2016 May - Frasier Meadows

Volume 55
HIGHLIGHTS
Pg 4 Founders Day
exhibit
Pg 5 Earth Day Hike
Pg 7 Frasier is
Bee Safe!
Pg 8 Resident Council
Nominations
Pg 9 A Trip to the
SEA(weeds)!
May 2016
Beth Reasoner’s Departure
from the Board of Trustees
Tim Johnson, CEO
One of Frasier’s guiding principles is service. Service to our wonderful residents, of course, but also service to the community as large.
It’s part of the threads of our fabric and can be seen in our residents,
staff and board of trustee members. With Beth Fisher Reasoner,
Frasier Board of Trustee member, service is clearly evident.
As some of you know, the sad news of Beth Reasoner’s resignation
from the Board was recently announced. She brought a passion and
Pg 13 Scam Alerts
dedication to her Frasier Board commitment that was inspiring.
Beth joined the Board in July 2011. She was already quite familiar
Pg 14 Frasier Volunteer
Appreciation Party with Frasier as her parents were residents here long before their
passing.
Pg 17 May Birthdays
Before joining the Frasier board, she was the director of organizaPg 18 The Confluence of tional excellence for Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado, where she remains today. Prior to her appointment to this poTwo Rivers
sition, Beth worked at Boulder Community Hospital as the employee
health and infection prevention manager, the employee health nurse,
a clinical nurse educator, and a level II neonatal ICU nurse. All of her professional life, she has
been inspired to pursue quality and excellence. And she brought those same traits to the Frasier
Board. I’m very grateful for Beth’s five years of service on our Board and for the great work that
she did in encouraging us to think outside the box about the role of health care in the Frasier
continuum of care. Her voice was passionate about making sure the Board was focused on the
dimensions of health care here at Frasier. She was the advocate for creating the Health Care Delivery Committee of the Board of Trustees. This committee was paramount in helping me and
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Board members understand the health care issues that are critical and relevant to Frasier. Her work on the committee will continue as
she put into place the momentum to carry it
forth.
what service to community is about. Residents
and Board member, Bill and Betty Fisher set
an example of ‘service above self’ that this entire community holds to.
As Beth continues to focus on her increasing
responsibilities at BCH, I, along with the enBeth was the third member of the Fisher family tire Frasier Board wish all the best for her and
to heed the call to service at Frasier. Both her
her family. She will be greatly missed.
mother and father were shining examples of
Meet the new V.P.
G
reetings! I’m Karla Rikansrud, the new
VP of Donor Development. Many of you
have stopped by my (current) office at 162 FC,
or we’ve met elsewhere on our campus. I welcome the chance to meet everyone and hope to
do so soon.
Frasier is clearly a dynamic, educated and engaged community. You are charitable people
by nature. This is evidenced daily by the activities in which you volunteer and participate,
the conversations I’ve had and overheard, and
Frasier’s reputation in the broader community.
After initial research and reading, it appears
that residents’ charitable giving within Frasier
can be grouped roughly into three areas:
Frasier Quality of Life
Care of Others
Legacy for the Future
Quality of Life. The focus on a vibrant and robust Frasier quality of life is illustrated in
the Geneva Percival musical program activities, support of the chaplaincy good works,
and Wellness Center programs, to name a
few.
Care of Others. The emphasis on caring and
concern for the well-being of others is reflected in part, by support of the resident
and employee assistance funds. Also, the
Health Care Center fund supports our Assisted Living and Health Care residents
and programs.
Legacy for the Future. The attention to building a caring and lasting organization, and
ensuring our Boulder heritage is demonstrated through support of the Building
Fund, Memorial Service, and our three endowment funds.
Consider these three areas a “rough outline” to
help shape our conversations about giving, social responsibility and our Frasier community
and family. This can be a good place to begin
as we discuss Frasier’s caring and compassionate community for the future.
I hope to be a resource for the Frasier community, helping to fulfill what you’d like to see
happen here. I certainly do not have all the
answers – but I commit to working with experts to find answers to all questions!
I’m excited to be here. Please call, stop by, or
send me an email. I’d love to meet you in your
home or in the Grill for lunch or coffee.
Can’t wait to meet you!
