October 2012

A Hunt Military Community 8660 Angell St., JBAB • Washington, DC 20032 Phone: (202) 562-2631 • Fax: (202) 562-2721 • www.bollingfamilyhousing.com

September Yard of the October 2012 Month Winners! Hickam- Williams Family 8636 A Tyndall Street Hooe- Sweeny Family 5531 A Loring Way Doolittle- Marquez Family 1581 D Eglin Way Resident Events Rickenbacker- Llanes Family 326 March Lane PIZZA PIE on the FLY Billy Mitchell- Travis Family JBAB Halloween Events Oct. 1 and 15 (4–5:30 p.m.) 8012 Mitchell Loop Haunted House Visit Bolling Family Housing Community Westover/Duncan- Reams Family Oct. 27, (6–9 p.m.) Center to pick up your fresh, hot 26 Westover Ave Join us for lots of medium pizzas for only $5. spooky fun for everyone! Bolling Family Housing Fall Festival There will be hay rides, Oct. 20 (10 a.m.–noon) a kids maze, and light Petting zoo, pony rides, refreshments for sale. pumpkin patch and so much more! (located next to the Slip Inn) Halloween Spooktacular Joint Event with the Time to get creative for our Youth Center and Bellevue Housing Halloween decoration contest! We will select one home from each Halloween Parade & Trick neighborhood on Oct. 26 to win a or Treating spooktacular prize! Fall for Autumn Oct. 31, 5 p.m. This October, take in the beautiful Join us at Giesboro Park for our colors of this glorious season. annual JBAB Halloween Parade. Following with trick or treating at 6:30 p.m. Happy Halloween!

Christy Rutan Community Director Congratulations Winners! Stephanie Harris Assistant Director Ashley Thorpe GOQ Coordinator Leasing Satisfaction Survey Shamika Jacobs Bookkeeper Liebold Family - 3137 Scott Dr Stacie Seegars Resident Specialist September Birthday Xochitl Garza Resident Specialist Maintenance Satisfaction Survey Bonanza Winner Melonie Johnson Resident Specialist James Family - 8023 Mitchell Loop Alissa Merritt Stephanie Gilbert Resident Specialist Happy Birthday! Dan Gruver Maint. Director Joseph Zagar Asst. Maint. Director store some loot in their barracks, and I need to get rid of it quickly! Avast ye to bring in the completed CEL Survey so ye can pick up a key to me booty chest. A special key will unlock me chest and ye could win some of me treasure. Arrrrr! Captain Jack Bolling

Word for October: Cool With October comes a refreshing briskness in the air, a cool balm to summer’s heat. The word “cool” has become slang for “all right” or “very good.” But “cool” also suggests a sense of cerebral detachment— CEL Survey waiting for the heat of the moment to We Treasure Arrrr Residents! subside so cooler heads can prevail. Ahoy me buccaneers! Don’t forget This autumn, as you reach for a to bring your completed CEL survey to sweater to stave off the season’s chill, the Bolling Family Housing Office for a think of ways to be cool while keeping chance to win me booty. Ye local your cool. spice traders have allowed me to

Office News We are happy to announce Melonie; our Resident Relations Specialist finally had her little bundle of joy on Sept. 1. While Melonie is out on maternity leave for the next 6-8 weeks, Stephanie Gilbert the newest addition to our family here at BFH will be the Resident Relations Specialist for Hooe Terrace & Rickenbacker. Stephanie Gilbert Resident Relation Specialist Please contact Stephanie for any questions or concerns, as well as maintenance requests @ (202) 562-2631 ext. 201

Holiday ABCs F is for the colorful Foliage A is for picking Apples at an orchard L is for Labor Day celebrations L is for Listening to the rustling Leaves

