Summertime and the living is easy....

Our July lunch group had fun and Peg Sacca was one of our attendees!

Marion and Peg

Hope everyone is having a fun summer!

Barbara Johnson told us about this event, if you are interested....

Hope to see you in August, if not sooner! (August 16th is the next lunch date; Dooney's Pub, 12;30

Happy Fourth of July!

Good news! NJ is open again and we have an approved State budget that includes additional money for districts (like Delran!) that have been underfunded for years.

Meanwhile, thanks to Marge and Warren Gessmann who are celebrating the Fourth by sitting in a big auditorium all day representing us along with thousands of other NEA delegates in Boston, helping to forge policies for the upcoming year.

Ooh! Africa!!!

Marcia shared the photos of her adventures in Africa at the June DEAR lunch. Wow!

Also, guess what happens when you have just the right number of people for a booth? Everyone gets to hear the shared conversation! :-)

Still, we missed the others, so hopefully you can mark July 19th on your calendar. Summer is not a good time to catch people in town, but if you can make it, yay!

More retirees

They decided not to have a separate retirees table, so those of us in attendance at the DEA Retirement Luncheon today were scattered.I'm thinking we need a June lunch after all. How does next Wednesday look for all y'all? That would be June 21st. 12:30 Dooney's Pub.

Meanwhile, here's a link I have to the shutterfly share site housing the photos from today's luncheon:

https://delranea.shutterfly.com/

Hope to see you soon. (June 21st is the first day of summer, actually!)

Some of our folks:

Vacation photos department

Joanne Karwacki, Marcia Konieczka, Wilma Kaelin, and their friend Judy go on girls' trips fairly regularly. Most recently the girls travelled to Africa. Judy shared this photo on Facebook (she and Joanne and some guy on an elephant). Is this great or what?

When in Africa.....

So...what have you guys been up to? Any photos to share on this blog? I'll be happy to post them. :-)

Vacations and babysitting and lunch oh my

A good time was had by all at the DEAR lunch today.

We were delighted to have a surprise drop-in from two Intermediate School friends-Sue Chiaccio and Kathryn Schneider- who had to get back to work  (but only have 16 days left!)

Upcoming events discussed include the Burlington County Senior Expo tomorrow (May24th), the Moorestown Strawberry Festival June 2nd (featuring Bruce's Moorestown Community Band), and the DEA Retirement luncheon on June 14th. (I sent PDF's for info on the Expo and the DEA luncheon along with the Shutterfly share site photos link from today's lunch in a recent DEAR friends e-mail).

Sad news to share

This is from an e-mail message sent to me from Tom Parente.

"Hobie McKiernan lost his Mother recently. Viewing/service this Friday. Snover Givinch Funeral home. 11:00."

I found her obituary and further service details on the funeral home website:

http://www.givnish.com/obituaries/Mary-Mckiernan-2/#!/Obituary

I am sure you all join me in offering condolences to Hobie and his family.