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Mirabella Seattle<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
www.mirabellaseattle.org<br />
Volume 2 | Issue 11 | Web edition<br />
A Message from James Munn<br />
<strong>November</strong> | 2010<br />
In this issue<br />
2 Mirabella Stories<br />
4 Association and Committee<br />
News<br />
7 Club News<br />
8 Projects and Proposals<br />
9 Profiles and Personalities<br />
— Cleve Wright<br />
— Charles Moore<br />
11 Mirabella Movies<br />
12 About Town<br />
13 Poetry Corner<br />
14 The Arts in Review<br />
16 Meals to Yearn For<br />
17 Wine and Fashion<br />
18 Mirabella Service Reports<br />
20 Photo Album<br />
22 Coming Events<br />
24 <strong>November</strong> Birthdays<br />
25 Health, Fitness, & Grooming<br />
26 Purrfect Wellness<br />
27 Cascade Sculpture Walk<br />
28 Guide to Mirabella<br />
Publications<br />
Late News: Nov. 3rd Mirabella<br />
Roundtable is cancelled.<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Mirabella Seattle<br />
116 Fairview Avenue North<br />
Seattle, WA, USA 98109<br />
206.254.1400<br />
Transformation of The Mirabella<br />
Monthly<br />
<strong>Resident</strong> Services created and began<br />
publishing the Mirabella Monthly<br />
about a year and a half ago. From its<br />
inception, the newsletter has been<br />
a valuable source of information<br />
and entertainment for all to enjoy.<br />
Reflecting back, the newsletter has<br />
been a continual work in progress,<br />
constantly improving since its first<br />
edition. Last summer, the Director<br />
of <strong>Resident</strong> Services, Joanie Vivaz,<br />
was approached by resident Carole<br />
Anne Fine with an interest in giving<br />
Mirabella Monthly a more polished<br />
look and organization. Carole Anne<br />
quickly recruited Jared Curtis and<br />
other Mirabella residents were then<br />
asked to volunteer their talents and<br />
expertise in order to help manage the<br />
many tasks that are required to publish<br />
an informative and professional<br />
publication. Many residents responded<br />
to Carole Anne’s request, and last<br />
month we were all treated to a brilliant<br />
transformation of this publication!<br />
I want to give my heartfelt thanks<br />
to all who were instrumental in<br />
making the newsletter’s most recent<br />
transformation occur. These people<br />
include:<br />
Carole Anne Fine, Editor in Chief, Jared<br />
Curtis, Graphic Designer, Editor,<br />
Copyeditors: Art Butler, Anne Cahn, Ida<br />
Curtis, Dee Dickinson, Iris Barnett,<br />
Betty Nicholson, Ruthe Norton,<br />
Martha Oman, Bill Potter, Charles<br />
Sleicher, and Sedge Thomson,<br />
Photographers and Photo Consultants:<br />
Joe Budne, Pat Chinn, Jared Curtis,<br />
Marty Kushmerick, Tom Miller, Norm<br />
Olds, and Margaret Oman.<br />
I would also like to thank Joanie<br />
Vivaz, Becky Kasper, and all of the<br />
Mirabella Directors for their constant<br />
contributions to the publication.<br />
It’s the vibrant lives and involvement<br />
with a wide variety of committees,<br />
clubs, and activities that the residents<br />
and employees participate in from<br />
day to day that drives the need for<br />
a community newsletter. I am truly<br />
grateful to be a part of this community.<br />
I also appreciate that the Mirabella<br />
Monthly, serves as a valuable<br />
instrument for documenting this great<br />
community’s’ history.<br />
My sincere thanks to you all for your<br />
leadership and dedication in making a<br />
remarkable publication for the entire<br />
Mirabella community to enjoy.<br />
James Munn<br />
Executive Director<br />
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The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Mirabella Stories<br />
World War II Pilots Share Memories<br />
Many Mirabella <strong>Resident</strong>s who were<br />
in the audience for “World War II Pilots<br />
Share Memories,” an event held in<br />
Emerald Hall on September 30, have<br />
expressed their enthrallment by, and<br />
deep appreciation for, this remarkable<br />
program. Tom O’Brien has enjoyed<br />
a long acquaintance through sailing<br />
with retired Wing Commander, Col.<br />
Don Hillman, and more recently he<br />
has met a fellow Mercer Islander, Dr.<br />
David Wolter, also a former US Army<br />
pilot. Tom decided that his two friends<br />
independently lived through so many<br />
similar experiences, both as longtime<br />
residents of the Seattle area and<br />
as bomber pilots during the second<br />
world war, that it was important to<br />
bring them together.<br />
The two men hit it off beautifully, and<br />
Tom spent many fascinating hours<br />
listening to their conversations. He<br />
learned, too, that Don’s daughter Lee<br />
and David’s daughter Sally were both<br />
students of their fathers’ distinguished<br />
careers, helping them to record their<br />
experiences and assemble their<br />
memorabilia. All four assented, for<br />
this one occasion, to Tom’s proposal<br />
that they present a program before<br />
a Mirabella audience in an interview<br />
format, with daughters interviewing<br />
fathers. It was this serendipitous<br />
confluence of events and chance<br />
meetings that brought this marvelous<br />
and moving program to Mirabella.<br />
Encouraged by their interviewers,<br />
Don and David told of their World<br />
War II experiences. Each had flown<br />
many missions over Europe during<br />
the war; each had to abandon his<br />
damaged plane while on a bombing<br />
mission. When his B-17 bomber was<br />
hit over France, David parachuted<br />
safely to the ground, where he was<br />
aided by farmers and then hidden by<br />
the French underground for a time,<br />
but left the safe shelter provided him<br />
when he realized staying any longer<br />
would jeopardize his hosts’ lives. Don’s<br />
P-47 caught fire in an encounter with<br />
enemy fighter planes near Cologne,<br />
forcing him to bail out.<br />
Both men were captured, imprisoned,<br />
and, near the close of the war, forced<br />
to make a long winter march to<br />
prisoner-of-war camps in what is<br />
now Poland. David remained there<br />
until liberated by the 13th Armored<br />
Division of Patton’s 3rd Army. Don and<br />
a fellow officer managed to escape<br />
from prison before Patton’s forces<br />
breached the German lines to advance<br />
into German territory to the east. But<br />
the escapees were recaptured while<br />
filling their canteens at a farmer’s well.<br />
When interrogated by Lt. Haussmann,<br />
the same German officer who grilled<br />
him on his first imprisonment, Don<br />
persuaded him and his sergeant,<br />
also an interrogator, that with the<br />
war winding down and Patton’s<br />
Nicknamed “Jug,” the P-47 was conceived as<br />
a lightweight interceptor but developed as<br />
a heavyweight fighter/bomber. The plane<br />
pictured is similar to the one Don Hillman<br />
flew. (USAF photo in public domain.)<br />
tank column fast approaching, they<br />
could save many lives, German and<br />
American, by joining the two American<br />
pilots in an effort to reach the US tank<br />
column first. In this way, Don and his<br />
fellow prisoner escaped again, in the<br />
process preventing the destruction of<br />
the village harboring the prison camp,<br />
and protecting the two Germans by<br />
the ruse of presenting them as their<br />
own prisoners!<br />
Both Don and David served their<br />
communities long and well after the<br />
war. Don remained in the Air Force,<br />
flying missions with the Strategic Air<br />
Command, during the height of the<br />
Cold War in the 1950s, and on his<br />
retirement became a test pilot for<br />
Boeing. Don explained, as a kind of<br />
epilogue to his WW II experience, that<br />
he stayed in contact with Lt. Ulrich<br />
Haussmann, his interrogator, and<br />
found ways to aid him and his family in<br />
the aftermath of the war.<br />
David continued to serve as a medical<br />
officer in the Army. Shaken by his<br />
wartime experience, he found it<br />
difficult to overcome the resentment<br />
and even hatred for all things<br />
German, referring all patients of<br />
German descent to other doctors. This<br />
uncontrollable reaction troubled him<br />
until he requested reassignment to<br />
Germany after the war, served a tour<br />
there, looked up the Germans who<br />
helped him, and, in the end, found<br />
peace through helping them improve<br />
their lives, educate their children,<br />
and maintaining relations with them<br />
over the years. After retiring from<br />
the Army, he enjoyed a long career<br />
as an obstetrician-gynecologist and<br />
delivered several hundred babies in<br />
his practice on Mercer Island. We were<br />
privileged to learn of this startling and
Mirabella Stories 3<br />
A New Citizen’s Voting Rights and Rites<br />
(Pilots, from p. 2)<br />
humane interlude coming in the midst<br />
of terrible destruction and suffering.<br />
Surely this program will rank as one of<br />
the highlights of 2010.<br />
Tom O’Brien’s impresario skills deserve<br />
recognition, too. He first intended to<br />
interview his two friends on stage<br />
himself. But he soon realized how<br />
much more appropriate it would be<br />
for their daughters to serve this role,<br />
and talked them into taking part. He<br />
then persuaded the Mirabella Program<br />
Committee of the fitness of the<br />
program for our residents and helped<br />
to make all the arrangements.<br />
As a final touch, having discovered<br />
that Emerald Hall was without the<br />
traditional trio of United States,<br />
Boeing B-17F formation over Schweinfurt,<br />
Germany, on Aug. 17, 1943; USAF photo in<br />
public domain. David Wolter piloted similar<br />
planes.<br />
Washington State, and Mirabella<br />
Seattle flags standing tall in the front<br />
of the room, Tom acquired flags from<br />
Karen Herndon, staffs fashioned by<br />
Don Ries, and staff bases that Don Ries<br />
managed to borrow from the supply of<br />
umbrella stands in the Courtyard Café.<br />
Jared Curtis<br />
A Political Education<br />
Not too long after we moved into the<br />
first home we bought, a colleague<br />
of John’s at the GE Research Lab<br />
invited us to a small lunch with the<br />
dynamic, young Democratic mayor<br />
of Schenectady, Sam Stratton.<br />
Personable, articulate, and persuasive,<br />
Stratton encouraged each of us to<br />
get into local politics. He argued that<br />
young professionals like us, who<br />
wouldn’t be doing it “for the money,”<br />
were just the public-spirited citizens<br />
who should get “in there” and become<br />
politically active in the local arena. He<br />
particularly thought that those of us<br />
who lived in Niskayuna, the affluent<br />
suburb of Schenectady, NY, where the<br />
GE Research lab was located, needed<br />
to become active because, he pointed<br />
out, it was a Republican stronghold.<br />
I replied, “That’s where we live. That<br />
sounds great. Think I would love doing<br />
that.” John, said “What do you mean<br />
You have three kids under five years<br />
old, would you really have the time to<br />
devote to it” “Yeah,” I said, “you’re right.<br />
Never mind.”<br />
A few weeks later came the 1957 local<br />
Democratic primary. Because we had<br />
moved three times since we married<br />
in 1950, this was the first time I met<br />
the residency requirements and was<br />
eligible to vote, and I looked forward<br />
to it eagerly. When the kids were in<br />
nursery school and kindergarten, off<br />
I went to my local polling station. I<br />
was asked what my registration was<br />
and then handed a Democratic paper<br />
ballot. I took it and went into the<br />
polling booth. There I was faced with a<br />
long list of positions like councilman,<br />
justice of the peace, highway<br />
superintendent, and several more with<br />
one man’s name on each line. I knew<br />
none of them, but dutifully marked<br />
each one. Then at the bottom were<br />
two boxes marked “committeeman”<br />
and, in place of a candidate’s name,<br />
“no designation.” I couldn’t figure out<br />
what “no designation” meant, so I took<br />
the paper ballot out of the booth over<br />
to the table where four women were<br />
sitting. Not knowing that two of them<br />
were Democrats and two Republicans,<br />
I addressed all four: “Could one of<br />
you please tell me what this ‘no<br />
designation’ means”<br />
One of the Republican women stuck<br />
her nose in the air and haughtily said,<br />
“They couldn’t even get anybody to<br />
run.” “Thank you very much,” said I, and<br />
returned to the booth, where I wrote<br />
in my own name! Then to play it safe,<br />
I called up John at work and told him<br />
that when he went to vote he should<br />
write in my name for committeeman.<br />
And, taking no chances whatsoever, I<br />
went across the street to my neighbor,<br />
whom I knew to be a Democrat, to<br />
ask her to do the same. Thus with<br />
three votes I was a shoo-in and<br />
became duly elected the Democratic<br />
committeewoman from my district!<br />
Anne Cahn<br />
Election Day, <strong>November</strong> 2, 2010. Mail your<br />
ballot in advance or drop off at a voting<br />
center by 8 pm on Election Day.
