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St. Luke Living Center: Birthday party honors Bina and Vinduska

By AMELIA VINDUSKA AND SUE GUTSCH

St. Luke Living Center correspondents

We celebrated our two July birthdays Wednesday afternoon, those of old friends Agnes Bina and Amelia Vinduska. Amelia and Khrista had baked two angel food cakes the morning before and we served those with chocolate and cherry cheesecake ice cream and a choice of several toppings. Irma Benda of Pilsen was here while we sang to our birthday girls and also helped serve the refreshments.

The final count of birthday greetings for our "centurion" Amelia was 158.

Happiness is the Thursday evening group from Morning Star Mennonite Church near Durham that arrived to share the word in song. These young people are so gracious and accommodated our special requests that evening. We thank them sincerely and look forward to their next visit.

Larry King of Good News Christian Church was our guest minister Sunday afternoon. This certainly helps to fill that niche in our spiritual lives.

Our dog, Toby wasn't the only four-legged mammal in the living center and not too much smaller than Jigi, the 11-year-old miniature pony who visited Monday afternoon with Amber and Aidan Schmidt and their grandmother, Belinda Engler. The children, who are five and two years of age, demonstrated how to groom a horse using a brush and comb, pick the hooves, and how to get off and on properly including an emergency dismount. Residents were allowed to brush Jigi. Before leaving Aidan rode Jigi with Amber leading to residents' rooms who hadn't been to the demonstration.

Promptly at 10:30 Tuesday morning we were privileged to listen to Lenore Dieter play an assortment of beautiful pieces on the piano ranging from spiritual to show tunes to classical to a beloved love song. Lenore also accompanied herself singing some of the songs in her lovely soprano voice.

Our beautiful, fragrant courtyard has indirectly inspired our latest craft project. Recently we've been observing a few hummingbirds visiting the blossoms along with bumblebees and butterflies. So Tuesday afternoon Magdalen Dovorak, her great-granddaughter Kara Druse, and two young Hett boys, Tristen and Jace came to help us make "campground" hummingbird feeders. We also spent some time reading and discussing facts about these tiny, glittery, fascinating birds; learning that there are 320 species of hummers and they are found only in the western hemisphere. We used crayons, colored pencils, watercolors, and liquid markers to create beautifully colored pictures of a bird at a large flower.

Later in the afternoon the feeders filled with "nectar" were hung in the courtyard and one in a tree at the front of our building.

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