The
Healy Senior Center

The Over-The-Hill Virtual Fundraiser

This December, the Healy Senior Center turns 40. Yep, we will be over the hill! It’s hard to believe that 1979 was forty years ago! What were you doing back in 1979?

To celebrate our 40th birthday, we are launching the Over the Hill Virtual Fundraiser!

What is a virtual fundraiser? It's a fundraiser that everyone can participate in from their computer, tablet, or phone! (We will also have an easy way to participate via postal mail!)

Our goal for the Over the Hill Fundraiser is to raise $1,000 for every year that Healy has been serving seniors in Southern Humboldt.

That's right - we are trying to raise $40,000 by New Year's Eve!

We know that's a huge goal. But we have all witnessed the generosity of this community when we come together for a common purpose. We know we can do this with your help and we have the rest of the year to chip away at this ambitious goal!

During the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser, we will reintroduce the Healy Senior Center to the community. Our services, our history, our donors, our business supporters - we're going to remind our beloved community exactly what the Healy does for Southern Humboldt's seniors and homebound adults.

This fundraiser will be interactive and we need YOU to join in! We'll start on the year 1979. We'll post music from that year, news clips, and other interesting tidbits on our Facebook page. We'd like you to share memories from that year, too!

But be alert! As soon as that first $1,000 comes in, we'll shift forward to 1980. If someone donates $2,000, we'll leap from 1979 to 1981. And we'll continue to post cultural tidbits, memories about the Healy, and music from the year we're currently on.

Please “Like” our Facebook page. We want you to follow along on the progress of the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser and share your memories as we move through the last 40 years.

Take this journey with us. We'll see you back in 1979, when it all started. Can you dig it?

FIVE ways to support our Over-The-Hill Fundraiser:

ONE: Donate right here through the site! (A) Click on the “DONATE” button above. (B) Choose whether you'd like to pay with a PayPal account, or a debit/credit card. (To give a reoccurring monthly amount to the Healy, you can do so by checking the box on this page) (C) On the next page, you will enter your card details and your contact information to complete your donation. Please also click on "Add special instructions to the seller" and type "Over the Hill" so we know you'd like your donation to go toward the $40,000 goal.

TWO: Mail a check or money order to the Healy Center. Donors to the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser may send a check to the Healy Senior Center. Please make sure we know your donation is for the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser.
Our mailing address is: Healy Senior Center, PO Box 1849, Redway, CA 95560

THREE: Drop a donation off at the Healy Senior Center. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, donors may drop an Over-the-Hill donation off to the Healy Center. We are located in Redway at 456 Briceland Road.

FOUR: Donate by calling the Healy Senior Center If you would like to donate to the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser by phone, we can take your credit/debit card information over the phone. Please call our Executive Director, Venessa Kay, at (707) 923-2399, extension 4.

FIVE: Strength in numbers = donations If you are reading this, we need you to share the Over-the-Hill Fundraiser with 5 of your friends/family members!

All we need is 1,000 people to donate $40. We can do this with your help!

Download PDF files to share or email to friends! Over-the-Hill Fundraiser Intro and 5 ways!

About The Healy Senior Center ~ Our History

In 1972, a group of Southern Humboldt seniors began to meet for lunch regularly at the grange in Miranda, California. They continued their luncheons for several years, lunching for a few years at the old fire station in Garberville, California and then eventually settled at the Presbyterian Church’s social hall in Garberville.

In 1979, this group of local senior leaders formed a non-profit organization called the Senior Center of Southern Humboldt, to benefit older adults living in Southern Humboldt towns.

In 1989, the Senior Center of Southern Humboldt, with financial support from the Humboldt Area Foundation, purchased the beautiful home of Patsy Thoresen at 456 Briceland Road in Redway, California to serve as the community’s permanent senior center.

The Board of Directors changed the organization’s name in 1996 to the Healy Senior Center, in honor of Dan Healy, Sr., a local businessman who tragically died in a plane crash. Mr. Healy’s son and daughter-in-law, Dan Jr. and Patti, conceived of the annual Giant Yard Sale to benefit the Healy Senior Center. It was first held in their front yard up the yard sale idea and held it in their front yard across from the Baptist church. The Giant Yard Sale still occurs every year in Redway and is a staple in the Southern Humboldt community.

In the year 2000, the Healy Senior Center took over the local, certified Meals on Wheels Program from Jerold Phelps Community Hospital and has been operating this critical program ever since.

The Healy Center is now serving our third generation of adults over 55. In 2019, we are celebrating our 40 th year of serving seniors in Southern Humboldt. We would not have been able to help so many seniors without support from local foundations, businesses, friends, and neighbors.

Thank you for supporting our important work in Southern Humboldt County!

Healy Senior Center Staff

Executive Director: Venessa Kay
Phone: (707) 923-2399, ext. 4
Email: healyseniorcenter@gmail.com

Meals on Wheels Coordinator: Brian Shapiro
Phone: (707) 923-2399, ext. 3

Head Cook: Babette Bach

Healy Senior Center Board of Directors

Board President: Jim Hoeffer
Board Vice-President: Suzan Gupton
Board Treasurer: Rich Thompson
Board Member: Catrina Chavez
Board Member: Vacant
Board Seat: Vacant
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