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ASSOCIATION AND COMMITTEE NEWS<br />
<strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council<br />
Charles Pope, President,<br />
2011. Box 512, x1653<br />
popec@rockisland.com<br />
Marty Kushmerick,<br />
Vice President 2012. Box<br />
402, x1607<br />
kushmeri@u.washington.<br />
edu<br />
Margaret Herb, Treasurer,<br />
2012. Box 616, x1693<br />
maggieherb@softhome.<br />
net<br />
Karen Smith, Secretary,<br />
2011. Box 625, x1702<br />
kfsmith1@juno.com<br />
Bob Capeloto, Member<br />
at Large, 2011.<br />
Box 912, x1795<br />
cape5678@yahoo.com<br />
Ann Frothingham,<br />
Member at Large, 2011.<br />
Box 1018, x1823<br />
frothinghamann@yahoo.<br />
com<br />
Cristi Lien, Member at<br />
Large, 2012. Box 808<br />
(temp.), x1757<br />
cristilien@gmail.com<br />
Kudos to Council Past, Welcome<br />
to Council Present<br />
Editors, MM<br />
<strong>Resident</strong>s’ Association<br />
In Gratitude<br />
Recently the membership of our<br />
Mirabella <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council changed<br />
without bloodshed, confirming that<br />
we are a true democracy. This change<br />
was expedited by many Mirabella<br />
residents—it is time to offer them our<br />
thanks.<br />
The process began with the<br />
appointment of the Nominating<br />
Committee. Under the able leadership<br />
of John Rasmussen, the Committee—<br />
consisting of Midge Chadsey, Rheba<br />
deTornyay, Joe Joiner, and Rosemary<br />
Wilson—established the sequence<br />
of events leading to the election, and<br />
the criteria for candidate selection.<br />
The committee then went to the<br />
individuals they had identified as<br />
their top candidates and secured their<br />
willingness to serve. The committee<br />
was impressed that they were rarely<br />
turned down by potential nominees.<br />
We must next thank the six nominees,<br />
Marty Kushmerick, Betty Nicholson,<br />
Margaret Herb, Judith Peterick,<br />
Cristi Lien, and Olga Butler, for their<br />
willingness to consider serving a two<br />
year stint as members of the <strong>Resident</strong>s’<br />
Council. This service involves not only<br />
attending Council meetings, but also<br />
acting as liaisons with our various<br />
Committees.<br />
The actual mechanics of the election<br />
were performed by the members<br />
of the Election Committee. Jackie<br />
Prentice handled the original planning<br />
and was responsible for distributing<br />
absentee ballots. Unfortunately<br />
problems arose that made it<br />
impossible for her to be present on<br />
the day of the election. Jerome Zech<br />
replaced her as Chair. He was aided by<br />
Bob Bain, Terry Cochrane, Jared Curtis,<br />
and Arrol Thieme. This group retired to<br />
the Craft Room, counted ballots, and<br />
certified the results.<br />
Finally, a huge wave of gratitude<br />
should roll over the outgoing<br />
members of the <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council,<br />
President David Rensvold, Treasurer<br />
Russ Sorensen, and Member-at-large<br />
John Pehrson. They all should be<br />
proud of an excellent job well done.<br />
We welcome the incoming Council<br />
members, Vice-President Marty<br />
Kushmerick, Treasurer Margaret Herb<br />
and Member-at-Large Cristi Lien. I look<br />
forward to interacting with these new<br />
members as well as with the ongoing<br />
Council members.<br />
Chuck Pope,<br />
President<br />
What Are These Committees All<br />
About<br />
One of our residents heard me refer<br />
repeatedly to the committee structure<br />
during a recent <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Association<br />
meeting and asked me to define<br />
the purpose, structure function and<br />
utility of the <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Association<br />
committees. I shall try to do this, using<br />
a question and answer format.<br />
What is a committee A committee<br />
is a group of residents charged with<br />
monitoring certain aspects of our lives<br />
at Mirabella.<br />
What kinds of committees do we have<br />
The following is a list of committees<br />
that are currently active. Their area<br />
of responsibility is usually defined<br />
by their titles, but a more thorough<br />
description can be found in the<br />
<strong>Resident</strong>s’ Handbook.<br />
(continued on p. 5)
committee news (cont.)<br />
5<br />
Committee Structure, Employee Appreciation, AV Setup, . . .<br />
Committee<br />
Art<br />
Communications<br />
Dining<br />
Environment &<br />
Facilities<br />
Finance<br />
Greeting<br />
Health & Wellness<br />
Library<br />
Marketing<br />
Program<br />
Emergency<br />
Preparations<br />
Transportation<br />
Chair<br />
Charles Sleicher<br />
Arnie Gaillard<br />
Jan Grant<br />
Sedge<br />
Thompson<br />
Bill Ellis<br />
Barbara Mitchell<br />
Seeley Chandler<br />
Phyllis Allen<br />
Carl Dunaway<br />
Kitty Dow<br />
Jim Schultz<br />
Ida Curtis<br />
What does a committee do A<br />
committee receives requests<br />
and comments from residents,<br />
The <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council or from<br />
management. It generates plans<br />
and requests. It reports to individual<br />
residents, to the <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council<br />
and/or to management. It generates<br />
budget requests to the <strong>Resident</strong>s’<br />
Council if their program requires it.<br />
It meets on a regular schedule and<br />
generates minutes that are available in<br />
the Library.<br />
Who belongs to a committee Each<br />
committee consists of 5-9 individuals<br />
appointed by the president of<br />
the <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council with their<br />
concurrence. The function of the<br />
appointed members is to give<br />
continuity to the committee and<br />
on the very rare occasion that the<br />
committee cannot reach consensus,<br />
to vote. Other residents may choose<br />
to attend every committee meeting,<br />
to work on sub-committees and to<br />
offer opinions to the committee. Each<br />
committee has a liaison member<br />
from the <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council, and a<br />
representative from the appropriate<br />
management group who may or may<br />
not attend part or all of each meeting.<br />
All committee meetings are open<br />
meetings with the exception of the<br />
Finance Committee.<br />
How does a resident contact a<br />
committee A resident can attend<br />
a committee meeting or contact a<br />
committee chair. If it is not certain<br />
which committee would be the best<br />
one to receive information, then the<br />
resident might pass on the request<br />
or concern to any member of the<br />
<strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council.<br />
Summary: The committee system<br />
provides a useful method for obtaining<br />
information or registering protest. I<br />
am very grateful to all the committee<br />
members who are willing to donate<br />
their time and expertise to make<br />
our lives and Mirabella work more<br />
smoothly. My hope is that more<br />
members will become involved in<br />
committee work. It is a wonderful way<br />
to get to know your neighbors. Go,<br />
Committees!!<br />
Chuck Pope<br />
President, <strong>Resident</strong>s’ Council<br />
Employee Appreciation<br />
Project 2010<br />
Chair, Jerry Roling<br />
Saying Thank-you<br />
The <strong>Resident</strong>’s Association, in light<br />
of the Mirabella policy of not giving<br />
employee gratuities during the<br />
year, wants to give residents in the<br />
forthcoming Thanksgiving Season an<br />
opportunity to express appreciation to<br />
our employees. During the past year<br />
they have served all of us in numerous<br />
seen and unseen ways. The Mirabella<br />
residents’ response to the 2009<br />
Employee Appreciation Project was a<br />
generous one. This model of giving is<br />
widely used in most CCRC’s.<br />
We hope that all of us can again<br />
recognize the importance of<br />
expressing our appreciation for the<br />
employees through this project. This<br />
year, for the first time, the employees<br />
will not receive a cost-of-living raise,<br />
making our joint effort even more<br />
significant in 2010. Several residents<br />
have already made donations to the<br />
project for this year.<br />
A letter has appeared in our mailboxes<br />
requesting a donation. A questionand-answer<br />
document, together with<br />
appropriate gift-giving envelopes will<br />
be sent to you shortly. Please take<br />
time to begin thinking of this and<br />
carefully read the forthcoming future<br />
correspondence. The period of time<br />
for the collection of your contributions<br />
runs through <strong>November</strong> 19, 2010.<br />
Some of us may be gone for an<br />
extended time prior to the Holidays,<br />
and this early information will give you<br />
time for consideration. The Employee<br />
Appreciation Party will be held on<br />
Friday, December 3, at 3:00 pm.<br />
Communications Committee<br />
Chair, Hellmut Golde<br />
Need Help Solving the Mysteries of<br />
Audio-Visual Setup<br />
Here is a list of residents who can help<br />
with the Audio-Visual setup in Emerald<br />
Hall. Please let Hellmut Golde know if<br />
anyone’s name is missing from the list,<br />
and he will send out a revised list.<br />
Karen Smith, apt. 625, x 1702,<br />
kfsmith1@juno.com
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COMMITTEE NEWS (cont.)<br />
Arnie Gaillard, apt. 1027, x 1832,<br />
arnpatgail@msn.com<br />
AV Helper List (from p. 5)<br />
David Rensvold, apt. 622, x 1699<br />
davidrensvold@msn.com<br />
Martha Oman, apt. 501, x 1642<br />
marthaoman@gmail.com<br />
Chuck Pope, apt. 512, x 1653<br />
popec@rockisland.com<br />
George Anderson, apt. 1022, x 1827<br />
gca@u.washington.edu<br />
Hellmut Golde, apt. 428, x 1633<br />
hellmut.mirabella@gmail.com<br />
Emergency Preparedness<br />
Chair, Jim Schultz<br />
Do You Have an Out-of-State<br />
Contact<br />
In any unforeseen disaster or area<br />
emergency how will your family know<br />
you are safe if the phone lines are<br />
jammed<br />
1. Designate an out-of-area contact<br />
for you and your family to call. Out-ofstate<br />
telephone connections are more<br />
likely to be open than local ones. Know<br />
where the nearest pay telephone is;<br />
these telephones are used by police<br />
and emergency personnel and are the<br />
first to be activated if lines are down.<br />
When the Nisqually quake hit Seattle,<br />
our daughter was on an airplane<br />
scheduled to land just as the Seatac<br />
control tower was impacted by the<br />
quake, and her plane was diverted to<br />
Portland. Her husband was at work in<br />
Lynnwood. Her children were in school<br />
near Snohomish. Our family was<br />
separated, but were they safe<br />
A call from each of us to a designated<br />
contact in Colorado reassured us that<br />
we were all safe and helped make<br />
plans to be reunited.<br />
2. If you are separated or must<br />
evacuate, designate a place for family<br />
to meet and a place to leave messages.<br />
In the 27 years we lived in north<br />
Seattle we had three neighborhood<br />
evacuations or lockdowns, one for<br />
a huge natural gas leak and two for<br />
hostage situations. A local church was<br />
a natural place to leave messages for<br />
family and friends. The church became<br />
a shelter for neighbors and was also a<br />
command post for the SWAT team.<br />
3. Carry a list of important telephone<br />
numbers and a list of medications in<br />
your billfold or purse so you don’t have<br />
to reconstruct the information.<br />
Additional bonus, if you lose the<br />
billfold an honest finder can contact<br />
you to return your property.<br />
Health and Wellness<br />
Committee<br />
Chair, Seeley Chandler<br />
<strong>November</strong> 10, Flu clinic 11 am–4 pm<br />
in the 2nd floor exam room.<br />
A Fluzone High Dose shot designed<br />
for people 65 and older is currently<br />
available, as well as seasonal flu<br />
shots in a normal dose. The Center<br />
for Disease Control (CDC) and the<br />
Advisory Committee on Immunization<br />
Practices (ACIP) both recommend a<br />
flu vaccination as the first and most<br />
important step in protecting against<br />
the flu. However, neither CDC nor<br />
ACIP is expressing a preference of<br />
one vaccine over another at this time.<br />
Clinical research on the higher dose<br />
vaccine will not be completed until<br />
2012. Kelley-Ross Pharmacies at the<br />
moment is offering only the seasonal,<br />
normal dose flu shot, but is holding<br />
off on the high dose shot. If you have<br />
already had a flu shot you do need<br />
the super flu shot. But if you haven’t<br />
had your shot, information about the<br />
high dose flu shot is available on line<br />
at the Center for Disease Control and<br />
Immunization home page – http://<br />
www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/<br />
qa_fluzone.htm.<br />
Kelley-Ross pharmacies are located at<br />
910 Lenora St, suite 152, in the Pan-<br />
Pacific Hotel courtyard (206-405-3565);<br />
downtown at 616 Olive Way (206-622-<br />
3565), and at Polyclinic, 1120 Harvard<br />
Ave (206-324-6990).<br />
Library Committee<br />
Chair, Phyllis Allen<br />
Our own “Movies On Demand”<br />
At the request of a number of<br />
residents, the library now has a<br />
collection of DVDs located on<br />
shelves to the left of the door into<br />
the business/computer room. Bonita<br />
Dennison and Anne Magruder<br />
attended the Friends of the Library<br />
Sale and returned with 50 DVDs<br />
for the library. We have had a very<br />
appreciative response from residents.<br />
If you own DVDs that you would like<br />
to donate, please leave then on the<br />
return cart, and we will label and add<br />
them to our collection.<br />
Program Committee<br />
Chair, Kitty Dow<br />
<strong>November</strong> 9, 4 p.m. Emerald Hall<br />
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Executive Director<br />
of Wings Over Washington and retired<br />
CEO of the Museum of Flight, will<br />
speak on ”A Flight to Remember: From<br />
Aviation’s Birth to the Future of Space<br />
Exploration to the Education of our<br />
Youth.”
