MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

DECEMBER is the Ward Christmas Party!

It will be held on 

DECEMBER 3

Santa 5-6pm

Dinner 6pm

Program (RHS Madrigals) 7pm

Held at the Stake Center

1855 West 13400 South

(Invite all your neighbors!!)

**There will be NO ADDITIONAL weekday meeting on the 3rd Wed. before Christmas (Dec. 14)

Enjoy your families, friends and the holidays - a special time of year when Christmas memories are made :)

ROAD HOME BLANKET DELIVERY TUESDAY, NOV. 29th

RS WEEKDAY MEETING Wednesday NOVEMBER 16

We are looking forward to our

November RS Activity of

SERVICE! :)

'Road Home Blanket Project'

with our Young Women!

Held on November 16th at 7pm

The Road Home provides support and shelter for overcoming homelessness...

We will be making, and also donating gently used, blankets to the Road Home for our Christmas/Thanksgiving service project this year.  We are looking forward to joining our Young Women with a goal of donating 101 + blankets. The Road Home helps homeless families and individuals in need in our community.  For more information about this special organization go to;

www.theroadhome.org/inneedofservices

Below is a link to the Road Homes current needs list:

http://centralpt.com/upload/505/NeedsList/14511_Autumn-WinterNeedsList.pdf

RS HANDOUTS from Weekday Meetings

After we received a very helpful comment from a sister on Sunday (she included it in our 'comment' section in the 'Happenings Book' we pass around in RS, YW and Primary each week) we have made the Week-night activity handouts available on this blog!  THANKS FOR THE GREAT SUGGESTION SISTER GARFIELD!! :)

• Go to the right side of the blog
• Click on the activity description headers
• and VOILA there they are for you to print YEAH

WE LOVE YOU ALL !!! Happy Handout'ing :)

Fay Stradley RS Journal Presentation

Click Below to View Presentation

Fay's Presentation Part 1 **Personal History...**
Fay Stradley Part 2 **Happenings Book...**
Fay Part 3**Calandar Journal Idea-'I Walked' Poem**
Fay Stradley Part 4 **Questions & Answers**
June 15, 2011 (Age 91 & 19)
*******************************
"I CAN do Poem"
Fay Stradley (Age 92)

Kate Knaras Journaling Ideas

June 30th, 2011 RS Senior Sisters Luncheon (70 & above :)

Each year, for over 15 years, Riverton 1st Ward RS Presidency makes and serves lunch to the senior sisters in our community who are 70+ years 'young'.  We all had a wonderful time enjoying being together and learning from each other!  This year it was held at the home of Alisa Madill and we ate salads, roast beef, potatoes and gravy and pie for desert. Also we all were pleased to enjoy a poetry reading by Lavon Usher (94 years young)

 Lavon Usher Reads her Poem;

 "Do Mirrors Tell the Truth?"

My boyfriend and husband to be

Gave me a beautiful mirror

For my birthday one day

I looked in the mirror and saw,

I sweet young girl smiling at me.

I took that gift and hid it away,

For future use for another day.

Time went on and so did I.

And the mirror stayed in it's place.

Years later I remembered the gift,

And took  it from it's hiding place-

I wanted to see that same sweet girl smiling at me.

I picked up the mirror,

And was shocked as could be,

I saw an old women looking back at me!

Her hair was white,

Her lips were blue,

And her checks had wrinkles too.

MIRROR, MIRROR how could you do this to me?

You made me cry and I sure felt blue,

For I only wanted to see,

That I still looked like the girl that smiled at me.

By; Lavon Usher

Young Women & Moms Relief Society Transition Brunch May 2011

Watch Mormon Messages

JOURNAL 

READ

                                            WHAT MATTERS MOST

LOVE

GROW

CREATE

Jeremy and Marci Sorenson House Fire Nov. 29, 2010 10am

Riverton family displaced after fire destroys roof, attic

Published: Monday, Nov. 29 2010 2:19 p.m. MST

Scene of a house fire in Riverton Monday. (Jay Dortzbach, Deseret News)

RIVERTON — A Riverton family will be displaced from their home for months after a fire tore through the attic of their home Monday, causing thousands of dollars in damage.

A woman who lived in the home at 1229 W. Sweet Caroline Drive (13340 South) alerted firefighters to the blaze around 10 a.m., said Unified Fire Authority Capt. Mike Greensides. Firefighters arrived to find smoke streaming through the attic and flames broke through to the roof soon after.

"The line crew went defensive at that point," he said. "The home had a vaulted ceiling that was causing problems so they decided to fight the fire from the exterior."

Scene of a house fire in Riverton Monday. (Jay Dortzbach, Deseret News)

Two lines shooting water at a rate of 1,000 gallons a minute helped firefighters to gain control of the blaze within 40 minutes, but that there was still "extensive damage" at that point, Greensides said. The attic stretched along the entirety of the Rambler-style home and the fire left a large hole spanning 30 feet in the roof.

"Our initial guess is $175,000 to $200,000 (in damage)," Greensides said. "It is extensive. They'll be displaced for probably a few months."

He said investigators are at the home working to determine the cause of the fire and were focusing first on any wiring or heating issues that may have contributed to it. Though the home was occupied when the fire started, no one was injured in the blaze.

"Everybody got out," Greensides said. "There was no smoke inhalation, no firefighters were injured."

He knows the family that lived in the home had at least one child, but believed there were others who were at school at the time the fire broke out.