Organizations
The Easton Happy Days Senior Citizens’ Club held their regular meeting on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the West Ridge Manor rec room with a potluck luncheon. Twelve members and two guests were present. After lunch, guest speaker Brenda Barker, director of Community Services
from the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging, spoke to the group on the Medicare Savings Program. She told the group that there may be help to pay Medicare Part B premiums. She said that special state programs can help save Medicare recipients $93.50 a month and maybe more if you qualify. She passed out a benefit checklist for single households and two-person households which shows what help can be obtained when the monthly gross income is below certain levels. She also answered some questions on supplemental costs from the group. Brenda also introduced the new outreach worker for the Easton area but stressed that those who have been working with Christine Wilcox may still do so. For more information you may call the Area Agency on Aging at 800-262-2232, or speak with Brenda Barkerat 764-3396. After the speaker a short meeting was conducted by President Marie Hewitt. She read a letter from farmer Tom Clossen, who said that he would still be doing the Senior Time Share Program next year, health permitting, and a note from Collette Thompson, a public health nutrition educator, that she would be going to work as a full-time school health coordinator for School Union 122 in the New Sweden area. Those attending besides the two guests were: Marie Hewitt, Edith Fuller, Avis Humes, Glenice Craig, Mike Carter, Arlene Ladner, Eldora Carter, Joanne Johnson, Dottie Beaton, Marjorie Corey, Margery Niblett and Lindy Fowler.
The Easton United Methodist Church will be holding a special spaghetti supper on Thursday, Oct. 18, to thank the work of our local firemen and their wives and also the law officers who live in Easton.
Visits
Weekend before last, Ellen and Norman Trask, along with their children, Brad and Sidney, drove to Bangor to visit with Sean Daniels at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Chris Flewelling and Devon Gray also accompanied them. Brad, Chris and Devon are teammates of Sean’s in both soccer and basketball.
Valerie and Bruce Flewelling and their son, Nick, also drove to visit with Sean at the Bangor hospital weekend before last. Nick is one of his good friends and teammate. Sean was injured at the Bruce and Jerry Flewelling potato house just a day before the work was to finish.
Larry Nichols and little daughter Mackenzie spent a recent weekend visiting with his mother, Glenice Craig; his aunt, Avis Hume; and his brother and wife, Kevin and Nancy Nichols.
Althea Simeone, of Thomaston, drove home to attend, with her mother, Carol Higley, the funeral of her sister’s mother-in-law, Elva Patterson. She drove right back home after the funeral.
Tammy Stockley and husband, Tony, of Saybrook, Conn., were also in Easton to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Elva Patterson, along with Kyle Wells, another grandson.
Joe Carbone of Storr, Conn., was also home for a day or two to visit with his mother, Lynn Flewelling, husband, Brian, and family and to also attend the funeral of his great grandmother, Elva Patterson. Wayne Patterson, Jr. and companion and two girls were also here from Conn. to attend his grandmother’s funeral services, as were many other grandchildren coming from other places in Conn. to pay homage to their grandmother.
Judy and Allen Crawford, from Alberta, Canada, spent the last two weeks visiting with her parents, Vera and Gerald Shaw. While here, Judy’s sister, Marjorie Simonds, and husband, Carmen, of Centerville, New Brunswick, Canada, came over to do some visiting with them also.
Travis and Sheri Carter went to Bangor last Thursday to visit with Sean Daniels at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Carter is the varsity basketball coach at Easton High School and Sean is one of his best team players. They were pleased to see his spirit was pretty good as he said he’d be on the soccer field next year and would be right on the bench beside the coach for this year’s basketball season to cheer the team on.
Sympathy
Our sympathy goes out to the family of 86-year-old Elva Patterson who passed away at the Mars Hill Health Care Facility on Oct. 7 after a long illness. Elva was born in Easton and spent most of her life here. She was a great cook and loved to crochet and watch horse pull contests with her family. She leaves behind two sons, Wayne Patterson and family of Easton and Wendell Jr. of Deep River, Conn. and family; a daughter, Dale Blanchard, husband, Bob, and family, of Easton; and a sister, Charlene Ward of Blaine; and many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Her granddaughter, Lynn Flewelling, read a special poem that she thought her grandmother would have liked and a niece spoke about how she remembered her much-loved aunt. Funeral services were conducted at the Duncan Funeral Home in Mars Hill by the Rev. Daniel Blevens of the Easton United Methodist Church. Interment was in the Estes Park Cemetery in Easton.
Hospitalized
It was great to hear that Barbara Mahany, who has been in the Eastern Maine Medical Center with Guillian-Barre Syndrome, returned home last Thursday. She is still very weak but will be able to recuperate, with the help of her sister, Carolyn, at her own home. Barbara was completely paralyzed when she was taken to the Bangor hospital several weeks ago and is very fortunate to have recovered this much from that illness.
Eldora Carter is the correspondent for Easton. She can be reached at 488-5961.
Photo courtesy of Eldora Carter
Brenda Barker, at left, director of Community Services, was the guest speaker at the Easton Happy Days Senior Citizen’s Club on Oct. 4. She spoke to the group about the savings they might be able to get on Medicare Part B if they were people with Medicare. She also introduced a new outreach worker from the Aroostook Area on Agency on Aging, Ina Cyr, pictured at right.
Photo courtesy of Eldora Carter
DECORATIONS at the Easton Elementary School adorned the table set up in the cafeteria where those attending could make a donation or write a note for Sean Daniels, an Easton student who lost an arm due to an accident over harvest break. Pictured at the table is Leslie Carlow. 
Photo courtesy of Eldora Carter
LINES WERE LONG but attendees were patient as they waited to fill their plates at a recent supper held to benefit Sean Daniels, an Easton teenager injured during harvest.
Photo courtesy of Eldora Carter
THE GYM at the Easton Elementary School was overflowing with people at the harvest supper held Oct. 4. The supper raised about $7,000 for Sean Daniels, a local student injured over harvest. 
