Senior News

Town Of Miami Senior Citizens Center

To our Homedelivery Meal Volunteers: We appreciate you and Thank You for giving your free time to our homebound clients. If it weren’t for you, we would not be able to deliver as many meals as we do. There is a need for this. All of you are Angels!!! We have our Driver, Melissa Martinez. She is so good to the homebound clients. She makes sure that they are well and safe. They are taken care of by her. She is a special girl. Thanks Melissa for caring for them as you do. The Center is closed on Friday for now. Gila Community College will be Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens announces 5 new Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Groups. These groups are in addition to groups already meeting in Casa Grande, Oracle and San Manuel. Open to all persons caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease or other Dementia. Program goals are to provide support through resources, education, and information. These programs are made possible through the generosity of the Wal-Mart Foundation, Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens, the Older American's Act, and other area partners. Payson 3rd Wednesday 2:00pm to 3:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 1000 N. Easy St., Payson Globe 3rd Thursday 12:30pm to 2:00pm Globe Senior Center 579 S. Broad St., Globe, AZ Florence 1st Wednesday 1:00pm to 2:30 pm Florence Gardens Mobile Home Clubhouse 3830 N. Florence Blvd., Florence. For Additional Information contact Carol Wilson @ Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens 520-836-2758 or 1-800-293-9393 for Oracle and San Manuel, Karen Lombardi @ 520-896-9470 or Kay Ham @ 520-385-2835 Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support & Education ending the Spring Classes soon. Then we will start with the Summer Classes. Monday & Tuesday Beginning Strength and Flexibility 9:30 am to 10:30 am. Tuesday- Quilting 9:00 am to 1 :00 pm Bess Bennett our Benefit Specialist thru Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens, from Casa Grande, is here at the Miami Senior Center on Wednesday & Thursday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. She is here to help Seniors that have problems with any kind of benefits that they receive. If there is something that she can’t help you with, she will find someone that would be able to. If Bess is not available here at the Senior Center, I can get hold of her for you. We have had a class here "Matter of Balance" it is very informative to those that are attending. We also have a group that plays Skipbo a card game. They play this everyday, so if you need something to do or like Skipbo, come join the card game. Our transportation is also for anyone that would be interested in joining us here at the Senior Center. We will pick you up at your home, bring you to the Senior Center and take you back home. Just call the Senior Center at 928-473-4190 to make arrangements with us. Tuesday and Thursday transportation for in-town services. We serve lunch Monday through Thursday at 12:00 noon, Hope you can join us. If you’d like to join us for lunch, please call by 9:00 A. M. the day of the lunch. We are sponsored by the Pinal-Gila for Senior Citizens Region V and the Town of Miami.

"Spider,' a Pony from Old Dripping Springs, By Art Dalmolin and Jim Bywater

Art Dalmolin told CCN, "Jim Bywater and I were good friends. I bought this horse Spider from Mr. Cooley at Dripping Springs for $40. Jim and I broke him at the cement water tank in Dripping Springs." Jim Bywater remembered, "Spider was pretty hard to break, but he made a real good cowpony. I used to ride him almost every day while working on the Hagen Ranch at Government Springs. He was a good horse but he would try to throw you off now and then." "My dad and I were riding horses out in Dripping Springs one day, out on the old road to the Cowboy Mine above the vanadium mine. I was riding Spider. He tried to buck me off, but I stayed with him. When he quit bucking, I was sitting right up on the swells of my saddle. If he had made one more jump, he would have lost me, as he had thrown a cramp in my hip. We got straightened out and rode up to the old Cowboy Mine and looked things over. It turned out to be a real nice ride."

Alzheimer's Caregiver Support & Education

Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens announces 5 new Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Groups. These groups are in addition to groups already meeting in Casa Grande, Oracle and San Manuel. Open to all persons caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease or other Dementia. Program goals are to provide support through resources, education, and information. These programs are made possible through the generosity of the Wal-Mart Foundation, Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens, the Older American's Act, and other area partners. Payson 3rd Wednesday 2:00pm to 3:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 1000 N. Easy St., Payson Globe 3rd Thursday 12:30pm to 2:00pm Globe Senior Center 579 S. Broad St., Globe, AZ Florence 1st Wednesday 1:00pm to 2:30 pm Florence Gardens Mobile Home Clubhouse 3830 N. Florence Blvd., Florence. For Additional Information contact Carol Wilson @ Pinal-Gila Council for Senior Citizens 520-836-2758 or 1-800-293-9393 for Oracle and San Manuel, Karen Lombardi @ 520-896-9470 or Kay Ham @ 520-385-2835