04 Summer Pg4

04 Summer Pg4

Text Box: A NEW POSITION FOR A VERY QUALIFIED HOME PROVIDER By: Penny Wagner Bauer Many of you already know Donna DiPaolo. She teaches our CDA classes and is a CDA advisor. She is also a mother of 3 grown sons and a grandmother. She has cared for children for many years and is very close to becoming the first home provider to receive a college degree using her CDA as a base. She has served on our Board of Trustees for many years as a voice for you and she has attended many meetings state wide advocating for you. Since 2000 we have received continuing pressure from the food program to eliminate all active home providers from our board. We have fought this because we feel that you need representation on our Board of Trustees, that someone who is going through what you are going through should be there to represent you. In January, we had an audit by the State food program. Again, they objected to Donna being on the board because she is an active home provider. She was pressured to either stop receiving food money or leave the board. She courageously chose to stay on the board and forfeit the food reimbursement money. That is the kind of integrity this woman has. Recently, with the addition of so many new home providers, it was obvious that we needed someone on the food program side to serve as Frieda Mathew does on the ECI side of our programs. A board member, Carmen Gray, volunteered many hours determining what we needed in that position and what duties that position should encompass. When it came time to hire someone for that position, I couldn’t think of a more qualified person than Donna. She will have to come off the Board because no employee may serve on the Board; but I know she will continue to advocate for you and to fight for you in this position. I know you will support her, and I hope respect her, as she visits you with your field rep or calls you about different food program matters. It has always amazed me how hard we have to fight for home provider rights and what character is represented in our home providers. If you know someone who is a home provider but not presently receiving food reimbursement and would like to represent home providers on the board, please have them call me. With Donna stepping down there is a large gap to fill.

Text Box: While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and
his wife Grace listened to the instructor, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other." He addressed the man, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?" Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered, "It's Pillsbury, isn't it?” The rest of the story gets rather ugly so I'll stop.

Text Box: More funny true sayings from children: A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read! I can't write! And they won't let me talk!" It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. "Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

Text Box: From “Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter : June 2004” Researchers who observed nearly 100 people preparing meals at home found that only a third washed their hands with soap; nearly everyone cross-contaminated unwashed raw foods with ready-to-eat foods; and only 5 percent used a food thermometer to check the doneness of meat. An estimated 75 million cases of food borne illness occur every year!