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Our resident of the month for February is also one of our newest residents. We would like to welcome James “Jim” S. to our Heritage House family. Jim is a WW2 veteran who enjoys talking about his days of service. He has Celebrating February a son named Gregg, daughter named Carol, and a daughter-in-law named Cindy. Jim is Haiku Writing Month very artistic, funny, and loving. He owned golf

courses in Mulino, OR. And Palm Springs, Ca. Mend a Broken Heart Month The next time you are in to see your loved one, be sure to say hi to Jim!! Library Lovers Month

This February, we would like to acknowledge Bubble Gum Day some wonderful love stories of Heritage February 1 House.

Jerry and Ardene W., Marv and Carol S., Groundhog Day Junior and Venita J., Jon and Kathy Y., Joe and February 2 Rachel C. Congratulations on your many years of love and happiness, you are an inspiration to

Celebration of Love Week us all!! February 10–16

Valentine’s Day February 14

Love Your Pet Day February 20

Tooth Fairy Day February 28

February 2019

A Sneeze for the Ages Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (pronounced Among his many scientific achievements, CROYZ-felt YAH-cob) is a rare, rapidly fatal Thomas Edison is also known to have opened disorder affecting about 1 out of 1 million the very first film recording studio on February 1, people per year worldwide. It usually affects 1893, in West Orange, New Jersey. His Black individuals older than 60. Maria studio (named after the cramped, dark police paddy wagons known colloquially as CJD is one of the prion (PREE-awn) diseases. “black marias”) was the testing ground and These diseases occur when prion protein, which laboratory for his kinetograph, a forerunner is present throughout the brain, begins to to the movie camera. His first famous film assume an abnormal three-dimensional shape. recording is known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze; he This shape gradually triggers the protein filmed a mere four silent seconds of Fred Ott throughout the brain to fold into the same rearing his head backward in a hearty kerchoo. abnormal shape, leading to increasing damage Once his marvelous film was released to the and destruction of brain cells. public, Edison was contacted by a number of performers begging him to capture their work Recently, “variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for posterity. The kinetograph’s popularity (vCJD)” was identified as the human disorder was short-lived, though, lasting only about 10 believed to be caused by eating meat from years. In that brief span, kinetograph theaters cattle affected by “mad cow disease.” It tends known as kinetoscopes opened across the to occur in much younger individuals, in some country in New York, Chicago, and San cases as early as their teens. Francisco, but ironically not in Hollywood. Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Heritage House Staff • The first symptoms may involve ADMINISTRATOR impairment in memory, thinking and Shannon Souza reasoning or changes in personality and behavior. DAY SHIFT; • Depression or agitation also tend to be Lucy N. early symptoms. Flor D. • Problems with movement may be present Mayra B. from the beginning or appear shortly after the other symptoms. SWING SHIFT; • Symptoms progress rapidly and death Randi J. typically occurs within a year. Rosa C. • There may be characteristic changes on Nadine B. an electroencephalogram (EEG, or “brain wave” test). NOC SHIFT; • There may also be a characteristic Patty C. substance called “14-3-3 protein” in the Eddie S. spinal fluid. Monica M.

ON CALL; Lili C Treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) Iris Z Alondra C. There is currently no treatment for CJD or

vCJD.

February 2019

The Original Drawing the Short Straw

On February 1, 1709, was February 22 is Skip the Straw Day. Banning rescued from an island after being stranded straws has certainly been a hot topic. More there for four years. Upon his return to England, and more companies and communities are journalists portrayed his last four years in outright banning these seemingly harmless extraordinary detail, making Selkirk a celebrity modern conveniences. This is because and inspiring the novelist to write Americans, on average, use one million plastic his masterpiece . straws each day, and many of those plastic bits are ending up in landfills and our oceans. For Selkirk was a hot-tempered navigator those who still want straws or need them for of a privateering ship called the medical reasons, some companies now provide —a legalized pirate customers with biodegradable or compostable ship plundering for the British Crown. straws, including paper straws. People used to When conditions on board got bad, sip drinks through long hollow reeds of ryegrass. Selkirk tried to raise a against That all changed in 1888 when inventor Marvin the ship’s young captain by begging to Stone patented a spiral winding process for be left alone on an island with the crew. Unfortunately paper and created the first paper straw. His straws were far superior to ryegrass straws, for Selkirk, none of the other crew members wanted for they did not impart a grassy taste to the to stay behind with him, so he was abandoned on beverage. So it seems that we have come full Más a Tierra island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk circle, back to Stone’s original invention. But expected another friendly ship to arrive, perhaps banning plastic straws actually save the within days, but again he miscalculated, and another environment? Not entirely. Plastic straws are ship did not arrive for four years and four months. just a tiny percentage of plastic pollution. But Amazingly, Selkirk survived. He ate fish, crayfish, the anti-straw movement might raise awareness and the many goats that inhabited the island. He about the harms of plastic to our planet. grew so fleet of foot that he could catch them with his bare hands. Food and shelter came relatively easy. Keeping his sanity was his most difficult task. Many Happy Returns When a ship arrived on the horizon to save him, it February is Return Shopping was navigated by none other than , Carts to the Supermarket Month. a under whom Selkirk had sailed on the Shopping carts are abandoned Cinque Ports. Selkirk attempted to tell his story to in the strangest of places: Dampier, but he could barely remember the English alongside roads, in ditches, language. Selkirk found it difficult to reintegrate into under bridges. Today is the day society, often thinking that he was happiest when to put those shopping carts back he had nothing on the island. where they belong. It is estimated that two million shopping carts are taken from supermarkets Daniel Defoe was intrigued with Selkirk’s story and each year, and with one shopping cart valued at so wrote a romanticized version of it in Robinson $100, that’s $200 million rolling away. If pushing Crusoe. Perhaps, however, this story should not a shopping cart back to a supermarket all the be celebrated, for it has often been criticized way from a highway is too much to ask, you as a tale of one colonialist’s suppression and can start by returning shopping carts from the enslavement of an indigenous culture. Crusoe parking lot. Unattended carts can do a lot of may have been a hero in 18th-century England, damage to cars. Furthermore, studies show but today his accomplishments seem rather brutish. that abandoned shopping carts lead to people Perhaps instead, we should celebrate February 1 as throwing other trash into parking lots. Returning Alexander Selkirk Day and forget Robinson Crusoe. carts fosters good citizenship!

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