July 2006 Martha’s Nautical News July 2006 Martha’s Landing Summer - It All Begins With The Air... It all begins with the air, that sweet smell that permeates your senses. Flowers in bloom. Bees buzzing about here and there. The colors so vivid and Inside this issue: captivating to the eye, springing up everywhere it seems, creating a canvas of color. The perfect Perils of Pauline 2 backdrop for all that Summer entails. And the sun. What can be said about the sun? The Resident News 3 heat it radiates, the brightness that fills the sky. Just seeing it can affect everyone’s mood. Seeing it peek Monthly Entertainment 4 between thick, billowy white clouds brings a smile to Monthly Calendar 5 everyone’s lips and happiness to everyone’s heart. Monthly Articles 6 The sight of people on bicycles enjoying a leisurely ride along streets now free of snow and ice. The Monthly Articles 7 sound of children at play in playgrounds once hidden for months under a blanket of white snow, so happy Monthly Articles 8 to be free from school and studies, if only for a few Martha’s On The Move 9 months. Monthly Puzzle 10 Ice cream vendors and hot dog carts hocking their goods to people eager to purchase these symbols of Monthly Word Search 11 Summer. The night air fills with the sounds of live music, soothing or upbeat and bouncy, in venues that Trivia Plus 12 avail themselves of the night sky. Hands clapping, Resident’s Page 13 smiles and banter. Hugs and kisses from lovers in love cooing to the music they feel is meant just for Entertainment Bio 14 them. Staff News 15 For me it is a time of renewed hope and vitality. Spring was the bud. But Summer….well Summer is Closing Thoughts 16 the bloom. Full, open, new, fresh and alive. Bursting with opportunity and excitement. A respite from what Manager: is to come in all too short a time. Snow, cold winds, Tamra Belontz icy roads. Darks skies that dull the senses. Life Enrichment: But for now we have this wonderful time. For now Pauline Moore we have Summer. Celebrate it, take pleasure in it. Revel in all its splendor. Publisher/Editor: Summer comes but once a year. Nancie Gorven And now that it's here.....enjoy. Page 2 Martha’s Nautical News July 2006 The Perils of Pauline... n The Good Old t’s National ‘Ice Cream’ Summer Pleasures ISummertime! IMonth. Stay cool this Sunshine beaming golden month, help yourself to a heat ow that Summer is variety of ice cream, with or For lots of fun outdoors; here, we’ve got to without cones, in the café Vacations, for a sweet N retreat take a little time to enjoy anytime you would like. We To mountains, plains and it….It’s time for my will also be preparing our shores. summer vacation. I’m fantastic Sundae Cart on Kids in constant summer looking forward to spending Thursday July 27th at our motion, some family time at the Ice Cream Social on the Free from teacher’s rule, Moore cottage on Jack’s Patio. Head to toe in suntan Lake in Apsley (1 hour lotion, north of Peterborough) o, for this month, take At the beach or pool. between 2uly 1 -9th , Ssome time for yourself, Inflatable rafts on which to July 24 -30th and enjoy the sunshine, take a float, Camping and fishing gear, August 11 -20th. stroll in the park, take a Rowing or sailing or water walk on the beach, feel the ski boat, he ‘show must go on’ sand and water between Tell us summer’s here. Tas they say, so our your toes, read a good Things we can’t do the rest team at Martha’s will try to book, or just get to know of the year keep you busy. If the your neighbors better. Are summer’s special temperature cooperates, treasures; some of our activities may Oh summer, summer, take place on the Patio. linger long, And give us all your pleasures! July And August Special Outings... ummers Eve Mystery rand River Boat Cruise amilton Harbor Boat SDrive on Wednesday Gon Thursday July HCruise on Thursday July 12th from 6:30 to 20th August 3rd from 10:45 to 8:30pm. Seats still available. Cost is $53.00 3:00pm. Seats still available. Cost is $11.00 Sign up with Pauline. Sign up with Pauline. Cost is $57.00 Sign up with Pauline. ummers Eve Mystery icnic and Drive to SDrive on Wednesday PNiagara on Monday August 2nd from 6:30 to cenic Tour and Picnic July 17th 8:30pm. Seats still available. SDrive to Kitchener Cost is $22.00. Cost is $11.00 and St. Jacobs on Wednesday August 23rd Sign up with Pauline. Sign up with Pauline. from 10:00 to 3:00pm. Seats still available. Cost is $22.00 