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ARCADIAGARDENSRetirement Hotel

April 2016Contact NumbersMain Office (626) 574-8571Fax Number (626) 574-2094Memory Lane Care (626) 574-1500Mobile Number (626) 698-8645Beauty Shop (626) 574-0469

Arcadia Gardens StaffJulie Chirikian Chief Executive OfficerDavid Chirikian Chief Operations OfficerPat Redner Executive DirectorValentina Ashjian Business DirectorMaria Khanzadian Marketing DirectorYolanda V. Romo Activity Director/EditorMelissa Villan Activities DirectorNathan Rojas Culinary Service DirectorRick Stubbs Activity DirectorKarina Bejarano M/L Activity DirectorAnna Gugliemi Community Care DirectorRobert Likadinata Transport ConciergeDixon Baquero Transport ConciergeTonia Tenerelli Beautician

5 Things About: Butterflies• Butterflies can be found fluttering around every

continent except Antarctica.• The insects feed on nectar and pollen

from flowers.• They taste with their feet—that’s where their taste

receptors are located.• A butterfly’s two eyes have 6,000 lenses each.• Their wings are actually transparent and covered

with thousands of tiny scales. Light reflecting offthe scales creates the colors and patterns we see.

Choose Beets for Brain PowerThe next time you’re at the salad bar, add some beets

to the mix. This vibrant reddish-purple root vegetablecould benefit your gray matter. Research shows thenaturally occurring nitrates in beets may help increaseblood flow and oxygen to the brain, which improvescognitive function.

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Resident

Resident Council meetingsare held once a month in theOval Room. We encourage allresidents to attend. Please checkcalendar for date, placeand time.

Council MembersPresident: Dorothy Williams

Correspondence: Dorothy HillAttendance Keeper: Clara

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Gloria AndersonJeau Bech

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Welc meNew Residents

Welcome New ResidentsWe are proud to have so

many wonderful residents hereat our community! You get aspecial feeling each time youwalk through the property andsee so many friendly faces. Ifyou see one of our newresidents, stop and say hello.Anyone can be a neighbor, but ittakes a special person to bea friend.

New Resident List

Elizabeth JohnsonJosephine DocherlyBetty SipertAlfredo SipertVera StandfordRobert PitzerRobert WhittierKenneth Marshberger

Mobile ZooDate: April 15, 2016

Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 p.m.Place: Penthouse

Don’t miss the fun! We hopeto see everyone attend. Please bea few minutes early so that wecan seat everyone.

HappyBirthday

Resident Birthday List4/3 Richard Ornelas4/5 Vivian Ledesma4/9 Darleene Johns4/11 Barbara Cain4/11 Alfredo Sipert4/14 Dimiti Vantarakis4/18 Robert Whittier4/18 Angela Adamo4/18 Marjorie Bernklau4/19 Wanda Drown4/23 Juanita Smouse4/26 Teresa Sprecher4/28 Dorothy White4/29 Jane Ang4/29 Dana Matula

Employee Birthday List4/5 Erik Grande4/11 Alexandro Gonzales4/12 Irene Gomez4/15 Maria Gamboa4/16 Leticia Garcia4/16 Rosario Hernandez4/22 Silvia Duenas4/24 Valantine Ashjian4/26 Emily Anton4/26 Rick Stubbs4/27 Michelle Olivares4/28 Maria Khanzadian

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All That JazzApril is Jazz Appreciation

Month. Celebrate with a look atsome of the legendary talentswho helped make the genre amusical mainstay.

Louis Armstrong. Affectionatelycalled “Satchmo,” Armstrong,like jazz itself, was born in NewOrleans and taught himself toplay cornet as a boy. He isconsidered to be the foundingfather of jazz, pioneeringimprovised solos and scatsinging. The charismatic trumpetvirtuoso was so popular, heserved as a worldwideambassador for the new sound.

Charlie Parker. Growing up inKansas City, Mo.—anothercradle of jazz—Parker got his

first taste of music while playingin his high school band.Famously known as “Bird,” thesaxophone great invented thestyle of jazz called bebop withtrumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Miles Davis. Davis droppedout of the Juilliard School inNew York City to play trumpetwith Charlie Parker. Known forhis ability to “hear the future,”Davis continually forged newtrends, including cool jazz andjazz fusion.

World’s Rainiest PlacesThe next time you’re feeling

those rainy day blues, considerwhat it might be like to live inone of the Earth’s soggiest spots.

Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India.Residents of this village innortheastern India live in thewettest place on Earth, accordingto Guinness World Records.They receive an average annualrainfall of 467 inches, most of itduring monsoon season. Theneighboring village ofCherrapunji often takes secondplace in yearly downpours with463 inches.

Cropp River, New Zealand.While rainfall in New Zealand isabove average, the Cropp Riverraises the bar, getting soaked

with 453 inches of the wet stuffeach year.

Mount Waialeale, Kauai,Hawaii. This mountain, whichmeans “overflowing water” inHawaiian, really lives up to itsname. With rain nearly everyday and averaging 450 inchesannually, the area’s ground is sosaturated that it’s difficult towalk on, so tourists mustsightsee by helicopter.

Debundscha, Cameroon, Africa.Located on the west coast of thecontinent, Debundscha receivesabout 405 inches of rainfallyearly. Because the village is nearthe equator and sits at the baseof Mount Cameroon, it has along rainy season.

Wit & Wisdom“Clouds come floating into mylife, no longer to carry rain or

usher storm, but to add color tomy sunset sky.”

—Rabindranath Tagore

“It is only in sorrow bad weathermasters us; in joy we face the

storm and defy it.”—Amelia Barr

“There are some things youlearn best in calm, and some

in storm.”—Willa Cather

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’mlearning how to sail my ship.”

—Louisa May Alcott

“If you spend your whole lifewaiting for the storm, you’llnever enjoy the sunshine.”

—Morris West

“Storms make the oak growdeeper roots.”

—George Herbert

“If you want to see the sunshine,you have to weather the storm.”

—Frank Lane

“The little reed, bending to theforce of the wind, soon stoodupright again when the storm

had passed over.”—Aesop

“The more violent the storm, thequicker it passes.”—Paulo Coelho

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Titanic Trivia TributeFor more than a century,

people have been fascinated bythe story of the Titanic, the“unsinkable” ship that met itsdemise on April 15, 1912.In honor of the anniversaryof its first and only voyage,here are a few facts you maynot have known:

• The Royal Mail SteamerTitanic was the largestpassenger steamship everbuilt at the time, with atotal length of 882 feet andweight of 46,328 tons.

• It had 2,240 passengers andcrew members on board forits maiden voyage.

• The average cost of afirst-class ticket was $2,500,or about $57,200 today.

• The ship’s nicknamesincluded “Ship of Dreams”and “Millionaire’s Special.”

• Titanic cost $7.5 million tobuild ($400 million today).

• Titanic departed Englandon April 10, 1912. Itstopped at ports in Franceand Ireland before sailingfor New York City.

• At about 11:30 p.m. onApril 14, the ship struck aniceberg in the NorthAtlantic Ocean and sankabout three hours later.

America’s PoetsThe list of talented and

accomplished American poetscould fill thousands of pages.Celebrate National PoetryMonth in April by rememberingsome of these writers:

Walt Whitman. Widelypraised as one of America’s mostinfluential and innovativewriters, Whitman had a career asa journalist before publishinghis landmark collection “Leavesof Grass” in 1855. It includes thepoems “I Sing the Body Electric”and “Song of Myself.”

Emily Dickinson. Known forher solitary devotion to her craft,Dickinson wrote nearly1,800 poems, but few werepublished during her lifetime.Her unconventional use ofpunctuation and capitalizationwere unique to the mid-19th century.

Robert Frost. Often depictingrural life, Frost’s poems—such as“The Road Not Taken” and“Stopping by Woods on aSnowy Evening”—are regularlystudied in literature classes.Before his death in 1963, Frostwas considered the unofficialpoet laureate of the U.S.

Maya Angelou. Belovedthroughout the world, Angelou’sinspiring strength and courage isreflected in poems such as “StillI Rise,” “Caged Bird” and“Phenomenal Woman.” Shereceived many honors duringher lifetime, including thePresidential Medal of Freedomin 2010.

Kindergarten’s RootsFor many children, it’s the

first step when starting school:kindergarten. How did thisentertaining and educationalworld of finger paints, blocksand story time get started?

Until the mid-19th century, itwas commonly believed thatchildren needed to be trainedwith a stern hand, and playingwas a waste of time. However,German educator FriedrichFroebel believed that childrenwere naturally curious and ableto learn through play.

