Mary Apgar Center Newsletter – June 2024

Latest news and bulletin updates by your reporter on the scene, Darren.


Great news! Unlike last month, where we had a black thumb, this month we planted our vegetables in our garden bed and… They’re growing! Darren makes sure that the plants are watered and checked daily.

We went out on Meals on Wheels 6 times this month to volunteer delivering meals to the elderly in the community. On June 6th a group of the gang went out to Dairy Queen in Hackettstown for lunch. There was a trip to Shoprite to get the ingredients for ice cream sandwiches and soil for the garden. They also stopped at Washington One Stop for some plants. We went on another Shoprite trip for all the necessities for the pasta salad we made for cooking club. There were also a few trips to the park for lunch. On June 26th another group went out to the Senior Center for a corned beef lunch and Bingo!

Our Music instructor Matt’s last day was on Friday, June 14th. Since then, our new music schedule will be Tuesdays and Thursdays, Music with Jesse! On Tuesday, June 18th we painted pet rocks and added googley eyes to them. We all had fun with this project!

In this month’s “This or That” survey conducted by our Reporter on Scene, Darren, we found out that:

  • 12 consumers would rather wear sunglasses and 8 consumers would rather wear a hat
  • 16 consumers would rather have lemonade and 10 would rather iced tea
  • 9 consumers would rather ride a bike and 14 fly a kite
  • 17 would rather use an umbrella and 11 wear a raincoat
  • 9 consumers would rather plant a tree and 21 would rather plant
  • 17 consumers would rather have ice-cream vs. 6 to snowclones
  • 7 would like to swim with sharks vs. 15 to dolphins
  • 10 preferred watermelon vs, 8 preferred pineapple
  • 13 preferred poll vs, 4 ocean
  • 11 preferred pet crab vs. 4 preferred.

In our daily breakfast survey, we learned that over 150 cups of coffee were consumed this month, over 72 eggs, 28 slices of bacon, 72 glass of OJ was consumed, 88 bowls of oatmeal, and 184 other items were consumed for breakfast this month.

This Daren your reporter on the scene and until next month happy 4th of July to all and stay safe.