DOCSLIB.ORG

April 2021 April 2021

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
April 2021 April 2021 April 2021 April 2021 What’s Up, Doc? April Birthdays On April 30, 1938, Warner Bros. released a new Mary Drake 4/5 Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Porky Pig as a Bettie Ferry 4/6 April Newsletter hapless hunter trying to unsuccessfully bag a Barbara Licari 4/12 humorously hyperactive rabbit named Happy. Wilma Bowen 4/13 Hilltop Commons 131 Eureka St. Grass Valley, CA 95945 (530) 272-5274 How could audiences know that this rabbit Barbara Comfort 4/16 would evolve into Bugs Bunny, one of the most Eldha Amezcua 4/16 Celebrating April From the Desk of Terri Howell recognizable cartoon characters of all time? Bev Donato 4/23 Lynn Stites 4/27 Community Administrator The rabbit in Porky’s Hare Hunt bore Easter Knock, knock! little resemblance to the Bugs Bunny April Anniversaries April 4 we all know and love today. This Who’s there? white rabbit wore no gloves, lacked Hatch. Pat Anderson 2 years Earth Day Hatch who? Bugs’ recognizable voice, and did Barbara Comfort 3 years Bless you and please cover your mouth next time. not eat a single carrot! Nevertheless, April 22 Jayne Brown 4 years Who doesn’t love a good knock, knock joke? Lucky for us, April is the rabbit was voiced by Mel Blanc, Rena Scharf 4 years the future voice of Bugs Bunny, and the short National Humor Month and was conceived as a means to heighten Activities public awareness of the therapeutic value of humor. Studies have was directed by Ben “Bugs” Hardaway, for whom shown that laughter and joy, the benchmarks of humor, lead to Bugs Bunny was later named. It would be two improved well-being, boosted morale, increased communication skills years before Bugs made his official debut in Exercise 9:30am and an enriched quality of life. A Wild Hare. When a redesigned rabbit was Mondays - Saturdays It is no coincidence that the month begins with April Fools’ Day, a day requested for the short, Bob Givens went to work Common Area which has sanctioned frivolity and amusement for hundreds of years. and sketched a rabbit based on a Bugs Hardaway HILLTOP COMMONS INFORMATION Humor as a tool to lift ailing spirits is an established notion supported design labeled “Bugs’s Bunny.” The name stuck. Office: (530) 272-5274 Bingo 1:00pm by scientific research. The curative power of laughter and its ability to When audiences got their first glimpse at the new relieve debilitating stress and burnout may indeed be one of the great and improved rabbit, the character stuck, too. Kitchen: (530) 272-2854 Mondays, Tuesdays, and medical discoveries of our times. Fax: (530) 272-5275 Thursdays Why do we love humor? Humor is free entertainment. The best things The Bugs Bunny featured in A Wild Hare already Laundry Room Hours: Common Area in life are free and that includes humor. Sure you can pay to see a great displayed many of the Bugs Bunny trademarks Daily: 7:00am-9:00pm comedy show or go check out a funny new movie, but getting a good we have come to love. When staring down the laugh really doesn’t have to cost a penny. Please remove all items from washers “Thirsty Thursdays” barrel of Elmer Fudd’s shotgun, Bugs first utters and dryers by 9:00pm Laughter is contagious. What makes you open your mouth wide, is his catchphrase “What’s up, Doc?” in a Brooklyn- Thursday afternoons Van Schedule highly contagious and isn’t a yawn? You guessed it, laughter! Studies esque accent. The phrase was added by the door-to-door show that just hearing the recorded sound of laughter causes our facial Temporarily suspended cartoon’s director, Tex Avery, who had heard the muscles to naturally form a smile and that laughing with others can expression a thousand times in his native Texas. Beauty Salon Hours: help you form stronger social bonds. Masks are required for all Avery figured it a throwaway line and was more Temporarily Closed Laughter is the best medicine. Just because laughter is contagious activities surprised than anybody when it left audiences doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Humor rolling with laughter. As for Bugs’ obsession with IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS: can be a great tool for combating difficult emotions, slowing the aging Space is limited and munching carrots, this was a habit “borrowed” Gold Country Lift: 271-7433 (271-RIDE) process and increasing overall satisfaction with life. sign-ups are required from Clark Gable’s character in the 1934 movie It Post Office: 273-3429 What are we waiting for? Let’s hear it for the knock, knock jokes, corny Happened One Night. In one scene, Gable stands The Union: 273-9565 dad jokes and chicken crossing the road jokes. Cheers to an April filled Please call the office to sign up for with enough humor to tickle even the most fickle funny bone! by a fence spouting advice to Claudette Colbert Comcast Cable: any activity while chewing a carrot and talking with his mouth 1-800-266-2278 full. The scene was so famous at the time that Gold Country Cab: 274-8294 All activities are subject to change audiences immediately got Bugs’ imitation, and it Fast Taxi: 477-7766 earned the bunny