Karla Rikansrud, office: x4306,
[email protected]
cell: 720-688-3536
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Founders Day
Left to right: Lois Klamann, Mary Dickerson, Kathaleen Cook, Mary Jane
Hall, Bev Postmus, Ja Elliott, Jan Pisano, Mariette Anderson.
The Buffoons
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Founders’ Day
Exhibit
H
ave you seen the examples of sculpture,
needlework, wood-working, oil, acrylic
and water color paintings, drawings, plaques,
quilts, jewelry, baskets, calligraphy and photography filling our Art Gallery, Club Room and
the adjacent hallway? It is an amazing display
of the talents of the Frasier Community -- ninety contributors, both residents and staff, are all
sharing their art for the 2016 Founder’s Day
Exhibit. Some of the artists are showing several
pieces that represent different categories. The
pieces were collected by Betty O’Brien with support from Molly Briggs, Linda Keschl,
Kathryn Aronson, Rod Swanstrom and Adam
Schneider. The exhibit continues thru the
month of May. Plan to spend some quality
time; it’s well worth it. The exhibit is dedicated
to Dev Carlson whose loom and weaving are displayed, and who died after the exhibit was set
up.
Jan Grenda
T
here is now a large-print menu at the
dining room check-in station. There are
also a few hand-held magnifying glasses that
you may borrow to take to your table if you
would like. Have you noticed the new food
choices that are now on the menus? Included
are more vegetarian protein items.
The month of May will feature several interesting meals:
Thursday, May 5, Cinco de Mayo! 5:00
to 7:00. Included will be seafood enchiladas
with lobster cream sauce, and the cost is $10.
Sunday, May 8, Mothers’ Day Buffet
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the dining room.
There will be a gourmet menu (See posters)
with a cost of $25 for residents, $27.50 for
guests, and $13.75 for children. Reservations
are required.
Tuesday, May 10, Asian-Pacific dinner
5:00 to 7:00, with interesting food. The regular
menu will not be available.
Tuesday, May 17, A Night in Mayberry
5:00 to 7:00, cost $10. This is a first for Frasier; check it out! You will not want to miss Old
Man Schwump’s scalloped taters!
The supposedly longest palindrome:
“Doc, note — I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.”
Linda Keschl, Betty O’Brien
and Kathryn Aronson
Jeremy Gerard
The New York Times
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May 2016
Earth Day Hike
S
unshine, mountain views, bird song and
spring flowers conspired on April 22 to
make it a perfect celebration of Earth Day. The
outing, sponsored by Wellness and Community
Life, featured a hike at Boulder Valley Ranch.
Bev Postmus, recent Frasier resident, long-time
naturalist and new graduate of the Boulder City
Open Space Volunteer Naturalist Program, was
Bev Postmus with spotting scope
our guide to flora and fauna. Spring calls of
meadowlarks serenaded our flower search. Of
particular interest was Bell’s Bladderpod
which Bev told us is found only in a limited
area of the Front Range. She also led us to a
blue heron rookery with its multiple large
nests high in the branches of a cottonwood
grove before we enjoyed a picnic lunch at
Boulder Reservoir. It was a very satisfying excursion.
Louise Bradley
Bell’s Bladderpod
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If Geneva Percival
Came Back . . .
I
f Geneva Percival came back as a ghost
seeking news of what she loved most, She’s
ask first, What happened to the Steinway?
—
Did it stay in the Chapel?
Did it give joy?
Did it survive past a hundred years?
Surely if Geneva could have been with us for
the final College of Music recital of the year,
she would have been much pleased.
The program followed a well-established pattern. Early arrivals were aware of the bustle of
young men and women in black venturing
tropes on their instruments, chatting among
themselves, and sitting quietly in our “green
room” waiting for their turns on stage.
The program was serious and beyond a doubt,
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challenging: Mozart, Schumann and Brahms
trios.
First on the program were David Leech, clarinet, Alice Sprinkle, viola, and Sarah
Broadwell, piano, with a Mozart trio and the
Schumann “Fairy Tale”. The members of the
trio chose to include a viola rather than the
more traditional cello for Mozart’s beloved
“Kegelstatt” Clarinet Trio.
After the break, we heard the Brahms with
Kelsey Bentley, horn, Caitlin Stokes, violin,
and Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao, piano. This trio
of graduate students gave an accomplished
performance of this beautiful and complex
work.