Committee and Club news<br />
7<br />
Take a Bus, Read a Book, . . . or Knit<br />
Program Committee (from p. 6)<br />
<strong>November</strong> 16, 4 p.m. Emerald Hall<br />
Dr. Russell Van Gelder, M.D. Ph.D.,<br />
Chair of the University of Washington<br />
Department of Ophthalmology,<br />
will speak on “The Eyes Have It: The<br />
Modern Medicine of Vision.”<br />
Transportation Committee<br />
Chair, Ida Curtis<br />
Metro Night Stop<br />
Metro Transit provides excellent<br />
service convenient to Mirabella<br />
residents. Bus stops for east-west and<br />
north-south routes are located less<br />
than a block from our front door.<br />
There may be times, however, when<br />
Metro’s Night Stop service may be<br />
useful. Available between 8 pm and 5<br />
am, Night Stop allows riders to ask the<br />
bus driver to let a rider off at any point<br />
along the bus route, even though it<br />
may not be a designated Metro bus<br />
stop.<br />
Especially for riders on the northbound<br />
#70, 71, 72, and 73 routes on<br />
Fairview Ave N, a stop at the Mirabella<br />
front door may be very welcome, if<br />
mobility, bad weather, or personal<br />
security is a concern.<br />
The Night Stop procedure is simple.<br />
Just go to the front of the bus at least a<br />
block ahead of where you want to get<br />
off and request your stop. Approaching<br />
Mirabella from the south, a good place<br />
to make your request is just prior to<br />
the Fairview-Denny stop. The driver<br />
will decide whether the stop requested<br />
can be made safely. (This has not been<br />
an issue for Mirabella stops.)<br />
Drivers may pick up passengers only<br />
at regular Metro stops. The Night<br />
Stop service is available throughout<br />
the Metro service area but not in the<br />
downtown Ride Free Area. The ramps<br />
and lifts may be used only at approved<br />
bus stops along the route.<br />
The Change in Town Car Service<br />
As of <strong>November</strong> 1st town car service<br />
will be expanded to include the King<br />
Street Station, but only when there are<br />
no conflicts with games or events held<br />
at nearby sport arenas. Because traffic<br />
during events can tie up the town-car,<br />
the valets and residents will need to be<br />
aware of when games are scheduled.<br />
Future Meeting to Discuss the<br />
Mirabella Bus and Town Car<br />
All residents will be invited to attend<br />
a meeting in <strong>November</strong> to discuss<br />
the Mirabella bus and how it can be<br />
scheduled to serve residents better.<br />
The use of the town-car will also be<br />
discussed. Watch for the date.<br />
The Circular Entrance Drive<br />
The elimination of valet parking<br />
from the entrance drive has caused<br />
problems for residents. A suggestion<br />
was made that residents greet their<br />
guests at the circular drive, entering<br />
the car with them to show them the<br />
garage. In some circumstances, when<br />
there are prospective residents or<br />
disabled visitors, a resident can call<br />
Joanie Vivaz and make arrangements<br />
in advance for a valet to take the<br />
car from the driveway. Joanie is also<br />
working on a map to direct visitors to<br />
garage parking. The map will be made<br />
available for residents.<br />
Book Club<br />
The Mirabella Book Club will meet<br />
Monday, <strong>November</strong> 15, in the Craft<br />
Room. We are reading River Town: Two<br />
Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler.<br />
The public library’s waiting list is very<br />
long; consider borrowing or buying a<br />
copy. We decided at our last meeting<br />
that we would NOT meet in December,<br />
since it is a busy time and many will be<br />
away. We also decided on the books for<br />
the next few months:<br />
January: Border Song by Jim Lynch<br />
February: Stones Into Schools by Greg<br />
Mortenson<br />
March: The Girl With No Shadow by<br />
Joanne Harris<br />
April: Founding Mothers by Cokie<br />
Roberts<br />
May: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay<br />
June: A Mercy by Toni Morrison<br />
July: A World Without Us by Alan<br />
Weisman<br />
August: The Remains of the Day by<br />
Kazuo Ishiguro<br />
September: If You Lived Here, I’d Know<br />
Your Name by Heather Lende<br />
Natalie Delord<br />
Crafts Club<br />
First Annual Mirabella Holiday<br />
Crafts Sale<br />
Yes, we are a community of talented<br />
people! On <strong>November</strong> 30th from<br />
10–3, please join us for our first ever<br />
Mirabella Crafts Sale. There are three<br />
ways you can participate:<br />
• Make and sell your crafts at the<br />
sale. You can show your talent and<br />
contribute to enhancing life at<br />
Mirabella—15% of sales will go to<br />
the Mirabella Foundation. Contact<br />
Dolores Wright at phone #1686 for<br />
more information on entering your<br />
handmade crafts in the sale.<br />
• Come, admire, and buy—the<br />
holidays are coming! Bring your cash
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
8<br />
Projects and Proposals<br />
Crafts Sale (from p. 7)<br />
(checks accepted only for purchases<br />
over $50). Doors open at 10:00 am<br />
and close at 3:00 pm. Among many<br />
items, we will have wine bottle<br />
holders, green pepper relish, note<br />
cards, scarves and hats.<br />
• Do Both! Be clever and share your<br />
crafts and do your holiday shopping.<br />
So come one, come all.<br />
Dolores Wright<br />
Line Dancing Club<br />
Yone, the Energizer Bunny<br />
We have nick-named our teacher the<br />
“energizer bunny” for a good reason.<br />
At 80-plus years, and looking twenty<br />
years younger, she is an inspiration to<br />
us all. Yone Kishida has been teaching<br />
line dancing since 1990. We are lucky<br />
to have her teaching us beginning<br />
line dancing, right here at Mirabella,<br />
on Thursday afternoons at 1 pm, in<br />
the Craft Room. It is a great way to<br />
exercise, get healthy, and have fun<br />
learning to dance. This is a beginner<br />
group, and we are always learning new<br />
dances and reviewing those we have<br />
done before. All of us were beginners<br />
to start with, so don’t be concerned<br />
about the level of skill needed. To<br />
see what it’s like, have a look-in any<br />
Thursday, and remember that the first<br />
lesson is free.<br />
The fee is $3.00 for each week you<br />
attend, enabling us to cover Yone’s<br />
car expenses. Come and join the club,<br />
even if you have never danced before.<br />
There are no partners in line dancing.<br />
Single or couple, all are welcome. We<br />
hope to see you on Thursdays.<br />
Dan and Irene Hunter<br />
Needlework Club<br />
You, too, can warm cold heads and<br />
hearts<br />
Hats and scarves knitted by members of the<br />
Needlework Club<br />
Several members of the knitting<br />
group have been busy this summer<br />
making hats and scarfs. This month we<br />
donated 35 hats and scarf sets and 17<br />
hats to the shelter for battered women.<br />
This donation will allow the shelter<br />
staff to give each woman in the house<br />
a scarf and hat set.<br />
There are 65 children living at the<br />
shelter as well, so we still need more<br />
homemade knitted hats. If you knit or<br />
crochet and would like to help, contact<br />
Dolores Wright at ext. 1686. We can<br />
provide the yarn!<br />
Dolores Wright<br />
Transit Transients<br />
The <strong>November</strong> Transit Transient outing<br />
will be a trip to the “Museum of Flight.”<br />
We will experience riding the Metro<br />
#8 Bus to Denny Way and Dexter and<br />
transfer to the Metro #26/124. The<br />
#26/124 bus will take us south to the<br />
Museum. The date for the trip is Nov<br />
4, 2010. Since it is the first Thursday of<br />
the month, the admission is free. We<br />
can have lunch in the Museum’s Wings<br />
Café. We plan on leaving the Mirabella<br />
lobby about 9:50 am to catch a 9:58<br />
bus. The planned return will get us<br />
back about 3:15 pm. Alternate returns<br />
can be arranged. Remember your<br />
ORCA card or $.75 (with senior card) in<br />
exact change for both the journey out<br />
and the return. Any questions, call Bill<br />
Wright at ext 1686.<br />
Bill Wright<br />
Listening to a Child Read<br />
Are you looking for an opportunity to<br />
do some volunteer work Please read<br />
below to learn of one of our resident’s<br />
satisfaction derived from volunteering<br />
at Special Friends.<br />
Twenty-three years ago Cappy McNutt<br />
Rooks began pairing up “grandparents”<br />
with children in the John Stanford<br />
International School (formerly Latona<br />
Elementary) who could benefit from<br />
a little one on one reading for 45<br />
minutes or so a day or two a week. It’s<br />
been some of the most fun I’ve had,<br />
and not just because of the pool party<br />
at Kelly Foss’s at the end of the school<br />
year!<br />
I remember the thrill of hearing my<br />
child reader last year suddenly “get it.”<br />
English was his second language. He<br />
was bright and could sound out all<br />
the words, but that flash of realization<br />
that these words meant something we<br />
could discuss together was a true midyear<br />
treat.<br />
If anyone would like to volunteer by<br />
helping a student with reading for a<br />
few hours each week, please contact<br />
Dick Blount at ext 1644.<br />
Dick Blount
Projects, Profiles, and personalities<br />
9<br />
History and Genes<br />
Last month Carolyn Blount told us<br />
about learning how to research your<br />
family history. You can still join her<br />
as she goes to the Fiske Genealogy<br />
Library in Madison Park at 10:00<br />
am–12:00 noon every Wednesday for<br />
classes.<br />
Carolyn volunteers there on Thursdays<br />
from 3:00–7:00 pm, helping with<br />
the entry of records in the world’s<br />
largest electronic catalogue, the OCLC<br />
database. You’re welcome to join in.<br />
The remaining Wednesday classes are<br />
held at Fiske Library ($5.00 per class).<br />
They will focus on research in a law<br />
library, in standard genealogical works,<br />
and specifically in two southern states.<br />
Class Schedule:<br />
Date Topic Instructor<br />
Nov 3 Fed. Court Records, Karen Sipe<br />
Case Indexes at<br />
a Law Library<br />
Nov 10 Getting More Out<br />
of “Footnote”<br />
Karl Kumm<br />
Nov 17<br />
Research: Georgia<br />
and Florida<br />
Gary Zimmerman<br />
If you want a ride any Wednesday or<br />
Thursday, call Carolyn Blount, ext 1644,<br />
or email: cblount@vendor.net.<br />
Aging Services of Washington<br />
<strong>Resident</strong> Forum<br />
Thursday, Nov. 11th, 9:30–11:00 a.m.<br />
Hosted by Exeter House, 720 Seneca<br />
Street Seattle, WA 98101<br />
~ Program ~<br />
Serving Our Surrounding Communities:<br />
How are <strong>Resident</strong>s helping those in<br />
need<br />
As <strong>Resident</strong>s what are we doing to<br />
help Tell your story! <strong>Resident</strong>s/staff<br />
are invited to bring stories and photos<br />
of successful community service<br />
programs that make a difference in the<br />
lives of others!<br />
Who is invited Wellness Directors,<br />
Activity Directors, <strong>Resident</strong> Service<br />
Directors and 2 or 3 <strong>Resident</strong><br />
Representatives who will be willing to<br />
“Share Your Story”! If you are unable to<br />
attend, send your story to the Aging<br />
Services office to share with the group.<br />
Directions from116 Fairview Ave N to<br />
726 Seneca St (ride or walk)<br />
Go to Google Maps by entering<br />
http://maps.google.com/ in your<br />
browser; choose “get directions”; then<br />
enter your starting point and your<br />
destination.<br />
Agenda:<br />
• 9:30 a.m. Refreshments<br />
• 10:00 a.m. Welcome &<br />
Introductions/Program<br />
• 11:15 a.m. Tour<br />
Please RSVP by <strong>November</strong> 9th Call:<br />
Lynn Rovig, Dir. <strong>Resident</strong> Services,<br />
Exeter House (P) (206) 622-1300 (E)<br />
lrovig@exeterhouse.org (F) (206) 622-<br />
1920. Let us know who plans to attend.<br />
For more information about Mirabella’s<br />
part in forums, contact ASW <strong>Resident</strong><br />
Forum Chair, Bob Nicholson #500, (P)<br />
