DecemberDecember 20172017 •• 1229512295 ScholdSchold PlacePlace NWNW •• Silverdale,Silverdale, WAWA 9838398383 •• 360360--692692--12281228 INSIDEINSIDE PagePage 2:2: CountryCountry MeadowsMeadows PagePage 3:3: ClearbrookClearbrook InnInn PagePage 4:4: TheThe RidgeRidge This Christmas... Page 5: Grateful! Page 5: Holidays PagePage 6:6: FeaturedFeatured StaffStaff MemberMember PagePage 7:7: FeaturedFeatured ResidentResidents Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. PagePage 8:8: Here’sHere’s toto YourYour HealthHealth Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer.

Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed. Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more. Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. CONTACTCONTACT USUS 360360--692692--12281228 Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. EDITOREDITOR PamPam DuerrDuerr Speak your love. Speak it still again. LAYOUTLAYOUT Speak it still once again. Peggy Reece Peggy Reece Peggy Reece

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Merry EVERYTHING CHRISTMAS PARTY Saturday December 2 from 11:00-1:00 Celebrate with your families! Yummy food in a festive atmosphere, music and of course, Christmas Cookies! Christmas with the Choral Belles Wednesday December 6 at 1:00 p.m. Our friends from Port Ludlow will bring lots of Christmas cheer to us! ROMEO Club Thursday December 7 departing at 11:00 a.m. Big Apple Diner—nothin’ could be finer! Navy Band Holiday Concert Friday December 8 departing at 6:00 p.m. This is a treat we look forward to each year. Quilcene Timber House Restaurant Saturday December 9, departing at 10:15 a.m. Can’t let the year end without one more trip for the warm welcome and delicious food! Joy Children’s Choir Sunday December 10th at 2:00 p.m. What says Christmas more than children singing? Alfred’s & Almond Roca! December 14, departing at 10:00 a.m. Great lunch selections; then we’ll shop for our holiday treats at Brown & Haley. Chocolate, anyone? Christmas Lights Tour December 19 & 20, departing at 7:00 p.m. Strings of street lights, even stop lights, blinking bright red and green... UpTown Gig Harbor Thursday December 21, departing at 10:00 a.m. The amazing Lunchbox Laboratory awaits; then the Christmas Shop and other favorites. Chimacum Café Thursday December 28, departing at 10:00 a.m. It’s always a nice drive to Chimacum; pie awaits! New Year’s Eve Gala December 31st from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Happy Hour with Charlie Brown! Champagne toast! Delicious dinner! Happy New Year!! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” Page 2 ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

http:// December 2017 Event hilites December Birthday Party Friday December 1 at 2:00 p.m. A great way to kick off the month of holiday festivities—celebrating December birthdays with Dan Willman on guitar & vocals. And, a landmark birthday this month—join us in wishing Eleanor a happy 103! December abounds with special music performances: 12/6 at 2:00, Choral Belles 12/8 at 2:00 Marty Jagodensky 12/8 at 6:00 Out to the Navy Band 12/9 at 2:00 “Ukeverse” 12/9 at 6:00 Out to Kitsap Chordsmen 12/14 at 2:00 Four Star Singers 12/15 at 4:00 Christmas Party with Santa 12/16 at 2:00 Flute Holiday Music 12/22 at 2:00 Music with Ray & Kathryn 12/24 at 2:00 Music with Fluffy Party with The Seahawkers Friday December 15 at 7:00 p.m. It’s Blue Friday and the 12th Man Contingency at Clearbrook is ready to party! New Year’s Eve Celebration Sunday December 31 at 2:00 p.m. No one can make it feel more like a party than Charlie Brown! He’ll help us ring in the New Year with great music and his special brand of enthusiasm!

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Mondays at 11:00 a.m. 12/4 Olive Garden 12/11 Red Lobster

Special thanks to all who so generously donated to the annual Salvation Army food Page 3 drive —you made the holidays a little brighter for so many! Bless you!

CAROLS & HOT CHOCOLATE December Sunday December 24 at 1:30 p.m. What a perfect way to celebrate Christmas 2017 Eve—singing carols with our friends! Event hilites BIRTHDAY PARTY Wednesday December 27 HEART SINGERS First, we decorate for the party at 1:15; Tuesday December 5 at 2:00 p.m. then we celebrate our December birthdays These ladies are aptly named—they sing for with cake and music by Dan Willman on us with all their hearts! guitar and vocals. NEW YEAR’S EVE Sunday December 31 at 1:30 p.m. DIESEL We’ll get a jump start on ringing in the new Thursday December 14 at 3:30 p.m. year by celebrating this afternoon!

