Gables Activity Calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 10:00 Wii Bowling 9:30 Catholic Comm 10:00 Manicures 10:00 Church 10:00 John 2:00 Bingo 10:00 Sing Along 2:00 Pumpkin 10:45 Sit & Stretch Schumacher 6:45 Church 11:00 Sit & Stretch Decorating 2:00 Jinxing 2:00 Puzzles 2:00 Joe Klinefelter 6:30 Movie Night Jeopardy

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 10:00 Frightening 10:00 Wii Bowling 10:00 Band Jam 10:00 Men’s Brunch 10:00 Manicures 10:00 Church 9:45 Ramona Frappe Fiesta 11:00 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Julie Moss 11:00 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Birthday Party 10:45 Sit & Stretch & Friends 2:00 Church—Pastor 2:00 Readings 6:45 Church 2:00 Dessert Outing Music by Royce Johns 2:00 Bingo 2:00 Caturday Visit Baer Carving & Decorating 6:30 Pat Lydon

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10:00 Wii Bowling 10:00 Reminisce 10:00 Test Kitchen 9:30 Catholic Mass 10:00 Manicures 10:00 Memorial 10:00 Stress Relief 2:00 Church— 11:00 Sit & Stretch 3:00 Horse Visit 10:00 Hymn Sing 2:00 Joan & Bill Service Coloring Ankeny 2:00 Music with 6:45 Church 11:00 Sit & Stretch 6:45 Walnut Street 11:00 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Donuts & Baptist Mark 2:30 Bible Devotions Players 2:00 Bingo Dangerous Discussion

20 21 22 23 Chat Circle 24 25 26 10:00 Wii Bowling 10:00 Plus One 10:00 Darrin Crow 10:00 Narratives 10:00 Manicures 10:00 Church 10:00 Caturday Visit 11:00 Sit & Stretch 10:45 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Church—Pastor 2:00 Bingo 11:00 Sit & Stretch 3:00 Jonathan May 2:00 Terrifying 2:00 Ice Scream 2:00 Petrifying Vince Social 6:45 Church 3:00 Men’s Group 6:30 Game Night Popcorn Party Trivia

27 28 29 30 31 10:00 Cider Social 10:00 Manicures 10:00 Wii Bowling 10:00 Tie Blanket 10:00 Scary Stories 11:00 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Church—Pastor 11:00 Sit & Stretch 2:00 Movie Theatre 4-5:30 Beggar’s Night 2:00 Amity Hannamann 2:00 Bingo 6:45 Church & Halloween Party 6:30 Movie Night

