and take-out meals enjoyed cheesy vegetable soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, fruit salad, and cookie bar variety. We sang Happy Birthday to Ginger, whose celebrated a November birthday.

Cards were signed for Nancy Skinner, and Diane Iverson for knee surgery and a hip replacement. Melody had knee surgery on November 6. Butch will be having knee surgery on December 3rd. On Friday, the Jr. High will have a basketball game at 10:00. Bingo is Sunday at 1:30. There is a box by Lance’s office for the kids’ clothing exchange. You can bring gently used kid’s winter clothes that you no longer need and exchange for clothing you do need and can use. The box will be out for anyone to exchange clothes through the end of the year. Next Thursday will be our Veteran’s Day program and lunch at seniors. If you have it, wear red, white, and blue to honor our Veterans. Invite any family members that are or were a Veteran. Let Kim know and she will get a head count to Patti. Lunch is free to all veterans. There will be a Veteran’s program at the school on Monday, November 11 at 11:00am. Everyone welcome.

Dec 5th, Marcy from Area II will be here to talk about the budget. November 24th will be the Winnett Craft Bazaar at the PCCC from 10:00 – 3:00. Lunch will be available. Winnett Times is having a pig raffle on the 24th at noon. You can buy your tickets at the Winnett Bar or from Trish Smith. This is a fund raiser for our Winnett Times newsletter. Paige Gershmel won her first college ladies wrestling tournament at her college in Iowa. She is the granddaughter of Mary Meserve, and Gary and Linda Gershmel. Congratulations! Luann won the 50/50 for $11.00 See you next week.

Nov 14 - Forty-four seniors and veterans came to lunch today. This includes thirteen veterans and their families. There were also ten take-out meals. We say thank your for your service to Tom Tiarks, Brad Olson, Tina Rayburn, Bob Flansburg, Craig Torgerson, Sheriff Dan Linder, Ralph Corbett, Butch Arthur, Leo Tarplee, Delli Finkbeiner, Chuck Allen, Larry Schaeffer, and Ron Sims. Our cooks prepared a delicious roast beef meal with mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, orange fluff salad, relishes, rolls, and pumpkin pie cake.

Kim had set up the missing man table and read a memorial describing each item on the table of our missing soldier. We will never forget the brave men and women who answered our nations call to serve and served the cause of freedoms.

There is a junior high basketball game on Saturday at 10:00. Bingo will be December 8 at 1:30. Happy Birthday to Lillian. She will be turning 93 this month.

Nov 21 - Twenty-eight seniors, ten take-out meals enjoyed our birthday meal of oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes with milk gravy/ cranberries, relish tray, and rolls. Thank you to Raye Anne for the birthday cheese cakes.

Murray Lou from Area II was here and brought the senior newsletters. Medicare enrollment is counting down. There is only a month if you want to change anything or have questions. She reminds everyone not to answer any questions when you get phone calls or emails from Medicare. The representative who calls is just an agent for whichever insurance company is trying to get your business. Medicare will never call you. The Roundup Christmas Stroll is December 7. It is from noon to 8:00pm. The Festival of Trees auction will be at 7:30. Roundup also has statues to auction off. They were a nice donation to Roundup from Ducks Unlimited. The Lions Club is doing a wheelbarrow of fun, eye screening ad the Lions Club table in Roundup.

November birthdays were Patti Kiehl, Ginger Moore, and Lillian Moore. Happy Birthday to you! The Brawl of the Wild football game between Montana State Bobcats and University of Montana Grizzlies is Saturday 23rd. It will be on the TV at the PCCC. There will be lots of activities. Bring potluck and/or tailgate food, bring your own drink. Everyone is welcome to come cheer on your favorite team and watch it on the big screen TV. Basketball this week will only be on Friday. No Saturday games. The girls are in Broadview and the boys will be in Lavina. There will be no seniors next week as it is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving and we will see you in December.

Flatwillow News

Flatwillow Homemakers held their November meeting at Luann’s home. We celebrated Thanksgiving with wonderful turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy that Luann prepared. Everyone brought vegetables, salads, and dessert that complimented our delicious Thanksgiving meal. Sandy Gonzalez, Linda Gershmel, Luann Knutson, Raye Anne Lund, Mary Meserve, Bonnie Moore, Ginger Moore, Kim Tarplee, Babs Tetrault and Ella Iverson were there.

Roll call answered the comment of “a favorite family tradition,” or “our favorite comfort food.” We all enjoyed hearing about each other’s traditions and favorite comfort foods. Luann read the thought for the day called “The Good Napkins.” A good story with a funny ending.

Minutes and Treasurer’s report - Ginger motioned, Kim seconded to approve the minutes of the October 8 meeting and the treasurer’s report as presented. Motion carried.

Sandy presented a bill for the Oreos and peanut butter cups that were used to make table favors for the senior citizens. Our Christmas meeting will be at Kim’s home on December 10. Bring a Christmas gift for the gift exchange.

New Business - Discussion was had on what we would like to do for our Christmas project this year. It was decided to give the Winnett Lions Club $200 for their activity fund to be used as needed. They do a lot for our community all year and especially at Christmas time are busy helping Santa. Linda made the motion, Babs seconded to give $200 to the Winnett Lions. Motion carried.

We also discussed the idea of having a field trip in December instead of May. Everyone had ideas of what we would like to do in December and the unanimous idea decided touring the Moss Mansion in Billings. It is decorated for Christmas and each room has a specially decorated Christmas tree. We tentatively scheduled a time to see the Moss Mansion for December 4. The Mansion opens at noon so we thought it would be fun to go early and have lunch. Kim will check on times to tour Moss Mansion and will check out places to eat close to the Mansion. She will call and let us know. We can still have our red/white/blue themed gift exchange in May, we’ll do it here instead of going out in May.

Linda won the blind pig. Secret sister gifts were handed out and admired. Everyone bid on the opportunity table. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and we’ll see you next month on the 10th at Kim’s house.

December is here and what a busy month. The Fergus Holiday Showcase Basketball tournament is December 12-14th. Thursday, December 12 at 7:00pm, WGR girls will play Fergus JV. Friday, December 13, 2:30pm, WGR boys vs Circle. Saturday December 14, both the WGR girls and boys will play. WGR girls vs. Circle will begin at 10:30am, and the WGR boys will play Fort Benton at 12:00pm. Good luck to our basketball teams.

The Winnett Volunteer Fire Department Christmas party was held last night, December 12, at the Winnett Bar. Happy Hour began at 6:00pm and a prime rib dinner began at 7:00. Thank you to the Winnett Bar for the delicious meal.

The Winnett Christmas Stroll is December 13 from 6 -8:00pm. The parade of lights will start at 6:30. Be sure to light up any rig you have and light up the parade. The PCCC will be a bustling place. There will be kids’ ornament making, the gingerbread house decorating contest, and pictures with Santa will all he is happening at the Community Center. There will be hot cocoa at the Winnett Bar, a fire pit off Main Street, and last but not least Christmas Caroling by the Winnett Lions Club. They will be in the PCCC gathered around the piano for some fun time singing. Come out and enjoy the Christmas stroll.

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Winnett School Music Department will be presenting their Christmas concert on Thursday December 19 at 7:00pm. It will be the entire school performing. Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you. And lastly, the end of the quarter is Friday, December 20. We will be dismissing school at 1:30 to begin the Christmas break. Merry Christmas!