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MARCH 2021 Hawthorn Adventure MAGNOLIA HEIGHTS STAFF Residents came out of quarantine and were welcomed Managers ���������� ROBERT & SAMANTHA ONOFRIO into a tropical paradise. The Dining Room was converted Assistant Managers ��������������������������������CHARLES into a dream “getaway,” complete with a sandy beach! The & LORETTA “SIS” GOULDING residents enjoyed several buffets, featuring treats from Executive Chef �������������������������� JASON CARFAGNA Hawaii, Fiji and New Zealand. They enjoyed steel drum Community Sales �������������������� CAROLYN PEREIRA music, a Kiwi Scavenger Hunt; and residents Bebe and Activity Coordinator �������� MAUREEN BECKERMAN Chickie took their fashion sense to a whole new level! Transportation ������������������������PETER CHENEVERT It was a nice treat during this challenging winter.

TRANSPORTATION Monday & Friday, 10 a.m.-Noon and 2-4 p.m.: Local Shopping and Errands Tuesday & Thursday, 9 a.m.-Noon and 2-4 p.m.: Doctor Appointments Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Special Outing Friday, 8:30 a.m.: Mass at St. Mary’s Wrentham

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Georgia Book Club The Book Club meets once a month. At each meeting, we choose a book to read the following month. The choices are diverse. You will have an opportunity to read and discuss topics that you might otherwise pass over. Many people choose not to join for fear that they might not finish reading a book on time, or they might not want to read a certain book. No worries ... come for the discussion anyway. If you’d like to join the Book Club, please sign up in the Activity Room. Board Games We recently purchased many board games, including Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Boggle, Yahtzee, Rummikub, Trivial Pursuit and more. They are located in the Billiards Room on the 2nd floor. Feel free to borrow them. It’s a fun way to get to know people, and something fun to do in the evening and on the weekends. Exercise Class We have great participation in our morning exercise class, but we are always looking for more people to join us. We listen to upbeat music while we move. It’s a great way to have fun while doing something good for yourself. We meet at 10:30 a.m. Give it a try (or come and watch)!

Fun Facts • Glass takes one million years • The song “Auld Lang Syne” is to decompose, which means sung at the stroke of midnight it never wears out and can be in almost every English- recycled an infinite amount speaking country in the world of times! to bring in the new year. • Gold is the only metal that • Drinking water after eating doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried reduces the acid in your in the ground for thousands mouth by 61 percent. Drinking of years. a glass of water before you • Your tongue is the only muscle eat may help digestion and in your body that is attached at curb appetite. only one end. • Peanut oil is used for cooking in • If you stop getting thirsty, you submarines because it doesn’t need to drink more water. When smoke unless it’s heated a human body is dehydrated, above 450F. its thirst mechanism shuts off. • The roar that we hear when we • Zero is the only number that place a seashell next to our ear cannot be represented by is not the ocean, but rather the Roman numerals. sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. • Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver • Nine out of every 10 living letters and newspapers. things live in the ocean. (Continued on page 6.) SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 8:45 St. Mary’s Mass 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Ageless Grace, AR 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 2021 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 11:00 Magnolia Store 11:00 Blood Pressure 11:00 Wii Bowling, AR 11:00 Brain Game, AR 11:00 Pictionary, AR 2:00 Movie, MT Open, AR Clinic, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT Birthdays 2:00 Board Games, AR 2:00 Yahtzee, AR 2:00 Show & Tell, AR 3:00 Beach Ball 2:00 Word Challenge 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR Vida Holmes, 3rd 2:00 Beach Ball 2:00 Bridge Club, TV 2:45 Name That Tune: Volleyball, AR Competition, AR 3:00 Spelling Bee, AR Volleyball, AR Mary Groden, 5th 7:00 Bingo, AR The ‘70s, AR 6:45 Featured Movie 3:00 Name That 6:45 Featured Movie 6:45 Let’s Reminisce, AR Katherine Smith, 9th 7:00 Bingo, AR Tune: Oldies 7:00 Bingo, AR

