April 2021

640 W. Randall, Coopersville, MI (616) 997 -9253 www.coopersvillefountainview.org

Celebrating April

Habitat Awareness Month Some special visitors! So good to see Schshawna and her baby, Zoe! Jazz Appreciation Month

Card and Letter Writing Month

April Fools’ Day April 1

Easter April 4

Draw a Bird Day April 8

Scrabble Day April 13

World Amateur Radio Day April 18 Snack Cake Super Stardom Earth Day April 22 James Dewar started working at Illinois’ Continental Baking Company in the International Dance Day 1920s as a delivery boy, hawking pastries April 29 from a horse-drawn cart. By 1930, he had risen to plant manager, and on April 6 of Dates to Remember: that year, he created the most famous snack cake the world has ever known, the Twinkie. Before the cakes Resident & Family Picnic were called Twinkies, they were Little Shortcake Fingers, June 17, 6:00 pre-packaged strawberry-filled shortcakes that were available only during the short strawberry-harvest season. Annual Yard Sale The idle factory equipment drove Dewar to invent a new, Aug. 11-13, 9-5pm still nameless, yellow sponge cake filled with banana crème. While on his way to a marketing meeting, Dewar Ice Cream Social passed a billboard advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes. He Aug. 19, 6:30-8pm had found the Twinkies name, and the rest is snack cake history.

April 2021

Barbara Rosenberg…………..02

Eugene Helsen……………….17

Freda Laug…………………...21

Goosey goosey gander,

Whither shall I wander?

We will sadly miss Polly Mulder & Joan Ardis who recently passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and This is the way we fold our clothes, fold our clothes,… friends.

April 2021

Effective : Thursday March 25, 2021 A Poem Like a Secret Re: Visitation Requirements

We have updated our visitor guidelines based on updated April is Poetry Month, which gives us 30 days orders from Department of Health and Human Services to appreciate poems and the creative minds and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. At this that give them to us. For some, poetry is as necessary to life as breathing. Poems are time we are able to allow visitors into the facility. We unique expressions of thoughts and feelings would like to do this as safely as possible with the that inspire epiphanies large and small. For following guidelines: others, poetry remains inaccessible and difficult 1. We no longer require a COVID-19 test, but we do to understand. You can almost hear the encourage you to have one on a weekly basis. desperate cries of “30 days?!” Thirty days’ Fountain View has rapid tests that can be worth of the stuff is torture for some, so for provided to you. those in need of a smaller dose, April 29 is 2. If you choose to have the test, you will receive a Poem in Your Pocket Day. On this day, choose pass validating the negative COVID-19 test. any poem you like—long or short, modern 3. Residents may receive more than one visit in a or old-timey, humorous or serious, simple or day; however, only two visitors are allowed at a complicated—and carry it in your pocket. Read time to ensure proper social distancing. it to yourself throughout the day or whenever 4. All visitors must wear a mask at all times and the feeling strikes. Contemplate it. Puzzle over maintain social distancing requirements of six it. Question it. Share it with others, if you like. feet. Or keep it to yourself, like a secret. No one has 5. All visitors must remain in the resident’s room; we to know that you have a poem stashed away cannot allow visitors in common areas such as in your pocket. Above all else, enjoy it. If you dining rooms, kitchens, TV areas, etc. need help getting started, consider these lines 6. Visitors must sign in and out at the front door for by Archibald MacLeish: every visit. You must also fill out the screening A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit questionnaire and have your temperature taken.

You also must notify Fountain View of any exposure to COVID-19. Visitation Hours are no longer restricted to certain times. We are encouraging visitors to have a weekly COVID-19 test or proof of recent testing. We are able to provide the rapid test Elaine Stefanits, BBBarbaraBarbara RosenberRosenbergggg,, Monday-Friday 10am-3pm or by appointment Jean Harder, & Mary Lou Pals! We are with Jena. so glad you are here! Residents with hospice/end of life services may continue to also have visits at any time. Guidelines for social distancing, mask wearing, and remaining in the resident’s room are still in effect. The new visitation guidelines may change at any time. Should we have any positive COVID- 19 cases in the building, we will need to update our guidelines for visitors. Please help us in being able to maintain visitation by following these guidelines. We appreciate your cooperation.

April 2021

What’s Up, Doc? Leadership Team On April 30, 1938, Warner Bros. released a new Connie Clauson cartoon featuring as a Vice President Operations hapless hunter trying to unsuccessfully bag a humorously hyperactive rabbit named Happy. Chris Milowe How could audiences know that this rabbit Regional Operations Director would evolve into , one of the most recognizable cartoon characters of all time? Jena Olson Administrator The rabbit in Porky’s Hare Hunt bore little resemblance to the Bugs Bunny Gary Lutz Food Service Director we all know and love today. This white rabbit wore no gloves, lacked John Lutz Bugs’ recognizable voice, and did Maintenance Director not eat a single carrot! Nevertheless, the rabbit was voiced by , Lindsey Braun the future voice of Bugs Bunny, and the short Director of Resident Care was directed by Ben “Bugs” Hardaway, for whom Bugs Bunny was later named. It would be two Nancy Brewer Business Manager years before Bugs made his official debut in . When a redesigned rabbit was Andrea Steffes requested for the short, went to work Life Enrichment & Volunteer Director and sketched a rabbit based on a Bugs Hardaway design labeled “Bugs’s Bunny.” The name stuck. When audiences got their first glimpse at the new The Almighty Dollar and improved rabbit, the character stuck, too. The U.S. dollar is one of the strongest The Bugs Bunny featured in A Wild Hare already and most traded currencies on the displayed many of the Bugs Bunny trademarks planet, and its symbol $ is instantly we have come to love. When staring down the recognizable. It was invented by barrel of ’s shotgun, Bugs first utters accident by Oliver Pollack on April 1, his catchphrase “What’s up, Doc?” in a Brooklyn- 1778. Pollack was an Irish merchant esque accent. The phrase was added by the living in New Orleans when the Revolutionary cartoon’s director, , who had heard the War began. War was expensive. As a British expression a thousand times in his native Texas. colony in revolt, America could not use British Avery figured it a throwaway line and was more currency, so the Spanish peso became the surprised than anybody when it left audiences preferred method of payment. Luckily for rolling with laughter. As for Bugs’ obsession with Pollack, he had built his fortune in Spanish munching carrots, this was a habit “borrowed” pesos through illegal trading in the Spanish from ’s character in the 1934 movie It Caribbean. Pollock lent the Americans Happened One Night . In one scene, Gable stands 300,000 Spanish pesos, equivalent to by a fence spouting advice to Claudette Colbert one billion of today’s dollars, and kept detailed while chewing a carrot and talking with his mouth records of his transactions. In a ledger dated full. The scene was so famous at the time that April 1, 1778, Pollack scribbled “ps,” short for audiences immediately got Bugs’ imitation, and it Spanish peso , in a way that looked like the earned the bunny instant panache. His popularity dollar sign $. In 1797, founding father Robert would endure for over 70 years and he would Morris adopted the strange symbol for remain Warner Bros.’ most popular and America’s new currency. recognizable mascot.