GEM 10th Anniversary Celebration

For Community Calendar

Date: 3 31 2011

Time 2-4pm

St. Andrews by the Sea

 

GEM Acknowledges 10 years of caring at our 10^th Anniversary Celebration

 

THE GEM Center will be celebrating 10 years of service on March 31, 2011 from 2-4pm at St. Andrews by the Sea in Nags Head. GEM Volunteers, participant families, staff and our community are invited to enjoy entertainment, refreshments and memories. 

The GEM Center is currently providing "Caring Effectively" At Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kitty Hawk on Tuesday nights from 7-9pm for family and professional caregivers.

GEM's Walk for the Mind will held be in September if you would like to help with this event please let Gail know.

GEM will be hosting our annual Candle lighting and memory screenings in November.

We will have share information about our new program The "SUP+PER CLUB" beginning in September and our vision and goals at our new location in Currituck.

Join us and share your GEM stories as we recognize the wonderful people that shared their expertise and talent with the GEM family.

For more information about any GEM program please call or email Gail Sonnesso at 480-3354 gsonnesso@gmail.com 

 

getting more due to higher gas prices

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon:
 
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose, CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline.. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.
 
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
 
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
 
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
 
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
 
Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.
 
I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
 
If It goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
 
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

 

 

 

 

N.C. respite program may get second life

N.C. respite program may get second life

Related

·         Facility for adults to close in Kill Devil Hills - Feb. 20

 

By Erin James
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 13, 2011

POWELL'S POINT, N.C.

There's a bounce in her step as Gail Sonnesso moves from room to room flicking light switches.

Beaming, she opens a door to reveal a handicap-accessible bathroom. Better yet, the office suite has tons of space to exercise. A piano sits by the wall, waiting to perform songs like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean."

Just a few weeks after announcing that the GEM Center must close its doors because of a lack of funds and participation, Sonnesso said she has found a way to breathe life back into the therapeutic respite program for adults with mental disabilities, particularly dementia. If all goes as planned, this spacious office suite in Powells Point will soon be the program's new home.

Soon, but not yet.

Sonnesso, GEM's executive director, who holds a master's degree in vocational evaluation and rehabilitation counseling, said she needs at least six participants before she can afford to open the doors.

Despite a decade long history in Dare County, the program struggled financially in recent years, as Sonnesso searched unsuccessfully for a permanent space to host daily activities for older adults with dementia whose quality of life can deteriorate as their disease worsens. As grant money to pay for the program has disappeared, so too have the participants.

But the new location on Caratoke Highway - about eight miles north of the Wright Memorial Bridge in Kitty Hawk - is the fresh start GEM needs, Sonnesso said.

The move north means GEM can expect to serve parts of Currituck and Dare counties.

Not wanting to see the program disappear, an anonymous benefactor has offered GEM rent-free space for a year. The program remains the only one of its kind in the area.

Sonnesso said she'll begin hosting office hours April 15. Meanwhile, she will also go ahead with plans to expand GEM's educational offerings, including caregiver classes and in-home consultations.

For more information, call the GEM Center at (252) 480-3354.

Erin James, (252) 441-1711, erin.james@pilotonline.com

 

 

Go mobile on big banks

Hi - SEIU is launching a new mobile alert system that sends updates about the campaign to reign in big banks right to your mobile device. I just signed up to get alerts when there's an event in my community or an opportunity to take action against Wall Street greed. It's fast and easy. You can do it, too; text 'BANKS' to 787-753 or sign-up here: http://action.seiu.org/page/s/bankstxts Thanks!

Here's a million dollars

Hi - Quick - we need to spend $150,000,000,000.00. That's how much Wall Street bankers are expected to give themselves in bonus and pay for 2009 alone. I think there's a better use for that money. Click here to help decide how to use it: http://seiu.org/bigbanks Taxpayers are getting the opportunity to take back the bankers' money, $1 million at a time, and tell them how it should be spent. Click here to get your $1,000,000.00: http://seiu.org/bigbanks The big banks crashed our economy. They left thousands of Americans without homes, without jobs, and without certainty for their families' future. We gave them giant bailouts to fix what they broke; but, instead, they're using that money to get themselves even richer. Let's show them all the different ways that $150 billion could be used to repair our broken economy. Click here to grab your share of the Wall Street pay pool: http://seiu.org/bigbanks Thanks.

Where's your mortgage?

Hi - Screw-ups by the big banks are putting a halt to foreclosures across the country. Everyone needs to take a few minutes to figure out if their mortgage is affected. I just checked by demanding my bank show me my original mortgage note. You can do the same here: http://wheresthenote.com/page/speakout/wheresthenote Thanks

Fw: November is National Alzheimer’s Month and GEM is offering the following events

 

----- Original Message -----

From: gsonnesso@gmail.com

To: jandcheard@aol.com ; 'Sandy Scarborough' ; Sandy Briggman

Cc: 'Nancy Proctor' ; 'OBX KAYE'

Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:30 PM

Subject: RE: November is National Alzheimer's Month and GEM is offering the following events

Hello,

Please help GEM & share these events with friends.

1.       Harmony Care Friday November 12 7pm at the Baum Center – Just Playn Dixieland & Angelo Sonnesso Donation $5.00 includes dessert and Coffee.

2.       Candle lighting 4pm All Saints to "Honor, Remember and Care "for friends, families and all who care for people with dementia.

Senior Chorus – Angelo Sonnesso – Nick Hodsdon, Joanne Gregory, Curtis Campbell, Kaye White and officiated by Rev. Thomas Wilson. ( refreshments will be served)  

3. Monday November 15^th – GEM Presentation at the Board of Commissioners Mtg 5pm.

4. Tuesday 16^th National Memory Screening Day Free and Confidential The Dare County Center 12:30 -1:30 (Nancy Kosanovich, NP will be screening)

Regional Medical Center 2-4pm ( Dr. Haresch will be screening)

 

Thanks for your help!