On hand from the College of Music were the
always supportive Margaret MacDonald who
planned this year’s series, and Robert Shay,
Dean of the College of Music. Margaret will
be away this fall, but they assured us that
planning for this fall’s program will go forward without interruption.
Kevin Bunnell
Sarah Broadwell, Alice Sprinkle, David Leech, Kelsey Bentley,
Cecilia Kao, Caitlin Stokes.
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Frasier is Bee Safe!
Frasier has officially become a BEE SAFE
COMMUNITY and will not use highly toxic
pesticides belonging to the neo-nicotinoid
group. These insecticides, referred to as
“neonics,” interfere with brain function and
are seen as a major cause of bee deaths around
the world. Bee Safe Boulder was founded in
2014 to eliminate the neonics from Boulder
and beyond, and the Frasier Meadows neighborhood is currently working to become an official Bee Safe Neighborhood with at least 75
adjoining properties signing the pledge not to
use neonics.
The neonics are systemic, invading every cell
of a plant, including pollen and nectar, which
supply food for bees, and including leaves,
fruits, vegetables, etc. that humans eat. Evidence is mounting that neonics are cumulative
in humans, correlating with brain diseases,
such as autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons,
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and with lower fertility. Neonics have been
banned in the EU and in all US Fish and
Wildlife agency-controlled property. The City
and County of Boulder do not use the neonics
on public property; however, GMO corn, beets
and other crops doused in neonics are currently planted on open space farms but will be
phased out in the next five years.
Gardeners at Frasier are cooperating by buying and planting only neonic-free or organic
plants and using potting soils that are neonicfree. Many nursery plants have been sprayed or
doused with neonics, so it is especially important to check labels or to buy only organic
seeds and plants. McGuckin Hardware, Community Gardens, Lara Miller of Northfield
Farm, and several other local plant and garden
retailers no longer sell neonic products or
plants. An excellent list of bee safe wild regional plants, as well as retailers who sell bee
safe plants, may be found on the Bee Safe
Boulder website: beesafeboulder.org.
Anne Bliss
Flatirons
after recent
snowfall, view
from Frasier
Photo by
Alex Herzog
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May 2016
Cuba in 2016
Resident Council
ane Crabtree, Joan De Graaf and Marilyn
Russell recently visited Cuba. Jane’s slide
presentation showed Cuba lying with the Atlantic on the north, the Caribbean on the
south, and surrounded by pristine water due to
a ban on chemical fertilizers in Cuba.
his is the time of year when Resident
Council officers are nominated and elected. The Resident Council Nominating Committee (Karl Anuta, Chair, and members
Louise Bradley, Helen Aumiller, Irma Galusha, Joyce Davies and Pete Palmer) prepared the following slate of officers for 20162017:
J
Joan and Marilyn were impressed that a poor
country like Cuba provides a place to live, a
job, free medical care and education for every
citizen. “The trade-off is,” said Marilyn, “you
can’t trust your neighbor.” Their guide said,
“Ask me anything on the bus, not on the
street.” Spies are everywhere. The guide passed
her college entry test and was placed in medical school, which she hated. It took a year to
change her major to languages.
Poverty and freedom are issues. Jane saw begging kids on Havana’s streets. The average
monthly wage is $30. Most people work two
jobs. Moonlighting as a taxi-driver, a neurosurgeon liked his second job because in it he
had control. There is a softening toward
churches. But all young men ages 18-20 spend
two years in the military.
Most fun are the old cars, long kept because of
the U.S. trade embargo. Jane rode in a 1922
Ford convertible. Nowadays modern engines,
such as Subaru and Mercedes, often replace the
old motors.
The U.S. and Cuba have much to learn from
each other.
Nancy Tilly
T
President: Jim Wolf
Vice-Pres.: Charlie Anderson
Secretary: Betty Hill
Treasurer: Bruce Thompson
(105 FS)
(109 FS)
(092 FC)
(279 FC)
Additional nominees are welcome – elections
will occur on June 24th by the floor officers
elected at Floor meetings on May 16th. New
Floor officers (Leader, Deputy, and Secretary) will be reported in the June Mirror.