instant panache. His popularity Grass Valley Police would endure for over 70 years and he would 477-4600 (non-emergency) remain Warner Bros.’ most popular and recognizable mascot. www.raystoneseniors.com April 2021 April 2021 Marketing Minutes Activities Stuff Culinary Corner Letter from the Editor By Sue Hudson By Traci Gelgood Traci Gelgood Marketing Director Assoc. Marketing Director Acting Activities Director Being your Marketing Director during this April showers bring May flowers… IMPORTANT REMINDER pandemic has been interesting, to say the Happy April! Easter Brunch is on Sunday, April 4th. We least. As things slowly open back up, life will Great news! We are finally able to begin will be serving baked ham, yams, Please remember to check your looking into opening things up a bit, and we start to feel a little more normal again, which scalloped potatoes, baked beans and pendants once a month by pressing have begun with our Library! It will now be the button to make sure it is working we are all more than ready for. But this is a sautéed green beans with bacon. open for you to go in and choose a book or a properly. You will NOT hear process, and we must stay vigilant in wearing puzzle, ONE PERSON AT A TIME, and masks Strawberry French toast with sausage will must still be worn. This, of course, will replace be the breakfast option, and for dessert anything, but the pendant company a mask and always social distancing, so we the need for the library cart. Because we are we are serving lemon meringue pie. will call to confirm that the button is continue to stay COVID-19 free! only allowing one person at a time, and since working. we are asking you to be brief, we are not yet Easter is a half day for the kitchen staff, Be ready to answer your phone to let permitting card games or puzzles in the so we will be leaving for the day at Our phones have been ringing with seniors the pendant company know that you Library. 2:00pm. We will be handing out box interested in a safe and stress-free life, were just testing your button when Another activity we will be starting up again is dinners when we deliver your brunch. If they call from (248) 773-0265. especially after being isolated from all friends TRIVIA. This will be on Wednesday afternoons you are unable to get your box dinner and family over the past year. Following the in the common area, beginning in a few weeks. before 2:00pm, the office or night watch It is also EXTREMELY IMPORTANT I will keep you posted. COVID protocols, Traci and I are excited to be staff will be happy to get one for you. that you let the office know if any of able to give tours again, inviting folks in to see PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE TO SIGN-UP IF your contact phone numbers have YOU ARE INTERESTED! (530) 272-5274 Thank you all for being you. what life at Hilltop Commons looks like! As changed (either yours or your family As we are able to add in more activities, we See you soon! members). always, we thank you for being so kind and will let you know. In the meantime, let me know Sincerely, friendly to the prospects as we pass by on a if you have any questions or would like to sign Thank you and stay safe! tour. Although we can’t see your smile up for any activity! Please check the front panel of this newsletter for activity details. And Jammie Barquilla (Chef) through your mask, we can hear it in your please continue to wear your mask outside of voice and see it in your eyes. We are so your apartment. blessed to have the best residents living right Stay happy, healthy and safe! Kitchen # 272-2854 here at Hilltop! May Spring bring many smiles to your face, appreciation to your heart and sunshine to warm your soul. Stay healthy my friends! Love, Sue .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The University of Chicago Looking at Cartoons
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LOOKING AT CARTOONS: THE ART, LABOR, AND TECHNOLOGY OF AMERICAN CEL ANIMATION A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES BY HANNAH MAITLAND FRANK CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AUGUST 2016 FOR MY FAMILY IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER Apparently he had examined them patiently picture by picture and imagined that they would be screened in the same way, failing at that time to grasp the principle of the cinematograph. —Flann O’Brien CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES...............................................................................................................................v ABSTRACT.......................................................................................................................................vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................................................................................................................viii INTRODUCTION LOOKING AT LABOR......................................................................................1 CHAPTER 1 ANIMATION AND MONTAGE; or, Photographic Records of Documents...................................................22 CHAPTER 2 A VIEW OF THE WORLD Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation ...................................72 CHAPTER 3 PARS PRO TOTO Character Animation and the Work of the Anonymous Artist................121 CHAPTER 4 THE MULTIPLICATION OF TRACES Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.......174