Layla Skye Johnson

Back to School Splash! Wit & Wisdom “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” —Stanley Horowitz Autumn Acorn Squash Soup “Autumn is a second spring when Ingredients: Winterize Your Wardrobe every leaf is a flower.” • 1 small onion Summer is over and sweater —Albert Camus • 1/4 cup chopped celery weather is back. Now is the time to • 2 tablespoons butter stow tank tops and shorts and bring “Autumn arrives in early morning, • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour out your cold weather gear. but spring at the close • 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon First, gather large plastic bins for of a winter day.” • 1/2 teaspoon dill weed clothing that will be stored and bags or —Elizabeth Bowen • 1/4 teaspoon curry powder boxes for the items you no longer • Dash cayenne pepper need; they can be donated. Next, take “Delicious autumn! My very soul is • 2 cups chicken stock clothes out of your closet, one by one. wedded to it, and if I were a bird I • 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened For each piece, consider these would fly about the Earth seeking condensed milk questions: Does it fit? Is it flattering? the successive autumns.” • 3 cups cooked acorn squash, Did I wear it this past summer? If the —George Eliot mashed answer to any question is “no,” place • Salt and pepper to taste the item on the donate pile. The items “It was one of those perfect English • 6 bacon strips, cooked that get three “yes” answers go on the autumnal days which occur more and crumbled keep pile. frequently in memory than in life.” Directions: There may still be some warm —P. D. James Saute the onion and celery in days, so choose a few items to leave butter in a large saucepan. Stir in out. Also set aside some tank tops or “Bittersweet October. The mellow, flour, bouillon, dill, curry and cayenne T-shirts for layering later in the messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause pepper. Gradually add chicken stock season. Pack your summer items between the opposing miseries and sweetened condensed milk. into the bins and label them of summer and winter.” Boil for 2 minutes. Add the squash, “seasonal clothes.” —Carol Bishop Hipps salt and pepper. While your closet is empty, wipe Place in blender; blend in batches down shelves and vacuum the floor. “Autumn is a season followed until smooth. Pour into bowls. Garnish Now it’s time to restock. Assess your immediately by looking forward with bacon. winter wardrobe. Make sure each item to spring.” For more recipes, visit fits. Ask yourself, “If I saw this at the —Doug Larson www.EagleBrand.com. store today, would I buy it?” If the answer is no, into the donate box “How beautifully leaves grow old. it goes. How full of light and color As you hang garments in the are their last days.” closet, put them on the rod with the —John Burroughs hanger backwards. As you wear items throughout the season, put them away “Youth is like spring, an overpraised with the hanger facing the right season more remarkable for biting direction. When winter is over, you will winds than genial breezes. be able to tell which items were never Autumn is the mellower season, worn; this will make it easier to decide and what we lose in flowers what to donate when you transition we more than gain in fruits.” back to your warm weather wardrobe. —Samuel Butler October 2012 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Don’t Miss It! Last Pizza Pie on the Fly Trash Pickup Trash Pickup Day to Pay Rent 4–5:30 p.m. Before Late Fees Rent Is Due Pest Control Pest Control Begin!

7 Columbus Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 Trash Pickup Trash Pickup

Pest Control Pest Control

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Trash Pickup Bolling Family Pizza Pie on the Fly Housing Fall Festival 4–5:30 p.m. Pest Control (10 a.m.–Noon)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Trash Pickup Trash Pickup JBAB Haunted Halloween House Decoration Contest! Pest Control Pest Control 6–9 p.m.

28 29 30 31 Halloween Parade Trash Pickup 5 p.m. Trick or Treating Pest Control 6:30 p.m.

1904: The New York subway opens, 1965: The Gateway Arch in Saint marking a new way to get around Louis, Mo., is completed. The Arch the city. symbolizes the city’s nickname of “Gateway to the West.” 1931: Gangster Al Capone, one of OCTOBER the most notorious criminals of his 1973: The Sydney Opera House time, is sent to prison. opens after 15 years in the making. 1781: British General Charles The Opera House is now the most Cornwallis formally surrenders, 1941: Mount Rushmore, the sculpture easily recognizable feature of Sydney, putting an end to the fighting of the of four presidents carved into a Australia. American Revolutionary War. mountain, is completed after 14 years of work. 1998: John Glenn launches into orbit 1810: The first Oktoberfest is held in aboard the space shuttle Discovery, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. 1947: Harry Truman delivers the first nearly 40 years after becoming the televised presidential address. His 1854: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, first American to orbit Earth. topic is food conservation. Ireland. He goes on to write many 2007: Al Gore and his associates win poems, plays and one novel, many of 1962: Johnny Carson takes over the Nobel Peace Prize for their work which are still popular today. for Jack Paar as the host of “The involving climate change, including the Tonight Show.” 1892: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s film “An Inconvenient Truth.” “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” is published.