It is an honor and a privilege to serve as a
Floor or Resident Council officer, both with
responsibilities and benefits. Floor and Council meetings provide a forum for resident ideas and concerns, and serve in an advisory capacity to the Administration. They also provide a forum for the exchange of information
regarding the current plans and objectives of
the Administration. All residents are encouraged to attend floor meetings and share in the
duties of leadership.
JoAnn Joselyn
Some short palindromes
“Rise to vote, sir”
“Red rum, sir, is murder”
“Sex at noon taxes”
“Do geese see God?”
“Guru rug”
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A Trip to the
SEA(weeds)!
B
oulder’s Dairy Arts Center, which is currently undergoing extensive renovation,
was the March 24 destination for Frasier residents interested in Frasier’s visiting artist Jill
Powers’ fascinating multi-sensory exhibit,
Holdfast: Seaweeds in a Time of Oceanic
Change. This beautiful exhibit, featuring dry
and living seaweeds that can be handled, interesting displays of objects and art installations
made with seaweeds, and explanatory posters,
was accompanied by Powers’ fascinating
presentation about the ecology of seaweeds and
the changing ocean environment. She discussed several major issues concerning seaweed
growth and distribution throughout the
world’s oceans. Available light and nutrients,
temperature and salinity of water, waves and
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currents and below-surface materials all affect
the survival of seaweeds.
As the oceans warm, the distribution of marine animals and plants is changing, often
brought about by ocean currents. In addition,
toxicity created by chemicals and trash causes
problems for marine species, even tiny ones
that ingest microscopic bits of plastics which
then pass up the food chain. Sea creatures that
feed off seaweeds find invasive species brought
by humans on the hulls of ships, and may not
adapt well to these invaders. Plus, many predator sea animals, such as orcas, fish, sea otters
and others also affect prey, and thus seaweeds.
Overfishing some of these predators allows
other smaller species to devastate seaweeds.
The entertaining and educational exhibit and
discussion were followed by a delicious lunch
in the Riverside Restaurant, on Broadway
next to Boulder Creek, with more discussion
of seaweeds and our changing world.
Photo by
Jack Dyni
Jill Powers and dried seaweed art.
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BROADWAY BOOMERS SING 1950’S MUSICAL HITS
E
ven though they sang “Please don’t talk
about me when I’m gone”, that’s exactly
what we’ll do here! The Broadway Boomers, a
seniors’ musical singing and theatrical group
who participate in the Colorado Music Festival
and Center for Musical Arts in Lafayette, performed for a delighted audience at Frasier on
April 2. This ensemble performs primarily
modern and Broadway show music and aims to
honor composers and lyricists as they bring
their music to life through musical theater
performances rather than choral singing. Under the direction of Faye Nepon and assistant
director Lisa Volk, this group performs a
number of concerts each year, and enjoys performing at Frasier.
Introduced by resident Jim Wolf, the performance featured 1950’s movie show tunes, sung
as solos, duets, and as a theatrical chorus.
Songs such as “Getting to Know You” from
The King and I, sung by Frasier resident
member Janet Brewer, “I Can’t Help Lovin’
That Man” from Showboat, “Just One of Those
Things” from Paint My Wagon, and “I’m Just a
Girl Who Can’t Say No”
from Oklahoma were
topped off by a creative and
fun group rendition of
“Smile Girls” from Gypsy,
with the singers wearing
gold-foil icicle “hair.”
Not only are the individual
members of this group,
which also includes Debbie
Clem, the daughter of residents Hugh and Ann Evans, talented, but the
group obviously enjoys
singing while fulfilling
their mission to make good
music together and share it
with their audience. The
talented Boomers had a lot
of fun performing, and the
audience enjoyed every moment of this “bring
back the memories” performance of show tunes
that we all know and love.
Anne Bliss
Merchants of Doubt
This month’s Sustainability Seminar, on
Wednesday, May 25, will be a powerful documentary about the ways we are manipulated
by those who do not want to face inconvenient truths, like smoking or climate change.
It provides a lot of food for thought as we
move into our polarized election season.
Mark your calendars.
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Madison & Hamilton
v. Bruce
I
n 1992 the Taxpayer Bill of Rights
(TABOR), proposed by Douglas Bruce, was
added to the Colorado Constitution (Art. X
§20), effectively removing from the legislature
(and other elective bodies such as cities and
school districts) the power to levy taxes. TABOR transfers such authority directly to the
people at large. However Art. IV §2 of the
United States Constitution guarantees to each
state “a republican form of government” by
which representatives chosen by the people
make decisions and in whom the power to tax
resides.
