Mountain Views News          Saturday, January 1, 2011

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THE GOOD LIFE

 Mountain Views-News Saturday, January 1, 2011 

SENIOR HAPPENINGS

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS

Today’s Subject: 

Recipe of the Week:

Activities: 

 Unless listed differently, all activities are at the 
Hart Memorial Park (Senior Center) 222 W. Sierra 
Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre

CROCK POT 

CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

The Change Game

Lunch Program: Monday- Friday at the 
Intervale Café -12:00 Noon-Call (626) 
355-0256 to make your daily reservation. 
Suggested donation $2.00 for seniors 
(60+) and $3.75 for visitors.

MENU BELOW

Monday: 

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm: Strength training 
with Lisa Brandley. FREE class of 
stretching with light hand weights while 
you sit.

Tuesday:

2nd Tuesday of each month FREE blood 
pressure checks by Methodist Hospital; 
11 am to 12 noon 

3rd Tuesday of each month FREE 
financial consulting; 10 -12 noon call 
355-7394 for an appointment

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm: BINGO; cards are 
only 25 cents each so stop by & play 

5:30 pm to 7 pm: Yoga; $7.00 - 50 & over. 
Please 

call 355-5278 for more information

Wednesday:

11 –11:45 am: Balance Class with Teryl. 
FREE class designed to improve balance 
& refresh the joints

2nd Wednesday of the month: FREE 
Legal Consultations: 10-11:30 am. 
Appointments call 355-7394

Wii Wednesday - 1:00 pm or call the 
senior desk at 355-7394 to arrange 
another time & day to learn how to play. 
No previous experience or skills required 
and it is great exercise.

Thursday:

1:00 to 3:30 pm: Game Day. Join us for 
UNO and Poker with Bridge on the 2nd 
& 4th Thursdays; so please call for more 
information.

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm: Yoga; $7.00 - 50 
& over. Please call 355-5278 for more 
information

Friday: 

1:00 pm: Ping Pong

Saturday: 

11:30 am: Senior Club brown bag lunch 
and BINGO at 12:30 pm

INGREDIENTS:

1 potato, peeled and chopped

3 carrots, sliced

1 onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup sliced mushrooms, if desired

14 oz. can ready to serve chicken broth

1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. dried thyme leaves

1/8 tsp. pepper

2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken thighs or 
breasts, cut into 2” pieces

9 oz. pkg. frozen baby peas

1-1/2 cups Homemade Bisqwick Mix

1 Tbsp. snipped chives

1/2 cup milk

2 Tbsp. butter, melted

DIRECTIONS:

In a 4 quart crockpot, mix potato, carrots, onion, 
garlic, and mushrooms if using. In medium 
bowl, combine chicken broth, flour and 
seasoning and mix until smooth. Pour over 
vegetables in crockpot. Add chicken. 

Cover crockpot and cook on LOW for 6-8 
hours until chicken is thoroughly cooked and 
no longer pink in center. Add peas and cover 
again. Cook on HIGH for 20 minutes until 
peas are hot. 

In small bowl, combine baking mix with 
chives, milk, and melted butter and mix just 
until combined. Do not over mix. 

If you don’t have any baking mix, combine 
1-1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 
1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon snipped 
chives in a small bowl. Melt 6 tablespoons 
butter and mix with 1/2 cup milk; add to flour 
mixture and stir just until combined. 

Drop dumplings by tablespoons onto hot, 
bubbling chicken mixture in crockpot. Cover 
and cook on HIGH for 20-25 minutes until 
dumplings are cooked through, fluffy, and a 
toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 
Serves 4 

 
What’s your New Year’s resolution? 
Certainly at the top of the list is the 
weight loss equation. Of course, a gym 
membership is required along with the 
promise that this is the year we will finally 
get around to running that marathon or 
even the Mt. Wilson Trail Race. There’s 
that commitment to take more quality 
time with family and loved ones, and 
don’t forget that this will be the year you 
will absolutely ... (fill in appropriate failed 
resolution from last year.) Behind all of 
the effort to better ourselves is the genuine 
desire to be happy and fulfilled; we may 
be so determined to bring this about that 
we will kill ourselves trying. So, let’s look 
at the change game ~ how can we use it to 
our advantage?

 In the Serenity Prayer, we look at change 
in three ways: acceptance, courage and 
discrimination. Could it be that a clearer 
understanding of how we engage our 
energies in the process of change might 
lead us to more effective changes? In other words, are the changes we are taking on the 
appropriate ones? It’s fine to go to the gym, but how long will that commitment last if a dead-
end career is our real issue?

 In his book, The Five Things We Cannot Change, David Richo discusses these issues. 
In the interest of clarity, Mr. Richo points out that we spend a great deal of time trying to 
reconcile aspects of life which are fundamentally beyond our control. In this new year, it may 
be beneficial to all of us to remember these five things:

1. Everything Changes and Ends

2. Things Do Not Always Go According to Plan

3. Life Is Not Always Fair

4. Pain Is a Part of Life

5. People Are Not Loving and Good All the Time

 Keeping these five tenets in mind will help reduce the stress associated with the recognition 
that we often don’t have all that much control over life. So, if our plans to run the Mt. Wilson 
Train Race were to be ended by the painful sprained ankle that we suffered when our best 
friend and running partner tripped us, we would be able to accept the idea that resolutions, 
and life, may be more elastic than we’d thought!

Happy New Year and Acceptance of Its Gifts! Dr. John

Dr. John Talevich, D.C. has practiced in Sierra Madre 
for thirty years. His clinic, LifeWorks! Chiropractic, 
offers patient-specific approaches to the alleviation of 
pain and individually tailored wellness programs. 

LifeWorks! Chiropractic Center

Individually Tailored Wellness Programs

31 S. Baldwin Avenue Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

626-355-4710


January Birthdays

Loyal Camacho, Becky Evans, Roberta 
Rahmanian, Louise “Sandy” Thistlewaite, Sue 
Watanabe, Ruth Wolter, Mary Tassop,


Sponsor Bingo Prize

Pasadena Highlands, an independent 
and assisted living 
community, is proud to provide 
a special gift basket on the first 
Tuesday of each month. Accredited 
In-Home nursing care will 
provide a special prize on the 4th 
Tuesday of each month. Bingo 
takes place every Tuesday at 1:30 
pm in the Hart Park House / Senior 
Center in Memorial Park. 
The game begins at 1:30 pm but 
those wishing to play must arrive 
10 minutes before to secure 
your Bingo cards. Join us on 
the 1st & 4th Tuesday of each 
month for your chance to win 
these special prizes. 


Meals are delivered to home-bound seniors by 
volunteer drivers through the YWCA Intervale 
Lunch Program M-F (with frozen meals for the 
weekend.) Call the YWCA at (626) 214-9460 
or Darlene Traxler at (626) 355-0256 for more 
information.

Meals-On-Wheels

DIAL - A - RIDE 
TICKETS

Tickets can now be purchased 
at:

Sierra Madre City Hall

Hart Park House / Senior 
Center

Sierra Madre Library

MEALS-ON-WHEELS NEEDS 
VOLUNTEERS TO DELIVER MEALS TO 
OUR HOMEBOUND NEIGHBORS 

**ONCE A MONTH OR WEEKLY** 

Please contact Darlene Traxler at 

626.355.6220 or (626) 355-0256.


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