Sign up with Pauline. July 2006 Martha’s Nautical News Page 3 Resident’s Information For July... All Aboard - Welcome New Residents! Farewell, We Will Miss You! • Neil and Norma Miller, Suite 515 • Margaret Abbott, Suite 515 • Ann Petrunas, Suite 204 • Ted Hanna, Suite 204 Residents Birthday’s! Get Well Soon, In Hospital! • Minnie Cudlip, July 7th • Edna Monkhouse, Suite 301 • Mary Curran, July 9th • Ruth Dempster, July 24th • Ann Roberts, July 27th • Ida Catena, July 29th A Vignette On Becky Brown... er days are filled, she spends many Shop on Main Street behind the Bus Hpleasant hours working on the Terminal in Hamilton. She remembers group jigsaw puzzle, visiting with her when perms were on special for $3.00. friends that she has made in the past year She worked there for six years before living at Martha’s and keeping in touch she married and moved to Port Credit to with her family and friends. raise her two sons. When in Port Credit, Becky has two sons, one step -daughter, Becky opened up her own shop five grandsons and three granddaughters. “Debonair” and ran it for ten years. She doesn’t want to forget to include her After selling her shop, she traveled in three year old ‘grand -dog’, Daisy, the England for one year living in thirteen special and lively entertainer. different homes of friends and relatives. Over the years her past times have Upon returning to Canada, Becky included knitting, sewing and embroidery. moved to Burlington, Lasalle Towers which was new then, and took a job at In my discussions with Becky, she spoke Joseph Brant Hospital as a Ward Clerk about the changes she has seen in in the small Intensive Care Unit. There Burlington over the years. As a little girl she met and later married her second ecky Brown at age 93 is very she visited her family here often she says husband and moved to a house on King Bgrateful to still be here and in “when Burlington had dirt roads and Road in Burlington. Becky later moved such great shape too! cinder paths” - Wow! to an apartment on Pearl Street in downtown Burlington where she lived She says “coming to Martha’s Becky was born on Rebecca Street in for thirty -two years before moving to Landing was the best move she ever Hamilton and grew up there. She started Martha’s Landing. made.” work as a hairdresser at the age of sixteen, working at the Hollywood Beauty Page 4 Martha’s Nautical News July 2006 We’re Jazz’n Up July... DATE EVENT TIME COMMENT July 4 Happy Hour And Entertainment 3:30pm Peter Arthur On Guitar With Canada Day Celebration July 6 Resident Birthday Celebration And 1:30pm Join Lillian For A Sing Along Of Your Sing Along Favorite Songs July 13 Happy Hour And Entertainment 3:30pm ‘Dynamic Duo’ Darlene Singing And Al On His Magic Keyboard July 14 Barbeque Lunch - Patio Party 12:00 Choose To Eat Your Lunch & Relax On the Patio July 18 Dogs Visit 1:00pm Sammy and Mr. Chips Will Be Here July 18 Patio Party 1:30pm Paul Entertains On His Keyboard July 25 Happy Hour And Entertainment 3:30pm Cedric On The Keyboard July 27 Ice Cream Social And Entertainment 1:30pm Sonny Sinclair, Guitarist July 28 Barbeque Lunch - Patio Party 1:00pm Choose To Eat Your Lunch & Relax On the Patio Burlington Community Events at Spencer Smith Park For The Month Of July Canada Day Event and Fireworks on Saturday July 1st Kite Festival on Sunday July 9th Pag e 6 Martha’s Nautical News July 2006 The History of Kites... It all started in Ancient several kites, attached in a best know as the inventor of China: row, to measure and the rotary engine. On The first recorded record of compare air temperature at November 7 1903, kite flying was over three different altitudes. Benjamin Samuel Franklin Cody thousand years ago, in Franklin used kites to pull crossed the English Channel China using the materials boats, carriages, and sleds in on a vessel powered by the bamboo and silk. experiments with traction wind that blew the kites and to experiment with attached to his water craft. Originally kite flying had it's electrical energy in the roots in mythical and During the later 19th and atmosphere. But he is best early 20th centuries, kites religious traditions. They remembered for his were widely considered to were sometimes used for dangerous and life hoisting military observers be useful for ensuring a threatening experiments with good harvest or scaring into the air so that they kites and atmospheric could observe the away evil spirits.