206-254-1641, (E) rdnern2@gmail.com.<br />
Or email Pat Sylvia, ASW, (E) PSylvia@<br />
agingwa.org.<br />
(From a communication by Pat Sylvia)<br />
Mirabella Chorus for Employee<br />
Appreciation Party on Friday,<br />
December 3, 3:00 pm<br />
Like to Sing Have Enthusiasm<br />
Love to Perform Here’s Your Chance<br />
to Be On the Stage! All you singers<br />
come again this year—and bring your<br />
friends.<br />
Don’t miss this opportunity—last year<br />
everyone had a great time! (Beautiful<br />
tone quality not a requirement!)<br />
Two Rehearsals in Emerald Hall:<br />
• Tuesday, <strong>November</strong> 23 4:00 pm<br />
• Tuesday, <strong>November</strong> 30 4:00 pm<br />
And a warm-up:<br />
• Friday, December 3, 2:15 pm in<br />
Emerald Hall<br />
Carolyn Burton, ext 1726<br />
We Bid Farewell to Popular Driver<br />
On his final day, Cleaven Wright<br />
was photographed in the bus as he<br />
prepared to take Mirabellans on their<br />
rounds.<br />
An out-pouring<br />
of gestures of<br />
appreciation<br />
surrounded<br />
Cleve on<br />
September<br />
30th, as he<br />
ended his<br />
service to us.<br />
One resident<br />
commented, “You have been a bright<br />
spot, an uplifting presence, a loving<br />
and concerned valet, town car driver,<br />
and bus driver, who has blessed and<br />
enriched all our lives.”<br />
Many more said simply, “We’ll miss<br />
you.”<br />
Bob Nicholson<br />
Immanuel Community Services<br />
Breakfast a Success<br />
More than 100 guests filled the<br />
Social Hall of Immanuel Lutheran<br />
Church Thursday, October 14th, and<br />
raised over $12,000 for ICS programs.<br />
Mirabella supplied the coffee and tea.<br />
Thirteen residents attended. They<br />
and others who could not attend<br />
contributed $1,000. An anonymous<br />
Mirabella donor agreed to match<br />
that amount! The program included<br />
a keynote speech by David Bloom. A<br />
video describing the various programs<br />
included cameo appearances of<br />
Mirabella residents Dee Groth and<br />
Betsy Dunaway, volunteers at the Food<br />
Bank. Further information on ICS can<br />
be found at www.icsseattle.org.<br />
Art Hurd
10<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Profiles and Personalities<br />
The Mystery Man of Mirabella.<br />
An Interview with Charles Moore.<br />
Q: Hi, Charles. Let’s begin with the very<br />
beginning. Where are you from and<br />
how did you get to Mirabella<br />
A: Well, I was born in Rhode Island<br />
and grew up mostly in Texas. When I<br />
came to Seattle a few years ago, the<br />
mountains and forests and the coast<br />
itself, were the big attraction.<br />
Q: Do you like Seattle<br />
A: Oh, I do. I like it very much.<br />
Q: OK. So on to your job. What did you<br />
do before you came to Seattle<br />
A: I’ve been in many supervisory<br />
transit positions, also in administrative<br />
positions, which was a perfect combo<br />
when I came to Mirabella.<br />
Q: I know you’re the Garage Supervisor<br />
here. To me, the garage is our<br />
Grand Central Station. Am I right<br />
A: Yes. With so many vehicles coming<br />
and going at the same time, residents,<br />
visitors, vendors, non-stop, in and out,<br />
it can get a little crazy at times.<br />
Q: Could you give me a sort of blowby-blow<br />
of what goes on<br />
A: Certainly. Well, my main job is an<br />
overall supervision of garage staff,<br />
dealing with town cars, bus schedules,<br />
transportation problems of all kinds,<br />
you name it.<br />
Q: Come to think of it, when you’re up<br />
here in the front office and the garage<br />
is down there, how do you keep things<br />
running smoothly<br />
A: When I’m up here, I can get<br />
a broader perspective on daily<br />
schedules, etc. Down there, I tend to<br />
get caught up in what’s supposed to<br />
go on in the next 5 minutes.<br />
Q: Is it true you schedule breaks and<br />
lunch hours every day for the staff and<br />
the concierge staff<br />
A: Yes. Since both need to be replaced<br />
when they’re not there, it can take a lot<br />
of juggling.<br />
Q: As far as Administration is<br />
concerned, you are Joanie’s right hand<br />
A: Yes. Joanie has many miscellaneous<br />
projects, and there is constant demand<br />
for department support tasks. I help<br />
with that.<br />
Q: Do you have any time to breathe<br />
during the day<br />
A: Well, they encourage me to, but it<br />
hasn’t happened yet.<br />
Q: How about Channel 61 Are you<br />
their hi-techie<br />
A: Yes. I am the sole person here who<br />
acts as a liaison between VCTV and<br />
the Communications Committee at<br />
Mirabella.<br />
Q: Do you do the graphic design and<br />
editing for Channel 61<br />
A: I do the editing, but many residents<br />
now work on the graphics, and give<br />
them to me, especially Hellmut Golde.<br />
And I should mention I am the one<br />
who loads and uploads most all the<br />
committees’ information to the Intranet<br />
Q: Do you have a title, Charles<br />
A: Yes. I am The <strong>Resident</strong> Services<br />
Coordinator.<br />
Q: Are you also the Concierge for<br />
Management<br />
A: No. Some residents think so because<br />
of my location, and they may not be<br />
happy when they don’t see me at my<br />
desk. But I have no Concierge duties<br />
for Management. There is a sign on<br />
my desk that directs people to the<br />
Concierge for appropriate needs<br />
like copying, faxing, and general<br />
information.<br />
Q: Why doesn’t Management move<br />
you to a less Concierge-type space.<br />
A: There actually is no other available<br />
physical space.<br />
Q: What else do you do, Charles<br />
A: I coordinate our conference and<br />
meeting room space for all committees<br />
and clubs. I’m responsible for loading<br />
and deleting most information to and<br />
from the Intranet. And I’m a back- -up<br />
when Joanie is out, since I’m familiar<br />
with some of her duties.<br />
Q: Thanks you so much for all the info.<br />
But hang on, Charles. I’ve heard that<br />
you’re pregnant and about to become<br />
a daddy. Is that rumor true<br />
A: Yes, it is true. My wife and I are about<br />
to have a baby boy, we think around<br />
December 2nd.<br />
Q: And does he have a name<br />
A: Yes. Ronan. It’s an Irish name.<br />
Q: I love it. By the way, Charles, where<br />
do you live in Seattle<br />
A: North. Near Shoreline.<br />
Q: How about in your spare time. Do<br />
you have hobbies<br />
A: I do. I like to read history. I like to do<br />
home improvement. Home Depot has<br />
become one of my favorite stores. I Iike<br />
to travel. I like genealogy. I discovered<br />
a few ancestors during Civil War times<br />
who were actually related to some<br />
famous Civil War generals.<br />
Q: Do you have a high tech goal<br />
Would you like to be the new Mark<br />
Zuckerberg of 2011 or 2012<br />
A: (Charles laughs) I don’t know. I’m<br />
actually interested in real estate.<br />
Q: Are you on Facebook, Charles<br />
A: Yes.<br />
Q: May I post you an invitation to be<br />
my Facebook friend.<br />
A: Of course.<br />
Q: Anything else you’d like people to<br />
know<br />
A: Just that I’m a sort of jack- of- all<br />
trades for <strong>Resident</strong> Services here at<br />
Mirabella<br />
Q: So Charles, could you run the joint if<br />
James was on vacation<br />
A: (He smiles) No. (Pause) I don’t think I<br />
could do that.<br />
Carole Anne<br />
(based on an idea from Patti Smith)
Entertainment<br />
Mirabella Movies<br />
11<br />
All operas and movies are shown in<br />
Emerald Hall<br />
Bring your small flashlight if you<br />
wish to leave during the movie.<br />
(Please wait for the lights to be<br />
turned on before you leave.)<br />
Opera First Mondays, Emerald Hall,<br />
4:00 pm and continuing at 7:15 pm<br />
Wagner’s The Ring<br />
Third Opera: “Siegfried”<br />
<strong>November</strong> 1 @ 4 pm ACT I; dinner<br />
break; 7:15 pm Resume with ACT II,<br />
short intermission, and Act III.<br />
In “Siegfried,” the third opera of<br />
Wagner’s Ring Cycle, we follow the<br />
adventure of a naive, fearless Siegfried<br />
for two and a half acts and then he<br />
discovers love. The opera will have<br />
been introduced on Sunday at 4 pm<br />
with a voice recording by the late<br />
Perry Lorenzo. The opera itself will be<br />
presented on Monday at 4 pm.<br />
Wednesday Nights at 7:30 pm<br />
New Releases<br />
The newest movies available in DVD<br />
releases from 2009–2010.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 3 The Secret In Their Eyes<br />
A retired legal counselor writes a<br />
novel hoping to find closure for one<br />
of his past unresolved homicide cases<br />
and for his unrequited love for his<br />
superior—both failures haunt him<br />
decades later. Won 2010 Oscar for<br />
Best Foreign Language Film. Spanish<br />
with English subtitles. Argentina 2009;<br />
129 minutes; Rated R for a rape scene,<br />
violent images, some graphic nudity,<br />
and language.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 10 The Way We Get By<br />
Over the past six years, three senior<br />
citizens have greeted nearly one<br />
million U.S. troops at a tiny airport<br />
in Maine. Filled with unexpected<br />
turns, their uplifting and emotional<br />
journey demonstrates the meaning of<br />
community at a time when America<br />
needs it most. USA 2009; 84 minutes;<br />
Unrated documentary.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 17 A Single Man<br />
Colin Firth (Oscar nominee) plays<br />
an English professor who, after the<br />
sudden death of his partner, plans to<br />
commit suicide. Julianne Moore is his<br />
best friend. USA 2009; 99 minutes;<br />
Rated R for some disturbing images<br />
and nudity/sexual content.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 24 Please Give<br />
In New York City, a husband and wife<br />
butt heads with the granddaughters<br />
of the elderly woman who is living,<br />
until her death, in the apartment the<br />
couple bought. USA 2010; 90 minutes;<br />
Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual<br />
content, and nudity.<br />
Saturday Nights at 7:30 pm<br />
Old Favorites<br />
In <strong>November</strong> we are grateful for our<br />
families, our friends, and the pleasures of<br />
the table.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 6 Eat Drink Man Woman<br />
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a<br />
large house in Taipei with his three<br />
unmarried daughters. Life in the<br />
house revolves around the ritual of an<br />
elaborate dinner each Sunday and the<br />
love lives of all the family. Nominated<br />
for Oscar and Golden Globe for Best<br />
Foreign Language Film. Taiwan 1994;<br />
124 minutes; Not rated.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 13 Big Night<br />
In love and life, one big night can<br />
change everything! A failing Italian<br />
restaurant run by two brothers<br />
gambles on a feast of a lifetime to try<br />
to save the business. Nominated for<br />
Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film<br />
Festival. USA 1996; 109 minutes; Rated<br />
R for profanity.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 20 Like Water For<br />
Chocolate<br />
In this story of three sisters and their<br />
mother in rural Mexico, desire, love,<br />
and rebellion are centered on the<br />
world of cooking--cooking as a sacred<br />
ritual, not a boring chore and, when<br />
done right, with love, in a way to create<br />
magic! Mexico 1992; 105 minutes;<br />
Rated R for nudity, sexual situations,<br />
and violence.<br />
<strong>November</strong> 27 Tampopo<br />
In humorous praise to the joys of food,<br />
the main story is about trucker Goro<br />
who helps Tampopo set up the perfect<br />
fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven<br />
into this story are a number of smaller<br />
stories about the importance of food,<br />
all jumbled together into a hilarious<br />
concoction. Japan 1986; 123 minutes;<br />
Rated R for sexual situations.<br />
Take a look at the more than 50<br />
additional DVDs available in the<br />
Mirabella Movie Library. (Don’t forget<br />
to return DVDs after viewing!)
