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Linda D. Betty Wal-Mart runs will be on Fridays In January. If you are needing anything from Wal-Mart please make a list and have it to me by As housekeepers we are here to Wednesday Afternoon with either make sure are building is clean your debit card or cash. If you and smelling good at all times. We have any questions please contact are also here to help keep me at extension 180. residents room nice and tidy. If you as a resident ever feel as housekeeping has missed something in your room, Or need Thank You additional cleaning please let us Christie know. We work for YOU, and we are here to help. Activities ὠ Your housekeeping staff, Janie, Jackie & Stephanie ᾟ Ὣ ᾟ Ὤ Ὤ Ὤ ᾟ January Daily Holidays and Observances Jan. 17: Benjamin Franklin Day, Ditch New Jan. 1: New Year's Day, National Hangover Year's Resolutions Day Day Jan. 18: Thesaurus Day, Winnie the Pooh Day, Jan. 2: National Science Fiction Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day (third Monday of Jan. 3: J.R.R. Tolkien Day, Festival of Sleep Jan.January) 19: National Popcorn Day, National Tin Can Day Day, Humiliation Day Jan. 20: National Cheese Lovers Day, Penguin Jan. 4: Trivia Day, National Spaghetti Day Awareness Day Jan. 5: National Bird Day Jan. 6: Sherlock Holmes' Birthday, Cuddle Up Jan. 21: National Hugging Day, Squirrel Appreciation Day, Bean Day Day Jan. 7: Old Rock Day Jan. 22: National Blonde Brownie Day Jan. 8: Bubble Bath Day Jan. 23: National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day Jan. 9: National Static Electricity Day, National Jan. 24: Compliment Day, Belly Laugh Day Word Nerd Day Jan. 25: Opposite Day Jan. 10: Peculiar People Day, Houseplant Jan. 26: Spouse's Day Appreciation Day, National Bittersweet Jan. 27: National Chocolate Cake Day, Punch the Chocolate Day Clock Day Jan. 11: Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day Jan. 28: National Kazoo Day, Data Privacy Day Jan. 12: National Pharmacist Day, National Hot Jan. 29: National Puzzle Day, National Corn Chip Day Tea Day Jan. 30: Draw a Dinosaur Day Jan. 13: Make Your Dream Come True Day, Jan. 31: Backward Day, Inspire Your Heart With Art National Rubber Ducky Day Day Jan. 14: Dress Up Your Pet Day Jan. 15: National Hat Day, National Bagel Day Jan. 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day, National Nothing Day 7 Facts About The King Of 2. Elvis bought when he was 22. In 1957, Elvis shelled out $102,500 for Graceland, the Rock & Roll Memphis mansion that served as his home base for two 1. Elvis had a twin. decades. Situated on nearly 14 acres, it was built in On January 8, 1935, Elvis Aron (later spelled 1939 by Dr. Thomas Moore and his wife Ruth on land Aaron) Presley was born at his parents’ two- that once was part of a 500-acre farm dubbed room house in East Tupelo, Mississippi, Graceland in honor of the original owner’s daughter, about 35 minutes after his identical twin Grace, who was Ruth Moore’s great-aunt. The Moores’ brother, Jesse Garon, who was stillborn. The white-columned home also came to be known as next day, Jesse was buried in an unmarked Graceland, and when Elvis purchased the place he kept grave in nearby Priceville Cemetery. The entertainer made a number of updates to the the name. Elvis, who spoke of his twin throughout his property over the years, including the addition of music- life, grew up an only child in a poor family. themed iron entrance gates, a “jungle room” with an His father, Vernon, worked a series of odd indoor waterfall and a racquetball building. After finding jobs, and in 1938 was sentenced to three out President Lyndon Johnson enjoyed watching all years in prison for forging a $4 check (he three network news programs simultaneously, Elvis was spent less than a year behind bars). In 1948, inspired to have a wall of built-in TVs installed in his the Presleys moved from Tupelo to Memphis home. In 1982, five years after Elvis was found dead in in search of better opportunities. There, Elvis a bathroom at Graceland, his ex-wife Priscilla Presley attended Humes High School, where he opened the estate to the public for tours. Some 600,000 failed a music class and was considered fans now flock there each year. Elvis’ only child, Lisa quiet and an outsider. He graduated in 1953, Marie Presley, inherited Graceland when she turned 25 becoming the first member of his immediate in 1993 and continues to operate it today. family to earn a high school diploma. After In 2006, George W. Bush became the first sitting U.S. graduation, he worked at a machinist shop president to visit Graceland, when he traveled there and drove a truck before launching his music with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a die- career with the July 1954 recording of “That’s hard Elvis fan. All Right.” 3. Elvis’ controversial manager, Colonel Tom 4. Elvis served in the Army after he was Parker, was a former carnival barker. already famous. Born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk in the Netherlands In December 1957, Elvis, by then a major in 1909, Elvis’s future manager immigrated illegally star, was drafted into the U.S. military. After to America as a young man, where he reinvented receiving a short deferment so he could wrap himself as Tom Parker and claimed to be from West up production on his film “,” the 23 Virginia (his true origins weren’t known publicly until -year-old was inducted into the Army as a the 1980s). He worked as a pitchman for traveling private on March 24, 1958, amidst major carnivals, followed by stints as dog catcher and pet media coverage. Assigned to the Second cemetery founder, among other occupations, then Armored Division, he attended basic training managed the careers of several country music at Fort Hood, Texas. That August, while still at singers. In 1948, Parker finagled the honorary title Fort Hood, he was granted emergency leave of colonel from the governor of Louisiana and to visit his beloved mother, who was in poor henceforth insisted on being referred to as the health. Gladys Presley passed away at age After learning about the up-and-coming Elvis in 1955, Colonel. 