Citing James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers (Nos. 10, 30, 51,
57, et seq.), David Skaggs, former Congressman
from Colorado’s 2d Congressional District, is
leading a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of TABOR as a denial of the republican
form of government guaranteed to the people
of Colorado. It is a case of first impression,
and one which may have delighted Justice
Scalia.
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At the Lyceum program on April 20 Congressman Skaggs explained the legal theories of the
case, its tortuous journey thus far in the federal courts (already once to the US Supreme
Court on procedural grounds), the proponents
and opponents (and the misconceptions), and
what is hoped to be gained. It was a wonderful
explanation of our form of government and
how it was intended to operate.
Karl F. Anuta
Anne Dyni honored
On Sunday March 20th, the Niwot Historical
Society honored resident Anne Dyni for her
service on the Board of Directors and contributions to preservation and the historical records
of the town. Over the years, Anne has collected
oral histories of Niwot families, collected and
catalogued more than 500 historical photos of
Niwot, and trained other volunteers to document and catalog Niwot artifacts. In 2015, she
published a book “Around Niwot (Images of
America).”
JoAnn Joselyn
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LOOKING WEST (to the future…)
by Anne Bliss
This new column by resident Anne Bliss will feature
essays on various issues concerning Frasier and
Frasierites, as well as other interesting and timely
topics. Please share your thoughts in an email message to Anne at [email protected].
N
ot too long ago, on a recent trip to Memphis, Tennessee and then on another trip
shortly after to Athens, Georgia, it occurred to
me that those southerners describe locations
and where they’re going or where they live a
bit differently than we do here in Boulder. For
example, both Memphis and Athens have an
“uptown,” a “midtown” and several other designations for parts of the city; they use directional signals to denote where they are. In Boulder, we may say we are going “downtown,” but
we have NoBo and SoBo, and Pearl Street and
29th Street, but we don’t refer to those areas as
“up,” “mid,” ”outer,” and so on.
Considering those up, down and middle designations led me to wonder what exactly we
mean when we use them. Does our “downtown”
carry the same meaning as Memphis’
“uptown?”
Our downtown really is down, as it is at lower
elevation than, for example, Unihill or Mapleton Hill. Yet, Memphis’ downtown, which is
really “uptown,” seems to be down the hill
from the suburbs, but it is up a few meters
above the Mississippi River. And in Athens,
the town is uphill from three directions that
head down the hill to the Oconee River drainage, part of which is still in “uptown.” But
midtown? That was a puzzle, as neither city
seemed to have midtown in the middle, elevation wise or anything else.
Then, of course, we say “stand up” when we
want someone to pay attention … but we also
say “stand down” when we want them to relax.
So is uptown more attentive than downtown?
But we can also say “stand up” there, or “stand
down” there. Oh, this is confusing! How about
“sit up” and “sit down”—hmmm —or “get up”
and “get down.” If you get up, you usually do get
up (out of bed, out of a chair, etc.) but to get
down? Well, you must “get down” as in get
down from a height, or get down on your knees,
or “get it down” when you fetch something from
a high place and bring it to a lower one, or
swallow some kind of food or medicine that you
don’t like. And for sure, don’t “spit it UP!”
Directional terms can be fun, and mysterious,
it seems. Here in Frasier, consider whether you
live “down the hall” or “up the hall”; or, are you
“mid-hall” between “up” and “down” when “up”
and “down” are not really UP or DOWN as we
think of directions, but are north or south, east
or west.
So, how are you today? “Oh, I’m up and down.”
“I’m middlin’.” “I’m down.” Oh, my goodness
this up and down business is confusing!
But let’s all try this: How are you today? “I’m
up!” And enjoy the day no matter where we are!
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May 2016
Scam Alerts
I
t Can Happen to Anyone, the title of the
DVD shown by Claire Hunter, Consumer
Specialist of the Boulder County District Attorney office, applies to all of us. Scam artists
are clever and ever refining their tactics to win
our confidence so we will comply with their
ever-changing schemes. The protagonist of the
film, a well-educated woman, was persuaded by
someone she trusted and pitied to lend money
bit by bit to a total of $575,000 before concluding she had been deceived. It was an extreme
and fascinating case. We may not be that vulnerable, but we are – every one of us – targets
of attempts to steal our assets or our identity.
