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The ARC Library a Treasured Amenity The Newsletter of the Army Residence Community Volume 35 Number 4 April 2021 The ARC Library A Treasured Amenity JoAnne Kroll Glenna Solley page 8 Inside The Eagle April 2021 Contents The San Antonio area likely has 1 Front Cover -The ARC Library: A Treasured 250,000 free Amenity roaming cats. 2 Contents Residents are 2 The Cat Management Program required to keep 3 Birthdays and Passings their cats indoors but 3 The Aggie Muster at the ARC: 21 April that is not required 3 The Tax Aide Program ends 10 April. in our surrounding Please make a Friday or Saturday AM neighborhoods. The appointment now! Animal Code for Bexar County specifies cats 3 Saturday Bridge Resumes do not have a leash or containment law like 4 - 5 A Conversation with the CEO dogs. Cats are allowed to roam free. Free 6 - 7 Decision Fatigue, Quarantine, and the roaming cats are protected by anti-cruelty laws. 2020 Pandemic Our campus, with its open spaces and great 8 - 9 The Library - A Short Story shrubs with virtually no predators is inviting to 10 What’s New at the Beauty Salon? feral, stray and neighborhood cats. Stray cats 11 The Stylists of the ARC Beauty Salon have roamed the ARC campus over 30 years. 12 Golden Diggers 12 Kiwanis “Thank You” Letter There are 2 myths regarding outside cats: 12 Karen Crumal Receives KSAT-12 Myth #1: Stop feeding them and they will go Meteorologist’s Thermometer away. False. Cats do not leave their home 13 The Library territory. They just widen their search for food. 14 - 15 April Activities Myth # 2: Remove them and the problem is 16 April Movies and Broadway Musicals solved. False. For a short time, there may be -Paper edition ends, Resident Portal edition continues- fewer cats, but other cats will move in once Preparing, for Winter Freezes, Power Outages, they do not detect cats in an area. This is the “vacuum effect.” (A good subject to Google). and similar Emergencies Traveling Treasures The best approach is to manage the ARC’s cat population. We’ve made designated The Resident Portal edition continues with feeding areas away from cottages and practice our Military History series, by Mike Huebner: TNR. We trap, neuter and return cats to their The American Revolution, 240 Years Ago: home area. It is illegal to remove them from April 1781, “We are at this Hour, Suspended in where they are trapped. the Balance.” Our Cat Management Program is guided by The American Civil War, 160 Years Ago, April compassion, but we manage and contain the 1861, “Now We Are Enemies.” The Firing on small population of feral cats. These cats, in Fort Sumter. turn, discourage other cats from coming on ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jewelry, Handbags, campus. Community cats also help control Hats and more! Friday, rodents and snakes. Alley Cat Allies and the 9 April, 7:30 AM to 1 San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition are great PM, Apt 1021. sources of information on “Community Cats.” Proceeds benefit Golden Diggers ARC Cat Management Program Outreach. Mary Gustine and Jane Mashburn The Eagle is a monthly publication of the Army Residence Community. The paper edition is distributed the last day of the month. The online Resident Portal edition is at armyresidence.com. Future Residents receive an online edition via email from the Marketing Department. Unsolicited articles and ideas are welcome but are not guaranteed to be printed. The submission deadline is the 20th of the month. 2 The Eagle April 2021 The Eagle editor is Kevin Scott, at [email protected]. Birthdays and Passings APRIL BIRTHDAYS PASSINGS SINCE LAST 01 Jean Maloney ISSUE 02 Alice Dann Mrs. Barbara Moothart 4 March 02 Janet Todd 03 John Hamilton 03 Dale Offield 21 April: Aggie Muster. 03 Lorena Repaal The Annual Texas Aggie 03 Sammy Todd Muster will be held at the ARC on 21 April 2021. 04 Jean Bregman 04 Ellen Ellis If the restriction is lifted for a 04 Mary Foster 4 April: Easter Sunday. dinner, the Muster will be 04 Robert Shackelford Reservations needed for held in the Sky Lounge from 06 Louise Quinn Dining Room and Auditorium. 5 PM to 7 PM. Social will be 06 Mariann Stratton Special Takeout Meal also from 5 to 5:30 PM with 07 Marjorie Boyson available. Dinner and Muster 08 Sigrid McShane Ceremony following dinner. 09 Elizabeth Fox In the event we are still 09 Mary Nordin under COVID restrictions on 10 Patricia Miller dinner and social distance, 12 Patricia Kraus the Muster Ceremony will be 12 Marci West Free Tax Prep and Filing held in the Chapel at 6 PM. 13 Cecil Martin Ends Saturday, 10 April We will play this as required, 14 Sandra Hicks-Carothers Call 210-646-5414 for an but we will have a Muster at 14 Fleming Mauney appointment. You don't need to the ARC. More to follow as be a member of AARP. Just 15 Donald Gudinas we get closer. 