October Newsletter - The Springs of Scottsdale

October 2015
The Springs of Scottsdale
The Springs of
Scottsdale
3212 N. Miller Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ. 85251
3212 N. Miller Rd. Scottsdale, AZ. 85251 Phone: 480-941-9026 Web: www.thespringsofscottsdale.com
Celebrating October
“Ballet Under the Stars” at
Tempe Center for the Arts
10/1
Oktoberfest Celebration
10/2
Karaoke w/ Velvet & Marie
10/4 & 10/11
“Senior Day” at Walgreens
10/5
Community Meeting
10/6
Chef Chat w/ Chef Rae
10/7
It’s in the Bag
October Birthdays
Purses, clutches, totes,
pocketbooks, satchels—
whatever the handbag,
it’s worth celebrating on
October 10, Handbag
Day. Technically, a
purse is only supposed to hold coins, whereas a
handbag is a complete carryall. These days
anything goes in a handbag: wallet, keys,
sunglasses, mobile phone, mints, gum, pen and
paper, umbrella, baby toys… Truly, some
handbags carry as much as a small suitcase.
In astrology, those born from the 1st to the 22nd
in October have the star sign of the Libra.
Libras are the diplomat of the zodiac. They are
able to put themselves in other's shoes and see
things through another person's point of view.
Those born between the 23rd and 31st have the
Star Sign of Scorpio. Scorpio is the astrology
sign of extremes and intensity. Scorpios are
very deep, intense people, there is always more
than meets the eye.
The first “handbags” were made of leather, metal,
or fabric studded with ornaments. The oldest
surviving bag, dating back to c. 2,500 BC, features
bead-like rows of canine teeth on fabric. At just
700 years old, the bag pictured above (reputed to
be a horseman’s saddlebag) is intricately inlaid
with gold and silver, depicting scenes of an
enthroned couple, musicians, and hunters. It’s
kept for display at London’s Courtauld Gallery.
Ernest M…....10/5
Paul M…….…10/7
Florence R….10/10
Lila G………..10/17
Nell M………..10/22
Kay S………...10/23
Virgina H…….10/7
Ed C………….10/9
George H…….10/12
Flossie M…....10/19
Lillian P……...10/22
Arnold W…….10/23
Bill Harrison Presents:
“Haunted Hotels in Arizona”
10/13
Art All Around Us
10/14 & 10/28
Birthday Dinner
10/14
New Worship Service
w/ Bill Harper
10/18
Dolly Steamboat Nature Cruise
10/20
Ice Cream at Dairy Queen
10/21
Picnic at McCormick Railroad Park
10/27
Arizona State Fair
10/29
Annual Fall Festival & Halloween!
10/31
Face Your Fears on October 13
Things start to get spooky in October. After all, October
31 is Halloween, a time when ghosts and goblins (or at
least children dressed like them) roam. Luckily, we’ll
have some time before Halloween to conquer our fears
of things that go bump in the night, for October 13 is
Face Your Fears Day.
There are phobias of many kinds: arachnophobia is the
fear of spiders, acrophobia is the fear of heights,
trypanophobia is the fear of needles. Those with
triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, may have
their work cut out for them on Face Your Fears Day.
Most often, these phobias are irrational. After all,
spiders, ladders, needles, and the number 13 generally
aren’t out to get you. Yet people are overly afraid of
them anyway. So how do we face our fears?
Psychologist Noam Shpancer—a specialist in the
treatment of anxiety disorders—believes that the only
way to triumph over fear is to repeatedly be exposed to
it. “Exposure is particularly useful on the emotional
level,” Shpancer wrote for PsychologyToday.com. “It
turns out that many (perhaps all) anxiety problems are
at their core a ‘fear of fear.’” His findings support that
exposure can inhibit natural fear responses—anxiety,
dizziness, heart palpitations, and hyperventilation—until
the fear itself seems to slip away.
For those scared of Halloween, perhaps you’ll take
comfort in knowing that this holiday began as a religious
tradition. The Feast of All Saints, known as All Hallows
Day, is November 1. The feast’s vigil on October 31,
“All Hallows Evening” or “Hallows E’en,” is a day of
prayer to remember all the saints in heaven. Perhaps
the real fear related to Halloween (samhainophobia) is
really a fear of the ever-growing cost of sugary treats?
Since the fear of candy corn is candyphobia and the
fear of going broke is peniaphobia, could this October
31 affliction be dubbed peniacandyphobia?
October 2015
October 2015
Friday, October 2nd 11AM-1PM
Live Oompah Music & a German Style
Feast with lots of Cold Beer!
October 29th Depart at 11AM
FREE Admission!
Model Railroad, Spirit Dancers, Exotic Animals,
UFO Experience, Great Food & Entertainment!
Saturday, October 31st
11:30AM-2PM
Join us for our annual celebration of Friends,
Family, Fall & Halloween! There will be a free
BBQ, Costume Contest, Cake Walk, Live
Entertainment by “The Groove Defenders”,
Petting Zoo, Jump House & Games.