Linda Tuber, Frasier’s director of Resident Relations, says the current scams targeting Frasier Residents are
In Loving Memory
Laurence Paddock
Born ............................................. Aug. 17, 1927
Entered FMR.C. ...................... April 15, 2008
Died ............................................. Mar. 31, 2016
DeVon Carlson
Born ............................................. Dec. 1, 1917
Entered F.M.R.C. .................... Mar. 11, 2006
Died ............................................. April 10, 2016
Virginia Paddock
Born ............................................. Mar. 10, 1926
Entered F.M.R.C. .................... Mar. 23, 2007
- The Grandparent Plea: your grandchild is in
trouble – send money;
Died ............................................. April 24, 2016
- IRS Alerts: you owe money and are in trouble
unless you send money along with the last 4
digits of your Social Security number (or) you
have overpaid taxes, give us your ID numbers
Attorney’s Community Protection Division,
and your bank account number so we can send 303-441-3700.
your refund;
“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
- Microsoft Computer Fix: let us get into your
Louise Bradley
computer so we can fix it. Once in, the scammers have access to all your information.
A few simple practices help protect us from
scams. Do not answer the phone until you hear
a familiar voice or see a familiar name and
number on your Caller ID. Do not open an
e-mail from a strange address. Do not send
money for anything you did not order. Neither
the IRS nor Microsoft contact individuals by
e-mail. Frasier’s IT staff is the safe place for
computer advice and fixes. Report any suspected scam to Linda Tuber and/or the District
Claire Hunter, consumer specialist in
Boulder Co. DA office
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Frasier Volunteer Appreciation Party –
Celebrating Champions of Inclusivity
F
rasier Community joined in an evening of
appreciation on April 21 to recognize all
the countless hours and talents our members
and friends contributed this year. The
Threshold Singers and the Tokliss Quartet entertained while residents enjoyed an open buffet of elaborate hors d’oeuvres and desserts.
On each table a 20 page booklet listed the
many, many ways individuals have found to
make Frasier or the larger Boulder community a better place. School children, residents,
trustees, neighbors, all were recognized as
Champions of Inclusivity for their volunteer
activities.
Students serve as welcome visitors in Assisted
Living or help us with our computers. Outside
adults assist with arts and crafts or exercise
programs; act as trip escorts, or bring pets to
comfort the ill. We residents volunteer as
front desk greeters or gift shop clerks. We serve
on myriad committees; we water plants; we
mend furniture; we play the piano or the organ
or the xylophone. We sing for others; we work
in the Surplus Shop. All were celebrated, applauded and named Champions of Inclusivity.
The Betty and Bill Fischer Service to Community Award is given each year to the resident
deemed most worthy of recognition for extraordinary volunteer contributions. Nominated by
residents and decided upon by a committee of
past recipients, staff and administration, it is
always a close competition in this community
of generous “givers”. After many WHEREAS
clauses and anticipation Jon Kottke, Chair of
the Board of Trustees and CEO Tim Johnson
awarded the honor to MARY JANE HALL.
Thank you Mary Jane for all you do!
Louise Bradley
Mary Jane Hall receiving the Betty and Bill Fischer Service
to Community Award from Jon Kottke and Tim Johnson
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May 2016
Ann Garstang with Linda Keschl
Al LeBlang with Molly Briggs
Simon Kyeyune with Kathryn Aronson
John Hill with Linda Keschl
Champions of Inclusivity List
Health Care Center
Independent Living
Staff
Susan Maxwell
Al LeBlang
Simon Kyeyune
Mary Ernst
Ann Garstang
Frasier Friend
“Special Award”
Jack Williamson
John Hill
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May 2016
The View from
Main (Street)
by Jim Wolf
Wellness Center:
Whitney Garcia McCain
What’s new
in Wellness?
T
here are two kinds of views in my
opinion: the wilderness view and the urban view, and I am lucky enough to have both.
