I have decided to write this column about a great service in Adrian that sometimes gets overlooked. I’m talking about the Adrian
Senior Center, located in the basement of the historic Slade Hotel. Listed on America’s Historical Sites, the hotel is now owned by Joe Hornstein. The Senior Center, home of the Adrian Meal Site, can be reached by three different entrances. To the North is the handicap accessible entrance. There is an elevator inside to access all three levels of the Slade. There are two doors on the west side of the building, down the stairs, and one entrance to the south that enters the kitchen and storage area. The meal site has one large room for meals as well as two bathrooms and the kitchen. The manager of the Adrian Meal site is Marie Schwebach, and she has volunteers to help serve the meals, Monday through Friday. The meals are no longer made on site, but come from Luverne.
Meals on Wheels are also served out of this facility. Sometime the only outside contact these home bound people get is the volunteer that delivers Meals on Wheels. It is a comfort for families to know their loved one is checked on five days a week!
Marie holds a birthday meal, Two Buck Meal, bring a friend meal, or just a meal with a friend. Anyone is welcome to come and enjoy the meals, but you must call Marie at 483-2588 to let her know you are coming. She needs a count of how many meals to order for the day. The meals are hot and nutritious and just plain good! Let’s keep our Senior Center thriving. The Unit President is Rhonda Lorang of Worthington.
Don’t forget the St. Anthony Fall Bazaar, craft sale and turkey dinner on Sunday, September 10. St. Anthony is all ‘geared’ up to handle a large crowd. The serving starts at 11 a.m. A Mass will be held at 10:00 at St. Anthony which is a change to accommodate the folks planning to go to the dinner. This is a great way for folks to attend other church bazaars and dinners. St. Anthony has lots to offer all day, September 10.
Elaine (Klein) Kukowski spent several hours visiting at the Kay Cox home on Tuesday, August 29, before driving to her home in Silver Springs, Maryland. Elaine has been in the Adrian area for several weeks, to be with her mom during her final days and attend her funeral.
If you want to donate to the people in Texas, who were wiped out by hurricane Harvey, call Suzanne Murphy at (507)360-6699, as she has volunteered to fill a trailer to take down to them. Only good clothing, household things, etc. will be accepted. You can’t go wrong to send money. You can trust the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army as these organizations are well known and always present at disasters. Thank God there are so many people all over the country willing to help. Keep the flood victims in your prayers.
The Argus Leader had pictures of hay being trucked to drought stricken areas in North and South Dakota. God has blessed us!
“It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have this good effect, at least: it will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies, and vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy us. The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. And the new governments we are assuming in every part, will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues or there will be no blessings…But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence: in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.” John Adams, July 3, 1776
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