Ann Capone, 16th 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 10:30 8:45 St. Mary’s Mass 10:30 10:30 Ageless Ben Settles, 16th Exercise Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR Class, AR Grace, AR 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 11:00 Del Geddes, 19th 11:00 Trivia Let’s Bake!, AR 11:00 Magnolia Store 11:00 Blood Pressure 11:00 Wii Bowling, AR 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 11:00 Brain Game, AR 2:00 Movie, MT Bebe Garver, 21st 11:00 Pictionary, AR Open, AR Clinic, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 11:00 Senior Coloring, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Board Games, AR Michael 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Yahtzee, AR 3:00 Brain Game, AR 2:00 Show & Tell, AR 2:00 Word Challenge 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 Beach Ball Stadelmann, 31st 3:00 Bingo, AR 2:00 Bridge Club, TV 3:00 Beach Ball 2:45 Name That Competition, AR 3:00 Spelling Bee, AR Volleyball, AR 7:00 Bingo, AR Volleyball, AR Locations Tune: The 6:45 Featured Movie 3:00 Name That 6:45 Featured Movie 6:45 Let’s Reminisce, AR ‘70s, AR 7:00 Bingo, AR Tune: Oldies 7:00 Bingo, AR Activity Room, AR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS 14 15 16 ST. PATRICK’S DAY 17 18 19 FIRST DAY OF SPRING 20 10:30 Exercise 10:30 Ageless Atrium, AT 8:45 St. Mary’s Mass Class, AR Grace, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY Billiards Room, BR 11:00 Magnolia Store 11:00 Blood Pressure 11:00 Brain Game, AR 11:00 Pictionary, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 11:00 Wii Bowling, AR Bistro Kitchen, Bistro 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY Open, AR Clinic, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 2:00 Movie, MT 11:00 Senior Coloring, AR 2:00 Movie, MT Movie, MT Bocce Court, BC 2:00 Yahtzee, AR 2:00 Show & Tell, AR 3:00 Brain Game, AR 3:00 2:00 Board Games, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Word Challenge Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 Bridge Club, TV 2:45 Name That Tune: 3:00 Beach Ball 3:00 2:00 Beach Ball Chapel, Chpl 3:00 Bingo, AR Competition, AR Spelling Bee, AR 7:00 Bingo, AR The ‘70s, AR Volleyball, AR 6:45 Featured Movie Volleyball, AR Computer Room, CR 3:00 Name That 6:45 Featured Movie 7:00 Bingo, AR 6:45 Let’s Reminisce, AR Dining Room, DR 7:00 Bingo, AR Tune: Oldies 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Exercise Room, EX 8:45 St. Mary’s Mass 10:30 Exercise 10:30 Ageless 10:30 Fireplace, FP 10:30 Exercise Class, AR Exercise Class, AR Class, AR Grace, AR 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 11:00 11:00 Trivia Let’s Bake!, AR 11:00 Magnolia Store 11:00 Blood Pressure 11:00 Wii Bowling, AR Library, Lib 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 11:00 Brain Game, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 11:00 Pictionary, AR Open, AR Clinic, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 11:00 Senior Coloring, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR Lobby, LBY 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Board Games, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Yahtzee, AR 3:00 Brain Game, AR Movie Theatre, MT 2:00 Show & Tell, AR 2:00 Word Challenge 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 2:00 Beach Ball 3:00 Bingo, AR 2:00 Bridge Club, TV 3:00 Beach Ball 2:45 Name That Tune: Competition, AR 3:00 Spelling Bee, AR Volleyball, AR Private Dining 7:00 Bingo, AR Volleyball, AR Room, PDR The ‘70s, AR 6:45 Featured Movie 3:00 Name That 6:45 Featured Movie 6:45 Let’s Reminisce, AR 7:00 Tune: Oldies 7:00 Bingo, AR Shuffleboard Court, SC Bingo, AR 28 29 30 31 TV Room, TV 8:45 St. Mary’s Mass 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 10:30 Exercise Class, AR 2:00 “Never, ever 10:00 Indoor Walking, LBY 11:00 Brain Game, AR 11:00 Pictionary, AR Movie, MT 3:00 Knit & Chat, AR 11:00 Senior Coloring, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Movie, MT underestimate 3:00 Brain Game, AR 2:00 Movie, MT 2:00 Yahtzee, AR 2:00 Show & Tell, AR the importance 3:00 Beach Ball 3:00 Bingo, AR 2:00 Bridge Club, TV 2:45 Name That Tune: of having fun.” Volleyball, AR 7:00 Bingo, AR The ‘70s, AR 6:45 Featured Movie —Randy Pausch 7:00 Bingo, AR Fun Facts (Continued) • The banana cannot • Intelligent people have you can see stars, even • Due to earth’s gravity reproduce itself It can more zinc and copper in in the middle of the day. it is impossible for be propagated only by their hair. • When a person dies, mountains to be higher the hand of man. • A comet’s tail always hearing is the last than 15,000 meters. • Airports at higher points away from sense to go. The first • Mickey Mouse is known altitudes require a the sun. sense lost is sight. as “Topolino” in Italy. longer airstrip due to • The swine flu vaccine • In ancient times • Soldiers do not march lower air density. in 1976 caused more strangers shook hands in step when going • The University of Alaska death and illness than to show that they across bridges because spans four time zones. the disease it was were unarmed. they could set up a • The tooth is the only intended to prevent. • Strawberries and vibration that could be part of the human body • Caffeine increases the cashews are the only sufficient to knock the that cannot heal itself. power of aspirin and fruits whose seeds grow bridge down. • In ancient Greece, other painkillers, that on the outside. • Everything weighs tossing an apple to a is why it is found in • Avocados have the one percent less at girl was a traditional some medicines. highest calories of any the equator. proposal of marriage. • The military salute is fruit at 167 calories per • For every extra kilogram Catching it meant a motion that evolved hundred grams. carried on a space she accepted. from medieval times, • The moon moves about flight, 530 kg of excess • Warner when knights in armor two inches away from fuel are needed at lift- Communications paid raised their visors to the Earth each year. off. reveal their identity. $28 million for the • The Earth gets 100 tons • The letter J does not copyright to the song • If you get into the heavier every day due appear anywhere on “Happy Birthday,” which bottom of a well or a tall to falling space dust. the periodic table of was written in 1935! chimney and look up, the elements.