    [Show full text]
  • February 20, 2015 Vol. 119 No. 8
    VOL. 119 - NO. 8 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 $.35 A COPY WATCHING WHILE THE WORLD BURNS A Winter Poem by Sal Giarratani It’s winter in Massachusetts Back when Jack Kennedy and the gentle breezes blow. was a young man, he penned At seventy miles an hour a great piece of non-fiction entitled, “While England and at thirty-five below. Sleeps” in which he warned Oh how I love Massachusetts the world that to sit back and when the snow’s up to your butt. watch evil like a helpless bystander led to World War II. You take a breath of winter While Hitler and the Nazis and your nose gets frozen shut. slaughtered millions of inno- Yes, the weather here is wonderful cent people, including six so I guess I’ll hang around. million Jews, the West sat on its hands, but eventually I could never leave Massachusetts evil has a way of growing if cuz I’m frozen to the ground. left alone. I see the very same thing — Author Unknown taking place as I write this commentary. Just over the Presidents’ Day holiday weekend, 21 Coptic Chris- when it comes to his objec- puts a target on Europe and tians were rounded up by tivity on Radical Islam who especially Rome, Italy. Our ISIS and all dressed in or- are trying to create a global president may not believe ange jumpsuits had their caliphate when Jewish pa- we are in a war, but we are heads severed on video for trons at a Paris deli are ex- thanks to the other side.
    [Show full text]
  • Free-Digital-Preview.Pdf
    THE BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & ART OF ANIMATION AND VFX January 2013 ™ $7.95 U.S. 01> 0 74470 82258 5 www.animationmagazine.net THE BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & ART OF ANIMATION AND VFX January 2013 ™ The Return of The Snowman and The Littlest Pet Shop + From Up on The Visual Wonders Poppy Hill: of Life of Pi Goro Miyazaki’s $7.95 U.S. 01> Valentine to a Gone-by Era 0 74470 82258 5 www.animationmagazine.net 4 www.animationmagazine.net january 13 Volume 27, Issue 1, Number 226, January 2013 Content 12 22 44 Frame-by-Frame Oscars ‘13 Games 8 January Planner...Books We Love 26 10 Things We Loved About 2012! 46 Oswald and Mickey Together Again! 27 The Winning Scores Game designer Warren Spector spills the beans on the new The composers of some of the best animated soundtracks Epic Mickey 2 release and tells us how much he loved Features of the year discuss their craft and inspirations. [by Ramin playing with older Disney characters and long-forgotten 12 A Valentine to a Vanished Era Zahed] park attractions. Goro Miyazaki’s delicate, coming-of-age movie From Up on Poppy Hill offers a welcome respite from the loud, CG world of most American movies. [by Charles Solomon] Television Visual FX 48 Building a Beguiling Bengal Tiger 30 The Next Little Big Thing? VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer discusses some of the The Hub launches its latest franchise revamp with fashion- mind-blowing visual effects of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. [by Events forward The Littlest Pet Shop.
    [Show full text]
  • Some Special Visitors! So Good to See Schshawna and Her Baby, Zoe! Jazz Appreciation Month
    April 2021 640 W. Randall, Coopersville, MI (616) 997 -9253 www.coopersvillefountainview.org Celebrating April Habitat Awareness Month Some special visitors! So good to see Schshawna and her baby, Zoe! Jazz Appreciation Month Card and Letter Writing Month April Fools’ Day April 1 Easter April 4 Draw a Bird Day April 8 Scrabble Day April 13 World Amateur Radio Day April 18 Snack Cake Super Stardom Earth Day April 22 James Dewar started working at Illinois’ Continental Baking Company in the International Dance Day 1920s as a delivery boy, hawking pastries April 29 from a horse-drawn cart. By 1930, he had risen to plant manager, and on April 6 of that year, he created the most famous snack cake the Dates to Remember: world has ever known, the Twinkie. Before the cakes Resident & Family Picnic were called Twinkies, they were Little Shortcake Fingers, June 17, 6:00 pre-packaged strawberry-filled shortcakes that were available only during the short strawberry-harvest season. Annual Yard Sale The idle factory equipment drove Dewar to invent a new, Aug. 11-13, 9-5pm still nameless, yellow sponge cake filled with banana crème. While on his way to a marketing meeting, Dewar Ice Cream Social passed a billboard advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes. He Aug. 19, 6:30-8pm had found the Twinkies name, and the rest is snack cake history. April 2021 Barbara Rosenberg…………..02 Eugene Helsen……………….17 Freda Laug…………………...21 Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? We will sadly miss Polly Mulder & Joan Ardis who recently passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and This is the way we fold our clothes, fold our clothes,… friends.