Froebel encouraged the use ofmusic, nature study, stories anddramatic play to teach children,and he developed variousgeometric building blocks,puzzles and crafts that he called“gifts” and “occupations.” Basedon his philosophy that childrenwere like plants that werecultivated by gardeners(teachers), the termkindergarten—literally, “gardenof children”—was born. Froebelopened his first kindergarten in1837 in Blankenburg, Germany.

The idea caught on quicklythroughout Europe and in theU.S. In 1873, St. Louis becamethe first public school district tooffer kindergarten.

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Arcadia Garden’s LibrarySeveral weeks ago three big

boxes of paperback books wereleft in the library. Included was acomplete series of the “CatWho” by Lilian Jackson Braun,author of both cats andmysteries who also wrote 23books of cats involved inmystery solving.

Come into our WinnersCircle/library room and checkout the fiction paperback sectionon a shelf exclusively Braun’s forinteresting and amazing reading.

By: Bonita Luts

Colors DecodedSeeing a rainbow in the sky is

a rare treat and sure to bring asmile. In fact, color in generalcan influence our emotions andour actions. Here are someexamples of how Westernculture views colors.

Red symbolizes energy,power, passion, love, ambitionand determination. It is also thecolor of anger and danger.

Yellow, the color of sunshine,is associated with joy, wisdomand energy, or it can suggestimpatience and cowardice.

Green is the color of natureand symbolizes growth,harmony, health and stability.It may also indicate greedand jealousy.

Blue is associated withpeace, truth, loyalty, wisdom,confidence, intelligenceand tranquility.

Purple represents wisdom,dignity, independence,creativity, mystery andimagination.

White is color at its mostpure, the color of perfection,innocence, wholenessand completion.

Black is the color of thehidden, the secretive and theunknown, but also power,elegance, formality, strengthand authority.

Parise ArakelianPlease join us in celebrating

the birth of a New Book! TheMartyr’s Son, by PariseArakelian. The book will beavailable in bookstores April24, 2016.

To celebrate the completionof this life-changing projectwe’re having a book signingparty and everyone is invited!Parise will also give us someinsight on what inspired her towrite the book about herbeloved father, ArmenArakelian.

Date: April 21, 2016Place: A.G. Oval Room

Time: 3:00 p.m.There will be books available

for purchase and Parise will behappy to sign, however theyare limited.

We hope everyone will comeout and support Parise Arakelianand congratulate her on hersuccess.

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Laugh Lines:A Shower of SnickersQ: What is a queen’s favorite

kind of precipitation?A: Reign.Q: What is a king’s favorite

kind of precipitation?A: Hail!Q: What do you call it when

it rains chickens and ducks?A: Fowl weather.Q: What do you call a

wet bear?A: A drizzly bear.Q: Can bees fly in the rain?A: Not without their

yellow jackets.

A store manager overheard acashier tell a customer, “Wehaven’t had it for a while, andI doubt we’ll be getting it soon.”The manager quickly intervenedand assured the customer thestore would have the item shewanted by next week andushered her out of the store.He then turned and scoldedthe employee, “Never tellcustomers that we’re out ofanything; tell them we’ll have itnext week. Now, what did shewant?” Bemused, the clerkreplied, “Rain.”

Breakfast Aroundthe World

A typical American breakfastis hard to define. It mightinclude cold cereal, bacon andeggs, or pancakes.

Breakfast foods also varywidely from place to placeacross the globe:

Mexico. A favorite ischilaquiles, which consists offried tortilla quarters in red orgreen salsa, often topped with afried egg, cheese and avocado.

England. The traditionalEnglish breakfast is called afry-up and consists of bacon,eggs, beans, sausage, broiledtomato, mushrooms, blackpudding (blood sausage) andpan-fried toast.

France. Plain or chocolatecroissants with coffee is afavorite breakfast of the French.

Pakistan. Nihari, a spicy currymade with beef or lamb, isusually served with naan,a flatbread.

Israel. A popular breakfastdish is shakshuka: eggs poachedin a spicy tomato sauce, oftenserved with pita bread.

China. A favorite here iscongee, a thick rice porridge,flavored with beef or seafood.

ArtsCraftsand

Stamped Spring ArtIt’s easy to paint a beautiful

cherry tree in bloom—just use asoda bottle as a stamp!