12<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
About Town<br />
It is impractical to list more than just a<br />
few of the events that occur in Seattle.<br />
Therefore, instead of listing events,<br />
this section of The Mirabella Monthly<br />
will list venues and only exceptional<br />
events. Readers are encouraged to go<br />
on line to find a listing of events at a<br />
selected venue. For example, if you<br />
google or bing “Town Hall Seattle,”<br />
a listing will appear that contains<br />
a calendar for Town Hall events<br />
for months to come. Usually tickets can<br />
be ordered on line, but an alternative is<br />
to phone the appropriate box office. If<br />
readers find errors or omissions, please<br />
let the editors know.<br />
ART<br />
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) – 206-344-<br />
5275 – The current Picasso exhibit is a<br />
must-see.<br />
Seattle Asian Art Museum – 206-654-<br />
3206<br />
Olympic Sculpture Park – 206-332-<br />
1377<br />
MOVIES<br />
Landmark Theaters - A list of local<br />
theaters is at www.landmarktheaters.<br />
com/Market/Seattle/<br />
Seattle International Film Festival<br />
(SIFF) – 206-464-5830 – (Note: this<br />
goes on all year.)<br />
MUSIC<br />
Early Music Guild and Seattle<br />
Baroque Orchestra – 206-325-7066<br />
Jazz Alley – 206-441-9729<br />
Ladies Musical Club (LMC) – 206-622-<br />
6882<br />
Square Peg Concerts – 206-838-4333<br />
– listings at www.squarepegconcerts.<br />
com/ – click on Seattle<br />
Seattle Chamber Music Society – 206-<br />
283-8710<br />
Seattle Musical Theatre – 206-363-2809<br />
Seattle Opera – 206-389-7676<br />
Seattle Symphony Orchestra – 206-<br />
215-4747<br />
THEATRE<br />
ACT Theatre – 206-292-7676<br />
Book-It – 206-216-0833<br />
Intiman Theatre – 206-269-1900<br />
Seattle Repertory Theatre – 206-443-<br />
2222<br />
Strawberry Theatre Workshop –<br />
Venues vary. Tickets through Brown<br />
Paper Tickets – 800-838-3006<br />
Taproot Theatre Company – 206-781-<br />
9707<br />
VARIETY OF EVENTS<br />
Benaroya Hall – 206-215-4747<br />
Brown Paper Tickets – Source of<br />
tickets; lists some events. See web site.<br />
Cornish College of the Arts – Different<br />
phones for art, dance, theatre. See web<br />
site.<br />
Discover South Lake Union – Lists SLU<br />
events – www.discoverslu.com/<br />
Fifth Avenue Theatre – 206-625-1900<br />
Goldstar – Event info and discount<br />
tickets – www.goldstar.com/<br />
Moore Theater – 206-812-3284<br />
Pacific Science Center – 206-443-2001<br />
– www.pacsci.org/<br />
Paramount Theater – 206-812-3284<br />
Pacific Northwest Ballet – 206-441-<br />
2424<br />
Seattle Arts and Lectures – 206-621-<br />
2230<br />
Teatro ZinZanni – 206-802-0015<br />
– Celebrity chef dinners and lavish<br />
entertainment<br />
Ticketmaster – Source of tickets– (800)<br />
745-3000. Lists some events – www.<br />
ticketmaster.com/<br />
Town Hall – Variety of lectures,<br />
concerts, and performances; close to<br />
the Mirabella – 206-652-4255<br />
University of Washington – Dozens<br />
of lectures and seminars every day<br />
that are open to the public. Most<br />
departments have at least one seminar<br />
every week. Find them on line. Some of<br />
the places of most interest to Mirabella<br />
residents:<br />
Burke Museum – 206-543-5590<br />
Henry Art Gallery – 206-543-4882<br />
Meany Hall – 206-543-4880 – An<br />
event calendar is at www.meany.org/<br />
calendar/index.aspx<br />
School of Drama – 206-543-5140<br />
School of Music – An event calendar is<br />
at http://www.music.washington.edu/<br />
events/<br />
Kane Hall – An event calendar is at<br />
www.css.washington.edu/KNE_Events<br />
Send your suggestions to Charles<br />
Sleicher, our compiler of About Town,<br />
box 310, email charles@sleicher.net,<br />
phone 206-254-1576.<br />
Upcoming Friday Trips!<br />
11/5 PCC in Fremont 9:30 am–12:30<br />
pm<br />
11/12 Uwajimaya 9:30 am–12:30 pm<br />
11/19 Great Wall Mall 9:30 am–12:30<br />
pm<br />
11/26 Trader Joe’s 9:30 am–12:30 pm<br />
Stop by the Concierge Desk to sign<br />
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Poetry Corner<br />
13<br />
One by William Butler Yeats<br />
This poem was written in 1919 by the<br />
great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, in<br />
the aftermath of the first World War. The<br />
various manuscript versions of the poem<br />
also have references to the French and<br />
Irish Revolutions as well as to conflicts in<br />
Germany and Russia.<br />
If, reading our national news, we feel we<br />
are experiencing what the first stanza<br />
bemoans, it may help to remember that<br />
there have been times like this before,<br />
and the second stanza did not come to<br />
pass. We have survived.<br />
Art Butler<br />
THE SECOND COMING<br />
Turning and turning in the widening<br />
gyre<br />
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />
Things fall apart; the centre cannot<br />
hold;<br />
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the<br />
world,<br />
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and<br />
everywhere<br />
The ceremony of innocence is<br />
drowned;<br />
The best lack all conviction, while the<br />
worst<br />
Are full of passionate intensity.<br />
Surely some revelation is at hand;<br />
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br />
The Second Coming! Hardly are those<br />
words out<br />
When a vast image out of Spiritus<br />
Mundi<br />
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the<br />
sands of the desert<br />
A shape with lion body and the head<br />
of a man,<br />
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br />
Is moving its slow thighs, while all<br />
about it<br />
Wind shadows of the indignant desert<br />
birds.<br />
The darkness drops again but now I<br />
know<br />
That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking<br />
cradle,<br />
And what rough beast, its hour come<br />
round at last,<br />
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be<br />
born<br />
§<br />
Two by Emily Dickinson<br />
The following poems by Emily Dickinson<br />
were meant to accompany the review of<br />
Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndal Gordon<br />
that appeared in the October issue of<br />
MM, but we ran out of space.<br />
Jared Curtis<br />
“My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”<br />
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –<br />
In Corners – till a Day<br />
The Owner passed – identified –<br />
And carried Me away –<br />
And now We roam in Sovereign Woods –<br />
And now We hunt the Doe –<br />
And every time I speak for Him –<br />
The Mountains straight reply –<br />
And do I smile, such cordial light<br />
Upon the Valley glow –<br />
It is as a Vesuvian face<br />
Had let its pleasure through –<br />
And when at Night – Our good Day<br />
done –<br />
I guard My Master’s Head –<br />
’Tis better than the Eider – Duck’s<br />
Deep Pillow – to have shared –<br />
To foe of His – I’m deadly foe –<br />
None stir the second time –<br />
On whom I lay a Yellow Eye –<br />
Or an emphatic Thumb –<br />
Though I than He – may longer live<br />
He longer must – than I –<br />
For I have but the power to kill,<br />
Without—the power to die—<br />
“I felt a funeral in my brain”<br />
I felt a funeral in my brain,<br />
And mourners, to and fro,<br />
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed<br />
That sense was breaking through.<br />
And when they all were seated,<br />
A service like a drum<br />
Kept beating, beating, till I thought<br />
My mind was going numb.<br />
And then I heard them lift a box,<br />
And creak across my soul<br />
With those same boots of lead,<br />
Then space began to toll<br />
As all the heavens were a bell,<br />
And Being but an ear,<br />
And I and silence some strange race,<br />
Wrecked, solitary, here.<br />
And then a plank in reason, broke,<br />
And I dropped down and down –<br />
And hit a world at every plunge,<br />
And finished knowing – then –<br />
§<br />
One by Kate Ryan<br />
Kate Ryan, United States Poet Laureate<br />
from 2008–2010, has been compared to<br />
both Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.<br />
Her poems are compact and elliptical<br />
and yet ruefully contemplative.<br />
Jared Curtis<br />
THE EDGES OF TIME<br />
It is at the edges<br />
that time thins.<br />
Time which had been<br />
dense and viscous<br />
as amber suspending<br />
intentions like bees<br />
unseizes them. A<br />
humming begins,<br />
apparently coming<br />
from stacks of<br />
put-off things or just in back. A<br />
glittering fan of things<br />
competing to happen,<br />
brilliant and urgent<br />
as fish when seas<br />
retreat.