    [Show full text]
  • Bugs Bunny Stamps Now Available Nationwide Forever Stamps Celebrate ‘Wascally Wabbit’ Who Has Gleefully Foiled Foes and Delighted Cartoon Audiences for 80 Years
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mauresa R. Pittman July 27, 2020 (O) 202-268-2220 [email protected] usps.com/news Bugs Bunny Stamps Now Available Nationwide Forever Stamps Celebrate ‘Wascally Wabbit’ who has gleefully foiled foes and delighted cartoon audiences for 80 years. WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service issued the Bugs Bunny commemorative Forever stamps today, the character’s 80th birthday. The Bugs Bunny stamps were dedicated in a virtual ceremony and are now being sold at Post Office locations nationwide and online at usps.com/bugsbunny80. “It’s a special privilege to celebrate the 80th anniversary of one of the most popular and iconic characters in history”, said dedicating official Kristin Seaver, chief information officer and executive vice president, U.S. Postal Service. “Bugs is both timeless and timely, a quick-change artist who can get out of a jam, win any battle, through his wits and clever disguises. He simply summons up whatever talent, costume or personality is needed to escape every perilous situation.” Seaver was joined for the ceremony by Pete Browngardt, executive producer of “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” and Alex Kirwan, supervising producer of “Looney Tunes Cartoons.” The virtual stamp event can be viewed on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages. The stamp artwork was developed in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, featuring work from Warner Bros. Animation artists. The stamps show iconic moments of Bugs Bunny’s career. The Warner Bros. Animation artists also created the sketches on the back of the stamp pane. Greg Breeding was the designer, and William J.
    [Show full text]
  • LOU SCHEIMER: CREATING the FILMATION GENERATION 1946–1948Chapter TWO Driving Japan Crazy
    CONTENTS... PREFACE ..........................................5 chapter seventeeN ......149 Anthologies and Expansion (1978–1979) chapter one .............................7 Wherein My Father Punched Out Adolf Hitler Years chapter eighteen .....161 Before Captain America Did (1928–1946) The Year of Legal Discontent (1979–1980) chapter two ..........................17 chapter nineteen .....171 Driving Japan Crazy (1946–1948) Silver Bullets and Soccer Balls (1980–1981) chapter three .................23 chapter twenty ..........179 Carnegie and an Early Proposal (1948–1955) Forced To Runaway (1981–1982) chapter FOUR .....................31 chapter twenty-one ....189 Clowns, Cats, Rockets, and Jesus (1955–1965) A Farewell to Networks / The Last Man Standing (1982–1983) chapter five ........................43 And Who, Disguised As A Real Animation Studio… chapter twenty-two ....197 We Have the Power! (1983–1984) chapter six ............................51 The Super Superheroes (1967) COLOR GALLERY ..............209 chapter seven .................59 The Fantastic Shrinking Bat-Teenager (1968) chapter twenty-three ....521 Morals and Media Battles (1984–1985) chapter eight ....................69 Gold Records and Witches (1969) chapter twenty-four ....223 Sisters Are Doing it for Themselves (1985–1986) chapter nine ........................75 Hey Lady! More Monsters & Music! (1970–1971) chapter twenty-five ......235 Let’s Go Ghostbusters! (1986-1987) chapter ten .........................81 Funnies, Games, and Fables (1971) chapter twenty-six ......241
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Mahan Collection of American Humor and Cartoon Art, 1838-2017
    Guide to the Mahan collection of American humor and cartoon art, 1838-2017 Descriptive Summary Title : Mahan collection of American humor and cartoon art Creator: Mahan, Charles S. (1938 -) Dates : 1838-2005 ID Number : M49 Size: 72 Boxes Language(s): English Repository: Special Collections University of South Florida Libraries 4202 East Fowler Ave., LIB122 Tampa, Florida 33620 Phone: 813-974-2731 - Fax: 813-396-9006 Contact Special Collections Administrative Summary Provenance: Mahan, Charles S., 1938 - Acquisition Information: Donation. Access Conditions: None. The contents of this collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/for more information. Preferred Citation: Mahan Collection of American Humor and Cartoon Art, Special Collections Department, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Biographical Note Charles S. Mahan, M.D., is Professor Emeritus, College of Public Health and the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies. Mahan received his MD from Northwestern University and worked for the University of Florida and the North Central Florida Maternal and Infant Care Program before joining the University of South Florida as Dean of the College of Public Health (1995-2002). University of South Florida Tampa Library. (2006). Special collections establishes the Dr. Charles Mahan Collection of American Humor and Cartoon Art. University of South Florida Library Links, 10(3), 2-3. Scope Note In addition to Disney animation catalogs, illustrations, lithographs, cels, posters, calendars, newspapers, LPs and sheet music, the Mahan Collection of American Humor and Cartoon Art includes numerous non-Disney and political illustrations that depict American humor and cartoon art.
