July 2018 JULY 2018 A Letter From The Executive Director New Call System installation in July! th The Fourth of July is always a favorite July 9 will be the start to the installation process the NEW call system at Bridgeport Bridgeport Place Buzz holiday for Americans. When I think of Independence Day, the word that comes Place. The new system allows for better Bridgeport Place 5250 Bridgeport Way W. University Place Wa. 98467 (253)565-1960 to mind for me is: unity. Most of us are response times and monitoring. The New system also comes with options and every united with our family and friends on a day that celebrates our freedom and resident will be assigned either a wrist or a necklace pendant to be able to call for help. independence. It is a special day to count rd our many blessings for the love and Leslie Jo will be having a meeting on July 3 at 2:00pmin the Activity Room to discuss the support of our families and friends. system in full detail. Please make plans to Growing up one of the many traditions in attend this meeting. our family was walking from our house to the Tacoma waterfront in the morning and enjoying the festivities at the Freedom Fair. Our family would then Celebrating return home, invite the neighbors and Birthdays in July: family friends over to our house to watch the fireworks together. We would have a Kenneth D Port of Tacoma Boat Cruise lot fun while enjoying the fireworks, setting off our own and barbequing July 1 Sign up at the Front desk to save a seat for The World in Watercolor hamburgers and hot dogs. My favorites the free 2018 Port of Tacoma Centennial were the sparklers and the snakes; July is World Watercolor Helen L. nothing too crazy at our house that blew Month in appreciation of July 1 Boat Tours at the Foss Waterway Seaport this wonderful art form. anything up. Museum's Maritime Fest, 705 Dock Street, Special holidays like the 4th of July help In watercolor painting, Nancy Hill to unify us with our families and colored pigments are Tacoma, WA 98402. Discover fun facts suspended in water. July 2 neighbors. Seeing the fireworks and about one of the busiest ports in North hearing the crowd’s excitement as the Watercolor painting may beautiful colors explode in the skies— be the first type of painting ever done Dates to America. Bridgeport Place has 16 seats by humans on cave walls. Watercolor brings us all a little closer together. Remember saved so make sure that you get signed up We hope everyone at Bridgeport Place was also used in East Asia, the Middle has a safe and happy summer. East, ancient Egypt, Italy, and Ethiopia. Independence Day and reserve a seat! Watercolor techniques were initially July 4 Happy Independence Day! used for mere sketches or copies. Oil Maureen Hennessy was considered a superior medium. Executive Director However, as the technique was perfected by masters of the “Sun Safety” Renaissance and beyond, watercolor July 12 became a renowned and complicated medium. While it appears to be an easy method of painting, it takes years to Port of Tacoma become accomplished. Luckily, the low Boat Tour cost of watercolors allows most anyone the chance to paint with this enduring July 29 art form. Join us on July 27th at 2:00 in the Activity Room for a watercolor workshop! July 2018 Are You a Believer? Give a Little, Get a Lot A Tale of Two Sherwoods Can’t Buck the Truth July 2 is World UFO Day. Most people live with a certain amount of clutter For 700 years, stories have been Rugged men wearing chaps and cowboy Whether you celebrate by in their lives. July 15, Give Something Away told of the outlaw Robin Hood hats with six-shooters on their hips, sitting watching reruns of Star Trek or Day, is the perfect opportunity to repurpose stealing from the rich to give to the high in the saddle, driving cattle across wild hosting a sky-watching party in some of your clutter by giving it away to those poor. While the legend of Robin landscapes—it is an image as American hopes of identifying an unidentified flying object, in need. Philosophers and holy people have long Hood was born in Sherwood as apple pie but also one perpetuated by Hollywood. Enjoy these interesting cowboy be sure to keep an open mind when considering contended that giving is beneficial not just to the Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, each July the town of Sherwood, facts for the Day of the Cowboy on July 28. that humans might not be alone in the universe. receiver of gifts but also to the giver. Scientists now have proof. Scans of the brain show that Oregon, celebrates its Robin Hood Festival. Cowboys actually did not