The wilderness view of mountains, of open water, of nature when it is calm and when it is
harsh puts us in our place, small players in a
large landscape. The urban view differs dramatically; it shows the bustle of people, the
physical accomplishments of civilizations; it
connects us to our busy, hectic world.
When I drive forty minutes to my mountain
cabin, I sit in my easy chair and look west over
the untouched forest, to nearby hills and the
distant snow capped Front Range. In our
apartment in Frasier, I delight in the urban
view, looking south over the homes facing us,
and activity on Sioux Drive with school children going in both directions, runners and dog
walkers exercising, and busses, trucks and cars
rushing along. That view connects me to the
real world.
However, if I want a quick nature fix, I go up
to the fourth floor porch and look west, absolutely spectacular, and I am convinced, that I
enjoy the best of two worlds.
More palindromes
“Sit on a potato pan, Otis”
“He goddam mad dog, eh?”
“Yreka Bakery”
“Able was I ere I saw Elba” (attributed to Napoleon)
W
e strive to keep our programs and classes current and interesting. We held a
Demo Day in April to let residents, employees, and community members sample most of
our classes by observing or participating for
20 minutes each. New classes recently added
or coming soon include: Core Xpress, Core &
More, Aerobic Conditioning, Yoga Flow, Ageless Grace, Tai Chi, and possibly another water class…check Wellness Center class schedules for more info!
We are also working on building up the Healing Arts, or Alternative Therapies, services
through Wellness. These are available to everyone, across campus and those who live outside of Frasier as well. Recently added to our
list of therapies was Watsu aquatic relaxation
therapy (by appointment in the pool), as well
as a new Acupuncture Clinic which is being
held every Thursday from 1:30-3:30 and is
completely drop-in. We are considering adding Cranio-Sacral massage/therapy. Ask us
about these options! Try something new; there
are wonderful options here that can address so
many aspects of your health and wellness outside of the medical model.
Your suggestions and input are always welcomed. The Wellness Center is here to serve
you, and we take our role in your well-being
to heart!
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May 2016
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May Birthdays
INDEPENDENT LIVING
Bobbie Harms ................... 05.02
Jeff Grove ......................... 05.03
Larry Lankford ............... 05.03
Robert Dudley .................. 05.07
Frank Eddy ...................... 05.07
Louise Lindsey ................. 05.08
Anne Norwood .................. 05.08
Ben Chidlaw ..................... 05.10
Eben Tilly ........................ 05.11
Charline Mann ................. 05.13
Karl Anuta ....................... 05.16
John Harris ...................... 05.16
Jane Barker ...................... 05.17
Dick Norwood .................. 05.17
Joe Robb ........................... 05.17
Hardy Frank .................... 05.18
Judith Oddie ..................... 05.21
Robert Kehoe .................... 05.23
Ann Murtha ..................... 05.25
Jan Pisano ........................ 05.28
Harley Brown .................. 05.29
Charles Anderson ............. 05.31
Helen Davis ...................... 05.31
Kayrene Pearson .............. 05.31
HEALTH CARE CENTER
Vicki Winston .................. 05.21
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May 2016
The Confluence of
Two Rivers
I
n 1804, Lewis and Clark found the Mandan
people of North Dakota so welcoming and
hospitable that they extended their stay into
1805. They mapped the Mandans’ past and present villages.
The Mandans hunted buffalo, but they were
also skilled farmers, growing tremendous
quantities of corn even though their settlements were beyond the 100th meridian, where
such crops were not usually grown. They stored
their vegetables in caches that were six or seven feet deep, accessed by ladders. One village
might store as many as 70,000 bushels of vegetables. At their peak, the Mandans numbered
15,000.
row into the caches, but the advent of the Norway mouse spelled destruction. They were prodigious reproducers and ferocious burrowers
who devoured the caches. The Yellowstone
Steamer needed wood and deforested the area.
Measles and whooping cough invaded in 181819, and the big killer, smallpox, decimated the
tribe. Ultimately, the Corps of Engineers built
a huge dam on the Missouri River that flooded the fertile Mandan land. The tribe was
moved to Fort Berthold, ND, which now sits
above the enormous Bakken Formation, said
to be the largest oil reserve in the U.S.
Our library has a copy of the book.
Trish Judd
Horses were introduced in the mid 18th century
which allowed trading beyond previous limits
and interaction with other tribes, facilitated
by their talent as linguists. The Mandan villages became centers of commerce.