    [Show full text]
  • Nationalism, the History of Animation Movies, and World War II Propaganda in the United States of America
    University of Akureyri Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Modern Studies 2011 Intersections of Modernity: Nationalism, The History of Animation Movies, and World War II propaganda in the United States of America Kristján Birnir Ívansson Final BA Thesis in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Akureyri Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Modern studies 2011 Intersections of Modernity: Nationalism, The History of Animation Movies, and World War II propaganda in the United States of America Kristján Birnir Ívansson A final BA Thesis for 180 ECTS unit in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor: Dr. Giorgio Baruchello Statements I hereby declare that I am the only author of this project and that is the result of own research Ég lýsi hér með yfir að ég einn er höfundur þessa verkefnis og að það er ágóði eigin rannsókna ______________________________ Kristján Birnir Ívansson It is hereby confirmed that this thesis fulfil, according to my judgement, requirements for a BA -degree in the Faculty of Hummanities and Social Science Það staðfestist hér með að lokaverkefni þetta fullnægir að mínum dómi kröfum til BA prófs í Hug- og félagsvísindadeild. __________________________ Giorgio Baruchello Abstract Today, animations are generally considered to be a rather innocuous form of entertainment for children. However, this has not always been the case. For example, during World War II, animations were also produced as instruments for political propaganda as well as educational material for adult audiences. In this thesis, the history of the production of animations in the United States of America will be reviewed, especially as the years of World War II are concerned.
    [Show full text]
  • Bcsfazine #536 | Felicity Walker
    The Newsletter of the British Columbia Science Fiction Association #536 $3.00/Issue January 2018 In This Issue: This and Next Month in BCSFA..........................................0 About BCSFA.......................................................................0 Letters of Comment............................................................1 Calendar...............................................................................3 News-Like Matter................................................................8 Herbie (Taral Wayne).........................................................17 Art Credits..........................................................................18 BCSFAzine © January 2018, Volume 46, #1, Issue #536 is the monthly club news- letter published by the British Columbia Science Fiction Association, a social organ- ization. ISSN 1490-6406. Please send comments, suggestions, and/or submissions to Felicity Walker (the editor), at felicity4711@ gmail .com or Apartment 601, Manhattan Tower, 6611 Coo- ney Road, Richmond, BC, Canada, V6Y 4C5 (new address). BCSFAzine is distributed monthly at White Dwarf Books, 3715 West 10th Aven- ue, Vancouver, BC, V6R 2G5; telephone 604-228-8223; e-mail whitedwarf@ deadwrite.com. Single copies C$3.00/US$2.00 each. Cheques should be made pay- able to “West Coast Science Fiction Association (WCSFA).” This and Next Month in BCSFA Friday 19 January 2018: Submission deadline for February BCSFAzine (ideally). Sunday 21 January 2018 at 6 PM: January BCSFA meeting—at ABC Country Res- taurant,
    [Show full text]
  • Adventuring with Books: a Booklist for Pre-K-Grade 6. the NCTE Booklist
    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 311 453 CS 212 097 AUTHOR Jett-Simpson, Mary, Ed. TITLE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K-Grade 6. Ninth Edition. The NCTE Booklist Series. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-0078-3 PUB DATE 89 NOTE 570p.; Prepared by the Committee on the Elementary School Booklist of the National Council of Teachers of English. For earlier edition, see ED 264 588. AVAILABLE FROMNational Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 00783-3020; $12.95 member, $16.50 nonmember). PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC23 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; Art; Athletics; Biographies; *Books; *Childress Literature; Elementary Education; Fantasy; Fiction; Nonfiction; Poetry; Preschool Education; *Reading Materials; Recreational Reading; Sciences; Social Studies IDENTIFIERS Historical Fiction; *Trade Books ABSTRACT Intended to provide teachers with a list of recently published books recommended for children, this annotated booklist cites titles of children's trade books selected for their literary and artistic quality. The annotations in the booklist include a critical statement about each book as well as a brief description of the content, and--where appropriate--information about quality and composition of illustrations. Some 1,800 titles are included in this publication; they were selected from approximately 8,000 children's books published in the United States between 1985 and 1989 and are divided into the following categories: (1) books for babies and toddlers, (2) basic concept books, (3) wordless picture books, (4) language and reading, (5) poetry. (6) classics, (7) traditional literature, (8) fantasy,(9) science fiction, (10) contemporary realistic fiction, (11) historical fiction, (12) biography, (13) social studies, (14) science and mathematics, (15) fine arts, (16) crafts and hobbies, (17) sports and games, and (18) holidays.
