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101 Northbridge Rd. • Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 Phone: (781) 861-5062 • Fax: (781) 274-7717 • www.hanscomfamilyhousing.com Give a Gift to Mother Nature April 2013 Earth Day is April 22. Celebrate by building a bird feeder, picking up litter Welc me at an area park or making a commitment to recycle more Hanscom Family Housing Staff year-round. Kelley Casey Community Director Angel Medeiros Asst. Comm. Director We Have New Team Members! Fitness Tip: Tidy Tasks Karen Driscoll Admin. Assistant Our team has been a bit Spring cleaning can be daunting, Maria Rivera Leasing Agent short-handed lately. While we have but it’s actually a great way to get Charles Brewer Leasing Agent worked extremely hard to make sure some exercise after a sedentary John Tew Maintenance Director you didn’t notice, we are excited to winter. While getting dust and dirt out Rob Waters Asst. Maint. Director say that we have found a few people of your house is good for your health, Christina Magner Maint. Coordinator who match our high standards of so is pushing a vacuum around and Tony Wyman Bookkeeper service and excellence. Please stretching to dust bookshelves and welcome our newest team members, baseboards. Cleaning from room to Maintenance Staff Jake Calo, Maria Rivera and Charles room keeps you on your feet and Howard Schon Luis Ortiz Brewer. We’re looking forward to burns calories. A tidy space that you Phil Payne George Grimes adding our newbies’ abundance of can relax in at the end of the day is an Doug Best Raquel Calles knowledge and energy to our team. added bonus! Tony Simmonds Jake Calo Feel free to drop by and welcome the newest additions to our community! Pasta Night On 28 March, the FSS kicked off For the most up-to-date the month of the military child with happenings like us on Facebook. their annual Pasta Night event. We www.Facebook.com had so much fun spending time with /HanscomFamilyHousing. you and your family. Prevention Is Key Are We Up-to-Date? Residential Business Tell your doctor about your family’s If your contact information has Before you can run a residential health history. Many diseases that are changed, please let us know. It is business, you need to have written hereditary can be prevented. Early important to keep the office up-to-date permission. No door-to-door soliciting screening is key. on all your information. will be allowed and no advertising signs can be posted on the premises. Will It Float or Sink? If you have any questions, please call Not sure if your eggs are fresh? Put the leasing office at (781) 861-5062. the eggs into a bowl of water. Eggs that sink are fresh, and eggs that float Laugh ’Til Your Cheeks Hurt are not. April is National Humor Month. [email protected] Words From William garden. Tulips became hugely Widely considered the greatest popular, and the Netherlands writer in the English language, experienced a “tulip mania” in the William Shakespeare lives on 1630s. The price of tulip bulbs soared through his many plays and sonnets, so high, some varieties cost as much which are often quoted in everyday as a house. conversation. “To thine own self be Today, most of the world’s tulips true,” “lend me your ears” and “neither are cultivated in and exported from the a borrower nor a lender be” are all From Bulbs to Blooms Netherlands. Visitors flock to the phrases from Shakespeare’s works. A cheerful sign of spring, the tulip country every spring to see the Records indicate that Shakespeare has been dazzling humans for millions of tulips in bloom. Tulip was born on April 23, 1564, and died thousands of years. Native to central festivals—both in the Netherlands and on the same day in 1616. Take a few Asia, the flower gained popularity other countries, including the United minutes this April to brush up on some throughout the Ottoman Empire and States—are popular tourist attractions. Shakespeare trivia: was cultivated as early as A.D. 1000. Tulip bulbs are planted in • Shakespeare’s known works The word “tulip” comes from a mid-autumn and need cold weather include 38 plays, 154 sonnets Persian word meaning “turban.” during their dormant stage to grow and two epic narrative poems. Sultans would wear the flower on their properly. They bloom from mid-April • Shakespeare’s plays generally turbans as a symbol of life. through May. fall into three categories: Although tulips are often There are more than 3,000 comedy, tragedy and history. associated with the Netherlands, they cultivated varieties of tulips. Some • “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s didn’t reach that country until 1593, varieties have unusual colors or longest play at 29,551 words. when botanist Carolus Clusius planted patterns that are caused by mutations • The Globe Theatre in London is cultivated