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A FAITH IN ACTION NEWSLETTER

JULY 2015

NORTH CENTRAL AUSTIN

Make a Donation to Drive a Senior-North Central while Shopping

Many of us order items on-line through Amazon. How would you like Amazon to make a donation of 0.5% of your purchase amount to Drive A Senior North Central with no extra effort? Next time you want to order something, go to smile.amazon.com, enter your email address and password as you've always done on Amazon. Then you need to select the charity to receive the donation: in the search field, type North Central Caregivers of Austin (they still have our former name). Select it from the list that comes up, and you're done! You'll get a confirmation email from Amazon Smile. You only need to select the charity the first time – it remembers the charity you selected after that, so you go straight to shopping. Then, whenever you shop at smile.amazon.com, Drive A Senior North Central will get 0.5% of your Amazon purchases. Amazon Smile has the same selection of items and the same prices as Amazon.

As a non-profit organization, we are continuously seeking public participation. We interact locally as well as beyond

our city limits reaching out and soliciting donations to fund our operation that enables us to serve seniors in our

community. Drive a Senior North Central receives monetary support from individuals, churches, businesses, various

grants and fundraising events. A gift in any amount and in any way sums up to actively caring for our senior neighbors.

We invite you to join us in any of our fundraising events, reach out as a member of our supporting congregations, be a

merchant that donates a raffle prize, or an individual who contributes time, talents, a token.

Please visit the Drive a Senior website driveasenior.org and the North Central page listed under Areas Served and see

what you can do.

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TINA PRIKRYL

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

DOLLY STAMPER

SERVICES COORDINATOR

SUCCESSFUL RECENT

FUNDRAISERS:

Garage Sale Fundraiser raised $1203.00

Paradox Players Play, Queso Blanco, Fundraiser

Raised $1030.00

PLEASE WELCOME DRIVE A SENIOR NORTH CENTRAL’S

NEW BOARD MEMBER:

CULLY ELLIS,

NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH

And North Central 2015 Officers of the Board

Lloyd Langsdorf, President

Anne Kuempel, Secretary

Steve Zwernemann, Treasurer

Nancy Bene, Ex Officio

Drive a Senior North Central April to June 2015

254 Clients and 115 Volunteers

Enrolled 2 new clients

Recruited 12 volunteers

Gave over 900 point-to-point rides to seniors

Drove seniors over 10, 800 miles

Donated over 850 volunteer hours to our community

the neighborly way!

2015

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION

LUNCHEON

SEPTEMBER 25

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Phone & Pen Pals

Drive a Senior North Central is announcing the Phone & Pen Pals program. Some days you

just want someone to talk to or send somebody a cheery note. Be a Phone-Pen Pal and you

can do either or both to keep in touch with our volunteer and client members.

Fill out the brief form below and mail it to: Drive a senior North Central 1640 E. 2nd St.

Ste. B-200, Austin, TX 78702. Or email us nc@driveasenior.org or phone the office @ 512-

453-2273 and sign up to be a Phone-Pen Pal.

Phone Pals and Pen Pals

Name:

E-mail Address:

Phone Number:

Home Address:

Please Check the Boxes that apply:

[ ] Volunteer [ ] Client

Phone Pals and Pen Pals Schedule:

[ ] Once a Week [ ] Once every Two Weeks [ ] Once a Month

[ ] Write [ ] Call

Best Time to Call

[ ] Morning [ ] Afternoon

Pets

[ ] Dog [ ] Cat [ ] Bird [ ] Other ?

Hobbies

Religious Affiliation Best number to Call

Comments:

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THE DECEMBER 2014 CHRISTMAS CHORAL BENEFIT DONORS

ANGELS, STARS, PARTNERS, SPONSORS AND FRIENDS

Thank you to everybody for participating in and contributing to this successful Christmas Choral Benefit.

With every gift offering through voices, hands, ears, eyes and soul,

together we raised $13, 563

All of this generous support enables Drive a Senior North Central to keep seniors

independent and mobile in the community

See You in December for our 23rd Annual Christmas Choral Benefit!

