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Society
Thursday, May 8,1986
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A personal emergency response system, that affords your lov-
ed ones the independence they have always strived for.
For only $18.00 per month, the person who lives alone and are
either elderly or have health problems, can rest easily by installing
a Lifeline system.
A small personal press activated help button on a
chain around the neck or wrist is attached to the /
telephone which automatically dials the emergency
response center at Taft Hospital, it works even if the
phone is off the hook or during power failure.
if a person lapses into unconsciousness Lifeline head-
quarters at the hospital will realize something has happen-
ed, because the transmitter must be reset at 12 or 24 hour
intervals.
Lifeline is a personal emergency response system provided as
a community service. For more information contact Dee Sample,
Lifeline Manager, Taft Hospital District, 528-2545.
Gifts from
the Heart
By Kay Atkinson
Mother’s Day is always a very
special time of the year. We should
all take time out of our busy
schedules to let her know just how
much she means to us.
Mothers do so much for us through
the year that this is a good time to do
something for her. A good way to
help would be to do the cooking for
her on Sunday.
1 cup margarine
¥2 cup cocoa
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
P/2 cups flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1 jar marshmallow cream
Melt margarine and add cocoa
and sugar. Then stir in eggs. Add
flour, then pecans. Bake in 9x13 pan
at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. While
cake is hot, spread on marshmallow
cream. When cool, spread on icing.
She also is a member of the
Alliance for Senior Advocacy and
the Center for Creative Living and
serves as representative on the Ad-
the Del Mar Senior Repertoire
Players. Several members of the
Aransas Pass chapter attended as
guests.
SKILLET FRENCH TOAST
3 eggs
% cup milk
1T. sugar
¥41. salt
8 slices white bread
Heat 1 tablespoon margarine or
butter in skillet over medium heat
until melted. Dip bread into egg mix-
ture; cook until golden brown, about
4 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with
confectionary sugar and add syrup.
ICING
1 stick melted margarine
¥2 cup evaporated milk
11. vanilla
1 box powdered sugar
¥4 cup cocoa
Beat well then add 1 cup pecans.
Spread icing after cake is cool.
RICE SALAD
1 cup uncooked rice
2 cups mayonnaise or salad dress-
ing
2 cups sliced celery
1 medium onion, finely chopped
41. prepared mustard
¥>1. salt
4 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
8 radishes, sliced
1 cucumber, pared and diced
Cook rice according to package
directions. Transfer to bowl. Cover
and chill. Add mayonnaise or salad
dressing, celery, onion, mustard and
salt to chilled rice; mix well. Cover
and chill. Stir in remaining ingre-
dients before serving.
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May 8, 9, 10 & 11
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Gift Certificates Available
Total Image Salon
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WESTERN JEANS
$8.88ap.„
Sizes 26 thru 42
(White They Last)
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Rice Feted With Luncheon
included Staci Lightfoot, Debbie
Ramirez, Margo Powers, Jolynn
Rettig and Carla Ernest.
Albritten’s nomination was based
on her record of service to the local
chapter and her volunteer work in
the Corpus Christi metroplex. She
was cited as a charter member of
the chapter when it was organized in g
1977 and chapter president for three
terms, as chairman of Portland’s
Cystic Fibrosis campaign in 1980, as
chairman of the bloodmobile cam-
paign in 1981, for volunteer work as
an instructor in water exercises for.
seniors at Del Mar College since 1977
and for current service as assistant
state director for AARP.
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AARP Honors Albritter^
For Community Service
visory Council on Aging of the
Coastal Bend Council of Govern-
ments.
Following the awards presenta-
Tami Rice, a Gregory-Portland
High School graduating senior,
recently was honored by her aunt,
Mrs. Ross Childers, with a luncheon ’
at the Crystal Confectionery I
Restaurant in Corpus Christi.
Along with the guest of honor’s
mother, Shirley Matula, and
brother, Dean Matula, other guests -
Recipe Ramble
Make Sunday
Special For Mom
pineapple, reserving 2 tablespoons
syrup. Combine pineapple, reserved
syrup, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 tables-
poons lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons
prepared mustard.