October 2019

The Funny Pages Giants Among Us On October 2, 1969, President Be sure to pick up a newspaper on Lyndon Johnson signed a bill Ga bles - Mill Pond October 18 so that you can celebrate creating Redwoods National Park in Newspaper Comic Strip California. While it is estimated that Mill Pond Senior Living | 1201 SE Mill Pond Ct. Ankeny, IA 50021 | 515-964-2273 Appreciation Day. The very first over two million acres of old growth comic strips appeared in the giant redwoods once existed along Califor- Mysterious in Life and Death nia’s coast, today 133,000 acres of those remaining rivals of New York’s newspaper in- The writer Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works were dark and dustry during the 19th century. Joseph Pulitzer’s New forests are protected as national and state parks. horrifying, macabre and mysterious. Perhaps it is fitting that York World featured the first comic strip in 1894, The coastal living conditions for these trees are per- Poe’s death on October 7, 1849, is as mysterious and strange as The Yellow Kid, about a down-on-his-luck boy who fect, and they get much of their water from the the stories he wrote throughout his life. It was October 3, 1849, hung out in Hogan’s Ally. Two short years later, thick fog that rolls in off the coast. These trees are election day, when an employee of the Baltimore Sun newspaper William Randolph Hearst’s Morning Journal jumped the tallest on Earth, and as such are the world’s tall- Celebrating October named Joseph W. Walker discovered a man lying in the gutter on the comic strip bandwagon and introduced a est living things. Take the redwood known as outside of his polling station. It was Edgar Allan Poe, but the weekly full-color comic strip supplement. Hearst even “Hyperion.” Standing at 379 feet tall, it is the tallest Pumpkin Carving & writer was so delirious that he was unable to move or went so far as to lure The Yellow Kid and his creator known tree in the world. The tree is hidden deep Decorating communicate. Many questions still lingered when Poe died just Richard Outcault away from the New York World. within a rugged and inaccessible section of Red- October 3 wood National Park and is considered so valua- four days later. The night before his death, still in an incoherent Frightening Frappe Fiesta state, Poe repeatedly shouted the name “Reynolds.” Who was By 1897, comics were in high demand, and Hearst ble that its location has not been disclosed so as to October 6 Reynolds? Why was Poe discovered wearing another man’s meant to capitalize on the phenomenon. He called discourage visitors and vandals alike. clothes? And most importantly, what had befallen Poe to leave upon Rudolph Dirks to create a new strip for the Dessert Outing him in such a state? There are countless theories about his cause Sunday edition of his New York Journal. The strip October 9 of death, including suicide, murder, cholera, tuberculosis, followed two boys. Hans and Fritz, who were constantly running into trouble with their parents and Gables Birthday Party alcoholism, carbon monoxide poisoning, a brain tumor, the flu, and even rabies. Others claim that since Poe was discovered schoolteachers. The Katzenjammer Kids, which ran Your Stamp on the World October 10 October is Stamp Collecting Month, so grab your delirious on election day, he was the victim of cooping. This is continuously from 1897 to 2006, remains the longest- Ramona & Friends when a person is drugged against their will and forced to vote running comic strip in history. magnifying glass and join the millions of people October 12 for a candidate. Sadly, definitive evidence does not exist to worldwide who collect, catalogue, and admire these prove any of these theories. To this day, no one really knows Soon, all newspapers wanted in on the comic strip act. miniature works of art. There is an almost infinite Horse Visits how Poe died. There is yet another twist in the mystery of Poe’s In 1915, the San Francisco Chronicle debuted the first variety of stamps issued by countries around the October 15 death. Every year from 1949 to 2009, on the anniversary of daily black-and-white comic, Bud Fisher’s Mr. A. world. Some are worth only a few cents, but others can be very valuable. The rarest stamp, issued in Ice Scream Social Poe’s birth, an unknown person visited Poe’s grave. For 60 years Mutt, which would later become Mutt and Jeff. they laid three roses on Poe’s gravestone and left a bottle of Classics like Gasoline Alley, Popeye, Krazy Kat, Dick British Guiana in 1856 and known as the One Cent October 21 Magenta, was purchased by a collector in 1980 for cognac. The person donned black clothes and a large fedora, Tracy, Li’l Abner, and Blondie began to appear all Petrifying Popcorn Social carried a cane, and covered their head in a white scarf. across the country thanks to syndication. It was only a $935,000. While for some stamp collecting is a October 25 Sometimes the “Poe Toaster,” as they were known, Kissed Poe’s matter of time before publishers realized that they playful hobby, for others it is an expensive obsession. gravestone or left a note that read, “Edgar, I haven’t forgotten could create entire books from comics. Detective Just as great works of art are forged, so are great Beggar’s Night you.” The disappearance of the Poe Toaster left yet another Comics and Action Comics soon spawned enduring stamps. The greatest stamp forger of all time was the Halloween Party mystery to be solved, a fitting tribute for such a renowned heroes like Batman and Superman. Even Walt Disney, Italian Jean de Sperati. He grew up in a family of October 30 that beloved master of on-screen animation, started printers and mastered the trade, but he turned those master of the mysterious. skills into becoming a master counterfeiter of stamps. All Hallows Eve serving audiences a Mickey Mouse daily comic strip in “October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive 1930. Lucky for us all, comic strips endure with an His forgeries are so perfect that they have become October 31 heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a works of art in their own right. Some professionals almost unlimited variety. All we have to do is pick up would full of beautiful adventures. They make me believe in any newspaper to find our favorite comic characters. cannot even tell the difference between his fakes and miracles.” the real thing. In some cases, a Sperati forgery is - Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed worth even more than the original stamp.