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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 July/August 20162012

Inside this issue: Annual Family Picnic notices 2 Saturday August 27th noon-2pm is the day for Pastor Jerry’s 2 our Family Picnic! Perspective We will be grilling Brats and Burgers, and will Birthdays 3

have sides and drinks and ice cream too! Special Events 3 Bahama Bob will be playing his steel drum, Nuts & Bolts 3

Caribbean style music. Please bring lawn chairs MSL Remembers 3

if you have them. Activity Calendar in- We strive to nurture an environ- ment of love, encouragement and We look forward to seeing everyone there! support. Within these walls we Transportation provide more than a home. We offer security and independence Milton Senior Livings while inviting everyone to grow transport van is and thrive within our community of friendship and mutual respect. available for doctors It is our ultimate goal to foster the fulfillment and happiness which appointments on arises from the best possible quality of life. Our residents shall 4th of July Parade Mondays. Any other be treated with dignity, cared for professionally and loved as family. We will have a float in the parade again day of the week must have this year so be sure to watch for us as we special arrangements go by! made in advance with Holly. Birthdays Special Events July Pastor Jerry’s Perspective July Happy Anniversary! On Father’s Day evening I treated myself to watching one of my favorite movies of all time, “Apollo 4th...Independance Day 13”, just before viewing the beautiful Strawberry Moon. In case you’re not familiar, the movie fea- 3rd...Jacque (AD) Congratulations to the tured Tom Hanks and was directed by Ron Howard. The incredible true story that gripped our nation following employees for 6th...Music w/Dave describes how Mission Control and the three on board worked together to bring about one 4th...Erika (RA) their years of service of the most dangerous and complex rescue efforts in history. 14th...Mary Attig Newman here at MSL. Even though I’ve watched “” a dozen or so times since it debuted in 1995, watching it again 14th...Edna 12th...Lunch Outing on Father’s Day caused me to think about numerous spiritual parallels that had never crossed my mind July before. 17th...Carm 19th...Music w/Jerry Strack Shelly (Hskp)...1year My first thoughts concern what happened before the explosion that crippled the flight. Commander 20th...Joyce 26th...Lake Geneva Boat , Command Module Pilot , and Lunar Module Pilot were original- Sammie (RA)...3 years Tour ly scheduled to fly , but got bumped up when the original commander took longer to recover 21st...Jeanette Bitter from surgery than expected. Then when Ken Mattingly was exposed to the measles, he was replaced by Holly (AD)...3 years 27th...The Music Doctors . 22nd...Borg August 29th...Music w/Mike

It strikes me that we don’t get to decide which flight our spiritual Mission Control assigns us to. Nor MaryAnn (ACT)...1year Gruber do we always get to be accompanied by the people we want to fly with, as Jim Lovell discovered when August he lobbied to keep Ken Mattingly as part of his team. Rather than wishing we were assigned to an eas- Hannah D.(RA)...2years August ier assignment or that we were able to work alongside our best friends, the Lord wants us to trust Him 3rd...Kristi (RA) as our spiritual NASA Director (Never failing, Almighty, Supreme, Advocate). Linda Q. (Diet)...7years 10th...Lunch Outing 17th...Nancy (Diet) I was also impressed with how for the crew to have any chance of returning safely, they had to obey Outings 13th...Music w/Jesse every direction that came from , no matter how contrary to logic it was. Two examples will 20th...Bill Walker suffice. They had to power down the Command Module within minutes, thus abandoning any chance of JulyTrips: landing on the moon, and use the Lunar Module as a lifeboat. Then the astronauts were instructed to 29th….Kim (Diet) 16th..Music w/Jerry construct a contraption consisting of the cover of the flight plan, duct tape, 2 socks, and a bungee cord 12th...Lunch @ The Rock on to make a square CO2 filter fit into a round hole. 30th...Verna Strack the River Similarly, the Lord expects obedience from us even when it doesn’t make sense. Consider Joshua & 30th...Marilyn 24th...Lunch Outing the Israelites marching around the walls of Jericho. Or David confronting Goliath with just a sling- 26th...Lake Geneva Boat shot. Or a young boy offering Jesus his lunch of five loaves & two fish that He used to feed a crowd of 31st...Lucia thousands. If we are to safely make it home, obedience is not an option. Tour AugustTrips: Finally, shortly before the astronauts are due to splash down, high level NASA executives are honestly Milton Senior Living assessing the risks of the aborted mission ending well. Two men were fretting that this would end in 10th...Lunch @ Anchor Inn NASA’s biggest disaster. To which Lead Flight Director Gene Kranz responded, “With all due re- Remembers: spect, I believe this will be NASA’s finest hour”. 24th...Lunch @ Culvers Phyllis Johnson

Vi Enke Sometimes it’s easy to look at our lives and view them as disasters. But thankfully, our Heavenly Fa- Remember to sign-up early ther specializes in taking the seemingly impossible challenges that we face and turning them into His Bob Wilson finest hour if we will allow Him to be our Commander. due to limited seating. Volunteers are Chaplain Jerry Amstutz conducts a weekly always welcome! non-denominational chapel service in the activity