14<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
The Arts in Review<br />
Music Live<br />
The Cornish Trio and all that jazz<br />
A newly formed jazz trio performed<br />
in Emerald Hall on Sunday, October<br />
8th, to strong applause and universal<br />
delight. The group opened with the<br />
jazz favorite, “Honeysuckle Rose,” and<br />
closed with a vibrant “They Say It’s<br />
Wonderful.” Vocalist Christine Bell, a<br />
recent graduate of Cornish College,<br />
did a charming set of show tunes<br />
in which hard lessons were learned,<br />
plaints made, and love celebrated.<br />
The clear favorite with the audience<br />
fell into the last category, “Taylor<br />
the Latte Boy.” Pianist and composer<br />
Dawn Clement, who has been playing<br />
and teaching piano for the past<br />
decade at the College, gave a strong<br />
performance at the keys, driving the<br />
music forward with flawless skill and<br />
panache. And bassist Chuck Deardorf,<br />
a long-standing member of the jazz<br />
scene in the northwest, played—in<br />
the jazz favorites, especially in his solo<br />
riffs—with flare and an infectious love<br />
for the music and for his instrument.<br />
Though newly formed, the group<br />
was very much in sync, playing with<br />
contagious pleasure in the music<br />
and in each other’s musical support.<br />
When the music ended, many listeners<br />
remarked how much they enjoyed the<br />
concert, nearly always adding, “I wish it<br />
were longer!”<br />
Dawn Clement’s website can be<br />
reached at www.dawnclement.com<br />
for future performances. You can find<br />
Christine performing around town<br />
with the Esoterics (http://theesoterics.<br />
org/Concerts/), and keep an eye out<br />
for her solo show, opening in February.<br />
Chuck Deardorf (www.myspace.<br />
com/deardorfpetersongroup) plays<br />
monthly at Tula’s Jazz Club and will be<br />
performing at Jazz Alley on <strong>November</strong><br />
2nd.<br />
Jared Curtis<br />
Music of Remembrance Program at<br />
Seattle Art Museum Oct. 16th<br />
“Connecting the Music and Art in SAM<br />
adds an extra dimension to the senses,”<br />
remarked one concert-goer.<br />
Some 30 Mirabella residents came by<br />
bus, car, or on foot to SAM to attend<br />
the concert presented by Music of<br />
Remembrance (MOR), and all were<br />
thoroughly impressed by the quality<br />
and timeliness of the program. In her<br />
introductory remarks, Mina Miller,<br />
founder and artistic director of MOR,<br />
linked Picasso’s art of defiance to the<br />
holocaust-era music selected.<br />
The opening number was Duo<br />
composed by Erwin Schulhoff,<br />
who lost his life in the Wuelzburg<br />
Concentration Camp in 1942. The piece<br />
was brilliantly performed by Mikail<br />
Shmidt, violin, and Walter Gray, cello,<br />
both in its intensity and moments of<br />
serenity.<br />
Ernest Bloch, immigrating from<br />
Switzerland to the Oregon coast, left us<br />
with a calming Nigun (melody without<br />
words) from Three Pictures of Chassidic<br />
Life that was sensitively played by<br />
seventeen-year-old violinist Marie<br />
Rossano, accompanied by Mina Miller<br />
on the piano.<br />
The final piece, Sparks of Glory by<br />
well-known contemporary composer<br />
Paul Schoenfield, reflects the horror of<br />
the holocaust in its musical contrasts.<br />
Featured artists were loyal long-time<br />
participants in MOR performances,<br />
Mikhail Shmidt, violin, Laura<br />
Deluca, clarinet, Walter Gray, cello,<br />
Mark Salman, piano, and Eric Parce<br />
providing the masterful narration.<br />
Our next full MOR concert at Benaroya<br />
Hall is scheduled for Monday,<br />
<strong>November</strong> 8th at 7:30 PM. John<br />
Sharify will interview Donald Byrd, the<br />
“most unconventional provocateur<br />
and dance maker/thinker of our<br />
times” at 6:45 PM. Tickets are $36.00<br />
and can be ordered on line at www.<br />
musicofremembrance.org or PO Box<br />
27500 Seattle,WA 98165-2500.<br />
Henry Butler<br />
Galleries<br />
A One Day Youth Art Show: Places<br />
Sunday, <strong>November</strong> 7th from 3–6 pm at<br />
Oasis Art Gallery<br />
All are invited to attend the 3rd Annual<br />
Youth Art Show at Oasis Gallery in<br />
Wallingford. The gallery owners,<br />
Alex and Jeanne Strazzanti, say, “For<br />
more than seven years, artist Colleen<br />
Lambert has helped these young<br />
women develop their artistic skills,<br />
vision, and goals. Each student proudly<br />
displays her series of latest works<br />
based on her interpretation of Places as<br />
well as one piece for the collective Self<br />
Portrait series.” This is an extraordinary<br />
event that showcases the talent<br />
and skill of these young artists. Hors<br />
d’oeuvres and refreshments will be<br />
served.<br />
Oasis Art Gallery, 3644 Wallingford Ave<br />
N, Seattle, Washington 98103, (P) 206-<br />
547-5177.<br />
Preview of the show at: www.<br />
oasisinseattle.com/exhibitionsevents.<br />
html.<br />
Jared Curtis
Music, Art, & Books<br />
15<br />
Books in Brief<br />
Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane<br />
Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High<br />
Sierra, by Peter Stekel (Wilderness<br />
Press, 2010). $15.95; Paper 236 pages;<br />
ISBN 978-0-89997-475-0<br />
Wilderness Press has recently<br />
published a non-fiction book written<br />
by my son-in-law, Peter Stekel. The<br />
book is called Final Flight. It’s the story<br />
of a WW II-era airplane crash in the<br />
Sierra Nevada mountains of California.<br />
The airplane was a Beech 18 AT-7<br />
Navigator, and there were four crew<br />
members on board - the pilot, 2nd Lt.<br />
William Gamber, and three navigation<br />
students, John M. Mortenson, Ernest<br />
Glenn Munn, and Leo Mustonen. They<br />
left Mather Field, east of Sacramento,<br />
on <strong>November</strong> 18, 1942, and were never<br />
seen alive again.<br />
In 1947, some college students on a<br />
summer trip to the mountains found<br />
the crash site. One of the students<br />
guided a small military party to the site<br />
to identify the airplane and recover<br />
the crew. On that trip, and two more in<br />
1948, no bodies were ever recovered<br />
though enough of the airplane was<br />
found to identify it as the one that<br />
disappeared on <strong>November</strong> 18, 1942<br />
with Gamber, Mortenson, Munn, and<br />
Mustonen aboard.<br />
After the military’s failure in 1947 and<br />
1948 to find the airmen’s remains, the<br />
incident was forgotten until October<br />
2005, when two climbers in Kings<br />
Canyon National Park stumbled across<br />
the mummified remains of a man in<br />
a WWII US Army Air Force uniform,<br />
entombed in the ice of Mendel Glacier.<br />
The “Frozen Airman” discovery created<br />
huge amounts of media interest,<br />
including a magazine story that Peter<br />
wrote.<br />
During his research, which included<br />
personal interviews, digging into<br />
official military records, and trips to<br />
the crash site, Peter discovered that<br />
a lot of what ended up in newspaper<br />
and television reports was inaccurate<br />
or didn’t make any sense. For instance,<br />
the crash site was on Mendel Glacier,<br />
but reporters kept calling it Darwin<br />
Glacier because that is what Army<br />
reports from 1947 called it. Also, a<br />
group burial site for the crew lists all<br />
four of their names. If that is so, then<br />
who was the Frozen Airman A fifth,<br />
unknown, crew member<br />
The Mendel Glacier, center left<br />
(book cover photo)<br />
In writing his book, Peter found a story<br />
that he says has equal parts of history<br />
and mystery. It is also his personal<br />
search to uncover the truth of what<br />
happened to these four young men<br />
and explain why they disappeared. In<br />
looking for these answers, Peter made<br />
a trip to Mendel Glacier in 2007, where<br />
he found the remains of a second<br />
frozen airman. I found his poignant<br />
description of attending this young<br />
man’s funeral to be especially moving.<br />
I also liked how Peter mixed in<br />
explanations of airplane construction,<br />
weather, climate, and glaciers to<br />
describe why the airplane could have<br />
crashed and why it took so long for<br />
the two airmen to be found. Also,<br />
why the remaining two airmen will<br />
probably never be found. Peter’s<br />
descriptions of how pilots were trained<br />
for deployment during WW II was also<br />
very interesting. I was surprised to read<br />
that 25% of US military deaths during<br />
the war—about 100,000 people—<br />
happened within the United States<br />
and were due to training accidents<br />
and other causes. I was also surprised<br />
to learn that over 7000 airplanes<br />
crashed in the United States in training<br />
accidents, while we lost slightly more<br />
than 5000 that were shot down by the<br />
Japanese in the South Pacific.<br />
Final Flight is a bittersweet tale brought<br />
to the light of day by an author who<br />
refused to allow this story and these<br />
brave men to be forgotten. Peter not<br />
only tells about the deaths of the four<br />
crew members but also explains the<br />
history of how our country and military<br />
handle death and how their methods<br />
and traditions developed from the<br />
Civil War. I think Peter brings these four<br />
men to life in a respectful way and, in<br />
doing so, honors their sacrifice.<br />
Alice Goldberg<br />
Afterward: If you want an<br />
autographed copy of Final Flight you<br />
can buy it at Elliot Bay Book Company,<br />
Third Place Books, or at any of the<br />
usual on-line sources, and then bring it<br />
to me in apartment 306. I’ll have Peter<br />
autograph it next time he comes to<br />
visit me.<br />
Peter will read from Final Flight and do<br />
a slide show at the following places:<br />
• 7 PM, <strong>November</strong> 18, 2010 @ Third<br />
Place Books, 17171, Bothell Way NE,<br />
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155. 206-366-<br />
3333.<br />
• 7 PM, <strong>November</strong> 11, 2010@<br />
University Books, 1319 4th Avenue<br />
Seattle, WA 98101. 206.685.9920.<br />
• 7 PM, <strong>November</strong> 10, 2010 @ Village<br />
Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham, WA<br />
98225. 360.733.1599.<br />
Alice
16<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
a loaf of bread, a jug of Wine, and Thou<br />
Restaurants Near<br />
Home<br />
Pot Pourri<br />
As mentioned previously, we love<br />
the food at Mirabella. The new A la<br />
Carte menu is wonderful. But we<br />
like Mirabella food more when we<br />
don’t eat here 100% of the time. And<br />
some of us say they are acquiring a<br />
“Mirabelly” and may need to eat light<br />
some of the time. So, we will mention<br />
a few restaurants we have tried locally.<br />
And we welcome input from others on<br />
their “discoveries.” (Please address to<br />
oldart@aol.com or Box 715)<br />
Bahn Thai – 409 Roy St, Seattle, WA,<br />
(206) 283-0444<br />
We find it difficult to tell one Thai<br />
restaurant from another, so we<br />
convened a jury of experts, namely<br />
our son’s family who eat Thai often.<br />
The jury fore-person, our daughter-inlaw,<br />
reported a favorable verdict. They<br />
praised the Phad Thai, the Phad See Ew<br />
and a soup. The only downer was the<br />
Swimming Rama, my favorite (peanut<br />
sauce with chicken over spinach).<br />
If you plan “dinner and theater,” two<br />
unquestionable advantages of Bahn<br />
Thai are their large parking lot and<br />
their location in the theater district.<br />
Directions: West on Denny, north on<br />
5th Ave. across Mercer, left on Roy St.<br />
Left into the parking lot.<br />
Laadla – 234 Fairview Ave N, Seattle,<br />
WA (206) 223-1980<br />
Maybe you’re afraid of the “hot”<br />
spices: fear not, they won’t make it<br />
hot unless you ask for it. Laadla is our<br />
next-corner neighbor on Fairview Ave<br />
N at Thomas Street. Laadla appears<br />
to be a “mom-and-pop” place, with<br />
décor that is mildly Indian and a menu<br />
with so many different items that you<br />
wonder how it’s possible. The night<br />
we ate dinner there, only five tables<br />
were taken. We ordered typical curry<br />
dishes, and they were very good. I<br />
had Lamb Tikka Masala, and it was<br />
the best Indian lamb dish I ever had.<br />
“Tikka” means pieces, hence kabobs,<br />
marinated and cooked at high heat<br />
in a tandoor, a clay oven. If you order<br />
Chicken Tikka, you get some good<br />
kabobs; if you add the word Masala,<br />
you get a sauce made by cooking the<br />
tikka pieces in a tomato based sauce<br />
made with the masala spices. Just like<br />
the Thai places, there is only one size<br />
portion, and it’s huge. We both had<br />
doggie boxes good for at least a lunch.<br />
Art Butler<br />
Portage Bay Cafe<br />