originate in America There have been many recorded observations acting charitably toward others stimulates our brain’s reward system. This shows that humans at all, but in Mexico. Two hundred years before of strange flying objects throughout history, but it are biologically hard-wired to give to others rather Was there a real Robin Hood? As early as the first American set foot out west, Mexican wasn’t until 1947 that a UFO sighting captured the than to act selfishly, perhaps due to our highly the 15th century, it was common for May Day vaqueros were honing their roping, riding, and public imagination. Businessman Kenneth Arnold social natures. After all, our large society requires revelers in England to act out plays starring herding talents and becoming expert ranchers. When Americans ventured westward, they was flying a small plane near Mount Rainier in cooperation and mutual aid. Better yet, other Robin Hood. A hundred years before these modeled their habits and dress on the Washington when he spied nine objects flying studies show that when helping others, celebrations, peasant farmers told grim tales vaqueros found in modern-day Texas, together. He described them as looking “flat like the helpers heal both emotionally and physically. of Robin Hood, who murdered government New Mexico, and Arizona. The Wild West a pie pan” and “saucer like.” From his experience, Somehow, giving not only makes us feel good emissaries and rich landowners. Scholars have also wasn’t as wild as the movies lead us the term flying saucer was born. but actually makes our lives healthier. St. Francis traced the earliest mentions of the name Robin to believe. Bank robberies were uncommon. of Assisi was right when he said, “For it is in Hood to 13th-century legal records. In these Settlers did not circle their wagons and were Did Arnold actually see an alien spaceship? The giving that we receive.” records, it was common to list criminals with not under constant threat of attack from Native United States Air Force determined that Arnold the name Robehod or Rabunhod, variations on the name Robin Hood. Alas, there is no way of Americans. And half of all cowboys were either saw a mirage. Yet in mid-1947, UFOs again knowing whether these names are attributed to Mexican vaqueros or former slaves. In fact, captured the public’s attention when a mysterious any real individual. What scholars do know is many believe that the character of the Lone craft crash-landed at a ranch near Roswell, New that starting in the 14th century, Robin Hood Ranger was based on Bass Reeves, a former Mexico. Representatives from the Roswell Army slave from Arkansas turned U.S. marshal. On July is National Eye Injury Prevention was first mentioned in writing as a common Air Field reported that the object was a high- man living with his band in Sherwood Forest the Day of the Cowboy, take in a Hollywood altitude weather balloon, but the government Month and National Skin Care month and fighting the Sheriff of Nottingham. western, but also celebrate the real Wild West. has been accused of covering up an alien so it only seems appropriate that our encounter ever since. local University place Cascade Eye A visit to Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire Who is that guy working with Leslie? and Skin Center would be invited to may turn you into a believer that Robin Hood Is it just coincidence that the U.S. government come in and give a clinic at did exist. After all, you can visit the Major Oak began Project Sign in 1948? This project, th tree, which is believed to have been one of Bridgeport Place. On July 12 at Robin Hood’s hideouts. Robin Hood’s Well conducted by the Air Force, was an investigation 1:00pm in the Activity Room we will into UFO encounters in order to determine their is considered the spot where Robin Hood veracity and whether or not any UFO was a threat have one of Cascade’s Skin married his love Maid Marian. And then there is Nottingham Castle, where the Sheriff of to national security. The program lasted for 20 years Specialists come to Bridgeport Place Nottingham would have jailed Robin Hood and Bridgeport Place has been so lucky to have and concluded that an alien UFO had never been to speak on “Sun Safety”, so mark where the Merry Men would have staged his Brian Dooley here for the last few months to observed. It seems that the public had to wait until your calendars! fabulous escapes. Oregon’s town of Sherwood help us through our remodle and to lend 2017 before a Navy pilot, Retired Commander may lack historical sites, but it has plenty of Leslie a hand in building maintenance.