The Mandans provided a subject for CU Professor Elizabeth Fenn as rich as the soil at the
confluence of the Missouri and Heart Rivers
where the tribe first settled. Her book
“Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People,” was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in the history category in 2015.
In that same year the book also received the
Colorado Book Award in History and the
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished
Book Prize. In her recent lecture on April 14,
Dr. Fenn gave Frasierites an enthusiastic,
fastpaced, brief outline of the tribe’s history.
What happened to the Mandans? The area was
full of destructive deer mice that couldn’t bur-
Elizabeth Fenn
THE MIRROR
May 2016
If the Assembly
Room Had Rafters. . . .
. . .they would have been shaking on April 4
during the songs and arias of lyric coloratura
Christie Conover, who was accompanied by
well-known collaborative pianist Susan Olenwine of Boulder. They chose famous (and infamous) women of the west as the vehicles for
their musical selections.
Christie, a third-generation Montana native,
comes from a family of farmers and ranchers.
She is a professional opera singer and travels
the world singing a variety of parts. For starters she burst into “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from “Oklahoma,” wearing an aubergine
chiffon-like, knee-length dress, a cowboy hat,
and turquoise-etched cowboy boots, an interesting fashion non-statement. Pop tunes don’t
display her voice, which is pure and very powerful. No electronic amplification needed here!
Next were a couple of songs about Belle Starr,
who was hired to help cowboys move cattle, one
about her love for a bronco and one called
“Lift Me into Heaven.” The songs referring to
sharpshooter Annie Oakley were familiar to
those who remembered the popular musical
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“Annie Get Your Gun”: “You Can’t get a Man
with a Gun” and “I’ve Got the Sun in the
Morning.”
Calamity Jane is said to have had a child by
Wild Bill Hickock. Calamity Jane never met
daughter Janie, but she wrote letters to Janie
throughout her life. Excerpts from the letters
comprise the lyrics of the difficult and challenging, unmelodic composition that came
next.. I would describe it as musicians’ music,
requiring an audience with some musical sophistication for full appreciation. Now Christie was able to let out the stops in rafterrattling volume.
Progressing in difficulty, the last numbers
were arias from an opera commissioned by the
Central City Opera about Baby Doe Tabor. One
aria attempted to reconcile the competition between silver and gold, and the other described
Baby Doe playing the piano when she first
sees Horace Tabor. Again, full volume, a truly
operatic voice.
For the finale, Christie made a complete U
turn and yodeled “I Want To Be a Cowboy’s
Sweetheart” by Patsy Montana. The audience
loved it….. Yodelee, yodelee, yodelee!
Trish Judd
A sinister force of solecism exists on Madison Avenue. It is the work of the copywrongers.
Copywrongers are copywriters who make mistakes in grammar on purpose; in this way,
they pander to the most common, even substandard, usage.
The guiding light of the copywrongers was the Winston cigarette advertisement: “...tastes
good like a cigarette should,” instead of as . Thus a generation of Americans learned to use like
as a conjunction. (ot like a preposition.
From William Safire, Quoth the Maven, 1993
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May 2016
Saturday May Movies (7:00 p.m.)
May 7
Brooklyn
2015
After emigrating from Ireland, Eilis Lacey readily adapts to
the vastly different New York City, where she falls for a
young Italian. But when tragedy pulls her back to her
hometown, she finds her loyalties divided between two nations -- and two men. (Netflix)
May 14
This is where I leave you
2014
In accordance with Jewish custom, four siblings gather to sit
shivah after their father's death but are soon bickering and
renewing old grudges. Brought together for the first time in
years, the quarrelsome brood is in for a weeklong emotional
duel. (Netflix)
May 21
Carol
2015
Living in a 1950s society that considers lesbian romance taboo, two women from disparate backgrounds -- young store
clerk Therese Belivet and wealthy socialite Carol Aird -- develop an attachment to each other that ultimately turns passionate. (Netflix)
May 28
Jimmy’s Hall
2014
After being deported from Ireland to the United States, political firebrand Jimmy Gralton returns to his hometown a
decade later and reopens the dance hall he once ran as a
gathering place for youngsters -- much to the dismay of community leaders. (Netflix)