A wonderful brunch and lunch place<br />
is a short walk away: The Portage Bay<br />
Café is located at the S.W. corner of<br />
Terry Avenue N and Harrison St. From<br />
the Mirabella lobby entrance, the cafe<br />
is 2 blocks north and 2 blocks west. For<br />
take-away and reservations call (206)<br />
462-6400. It is open daily from 7 am to<br />
2 pm, serving both breakfast/brunch<br />
and lunch.<br />
We found it a busy place on a Sunday<br />
around 1 pm, and we were told it<br />
would be a 15 minute wait, an accurate<br />
estimate. With our party of 5, the<br />
average age rose appreciably.<br />
For breakfast they serve assorted<br />
beverages, beer & wine, and offer<br />
different cereals, pancakes, French<br />
toast, omelettes, scrambles, hashes,<br />
eggs Benedicts, breakfast combos, and<br />
a choice of sides (Black Forest ham,<br />
pepper bacon, chicken-basil sausage,<br />
and herb-roasted red potatoes). Our<br />
selections were delicious and plentiful.<br />
They have a unique “Toppings Bar”<br />
that includes fresh fruits, nuts, butter,<br />
organic maple syrup, and whipped<br />
cream for pancakes, French toast, and<br />
granola or other cereals. Quick service<br />
and reasonably priced and very close<br />
by. The lunch choices of salads and<br />
sandwiches sounded good, too.<br />
Bob & Peggy Habegger<br />
Phoenecia, West Seattle<br />
A favorite restaurants is Phoenecia<br />
(2716 Alki Avenue SW, 206-935-6550)<br />
across from the beach, opposite the<br />
Statue of Liberty. We have been going<br />
to it for about 25 years, first in Lower<br />
Queen Anne in the old Hanson’s Bakery<br />
site, and for the last 15 years on Alki.<br />
For eastern Mediterranean cuisine the<br />
menu is lighter than some, featuring<br />
tapas, pizzas and a few wonderful daily<br />
special entrees.<br />
On our last visit we had small plates of<br />
garlic green beans, truffled fingerling<br />
potatoes and portabella mushrooms<br />
with balsamic sauce. We shared a<br />
wonderful lamb shank and still took<br />
some home. One of our children<br />
had one of the best pizzas in town.<br />
We always share a bottle of their<br />
reasonably priced and creatively<br />
selected wines and we top the meal<br />
off with Mama’s baklava with vanilla<br />
bean ice cream. If you can think of a<br />
more romantic place than over-looking<br />
a sunset across Puget Sound in a<br />
small (about 30 seat) restaurant with a<br />
Lebanese motif, we’d like to hear about<br />
it. Enjoy.<br />
Beverly Welti and John Pehrson<br />
Happy Thanksgiving to all of us at<br />
Mirabella<br />
If the Pilgrims were alive<br />
today, what would be the<br />
most interesting thing about<br />
them<br />
Their age.
Food, Wine, and Fashion<br />
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Need Bread, Milk, OJ, or . . . <br />
As more Mirabellans are giving up their<br />
cars, I thought to look around Michaels<br />
Market, at Denny and Fairview, to see<br />
what else they sell. They have namebrands<br />
for milk, bread, OJ, cereals,<br />
soup, coffee, tuna, cold cuts, frozen<br />
dinners, ice cream, etc. Of course they<br />
have liquid beverages of all kinds,<br />
beer, wine, and soft drinks. In short,<br />
if necessary, we could live without<br />
supermarkets for breakfast, lunch, and<br />
a few drinks. The prices are higher than<br />
at super-markets, but not exorbitant;<br />
a quart of milk and a loaf of bread cost<br />
$4.00.<br />
Don’t fear crossing Denny at the<br />
corner. The white “Walk” light turns<br />
to blinking red by the middle of the<br />
street, but it blinks for twice as long<br />
as it was white, and nothing seems to<br />
move for half a minute after that. There<br />
are curb ramps on both sides of Denny.<br />
Art Butler<br />
The Book Bindery<br />
I have just discovered an unusual<br />
combination—a new upscale<br />
restaurant (opened last week) and<br />
a superb wine-making facility, all 10<br />
minutes from the Mirabella at 198<br />
Nickerson Street, just west of the south<br />
end of the Fremont Bridge.<br />
The Restaurant is called The Book<br />
Bindery. Chef Shaun has a fine<br />
reputation and recently transferred<br />
from NY’s Per Se. Eight starters range<br />
from a salad ($10) to a terrine of foie<br />
gras ($18). The seven main courses<br />
range from hand-made cavatelli ($16)<br />
to Mishima Ranch beef ($34). See http://<br />
www.bookbinderyrestaurant.com/.<br />
206-283-2665.<br />
The adjacent wine making facility is<br />
called BYOB for Blend Your Own Barrel,<br />
Bottle, or Brand. The owners make<br />
wine there and have a tasting room<br />
now serving the 2008 vintage. They<br />
have excellent equipment and a wine<br />
storage area, all of which are available<br />
for anyone to use for a price that I did<br />
not explore. You can bring your own<br />
grapes or get them from BYOB. Why<br />
not join others to make a barrel of wine<br />
to share. A barrel is about 55 gallons or<br />
about 24 cases. For this year, start very<br />
soon as the 2010 Washington grape<br />
harvest is nearly over.<br />
A tour and wine tasting About 20<br />
wines to taste and a tasting to include<br />
some finger food are possible, too.<br />
Charles Sleicher<br />
Wear Flare<br />
Ladies: No, dear ones, at our age; 39 (+<br />
39!), I do not advise string bikinis, seethrough<br />
tops, or 4 inch stilettos.<br />
But so many couture adventures<br />
appropriate for us are out there now,<br />
just waiting . You may want to try . . .<br />
• a shocker nail color. 24 Karat. Gray<br />
Vamp. Key Lime<br />
• flaunty trousers in vintage cord with<br />
a cowgirl belt<br />
• an Indian sari with a bunch of bright<br />
jinglies on your arm<br />
• a Japanese kimono<br />
• a sheepskin vest with a marvelous.<br />
“llama” trim<br />
• a messenger bag with loops galore<br />
of golden chains<br />
• a chemise, reborn from the ‘20’s, and<br />
so elegant on the “bod.”<br />
Have courage, dear ones, when you<br />
shop. Macy and Nordstrom are fine,<br />
but don’t stop there. Check out the<br />
snazzy boutiques on 5th and 6th<br />
between Pike and Pine. Check out<br />
Pacific Place. And yes, check out<br />
Victoria’s Secret (terrific sweatsuits).<br />
And don’t not go in because the person<br />
ahead of you is 15 years old with<br />
waist-length dubonnet hair. Today’s<br />
boutiques are for all. At all prices. You<br />
may even find a few perfect T’s for your<br />
exercise class. Don’t fall in love with<br />
that sateen string biki—oops. Been<br />
there, done that, haven’t we<br />
Gentlemen: Is it time to give shoes the<br />
boot<br />
Not even<br />
counting the<br />
L.L. Beans, the<br />
Crocs, The<br />
Timberlands,<br />
this is the<br />
season for<br />
boots, ankle to<br />
calf, cowboy to<br />
lumberjack,<br />
every look we<br />
can think of in<br />
every material known to man and<br />
some yet to be discovered.<br />
For once, a reverse count—more<br />
guys’ boots than ladies’ boots, do you<br />
believe it. Soft boots that pull on like<br />
mocs. Slipper boots by good old Ugg<br />
in genuine sheepskin. Rain boots.<br />
Snow boots, so handsome they need<br />
no snow. Boots for your jeans. Boots<br />
for your chinos. Boots to rough it in.<br />
Boots to take your wife to romantic<br />
dinners in. Even sneaker boots. Boots<br />
are IT. Now, listen up, fellas, we know<br />
how you love to shop – every minute is<br />
like an hour, are we right So we’re not<br />
suggesting you shop around. Just put<br />
your mind to a single pair of boots (as a<br />
starter!) and go to your favorite handydandy<br />
shoe & boot store And should<br />
you not have one, go to Nordstrom. Or<br />
Macy’s. Boots up the gazoo. And the<br />
salesmen are good guys.<br />
See you in December, dear ones.<br />
Your Mirabella Fashionista
18<br />
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Up-to-date News about Mirabella Services<br />
Dining Services<br />
Terry Jones, Director<br />
Holiday Recipe Swap<br />
In <strong>November</strong> the Courtyard Café will<br />
be hosting a holiday recipe swap.<br />
Bring your favorite holiday recipe, with<br />
a sample if possible, to the Courtyard<br />
Café for Dining Services to collect and<br />
publish a “Mirabella Holiday Cookie,<br />
Snacks, and Finger Foods” recipe book.<br />
The recipe book will be sold at the<br />
Café during the Holiday Season, and<br />
all proceeds will be donated to the<br />
neighborhood food bank. More details<br />
on this event will be provided closer to<br />
the date.<br />
Holiday Parties<br />
Have a holiday party coming up<br />
Reservations for private dining rooms<br />
during the holiday season are filling up<br />
fast. Contact Rebecca (206) 254-1415<br />
to book your holiday party today.<br />
Facilities Services<br />
Karen Herndon, Director<br />
Reminder about seasonal change in<br />
deck/balcony cleaning<br />
Housekeeping staff sweep and<br />
mop balconies and decks and clean<br />
railings and outdoor furnishings<br />
during the seasons when the spaces<br />
are in use, generally late spring into<br />
early autumn. When the rains and<br />
cold arrive later in autumn, and<br />
throughout the winter months, deck<br />
and balcony cleaning is not part of the<br />
standard service. In April and May, the<br />
building decks and balconies will be<br />
scrubbed of the autumn and winter<br />
soot accumulation and maintained<br />
during regular housekeeping visits<br />
throughout the Spring and Summer<br />
seasons.<br />
Please contact Facility Services at<br />
extension 1413 if you have questions.<br />
Always Use Kitchen Exhaust Fans<br />
When Cooking<br />
While making morning toast, broiling,<br />
or cooking in the oven and stovetop,<br />
many residents have experienced<br />
having their apartment smoke<br />
detector alarm go off. Within minutes<br />
they then receive a visit from Mirabella<br />
Security to check for fire or smoke.<br />
This inconvenience can be avoided<br />
by turning on the kitchen exhaust<br />
fan whenever using the stove or a<br />
toaster. This simple precaution will<br />
almost always suffice to remove smoke<br />
quickly enough to prevent the smoke<br />
detector from tripping an alarm. If the<br />
exhaust fan is not sufficient please<br />
open windows or the deck door. The<br />
alarm will sound for 60 seconds and if<br />
no smoke is detected after 60 seconds<br />
the smoke detector alarm will quiet.<br />
New Mirabella Wellness Check<br />
Program<br />
All residents are encouraged to<br />
participate in our new Wellness Check<br />
Program initiated and approved by<br />
Mirabella Administration and the<br />
<strong>Resident</strong>s’ Association Council.<br />
Mirabella will conduct scheduled<br />
wellness checks each morning by<br />
monitoring residents’ daily check-in<br />
activity. <strong>Resident</strong>s will be issued a<br />
separate dedicted Wellness Check<br />
Pendant and, using this pendant,<br />
will initiate a daily check that sends a<br />
signal to Mirabella security.<br />
The Wellness Check takes less than<br />
10 seconds of your time between<br />
6:00 AM and 10:00 AM each morning<br />
to complete. If you fail to check in,<br />
Security will respond.<br />
To sign up for the Mirabella Wellness<br />
Check Program contact Facility<br />
Services at extension 1413.<br />
Health Services<br />
Courtney Warner, Activities Director<br />
Opportunity to Lead Educational<br />
Programs for Health Services<br />
Health Services residents have<br />
specifically asked for more educational<br />
programs. Many have thoroughly<br />
enjoyed the programs in Emerald Hall<br />
and would like additional programs<br />
offered on the 2nd floor. This is where<br />
you can help. Mirabella residents are<br />
invited to host, lead, or inspire small<br />
and intimate educational programs for<br />
Health Services. Ideas could include<br />
slide shows of your travels, your own<br />
artwork or collection of art, research<br />
topics or papers, topics you are<br />
passionate about, thought-provoking<br />
discussions, etc. This can be a one-time<br />
event or hopefully you would be willing<br />
to host weekly, monthly, annually, or<br />
however many times you are willing.<br />
This invitation also extends to your<br />
friends, family, or students. Length<br />
of the program would not need to<br />
exceed one hour and can be shorter<br />
if needed. The group setting would<br />
be small and intimate with a group of<br />
10-15 residents. Programs would be<br />
held in the 2nd floor Health Center<br />
Activity Room. Dates and times will be<br />
determined by you with flexibility in<br />
scheduling. The Activities Department<br />
will assist with set-up, provide<br />
requested technology (projector,<br />
laptop, etc), produce and distribute<br />
announcements and flyers, and<br />
any other assistance you may need.<br />
Topic ideas are endless! Professional<br />
experience is not required.