Really small in size, really huge in love! That’s our Diesel, the miniature horse! Come get a therapeutic snuggle! THE LUNCH BUNCH Every Friday SCENIC DRIVES at 11:30 a.m. Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. Put on your adventurer’s cap and come Comfort Food at its Finest in December along on our Scenic Drives! Even with the winter weather, there is a lot of beauty in 12/1— Family Pancake House the Pacific Northwest & we’re out to see it! 12/8— Family Pancake House

HOLIDAY PARTY 12/15 — Cindy & Andy’s Diner Tuesday December 12 at 4:00 p.m. With music by pianist Denny Gore and 12/22—Skipper’s delicious food from our chefs, this will be a holiday party extraordinaire for residents and their family members.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS Wednesday December 13 & 20 We have to go out two different nights so that more people will get to enjoy how our community lights up for the holidays. Bob...and Bob! Yvonne and Carol

ARM CHAIR TRAVEL Tuesday December 19 at 2:00 p.m. To be honest, this is the only good way to make this trek: we are traveling to the North Pole today!

FRIDAY AFTERNOON MUSIC at 3:00 p.m. Every Friday in December we have music by a local talent to brighten our afternoon.

Page 4 Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale A Holiday Reminder

to all our Encore Residents

The holiday season is a time rich with traditions, and you each have our own which make your celebrations more meaningful. Because we want your celebrations to be safe as well as happy, please remember that at Clearbrook Inn, you are unable to have any fresh trees, wreaths, or boughs in floral arrangements The Choral Belles These lovely ladies from Port Ludlow delight in your apartments, per the Fire us with their sweet voices a few times each Marshal’s regulation. year; they sang for Clearbrook Inn and Country Meadows in November and will be Another tradition you may have back on December 6th to perform their had in the past is giving gifts to Christmas Concert—lucky us! acknowledge your gratitude for services rendered. Please remember that staff members may not accept an individual gift, but you may give something that can be shared with all the staff. Have a blessed holiday season! Diesel, the Therapy Horse—how could one tiny little being bring so much love? He brightens our days with that soft sweet muzz Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better Page 5 throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas. ~Wilder FEATURED STAFF MEMBERS

HOUSEKEEPING

Here at Encore Communities, there are so the year! Then we have Christmas: and the many people who work together to ensure Housekeeping Elves come out and put up that everyone has all the comforts of home the most beautiful decorations in all our without the responsibilities. Maintenance buildings, making the holidays merrier! In keeps our grounds beautifully; they make a rare moment of repose, these House- repairs and keep the pool ready for your keeping Elf-Angels agreed to have their weekly exercise or PT. The nurses and picture taken; sweet faces, hard workers, therapists give the very best tender loving and we are so grateful for all of them! care to get patients home safely. The Activity department aspires to make life a daily celebration, bringing smiles to all. Our dietary department provides nutritious meals and the most amazing cookies on the planet, which definitely increases quality of life! But there is a team of people on our campuses who work tirelessly to ensure your comfort and quality of life, and they are rarely noticed; they work quietly behind the scenes to take care of your needs. Our Housekeeping staff, led by the capable and creative Juliet Magdaleno, do so much more than clean our living spaces! Juliet & Maggie do all the planting that beautifies our campus. That keeps them busy most of

Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your Page 6 heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Resident of the month thank him personally. I have always respected him for he is a man of integrity.

What is your favorite journey? My favorite journey happens each Sunday morning as I travel from home to worship in our local church. Travel wise, my favorite journey has been to the Philippines, sixteen times. A recent Danube River Cruise would come in as a close second.

What might someone be surprised to know about you? I had the privilege of being the drum major for our high school marching band and led the band in four successive Portland, OR Rose Festival parades, winning the marching band competition every year.

In your lifetime what changes have come about that you like? Communication. I never had a phone in my home until I graduated from high school, married and established my own home. The cell phone and instant communication is a LARRY EDDINGS modern-day miracle, and texting is a great What is your idea of perfect way (and usually the only way) to stay in happiness? touch with family. Perfect happiness for me is when I am at peace with myself, knowing that I can relax Larry was born into a migrant worker family, and enjoylife because I rest in my faith in the last of eleven children.—five brothers Jesus. He gives me happiness even in the and five sisters. He and his wife, Audrey, tough times. were married two weeks after graduation from high school. At nineteen, he was What is your most treasured appointed as a student lay pastor to a local possession? Methodist church in SE Portland and has Though they are not possessions, I treasure been in pastoral and evangelistic ministry my two children, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Their love is my for 65 years. Larry has served churches in most treasured possession. Oregon, Illinois, Southern California, Idaho and Washington. For the past 35 years, he If you could have dinner with and his wife were involved in conducting anyone from the past or present, who training and equipping events for local would it be? churches and conferences. They have I think I would like to have dinner with the travelled in twelve countries and 46 of the 50 Rev. Dr. Billy Graham. I received Jesus in states. Larry retired in 1997, but continues in my heart during one of his crusades. I was ministry as the opportunity arises. sixteen years old at the time. I would like to Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. ~Dale Evans Page 7 12295 Schold Place NW Silverdale, WA 98383 www.encorecommunities.com

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Reece Peggy

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