Milton Senior Living 600 W. Sunset COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Milton, Wi 53563 MILTON SENIOR LIVING 600 W. Sunset Dr. Milton, Wi 53563 Phone:608-868-3000 Fax: 608-868-5117 Activities: [email protected] Admin: [email protected] We’re On The Web! Like us on Facebook! Miltonseniorliving .com Milton Senior Living Assisted Living September/October Jan/Feb20152012
Volume 2, Issue 34
Special Christmas Visitor Inside this issue:
notices 2
Pastor Jerry’s 2 Perspective Birthdays 3
Special Events 3 Nuts & Bolts 3
MSL Remembers 3
Activity Calendar in- We strive to nurture an environ- ment of love, encouragement and support. Within these walls we provide more than a home. We offer security and independence while inviting everyone to grow and thrive within our community of friendship and mutual respect. It is our ultimate goal to foster the fulfillment and happiness which arises from the best possible quality of life. Our residents shall be treated with dignity, cared for professionally and loved as family. Birthdays Special Events
January Pastor Jerry’s Perspective January 1st...Happy New Year!!! 8th...Gene Curler & Milton Senior Living A New Year brings with it a fresh start, a beginning some people desperately need. No Remembers: 6th...Music w/Dan Sullivan one knew that better than Bob May, whose wife Evelyn passed away from cancer just Katelynd (RA) Bill Burhop 7th...Lunch Outing days before Christmas 1938. Evelyn’s bout with cancer not only stripped them of all 9th...Carl Mates 14th...Music W/Bill Stevens their savings but left Bob with substantial debt. More concerning, Bob was left to raise their little 4 year old daughter, Barbara, by himself. 13th...Kellyn (RA) 14th...Hope Luthern Confirmation 14th...Helen Houge Student Visits A copywriter for the old Montgomery Ward’s department store chain in Chicago, Bob 20th…, Music w/Steven James was assigned the task in 1939 to come up with a Christmas story they could give away 26...Abby D. (ACT) Outings 21st...Lunch Outing in booklet form to shoppers as a promotional gimmick. Drawing upon his childhood ex- 28th...Gert Oakes JanuaryTrips: perience of being bullied by other boys, Bob began thinking about an animal that was 28th...Music w/Jesse Walker taunted by its peers. Bob knew what it was like to be too small to compete in sports and 30th...Baily (Dietary) 7th...Lunch Outing February he remembered well being called names that were less than complimentary. 21st...Lunch outing February 3rd...Music w/Steve Dioel According to snopes.com, it wasn’t long until Bob “settled on the idea of an underdog FebruaryTrips: 3rd...Helen Marzahl 4th...Lunch Outing ostracized by the reindeer community because of his physical abnormality: a glowing red nose. Looking for an alliterative name, Bob considered and rejected Rollo (too 12th...Mindy (ED) 4th...Lunch Outing 11th...Music w/Side by Side cheerful and carefree a name for the story of a misfit) and Reginald (too British) before 14th...Lauren(RA) 18th...Lunch Outing 14th...Happy Valentines Day deciding on Rudolph.” Of course, he wrote the now famous story in rhyming couplets. Naturally, he tested out the tale on his little daughter, who was enthralled. 22nd...Pat Unertl & Remember to sign-up early 17th...Music w/Cowboy Bob due to limited seating. Volun- Cindy (Act) 18th...Lunch Outing It took some convincing, but Bob’s superiors finally warmed to the idea, with Ward’s teers are always welcome! 24th...The Music Doctors distributing 2.4 million copies of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” during Christmas 1939. Very popular with children and parents alike, an additional 3.6 million copies Great News! were printed by 1946. Yet despite the story’s success, Bob May and his daughter lived in a two room apartment in Chicago’s slums, since the royalties belonged to his employ- Milton Senior Living now has a wheel- er and because his salary wasn’t enough to pay off Evelyn’s medical bills. Happy Anniversary! chair accessible van. It will be available Not knowing what else to do, Bob went to Montgomery Ward’s corporate President, for Dr. appointments etc and also for Congratulations to the Sewell Avery, and asked if the copyright could be turned over to him. In a wonderful gesture of kindness, Avery agreed, and Bob’s financial situation was forever changed for outings. There will be a charge for the following employees for their the better, enabling him to remarry and have additional children. transportation service. Please check with years of service here at MSL. January As we begin 2015, perhaps you need a fresh start that’s available from the One who the office for fees. Also, If you are wheel- makes all things new (Revelation 21:5). God wants us to take the lessons we’ve learned chair bound and have not been able to February from past disappointments, and apply them to our present situations for His honor and Cassie (Dietary)...1yr glory and for our good. join us on outings previously, please be sure to check sign up sheets if you would Chaplain Jerry Amstutz conducts a weekly chapel service in the activity room on Thursday's at 1:30 p.m. like to go. Everyone is welcome!