17 Hugh Boyd make an appointment and bring 17 Sherry Mendel the appropriate paperwork and Dave Carothers “62 18 Sally McCandless SSN ID's. Expecting a refund? ARC Muster Chairman 19 Marge Canfield Bring a check to enter for 405 590 2192 bank's routing ID and your 19 Barbara Schneider --------------------------------------- account number. Your 20 Stephen Cady completed return will be 20 Charles Honoré electronically filed. 21 Dee Hirtle 21 Ann Mitchim Fun Bridge Bruce Holliman shares this on Saturday’s 22 Ruth Mosley great idea: Do you shop at has restarted. Amazon? If so, please 22 Ron Richtsmeier We will start remember to first log on to 23 Catherine Oakley at 1245 each smile.amazon.com, and register 23 Maria Segura Saturday and Army Residence Community – 23 Ermine Todd, Jr. play four San Antonio, as your charity. 24 William Brown, Jr. rounds of four hands. If you are You’ll get a quarterly notification 24 Andrea Martin interested in playing Bridge or of how much the ARC received 26 Iris Stull being a substitute, please that quarter. It’ll read like this: 29 Sandy Boyd contact Marilyn O’Hair at 210- This is the quarterly notification 30 Charles Mincks 646-5849. You can also sign up to inform you that the charity on the side bulletin board. you've selected, The Army BIRTHDAYS – BEGINNING --------------------------------------- Retirement Residence MAY Resident Council Meeting Community - San Antonio, 01 Mariel Garber on Monday, 12 April, 9 AM. recently received a donation of 01 Duane Solley Watch for an announcement: $43.36 from AmazonSmile -- 02 Ernest Irons This meeting may become at no cost to you or other 05 Garry Thompson available through Zoom. customers. April 2021 The Eagle 3 A Conversation with the CEO Note: A Conversation with the CEO is an impromptu exchange between Eagle editor Kevin Scott and CEO Steve Fuller. This conversation does not make official policy announcements. Those are made through Resident Updates. This exchange took place 23 March. Steve Fuller: What do you have on the storyboard of the April Eagle? Kevin Scott: The paper edition of The Eagle is 16 pages. The front cover announces the lead article, on pages 8 and 9, the center of the issue. Joe Hipp wrote the article describing our Library. On the front cover (at right) are JoAnne Kroll and Glenna Solley, under whose leadership the Library continues to flourish. SF: What goes into selecting a cover story? KS: Our current focus is to celebrate life at the ARC by highlighting our unique amenities. We also scan national holidays and observances, and match them to our scheduled activities. The annual National Library Week is 4 to 10 SF: We can all be proud of our community’s April this year. This national observance efforts here, again, run by Resident volunteers. celebrates the contributions of libraries and There’s another important program Resident librarians to society, and promotes the use and volunteers provide: Free tax preparation with a support of libraries, such as ours. program established by AARP and the IRS called Tax-Aide. What are the filing deadlines SF: Well, this was a great choice for a cover a Resident should pay attention to this year? story. Our Library was totally Resident-created and it’s Resident-managed. I see from your KS: Back on 22 February, the IRS stated notes there are over 30 volunteers operating victims of the winter storm in Texas were given the Library, six days a week. Actually, seven an automatic extension to 15 June. However, days a week counting the bookshelves on the deadline for using Tax-Aide did not change. campus, offering honor system borrowing, The Tax-Aide free tax preparation service is such as in the High-Rise near the mail room. offered Friday and Saturday mornings until Saturday, 10 April. What other programs or services provided by Resident volunteers are mentioned in the April On 17 March, the IRS announced the deadline issue? for individual return filing, nationwide, was now extended from 15 April to 17 May. Specific KS: Our campus is home to some feral cats. instructions will be given soon. Perhaps the Once they were pets in the surrounding Tax-Aide program here will be extended, neighborhoods but were abandoned, or perhaps not. Anyway, please make the strayed, and continued to reproduce, roam, live appointment and “git ‘er done.” The free tax outside and become wild. The best way to preparation includes electronic filing as well. legally and compassionately manage this population is through trapping, neutering and SF: My thanks to the Resident volunteers releasing, or adopting the cats or their kittens.
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