Almira Home administrator treats residents like family
Shirley Colvin, Almira Home for Ladies administrator, emphasizes treating elderly residents as family. The 25-bed facility relies on a part-time admin who visits three days weekly and lives on site. Residents, average age 89, value independence, shared meals, and personal rooms. Colvin advocates cautious medication use and accompanies residents to hospitals, while noting the need for ongoing geriatric management and clear admission rules.
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Susan Canfora
Shirley Colvin
Almira Home For Ladies
Ms. Colvin
Almira Home
Almira
Festival of Trees planned by St Francis Auxiliaries
A community-wide Festival of Trees is planned for November 26 to 30 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle. Seventy-one women led by Anita Audino will sponsor 50 decorated trees with styles ranging from five 10-foot trees for 600 each to five three-and-a-half-foot trees for 150 each. Proceeds fund a new cardiac monitoring unit at St Francis Hospital.
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Auxiliary
St. Francis Hospital
New Castle
Audino
Family Encourages Joan Ant Murder
Personal note by Joan Caparoula describing invasive ants and extreme, graphic thoughts of harming them. The piece channels fear and escalating urges within a domestic setting toward insects. It portrays inner conflict and a disturbing contemplation of murder.
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Joan
Home life with Joan ends in ant chaos and humor
A chaotic domestic scene unfolds as a mother curses and casts out a daughter, while a son returns home with dirt and a bug spray plan. Ants, a sugar bowl, and a beef stew dinner all meet a comical doom as pepper piles are proposed.
Bible class slides program and picnic plan
The Ethel Hurst Bible Class of First Baptist Church held a class reunion at Mrs. William Carr's Willowbrook Road home. Peggy McBride and Doris Logan presented a slides program titled The Psalms Around Us. Helen Walters introduced it and devotions were given by Mrs. Robert Cline on Gods Creation Roses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Hurst
First Baptist Church
William Carr
Willowbrook Road
Peggy McBride
Doris Logan
Helen Walters
Robert Cline
God
Linda Seymour
Theodore Corbett
Virginia Weatherby
Orlando, Fla
Elwin Hazen
Ellwood City
Kate Childs
Kissimmee, Fla
Julia Ter Linden
Fombelle
Almira Home board selects officers for 1980 81 year
At the annual Almira Home Board meeting in New Castle officers were chosen. Chairwoman Mrs Donald Kerr Elwood City led the session with vice chair Mrs Richard Hite and a slate including recording secretary Mrs David Hamilton and assistant recording secretary Mrs A Todd Alexander. The meeting included reports from Lawrence County members and numerous committees on finances upkeep resident health and interviews for new residents. A memorial service honored three former board members.
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Almira
Almira Home
Donald Kerr
Richard Hite
Ranier Devido
Donald Watters
David Hamilton
New Castle News
Almira Home Board of Directors
A. Todd Alexander
Howard Kirk
William Offutt
Sam Byers
Kerr
Elwood City
Lawrence County Board
William Bresnahan
Raymond Cox
Arthur
Offutt
John Thompson
Alexander
Hite
Westminster College
Lawrence County Red Cross
Reynolds
Kenneth Fox
Margaret Eckles
Lawrence County
Paul Carson
Mercer County
Loren Reitz
Venango County
Watters
Devido
Virginia Allison
Ruth Leasure
Jayne Jenkins
Josephine Dudash
Mary Conti
Gloria Conglese
A Family as an Enduring American Institution
The piece argues the family remains a strong yet challenged institution in modern America amid external cultural influences. It defines family as a deeply rooted, cooperative community that forms character, shares responsibility, preserves society, and offers solace, joy, and love. It invites readers to obtain a framed copy of A Family by sending 25 cents to Dr. Brown in Washington, D.C.
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Brown
New Castle
Washington, D.C
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Colvin
Maxine E. Carlson
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Anita
Linda McBurney
Anita Audino
Maureen Flannery
Joan Caparoula
Lulu
Donatio M
Rye
Isie Co
Birkenstock
Pagley’s Standard Footwear
Wilmington Rd
Home's
Venango Counties
Italy
Fifth Avenue Fashions
Transfer
Sharon
Nobil
COURY
McCartney Rd
Penna
Ohio Line
Hobby Center
Majes Tns
E. Wash. St
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