ANGEL

Zenith USA– New York City

STAR

William McCarron, Humanitarian-New York City

Wendy Marquardt

Cindy & Charles Meek

PARTNER

Gwynn Carpenter & Judy Stroud, Home & Hearth Realty

Knights of Columbus-Council 5967

Eleanor & Lloyd Langsdorf

Evelyn McNair

SPONSOR

Nelda & Jack Ayers Lourdes and Phillip Fulton Shelley & Steve Malachowski

Linda Buehlmann Gena Girardeau Kurt O’Hare, O’Hare + Assoc.-NYC

Patti & Todd Clayton Kirk Ingels Kurt & Laurie Senske

Nancy R. Collins, Hair by Nancy Collins Paul C. Kostial Jim Williams, Turquoise Trading Post

Gloria & Gordon Cooper Anne Kuempel

Jill & Glenn Essex Ladies of Knights of Columbus –Council 5967

FRIEND

Kent Bohls Stacy Friedman “Left Fish” Deno F. Preketes

Dorothy Chesley “Gertie” Mrs. Gaige Lytle Emily Record

Lisa Clayton Eddye Kruse R.F. Marquardt Rachel Schnee

Sharon K. Taylor

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THE DECEMBER 2014 CHRISTMAS CHORAL BENEFIT BUSINESS DONORS

MAY BASKET BAGS

Each year Drive a Senior North Central board members and volunteers collect various items and pack them into a colorful bag decorated by school children from churches in North Central Austin. May Bags, or traditionally known as "May Baskets" - a small basket holding a gift (as of flowers or candy) hung at the door of a favored person on May Day, are carried to each North Central client. The personal delivery of these “May baskets” opens the door to a home visit that brightens our members day!

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THE DECEMBER 2014 CHRISTMAS CHORAL BENEFIT BUSINESS DONORS

A Big Thank You to our Donors & Funders: March 4, 2015-May 24, 2015

Individual Donors

Ethel Brack

Mattie Burke

Delores Capps

Marie Laudenslager

Lynette Pittsford

Mary A. Schmidt

Crestview Baptist Church

Crestview United Methodist Church

Episcopal Church of the Resurrection

Faith Lutheran Church

First Cumberland Presbyterian Church

First English Lutheran Church

First Unitarian Universalist Church

Gethsemane Lutheran Church

Virginia Scott

Martha Vorheier

Margie Wendland

W.M. Wheatley

Norma Whittenburg

Foundations & Grants Memorials & Honorarium

Marlene Rickard for Thelma Heather

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IBM

St. David’s Foundation

New Freedom, Capital Metro

Federal Transportation Admin.

TX Dept. of Transportation

Nurses Unlimited

Brookdale Parmer Lane

Dedicated Gifts

Gethsemane Lutheran Church Women’s Group

Hyde Park Christian Church

Northwest Baptist Church

Redeemer Lutheran Church

St. Albert the Great Catholic Church

St. John’s Episcopal Church

St. Louis Catholic Church

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

Supporting Congregations

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Drive a Senior-North Central acknowledges, with

gratitude, a generous grant from the IBM Corporation,

which helps us provide our quarterly newsletter to

clients, volunteers, and benefactors. Drive a Senior-North Central acknowledges,

with thanks, St David’s Foundation for their

continued generous support

Special Contribution

H.A.N.D.

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REMINDER: Please notify the office of any changes in home address, email or phone number.

Please DO NOT contact our drivers directly. All service requests MUST go through our office. We

keep records on all services completed in order to track how we are doing and report for grant funding.

Together, this helps keep us all “on the road!”

Gratitude and Attitude Go a Long Way Making Yours and Everybody’s Day

For announcements and notifications of happening events, please visit our website at

www.driveasenior.org

And please friend us and like us on Facebook-Drive a Senior North Central

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THE DAY OF YOUR APPOINTMENT

THE DAYS OF THE WEEK BEFORE YOUR THE DAYS OF WEEK YOUR

APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT IS ON

Call= call on this day or earlier to request appointment

X = DO NOT CALL

OFFICE: 512-453-2273

OFFICE HOURS 9AM TO NOON MONDAY- FRIDAY

If you need to cancel your appointment, please call the office as soon as

possible

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