Can you please help?

Each holiday season a group of Scantron employee's provide singing and entertainment to some of our communities senior "shut-ins". This year as part of our outreach festivities, we are hoping to provide knitted scarves to about 130 men and women. Since this is a voluntary outreach program our funds are limited. We will be able to contribute about $3.00 per scarf. Our holiday event is schedules for December 13th, so our deadline would be December 12th. Is there a possibility there might be a group of knitters willing to help us bring happiness and warmth to our needy inpatients? A timely response will be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Susan Swanson
Susan L. SwansonFront Desk AdministratorScantron Corporation34 ParkerIrvine, CA 92618-1604[ P ] 949.639.7649www.scantron.com

Our trip home from Stitches

It's been a few weeks since we got back from Stitches in Baltimore. As you know, Dutch and I drove the 3000+ miles pulling our trailer. The trip this year went well, no vehicles stolen like last year. We decided to visit Dollywood in Tennessee and spend a couple of days there. We continued on without any problems until we hit Arizona. Then the problem wasn't ours, but as has been well documented, our part of California was on fire.

Because we were pulling a trailer and there were such high winds, the roads home were closed and we had to spend an extra 3 days in Arizona. I had to resign myself to not feeling guilty while laying by the pool and relaxing. This, of course, is the short version. There are many details to the long version, but suffice it to say that I was quite aware and very thankful that God inserted a few days of being still into my schedule.

Although the media coverage has stopped, we should still be praying for those who have lost everything to the fires.

Elaine

It's been over a month since I last wrote. So much to do so little time.

You may remember our friend Elaine who was always at Stitches with us and besides seeing her at various times in the store, you for sure saw her at our bag sales. Elaine had a stroke earlier this year and it has been a long haul for her to first regain conciousness and then improve from there.

Dutch and I just returned from visiting her and we are so happy to report that she looked real good! She is able to eat applesauce and can manouver the bed controls. Her memory is better than mine! She can't talk and still has a trich, but it was great to see her looking so good! Her family said that she will probably be able to go home this week for Thanksgiving for a couple of hours. This will be her first outing since her stroke other than ambulance rides to the emergency hospital for one reason or other.

Go Elaine!