The Lady with the Lamp
Words of Wisdom
While Oscar Mayer’s hot-dog-shaped
Weinermobile may be the best-recognized
food-themed truck around, but now it’s the food
that’s actually made on trucks that is bringing
customers to the curb. Rather than make a
reservation at a fancy restaurant, hungry
foodies now visit parking lots to find open-sided
trucks serving sushi, tacos, Brazilian barbeque,
Jamaican chicken, brick-oven pizza, pancakes,
cupcakes, cookies, and even vegan and glutenfree menus. October 11, Food Truck Day, is
your chance to join the food truck craze.
On October 21, 1854,
Florence Nightingale and her
staff of trained female
volunteer nurses set out for
Crimea near Ukraine’s Black
Sea. Reports had reached
Britain of injured soldiers still
fighting in the Crimean War.
When Nightingale arrived, she discovered
medicine was scant, infections were rampant,
and food was in short supply. And the hospital
itself was overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and
backed up with sewage. So Nightingale pleaded
for government help in an article written to
Britain’s leading newspaper, The Times.
Holy cow, October 13 is Silly Sayings Day.
While this saying’s origins are a little obscure,
many believe it was an expression used by
baseball players in the early 1900s to tamely
express disgust while avoiding the ire of
umpires. It most likely references the cows held
sacred by Hindus.
It’s no wonder chefs have turned to restaurants
on wheels. Even small restaurant spaces can
cost millions of dollars to build and maintain,
while a truck costs a mere fraction of the price.
Even better, these food trucks can go to where
the people are, sometimes making many stops
over the course of a day. Food truck owners
are also Internet savvy. They send messages
via online social media notifying the masses of
their truck route. Once you know a truck’s time
and location, all you have to do is plan your
lunch hour accordingly and step outside.
The response was overwhelming. The
government would build a new hospital in Britain
that could be transported to and reconstructed
in Crimea. And, six months after Nightingale’s
arrival, the British Sanitary Commission
ventured to Crimea to fix the hospital’s most
pressing problems. Surgeon and biographer
Stephen Paget believes Nightingale’s actions
were responsible for reducing the hospital death
rate from 42% to 2%.
Working for Peanuts
On October 2, 1950,
cartoonist Charles Schultz
debuted his Peanuts comic
strip. Schultz actually hated
the name Peanuts. He had
originally named it L’il Folks,
but his publishers feared that
this title was too close to an earlier strip called
Little Folks. Schultz then decided to call it Good
Old Charlie Brown, after its lead character, but
once again his publishers intervened. Without
even seeing the strip, they named it Peanuts,
which was a common term for children in the
1950s—thanks to The Howdy Doody Show’s
“Peanut Gallery.” The name stuck, and Charlie
Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Sally, and the
whole Peanuts gang have become stars,
appearing in 2,600 newspapers worldwide.
© Peanuts Worldwide LLC
Oktoberfest Celebration!
Food Revolution
Florence Nightingale’s persuasive tactics to
improve hospital hygiene—with the government’s
help—are only part of her legacy. During the
Crimean War she earned the nickname “The
Lady with the Lamp.” Nightly, after the medical
officers had left for the night, Nightingale would
visit all the wounded soldiers, one by one, with a
lamp in her hands. This type of round-the-clock
care, coupled with her insistence on sanitation,
helped revolutionize modern nursing. She
returned to Britain a heroine and promptly
organized the Nightingale Fund to pay for the
improvement of Britain’s hospitals and the
Nightingale Training School to become the first
professional school for nurses. That legacy has
endured through the ages. Indeed, the Florence
Nightingale Museum in Britain hails her as the
most influential woman to have lived in Victorian
Britain, Queen Victoria excepted.
Perhaps silly sayings and baseball have a
special link, for one of the silliest sayers of all
was former New York Yankee Yogi Berra. He
said of his sport, “Baseball is 90% mental and
the other half is physical.” When giving directions
to his home, he once explained, “When you
come to a fork in the road, take it.” When he
saw Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeat
their feat of hitting back-to-back home runs, he
exclaimed, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” While
not his silliest, Berra’s most famous saying of
all remains “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
When it comes to silly sayings, Mark Twain
may offer the best advice: “It is better to keep
your mouth closed and let people think you are
a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Ship Shape
It was a pastime
practiced by sailors
bored of looking at the
endless seas day after day after day: building a
model ship and putting it inside a bottle. At first,
this seems a magical feat. How did that tall ship
fit inside the bottle? In reality, the process is
rather simple. The ship’s masts fold flat across
the deck of the miniature ship. Once the ship is
fit through the bottle’s neck, tiny threads are
used to raise the masts and sails. Of course,
this “simple” trick requires expert craftsmanship.
Miniature model ships can be very elaborate
and cost thousands of dollars, with every last
detail finished to perfection. On October 4, Ship
in a Bottle Day, you can attempt this old
seaman’s trick yourself—by fashioning the
Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria in time for
Columbus Day, October 12.