GRILLED ISLAND CHICKEN
2 Two-pound ready-to-cook
broiler-fryer chickens, split in
quarters
% cup salad oil
21. salt
¥21. pepper
Pineapple Glaze
Brush chicken well with oil and
season with salt and pepper. Place
on grill with bone side down. Broil
over medium coals. When bone side
is well browned, about 30 minutes,
turn skin side down and cook about
20 minutes longer. Brush both sides
of chicken with glaze and broil about
10 minutes more or till tender, turn-
ing and brushing each side twice
with glaze. Heat extra glaze and
pass in small bowl as an accompani-
ment.
PINEAPPLE GLAZE
Drain one 83/4-oz. can crushed
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An award for continuing com-
munity service was presented to
Agnes Albritten at a recent dinner
meeting of the Gregory-Portland
chapter of the American Association .tion, entertainment was provided by
of Retired Persons.
The award, signed by the national
president and by the executive
director of AARP, was presented to
Albritten by Alice Chisholm, a local
civic leader and former coun-
cilwoman.
PCS Announces
'Summer Spark'
Portland Christian School and Day
Care, 206 Lang Road, will offer a
“Summer Spark” program for
children beginning June 2 and conti-
nuing throughout the summer.
The “Summer Spark” program is
open to infants through children age
12. The daycare center is open from
6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Cost is $45 per week ($55 for in-
fants) for all day care including
meals; sports such as basketball,
volleyball, weightlifting, body-
building and baseball; swimming
lessons; computer classes;
remedial summer school classes;
movies; roller skating; arts and
crafts and Bible study.
For more information, call 643-
4528 or 643-8677.
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LIFELINE
A community-based program
OPEN HOUSE - Sunday, May 11 3 to 5 p.m.
110 FRIO Hostess: Lillian Nogues
WHAT MOTHER WOULD NOT LIKE THIS HOUSE?
Perfect for the family that likes to entertain or has
older children. Eastcliff. 3/2 w/3 car garage.
REDUCED to $89,900.
NORTHSHORE HOMES ALSO OPEN! American Designer models on Sea Gull open 1-5:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Doral St.
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Give your mother or grand-
mother something that smells
like roses, but lasts months
longer.
Give her a bottle of her favorite
perfume fragrance in a basket,
with a bouquet of beautiful
balloons.
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OPEN HOUSE - Saturday, May 10 3 to 5 p.m.
2328 PARK WOOD Hostess: Betty Peterson
REDUCED PRICE! on this home w/flowing floor
plan, split bedrms, 2 dining areas. Built by Jack Bur-
rows. 3/2 ONLY $79,900.
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Gamma Psi Commemorates
20th Anniversary of Chapter
Gamma Psi chapter of Delta Kap-
pa Gamma Society International
met at 6:30 p.m. May 5 in the In-
gleside Junior High School library.
In order to commemorate the 20th
year of Gamma Psi’s organization,
Dee Ezell, ceremonial committee
chairman, recalled “what it was
like” in 1966. Chapter member Doris
Stark also reminisced over the
chapter’s origin and Margaret
Kemp read a poem honoring the
founders of Delta Kappa Gamma.
President Pat McDonald honored
25-year members Helen McCague
and Jannette Stalker.
Louise Moser presented the an-
nual achievement award to
Elizabeth Slayton of Ingleside, who
also was given a small gift for hav-
ing perfect attendance over the past
year. Others with perfect atten-
dance were McDonald of Ingleside,
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Hilda Wendel of Sinton and Beth
Paslay of Portland.
Ezell conducted the installation of
officers for 1986-88, with Shirley Car-
son of Refugio as president; Doris
Mircovich of Portland, first vice
president; Emma Olliff of
Woodsboro, second vice president;
Kate Campbell of Refugio, recor-
ding secretary; Cepha Jessee of
Rockport, corresponding secretary;
Darlene Gooris of Portland,
treasurer; and Dee Ezell of
Portland, parliamentarian.
Portland members attending Mon-
day’s meeting were Virginia Akins,
Brazil Dougherty, Dee Ezell,
Darlene Gooris, Margaret Kemp,
Sudie Kornegay, Doris Mircovich,
Louise Moser, Beth Paslay, Lorena
Rackley, Linda Rettig, Margaret
Simpson, Doris Stark, Beth Stephens
and Viola Woodruff.
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DISTRICT QUEEN CANDIDATE - Kim Siepmann, at right, joins
Lions Club representative Donn Moody preceding the Lions Club
meeting Monday. Siepmann will represent the club in a district
queen's pageant May 17 in Corpus Christi. (NEWS photo)
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Castleberry, Linda. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1986, newspaper, May 8, 1986; Portland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304328/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.