Materials:• Scissors• White poster board• Paintbrush• Dark brown or black

acrylic craft paint• Light pink acrylic

craft paint• Small paper plate• Empty 2-liter plastic

soda bottle

Directions:Cut the poster board in half

so you have a tall, narrow panelto work on. Paint a tree branchon the panel with the darkbrown or black paint. Let dry.

Pour some pink paint on thepaper plate. Dip the bottom ofthe soda bottle into the paint sothe five bumps on the bottomare covered.

Use the bottle to stamp pinkcherry blossom flowers alongthe tree branch. Before stampingeach flower, dip the bottle intothe pink paint for a fresh coat.For various sizes of blooms, usedifferent sizes of bottles.

Once dry, hang your artworkin your home.

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Fast Food FirstsWhen Americans embraced

cars and took to the road,visionary restaurateurs created anew recipe for success—fast food. Here’s a look atsome of the pioneers of theculinary concept.

White Castle. Considered thefirst fast-food hamburger chain,it opened in Wichita, Kan.,in 1921.

McDonald’s. The granddaddyof all fast-food chains began byselling barbecue, but McDonaldbrothers Dick and Mac made amenu change at their SanBernardino, Calif., drive-inrestaurant in 1948. They focusedon burgers, which were preparedin assembly-line fashion andsold for 15 cents.

KFC. Colonel HarlandSanders began serving his friedchicken out of a gas station inCorbin, Ky., during theDepression. His café becamefamous after he developed afaster cooking process and his“original recipe,” and by 1952,he began franchisinghis business.

Taco Bell. Glen Bell beganselling hard-shell tacos at hisTaco Tia stand in SouthernCalifornia, and after severalyears of success, he built the firstTaco Bell in 1962.

Wascally Wabbit“What’s up, Doc?” With those

casual words uttered in the 1940cartoon “A Wild Hare,” thecharacter of Bugs Bunny as weknow and love him today wasintroduced to the world.

Before he became the carrot-chewing, wisecracking rabbitwith a Brooklyn accent, Bugsmade his first appearance in“Porky’s Hare Hunt,” a theatricalshort that debuted April 30,1938. The cartoon was directedby Ben “Bugs” Hardaway, whoreportedly inspired thebunny’s name.

But it wasn’t until “A WildHare,” directed by Tex Avery,that the bunny’s true look andpersonality emerged—as well ashis trademark voice, performedby Mel Blanc.

As Bugs’ popularity grewduring the World War II era,his self-assured, humorousapproach to life’s challengesembodied the attitude of theAmerican people, who hadendured the Great Depressionand were then in the midst of awar. In the following years, hedeveloped into a national iconand became one of the mostpopular cartoon characters ofall time.

Bugs Bunny has appeared inmore than 175 films.

Comedic Q&AAmerican journalist Mignon

McLaughlin wrote, “A sense ofhumor is a major defenseagainst minor troubles.” Use thefollowing questions to talk withyour friends and neighborsabout what tickles yourfunny bone.

• Who is the funniest personyou know? What is theirsense of humor like?

• Do you consider yourself afunny person?

• Were your parents or otherfamily members funny?

• What kind of humor makesyou laugh? Are you a fan ofpuns, riddles, tonguetwisters, limericks,slapstick, or another formof comedy? Which is yourfavorite type?

• Are there any styles ofcomedy you don’t like?Explain why.

• Do you have a favoritefunny movie or televisionshow? Describe the scenesthat make you laughthe hardest.

• Are there any comedians oractors you find particularlyfunny? What aboutauthors? Discuss their workwith your group.

• Describe a time when youlaughed until you cried.

• What is the best joke you’veever heard?

earth daya green earthis a happy earth!

1700: Playing pranks, tricksters in England begin popularizing the tradition of April Fools’ Day.

1803: The U.S. agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the U.S.

1912: Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox, opens for its first game.

1939: Famed opera singer Marian Anderson performs before a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial.

1948: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan into law. It provided more than $13 billion in economic aid so that Western Europe could recover from World War II.

1959: NASA selects its first astronauts. Among the Mercury Seven are John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard.

1964: The Rolling Stones release their debut album.

1972: Polaroid introduces its folding instant camera, which produces self-developing photos.

1984: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the highest-scoring player in NBA history. The star center remains the league’s all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points.

2001: “The Producers” opens on Broadway. The Mel Brooks musical would go on to earn a record 12 Tony Awards.

2006: Construction begins on a new skyscraper at the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City.

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