    [Show full text]
  • Gold Country SNF Newsletter Apr21
    April 2021 Tidbits Around Here Gold Country Health Center | 530-621-1100 EXT:4036 | SNF Newsletter Celebrating April Finch Feeders Are Back I’m sure you have noticed the empty bird feeders around Habitat Awareness Month the facility since February. In February, Mountain Democrat did an article on Salmonellosis outbreak April Fools’ Day causing finch deaths in our area. We called Sierra Wildlife April 1 Rescue to inquire on what we should do here. To help reduce the spread and reduce disease transmission, we Easter haven’t filled the feeders. It has been sad not to see the birds and we can hear them sing to us to fill the feeders. April 4 at 3:00PM We were told to wait a month and the waiting has come to Talia’s Hymns in the Courtyard pass. The lockdown is over for the finches and new feeders have been bought and placed around skilled Morgan‘s Birthday nursing. If you wish to donate feeders or seed don’t Entertainment hesitate to call (530) 621-1100 EXT: 4036 April 9 at 4:00 PM in our Courtyard Gold Country Retirement and Health Centers Talia’s Student Recital Celebrates April 11 at 2:30PM in the NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL Courtyard WEEK Resident Council & April 18-24, 2021 Scrabble Day “Thanks for Being EPIC!” April 13 "REPRESENTING THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM" Denise Pirnik Kim Mattos Trisha Raines El Dorado Dance Academy Teresa Schoener Dawn Whitecotton Susan Keale April 17 at 2:30 PM in the Debbie Grote Ky Bessom Kate Stanford Parking Lot Claudia Bethke CoCo Decarlo Maureen Thompson EPIC: Essential*Phenomenal *Inspiring *Courageous Planting Party Outdoor April 21st at 2:30 PM Earth Day April 22 Kiss of Hope Day April 24 April 2021 An Olympian Task Unnatural History On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games If ever there was a day to believe in magic opened in Athens, Greece, nearly 1,500 years and hope for the impossible, it is April 9, after they had been banned by the Roman Unicorn Day.
    [Show full text]
  • The Animated Movie Guide
    THE ANIMATED MOVIE GUIDE Jerry Beck Contributing Writers Martin Goodman Andrew Leal W. R. Miller Fred Patten An A Cappella Book Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beck, Jerry. The animated movie guide / Jerry Beck.— 1st ed. p. cm. “An A Cappella book.” Includes index. ISBN 1-55652-591-5 1. Animated films—Catalogs. I. Title. NC1765.B367 2005 016.79143’75—dc22 2005008629 Front cover design: Leslie Cabarga Interior design: Rattray Design All images courtesy of Cartoon Research Inc. Front cover images (clockwise from top left): Photograph from the motion picture Shrek ™ & © 2001 DreamWorks L.L.C. and PDI, reprinted with permission by DreamWorks Animation; Photograph from the motion picture Ghost in the Shell 2 ™ & © 2004 DreamWorks L.L.C. and PDI, reprinted with permission by DreamWorks Animation; Mutant Aliens © Bill Plympton; Gulliver’s Travels. Back cover images (left to right): Johnny the Giant Killer, Gulliver’s Travels, The Snow Queen © 2005 by Jerry Beck All rights reserved First edition Published by A Cappella Books An Imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN 1-55652-591-5 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 For Marea Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix About the Author and Contributors’ Biographies xiii Chronological List of Animated Features xv Alphabetical Entries 1 Appendix 1: Limited Release Animated Features 325 Appendix 2: Top 60 Animated Features Never Theatrically Released in the United States 327 Appendix 3: Top 20 Live-Action Films Featuring Great Animation 333 Index 335 Acknowledgments his book would not be as complete, as accurate, or as fun without the help of my ded- icated friends and enthusiastic colleagues.
    [Show full text]