IN THIS ISSUE: A new face at the front desk, and the Ticket Order Form for the upcoming events/activities season
OPENING THE DOOR ON A NEW SEASON
By Dale Dauten, Syndicated Columnist
When you head back to Silveridge, you’ll find the buildings have had a facelift and you’ll find a new face at the front desk.
As for the facilities, many of the buildings are sporting fresh paint, and those hallmark Silveridge entry doors have been refinished and are waiting to open for your return.
And once you’re inside, take time to say hello to the new person on the front desk: Kay Kreun, the new Assistant Manager. She not just a new employee, but a new resident.
Kay Kreun at the Silveridge front desk
Like so many residents of Silveridge, Kay’s had quite a long and winding road to get to us. Born in Slayton, Minnesota — her father, at 97, is still there, now retired from his job as VP of a construction company—Kay went to high school in Slayton, married a local boy and raised two sons there. She and her husband, Don, once owned the town bowling alley.
Don and Kay at Broadway Bowl in 1973
(Those were the days when a bowling alley was a social hub. Kay smiles at the memories of those bowling alley days and nights, saying, “There were nights we were so busy that we didn’t have time to ring everyone into the register, we’d just toss the money into the cash drawer.”)
But, as with so many people who eventually find their way to Silveridge, some wanderlust got to Kay and her husband, Don. He announced he “wanted to try something different,” and he surely succeeded: they moved from Minnesota to Quartzsite, Arizona, where they began as managers of one of the largest mobile home/RV parks in the community. Then they moved to Nevada where he became an electrician for a large construction company while she headed “document control” for the same corporation.
Eventually, wanderlust set in again and the couple moved to the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. If you can’t quite picture the Marshall Islands, that’s because they’re owned and occupied by the U.S. military, and includes a test range for missiles.
And then it was back to Quartzsite, when Kay became Town Clerk and her Don worked at the local funeral home. When he retired, they moved to Cottonwood.
Kay lost Don earlier this year – he died as the two of them stood outside Cliff Castle Casino. It was their 50th Wedding Anniversary. She says of that day, “Don had become so weak that the could not walk very far so his enjoyment became going to the casino for an hour or two just to get out of the house and see and visit with people. He was doing what he enjoyed doing and became tired and wanting to go home. We were just waiting for our car.”
After that, her oldest son urged Kay to move to Silveridge, given that his mother-in-law was there and another of Kay’s sons lives in Chandler. She just arrived this past July and is still unpacking.
Asked her impressions of Silveridge, she said,
“It’s like living in a small town. Eventually, everybody knows everybody. And I like how people do things together.”
THE NEW SEASON, COMING SOON
We’re getting ready for the new season and we have a full line-up of events and activities. Here’s a link to the calendar of events…
And Sue Arneson has sent us the TICKET ORDER FORM for the upcoming season…
You can print it out here… CLICK HERE TO PRINT