2004 Fall P3

2004 Fall P3

Text Box: We are sorry if we missed any news. Please call ext. 104 with anything you would like in the next newsletter. Brenda Campell’s husband is having a hard time right now. Our thoughts are with both of you. Lisa Buser’s husbands Grandmother died. This was the second time Lisa got to use her First Aide skills. His Grandmother collapsed and Lisa administered first aide while others called 911. Unfortunately she had a brain tumor and died soon after this, but Lisa is glad she was prepared for this emergency. We are sorry for your loss. Provider Melissa Hodge and her husband Jonathan are the joyful new parents of daughter Rylee. She was born July 26 weighing 8 lbs and measuring 20.5 inches! Congratulations to all three of you! Terri Allender became Terri Colon when she married Louis Colon on August 14th! We wish the newest Colon family a joyous life together. Janette Reveron delivered a 6 lbs 15 oz baby girl Ninette who was also 18 inches long on February 19 2004. I am so sorry it took this long to get the announcement in the newsletter. We are so happy for you and your family! A SHOUT OUT TO THE PROVIDER’S WHO ALL HAVE BEEN WITH US FOR OVER 10 YEARS! Kathy Haxton and Lisa Buser 14 years! Terri DiMassa and Pam Zagaria 13 years! Brenda Redding, Maria Santiago and Josephina Santiago 12 years! Robin Miller and Debbie Metcalf 11 years! There may be more of you, but in 1997 we had to sign new agreements with everyone and it messed up many peoples original approval date, please let me know if you have been with us for over 10 years and I will honor you next newsletter. Any one who has been with us through this roller coaster ride of the last 15 years needs a lot of honor! We especially want to Thank Kathy Haxton for living through Tiering and staying with us although she became a Tier II in that process and Lisa Buser who has been visited in every single audit this agency has had I became Director 15 years ago! Pam Zagaria and her daughter Robin Miller also need some love because they are visited every audit because they are Mother and Daughter. We have a lot of loyal providers, we hope some day to be able to mention all of you! We want to WELCOME the following new providers to our family: Carmilla Massengale, Robin Pruitt, Kendra Smith-Norris, Tanisha Ellis, Deltrece Hart, Viola Eberhardt, Virginia Jarrell, Brenda Mora, Arleica Oakley, Kowana Walker, Elizabeth Balazy, Rosetta Thomas, Gricer Bernard! If we missed anyone we are very sorry!

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Text Box: CHILDREN SAY THE FUNNIEST THINGS! FROM J. Parker 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!" While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs, unfailingly intrigued her. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"