bulbs in Leiden University’s or viruses. where Shakespeare and his acting troupe, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, performed rice or wild rice. many of his plays. The theater Bake it better. Completely burned down in 1613 after a Healthy replacing white flour with whole-wheat cannon shot off during a flour in your favorite recipes can performance of “Henry VIII” Lifestyle produce mixed results. Instead, try caught the gallery roof on fire. replacing 50 percent of the white • A replica of the Globe Theatre is Whole-Grain Happiness flour with whole-wheat flour. You located near its original site and We know whole grains are better can also find many recipes that hosts several Shakespeare for our health than refined products, were developed specifically for productions each year. but it can be hard to make big whole-grain flours. • Queen Elizabeth I, a generous changes in what we eat. Follow these Make the switch. Many of the foods supporter of drama and tips, and you’ll be consuming more you already eat have whole-grain literature, reigned during most of whole grains in no time: counterparts. For breakfast, try Shakespeare’s life and attended Read the label. Labels can whole-grain pancakes or bagels. For many performances of his plays. be misleading: “Multi-grain” or lunch, choose sandwiches on • Shakespeare had three children “100 percent wheat” does not mean whole-grain bread. For dinner, look with his wife, Anne Hathaway. whole-grain. Check the ingredient list into quinoa, brown or wild rice, or and choose items that have the first whole-wheat pasta. For snacking, pick “All the world’s a stage, ingredient listed as: buckwheat, whole-grain crackers, chips and all the men and women bulgur, millet, oatmeal, quinoa, rolled or pretzels. merely players.” oats, whole-grain barley, whole-grain Flex your flax. One easy way to —William Shakespeare, corn, whole-grain sorghum, sneak whole grains into your diet is to “As You Like It” whole-grain triticale, whole oats, add ground flax seed to foods such as whole rye, whole wheat, brown smoothies, cookies and oatmeal. Wit & Wisdom “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” —G. K. Chesterton Baked Zucchini Ziti “Rainbows apologize for angry skies.” Ingredients: —Sylvia A. Voirol • 8 ounces ziti, uncooked • 1 28-ounce can Advocating for the Earth “If the world’s a vale of tears, crushed tomatoes Earth Day debuted on April 22, Smile, till rainbows span it.” • 1 1/2 teaspoons 1970. The event was the brainchild of —Lucy Larcom U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Italian seasoning • 1 cup grated zucchini (about Wisconsin, who announced to the “Be thou the rainbow in the 1 medium) media the idea for a “national teach-in storms of life. The evening beam that • 1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese on the environment.” smiles the clouds away, and tints • 1 cup shredded Nelson wanted Earth Day activities tomorrow with prophetic ray.” mozzarella, divided to be created by people and groups in —Lord Byron their own communities, not by national • 1/2 cup, plus 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese, divided organizers. People responded. About “The way I see it, if you want • 1 egg, lightly beaten 20 million Americans gathered at the rainbow, you gotta put up • Salt and pepper various venues to advocate for a with the rain.” • Cooking spray healthy, sustainable environment. —Dolly Parton According to EarthDay.org, “Groups Directions: Cook pasta according to package that had been fighting against oil “It was the rainbow gave thee birth, instructions; drain and set aside. spills, polluting factories and power and left thee all her lovely hues.” Preheat oven to 400° F. plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, —W. H. Davies pesticides, freeways, the loss of In a medium bowl, combine tomatoes and Italian seasoning. In a wilderness, and the extinction of “My heart leaps up when I behold separate bowl, mix zucchini, ricotta, wildlife suddenly realized they shared a rainbow in the sky.” 1/2 cup mozzarella, 1/2 cup Parmesan common values.” —William Wordsworth The event drew extensive media and egg. Season with salt and pepper. Coat a 2-quart casserole dish with attention and led to the creation of the “I’ve always taken cooking spray. Spread half of tomato Environmental Protection Agency and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, sauce on bottom. Top with ziti, ricotta passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water you know. I believe in the idea mixture and remaining sauce. Sprinkle and Endangered Species acts. of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my with remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella and In the years that followed, April 22 entire life trying to get over it.” 1 tablespoon Parmesan.