46 on August 14, 1958. The following month, Parker negotiated the sale of the singer’s contract with Elvis shipped out for an assignment with the tiny Sun Records to RCA, a major label, and officially Third Armored Division in Friedberg, West took over as his manager in 1956. Under the Colonel’s Germany, where he served as a jeep driver guidance, Elvis shot to stardom: His first single for RCA, and continued to receive stacks of fan mail. “Heartbreak Hotel,” released in 1956, became the first of his career to sell more than 1 million copies; his debut album, “,” topped Billboard’s pop album chart; and he made his big-screen debut in 1956’s “Love Me Tender.” While in Germany, he lived off base with his father 6. Elvis was burned in effigy after an and grandmother Minnie Mae Presley. It was also appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” during this time that Elvis met 14-year-old Priscilla In the summer of 1956, Colonel Parker Beaulieu, the daughter of a U.S. Air Force captain. arranged a deal for Elvis to make three (After a lengthy courtship, Elvis and Priscilla married appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1967; the couple divorced in 1973.) Elvis was for a then-whopping fee of $50,000. honorably discharged from active duty in March Although Sullivan previously had said he 1960, having achieved the rank of sergeant. His first wouldn’t book the hip-swiveling, lip-curling post-Army movie, “G.I. Blues,” was released that singer on his family-oriented TV variety November of that same year. The film’s soundtrack show, he relented after competitor Steve spent 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard album Allen featured Elvis on his show in July music chart and remained on the chart for a total of 1956 and clobbered Sullivan in the ratings. 111 weeks, the longest of any album in Elvis’ career. When Elvis made his first appearance on Sullivan’s program on September 9, 1956, 5. Elvis never performed outside of 60 million people—more than 80 percent North America. of the TV viewing audience—tuned in. (As An estimated 40 percent of Elvis’ music it happened, Sullivan, who had been sales have been outside the United States; injured in a car accident that August, was however, with the exception a handful of unable to host the show.) After the singer concerts he gave in Canada in 1957, he made his second appearance in October, never performed on foreign soil. A number crowds in Nashville and St. Louis, of sources have suggested that Elvis’ outraged by the singer’s sexy performance manager, Colonel Parker, turned down and concerned that rock music would lucrative offers for the singer to perform corrupt America’s teens, burned and abroad because Parker was an illegal hanged Elvis in effigy. immigrant and feared he wouldn’t be allowed back into the U.S. if he traveled overseas. The singer made his final appearance on Elvis’ yacht donation was one of many Sullivan’s show in January 1957, and this time charitable acts after he would make during his network censors demanded he be filmed from the life. In addition to giving away cars, jewelry and waist up. Despite this requirement, at the end of cash to friends and strangers, he performed a the program, Sullivan gave the entertainer a number of benefit concerts. One such special nod, telling the audience Elvis was “a real performance, in 1961, generated more than decent, fine boy,” and letting him know that “we’ve $50,000 toward the completion of the USS never had a pleasanter experience on our show Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. Work on the with a big name than we’ve had with you.” project, a tribute to the more than 1,100 men who died aboard the USS Arizona during the 7. Elvis bought Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, had begun years yacht. earlier then stalled due to a lack of funds. Elvis’ In 1964, Elvis paid $55,000 for the Potomac, the 165 concert, for which tickets ranged from $3 to -foot-long vessel that served as FDR’s “floating $100, helped reinvigorate fund-raising efforts for White House” from 1936 to 1945. Constructed in the memorial, and it was dedicated the following 1934, the Potomac originally was a U.S. Coast year. Guard cutter. After the president’s death in 1945, the ship was decommissioned and had a series of owners before Elvis bought it. However, he soon donated it to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, which in turn sold the vessel to raise money. (In 1980, the Potomac, then being used by drug smugglers, was seized in San Francisco by U.S. Customs. It later was restored and opened to the public.) Please remember to exercise in your room at least once a day. I Have handed out the exercises that we do in the mornings for everyone to be able to do in your rooms to keep your strength up. You can do these exercises sitting in a chair. Also please remember to drink lots of water and keep your skin hydrated with lotion. If you need another copy of the exercises or have any questions please contact Christie at ext 180.