Gail E Sonnesso M.S.

Executive Director

The GEM Center, Inc.

Where Group Respite is Therapeutic for both our Participants, and their Families.

(252) 480-3354

http://www.thegemcenter.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: jandcheard@aol.com [mailto:jandcheard@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:59 AM
To: jandcheard@aol.com
Subject: UUCOB Weekly Announcements - 11.4.10

 

 

WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Outer Banks

 

** IMPORTANT: Don't forget that daylight savings time ends on Sunday morning, November 7th at 2:00 a.m.  Please turn back your clocks one hour.

 

Sunday Service

The Third Veil:  Philosophy Comes Before Politics

(Dance of the Seven Veils Revelations Series)

Rev. Patricia Guthmann Haresch

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Meetinghouse

 

This summer, you may have been witness to Jody Mukul Mullis's "Dance of the Seven Dish Towels," in which she and Dennis Tromba introduced revelations from Tom Robbins' novel, Skinny Legs and All.  In Skinny Legs, Robbins' character Ellen Cherry Charles has the opportunity to observe a  young woman named Salome do that very famous dance of the seven veils.  For Ellen, during this dance, illusions were shed and seven truths plus one were revealed.  Several had suggested to Rev. Pat that these revelations would make for an interesting sermon series.

 

Share the Plate Recipient: Interfaith Coalition Peace & Justice Group

 

Religious Education 

Program: Riddle & Mystery IV: Does God Exist? (Part 1)

Susan McFarlane

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Religious Education Building

 

Lesson 4 asks "does God exist?" and introduces UU ways of thinking about God.  This lesson explores what the children and their families think about God.  Doubt AND belief in God are accepted ways of thinking here.  Theological terms and ideas will be introduced while the children explore their own God beliefs. 

 

Children in the 10-13 age group will have a separate lesson with Jennifer Gilbreath.

 

UUCOB Bulb Sale

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 11:45 a.m.

Meetinghouse

Sherrie Lemnios will be taking orders for Spring flowering bulbs as a fundraiser for our congregation at UUCOB.  These are top quality bulbs at a reasonable price from Terra Ceia, a large local grower.  Orders will be taken on November 7^th and November 14^th, with bulbs arriving by Thanksgiving.  Please see Sherrie after the Sunday services. 

 

Adult Education

The Box: Remembering the Gift - Rev. Patricia Guthmann Haresch

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 12 Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Meetinghouse

 

Rev. Pat will continue to lead this beautiful and inspiring curriculum. The Box offers guidance and support for those on a spiritual pilgrimage, seeking change, and/or for people who are searching for their gift, their purpose or mission. It is a resource, a visionary tool for building community, and a source of awakening and renewal that celebrates and promotes a reverence for Life in its fullness (sometimes difficult, sometimes joyous). Participants should bring along a blank book to journal in throughout the offering and may bring an object to place upon the group altar.

Please contact Rev. Pat (minister@uucob.org; 261-2801) if you are interested in arranging for childcare.

 

10-13 Year Old Youth Group

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Behind the Meetinghouse

 

Weather permitting, the Youth Group will kayak from the creek behind the meeting house out to the Kitty Hawk Bay.  Bring a bag lunch.  If you are interested, please contact Jennifer Gilbreath (252-303-4212) and she will rent you a kayak for $15 complete with life jacket and paddle from Kitty Hawk Kayaks and they will be delivered to the church.

 

UUCOB Board Meeting

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 7:00 pm

Meetinghouse

 

This monthly business meeting of the Board members is open to everyone.  You are welcome to attend and learn more about the activities and involvement of our congregation.

 

UUCOB Men's Discussion Group

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Meetinghouse

 

The Men's Group provides a mechanism for fellowship, discussion and learning for male members and friends.  It meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, 8:30 a.m. at the Meetinghouse.  Members take responsibility for topics or programs on a rotating basis which may include (but are not limited to) current events, specialized interests, the environment, the arts, and recreation.  For more information, contact Bob Green at 453-3955 or at bobgreenphd@embarqmail.com.

 

Community Yoga at UUCOB

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Meetinghouse

 

Our monthly Community Yoga will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Kitty Hawk. The event is open to the public with a $5.00 donation. This month's multi-level class will be led by Roger Jarrell. The series will continue on the 2nd Thursday of each month.

November's class will be taught by Michelle Dorer.  For more information call Chip Hedenburg at 441-4477.

 

Adopt-A-Highway Trash Pickup

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 9:00 a.m.

 

UUCOB is responsible for keeping the roadside clean on a 2-mile stretch of roadway near

Whalebone Junction in Nags Head.  If you are interested in helping with this clean-up effort, volunteers will meet in the parking lot of Basnight's Lone Cedar Restaurant.  Safety vests and trash bags will be provided.

 

Please contact Adopt-A-Highway Leader Kathy McMahan at 202.4736 or kathy.mcmahan@embarqmail.com for more information or to let her know if you can make it.

 

Minister's Office Hours 

Please be aware that Rev. Pat will be out of the office next week at the Southeast UU Ministers' Association Meeting.  You can schedule an appointment with Rev. Pat during the following week by contacting her at minister@uucob.org or 261-2801.

 

 

REMINDER:  Please check the UUCOB online calendar for any additional announcements and future events at http://www.uucob.org/calendar.htm

 

If your e-mail is changing or you would like to be removed from this email list, then please let me know by return email.

 

If you would like to receive your UUCOB Newsletter electronically, please let me know by return email.

 

Have a great week!

 

Joe Heard

UUCOB President

jandcheard@aol.com