Date: Thursday,
January 25, 2007
The Chapel at St. Therese
Oxbow Lake
5200 Oak Grove Parkway
Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
Schedule:
2:25-2:40 Registration and Networking
2:40-3:15 Business Meeting
3:15-4:15 Program Presentation
4:15 Networking/Optional Tour
Topic: “Cultural Diversity in Death and Dying”
Speaker: Jeanne McGill, CSA, CPC
Advance Planning
Objectives:
Updates on what is new and different in funeral
services.
Recognize and acknowledge cultural differences in funeral
rituals.
Understand cremation laws.
Understand how to honor the tradition.
Questions about MASWA?
Click to email Angie Furr or Marlene
Panek
or call Angie at (651) 633-6484
or
Marlene at (612) 729-9096
Public Policy News
Your board has voted unanimously to create a permanent
Joint Public Policy Committee with the St. Paul Senior
Workers. Our unified ability to provide our joint
membership with some very real tools to affect Public Policy
matters that affect our seniors and our profession will
be vastly better under this structure.
Our first joint committee meeting will be:
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 – 9:30 a.m.
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging
2365 N. McKnight Road – Suite 3
St. Paul, MN
RSVP to Paul Blom at pblom@RAH-tc.net or to
Judy Abbott at Judy@tcaging.org
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Message from
the President
Happy New Year fellow MASWA members!
 I
hope all of you have had holidays filled with merriment
and treasured memories with family and friends.
I know that I did! This is such a great time for all of
us to count our blessings...please know that each of you
ranks very highly on the list of blessings in my life!
I am THRILLED to let you know that Linda Debner was nominated,
accepted and was unanimously voted by your Board to fill
our vacant position of President Elect (which means that
she will take over the Presidency for next year at our
Spring Luncheon). Linda works for Hospice of the Twin Cities
and has been an active member of MASWA for many years.
Linda has served in many capacities including co-chair
of the Fall Aging Conference, Secretary of the FAC, MASWA
Board as Job Bank /Mentor and Secretary to name a few.
Linda brings with her a great history with MASWA as well
as a delightful style and sense of humor. Please join me
in thanking Linda for stepping up and taking on this position.
Over the years our Public Policy Committees have done
a nice job of communicating information through our newsletter
and planning the Annual Joint Public Policy with St. Paul
Senior Workers. Many of you have heard me mention the fact
that our two organizations could make a much greater impact
if we unified our voices all year ‘round rather than
just at the joint meeting. Please read the column on Public
Policy News for a great update! As always, it continues
to be my honor to serve MASWA and work toward a stronger
voice for senior workers and the clients we serve.
Paul R. Blom, President
Reminiscing - 2006
What do you remember about 2006? For MASWA , it was a
year of great events and a year of change. When I think
back on the year, the most memorable event for me was the
Fall Aging Conference. The Annual Spring Luncheon had a
wonderful speaker, good food, and beautiful décor.
But, the Fall Conference was so impressive from the beautiful
brochure to the quality of the presenters that I’d
rate it most memorable! The brochure was designed by a
professional graphic designer who donated his time but
prefers to remain anonymous. Thank you for your beautiful
work! This was the largest attendance of any previous conferences,
with 252 registered participants and 391 people served
at lunch. Evaluations reported rave reviews for the nationally
renowned speakers and the large group format for all sessions.
The Conference was not the end of a great day, but the
enjoyment continued with The Shelley Joseph-Kordell Award
Ceremony. This is a wonderful event with the 2006 award
given to Twin Cities Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly.
The scholarship was given to Kristine Talley, who is now
pursuing her PhD in gerontological nursing. The Master
of Ceremonies for the event was Hubert “Skip” Humphrey
III, President of the MN Chapter of AARP and the Keynote
speaker was, Maria R. Gomez’, former Commissioner
of MN Department of Human Services. For those of you who
missed this part of the conference, don’t forget
to attend next year’s event—a great closing
to a great day!
Kitty Engle - Communciations Committee
Membership
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a pdf of our Membership Application.
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