Slang From the ‘50s The winds of change ushered in the 1950s as a decade of conservatism, complacency and contentment in great American society. And the 1950s slang proved it. It is fair to say that 1950s slang was a vernacular that became a primal language for teenagers who sought independence and liberation. These were the years that the “baby boomers” were conceived. It’s long been said that, during this time, one baby was born every seven seconds in the United States. Here are some of the many ways people were discussed during this colorful era: Ankle-biter: A small child Circled: Married Back seat bingo: Making out in the back seat of a car Curtain climbers: Small children Badass: This is a word that is still used regularly today. Dreamboat: A really cute guy It referred to a tough guy at the time; today, it refers to Paper shaker: Cheerleader either a tough guy or a tough girl. Party pooper: Someone who’s not fun to be around Bash ears: Talk too much Queen: A popular girl Bird dog: Someone who tries to steal your girlfriend Supermurgitroid: Cool or “with it” The 15 Most Interesting Magnolia Heights Vaccine Clinic Friday, February 5th, St. Patrick’s Day Facts was a big day here 1. St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish national holiday at Magnolia Heights. with banks, stores and businesses closing for We were given the day. our first COVID-19 2. The first St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the vaccine shot by United States was held in Boston (1737). Bouvier Pharmacy. 3. Shamrocks are the national flower/emblem Residents have of Ireland. been very patient and cooperative 4. The color of St. Patrick’s Day was originally during this long blue. Wearing green has become a staple of year. We are optimistic that we are on our way to being better St. Patrick’s Day, but the holiday was originally protected, and having more freedom in the near future. associated with the color blue. It’s thought that the shift to green happened because of Ireland’s nickname “The Emerald Isle,” the green in the Irish flag and the shamrock, or clover. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn as early as the 17th century. 5. Beer is one of the most widely consumed beverages on St. Patrick’s Day. 6. Legend says that each leaf of the four-leaf clover has a meaning: Hope, Faith, Love and Luck. 7. 1962 marked the first time Chicago dyed its river green for St. Patrick’s Day. 8. Guinness is one of the most popular drinks on St. Patrick’s Day. 9. Shamrock shakes are also very popular (and tasty)! 10. There are 34.7 million U.S. residents with Irish ancestry. This number is more than seven times the population of Ireland itself. 11. The real St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He was born in Britain around A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family. 12. Your odds of finding a four-leaf clover are about 1 in 10,000. 13. The world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade is held in an Irish village. It lasts only 100 yards, between the village’s two pubs. 14. To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Chicago dyes the river green for a few hours. 15. St. Patrick never was canonized by a pope, making his saintly status somewhat questionable. 485 East Central Street Franklin, MA 02038

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