MIRABELLA SERVICE REPORTS<br />
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Health Center, Salon News, Court’s Corner<br />
Leaders (from p. 18)<br />
Just bring your ability and interest in<br />
sharing your passions with others.<br />
Bilingual Volunteers Needed<br />
Health Services is recruiting bilingual<br />
volunteers to assist us with our<br />
residents whose primary language<br />
is not English. Your role would be a<br />
social companion, the same roles<br />
our volunteers take. You can join<br />
scheduled events and activities,<br />
go for a walk, or accompany for<br />
Mirabella events, with your role to be<br />
determined during your Volunteer<br />
Orientation. We are actively recruiting<br />
Spanish speaking residents.<br />
Mobile Library’s Next Visit<br />
Wednesday, <strong>November</strong> 17, from 3:30-<br />
4:00 pm, 2nd floor Health Center.<br />
The Library brings an assortment<br />
of books, Large Print books, books<br />
on CD, and DVDs. Special items can<br />
be requested at the Library to be<br />
delivered for you at Mirabella Health<br />
Center, if you specify Mirabella Mobile<br />
Library as your pickup point.<br />
No Library card No problem. The<br />
Mobile Library is able to look up your<br />
current Library account. If you do<br />
not have a library card, applications<br />
are available on our visit day for you.<br />
Return your selections at the next<br />
month’s visit or simply drop off your<br />
items to Courtney Warner’s return box<br />
on the 2nd floor Activities Office.<br />
If you wish to take part in any of these<br />
activities, as a speaker or leader, as<br />
an interpreter, or simply need more<br />
information, please contact Courtney<br />
Warner, Activities Director, cwarner@<br />
retirement.org, ext 1450.<br />
Marketing<br />
Chris Masson, Director<br />
While our economic times have slowed<br />
down our sales at all communities, I am<br />
encouraged by recent developments<br />
here at Mirabella. First of all, we<br />
continue to have good numbers of<br />
prospects visiting our community, with<br />
residents playing a part in that effort<br />
by inviting friends, ex-neighbors, and<br />
even siblings. We in Marketing are<br />
noticing more prospective residents<br />
showing a higher level of seriousness<br />
about making a deposit and starting<br />
their transition to live at Mirabella.<br />
Thank you all for your open and<br />
friendly nature as we meet you in the<br />
hallways or café while giving tours. It<br />
really does help.<br />
The Marketing Advisory Committee<br />
has been working hard with my<br />
department on events, hosting and<br />
sharing great ideas. Much of the<br />
committee’s strategic input comes<br />
from their lifetime of experience. This<br />
valuable input has been incorporated<br />
into Mirabella’s comprehensive<br />
marketing plan for this new fiscal<br />
year. I appreciate the committee’s<br />
commitment to the success of<br />
Mirabella. Our community truly is a<br />
collaborative effort. This is just one<br />
of the many things that create the<br />
“Mirabella Experience.”<br />
Invite a friend to a Marketing Event!<br />
• Event: Younger Next Year, Seminar<br />
and Luncheon<br />
• Date: Wednesday, <strong>November</strong> 17th<br />
or Thursday, <strong>November</strong> 18th<br />
• Time: 11:00 AM<br />
• Place: Mirabella’s NW Lakeview<br />
Dining Room<br />
• RSVP: Please call (206) 254-1441 to<br />
reserve your seat<br />
Turn back your biological clock and<br />
come learn the techniques to be<br />
younger next year! Based on The New<br />
York Times best-selling book by Chris<br />
Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.<br />
<strong>Resident</strong> Services<br />
Joanie Vivaz, Director<br />
New Salon Hours<br />
Beginning October 19, the Mirabella<br />
salon will be adding hours on<br />
Monday and Tuesday mornings 8:00<br />
am–11:30 am. The additional service<br />
days will depend on demand and<br />
are by appointment only. Kelly will<br />
be available for appointments on<br />
Monday mornings, and Anjela will<br />
be available for appointments on<br />
Tuesday mornings.<br />
Court’s Corner<br />
We have altered our early departure<br />
staging positions in the garage. For<br />
those leaving before 7 am, your<br />
vehicles will be in the unload zones<br />
across from the valet office or in<br />
a space across from the Facilities<br />
Services office. This measure allows<br />
early departures to leave without<br />
being blocked in by the vehicles<br />
returning each night after 10 pm in<br />
the staging area.<br />
We’ve had some residents and<br />
guests call for their vehicles but<br />
not retrieve them until 30 minutes<br />
to 1 hour afterwards. During this<br />
time, their vehicles are left in the<br />
staging area blocking operations and<br />
making exits difficult. Please help us<br />
and your neighbors by making an<br />
effort to collect your vehicle around<br />
the 15-minute mark. We and your<br />
neighbors will appreciate it!
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The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Mirabella Photo Gallery<br />
Above right: The Cornish Trio, Christine<br />
Bell, Dawn Clement, and Chuck<br />
Deardorf<br />
Above center: Bassist, Chuck Deardorf<br />
Above left: Don Hillman and John<br />
Peterson<br />
Center left: David Wolter and Dick<br />
Leabo<br />
Center right: Pianist, Dawn Clement<br />
Photos by<br />
Pat Chinn and<br />
Norm Olds<br />
Below: Lois North, Pat Chinn, and Tom Ryan at Japanese Gardens<br />
Below: Fred & Margaret Herb, & family, carving<br />
pumpkins, with help from Charlotte Labeau.
more photo gallery<br />
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Esther Stevenson enjoys a glass of wine at the opening of the Art Show of works by Don and Moll Frothingham. Ann Frothingham<br />
and Charles Sleicher confer. Ann has written us to say, “thank you to the people who made it possible by offering all kinds of help.<br />
So many people pitched in to make it such fun and go so smoothly. They are as follows: Olga Butler, Nancy Cleveland, Diana Holland,<br />
Jean Frankland, Joe Joiner, Walter Kerr, Evelyn Klebanoff, Barbara Mitchell, Betty and Bob Nicholson, Lorraine Samuelson, Charles<br />
Sleicher, Iris and Vernon Slippy, and Esther Stevenson: and to the Frothingham family, who aided Walter with the picture hanging and<br />
helped in the clean-up.”<br />
Center left: Floating Market,<br />
SLU Park Pier<br />
Center right: Ruthe Norton<br />
a-quilting<br />
Lower left: Jim McDermott<br />
and Patty Smith<br />
Lower right: Flora<br />
Rabinovitch and<br />
Margaret Herb making<br />
dolls for the Holiday<br />
Craft Fair<br />
Photos by Pat Chinn,<br />
Martha Oman, and<br />
Jared Curtis
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The Mirabella Monthly<br />
<strong>November</strong> is an Event-Full Month<br />
Coming Events<br />
Earshot Jazz Festival<br />
Nov. 1–7, 2010<br />
Various Locations<br />
throughout Seattle<br />
This annual Jazz<br />
Festival began in<br />
October and continues through<br />
<strong>November</strong> 7. If you want to join in,<br />
you’ll find notable jazz players from<br />
all around the world. Spread-out<br />
over several venues, the Earshot<br />
Jazz Festival includes concerts, jam<br />
sessions, master classes, lectures, and<br />
workshops.<br />
For details go to http://www.earshot.<br />
org/Festival/festival.html<br />
Community Thanksgiving Eve<br />
Service, 7 pm, <strong>November</strong> 24.<br />
In the picture below, Kathleen Dow,<br />
fellow Mirabella resident, seated at the<br />
new three manual Rodgers Triullium<br />
Masterpiece organ at First United<br />
Methodist Church, 2nd and Denny, sets<br />
plans for a Community Thanksgiving<br />
Eve Service with the Rev. Dr. Sandy<br />
Brown, Senior Minister.<br />
Another Mirabella resident, Rev. Bob<br />
Nicholson, will be the guest speaker<br />
at the service, which will include a<br />
two-minute video reenactment of<br />
the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth<br />
Colony, a gathering and blessing of<br />
non-perishable foods you are invited<br />
to bring for neighborhood food banks,<br />
music, and a thanksgiving litany for<br />
hands that serve, create, care, lead<br />
music, and write. All are welcomed!<br />
In the picture above, Kathleen is<br />
seated at the new three-manual<br />
Rodgers Triullium Masterpiece organ<br />
at First United Methodist Church, with<br />
Bob Nicholson, who will speak at the<br />
service.<br />
Kathleen will also play the organ<br />
for a 12:10 pm noon-time concert,<br />
Wednesday, Nov 17, at Trinity<br />
Episcopal Church, 609 8th Ave (near<br />
Harborview and Skyline).<br />
Medal of Honor Memorial Site,<br />
The University of Washington. Michael<br />
Magrath, a UW visiting scholar in sculpture<br />
and public art, led the team that designed<br />
the monument. It includes Heidi Wastweet,<br />
a Seattle sculptor, and Dodi Fredericks, a<br />
landscape architect.<br />
Memorial Day Ceremony at UW<br />
You are invited to join the University<br />
of Washington community to<br />
commemorate Veterans Day 2010<br />
on the Seattle campus. The following<br />
events will honor men and women<br />
throughout our region for their<br />
dedication and service in our Armed<br />
Services.<br />
Thursday, <strong>November</strong> 11, 2010<br />
• 10:30 a.m.: Ceremony at the Medal of<br />
Honor Memorial site, off of Memorial<br />
Way (artist’s drawing pictured above)<br />
• 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Reception,<br />
Kane Hall<br />
• 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.: ROTC Open House,<br />
Clark Hall<br />
• RSVP online by <strong>November</strong> 4.<br />
Parking on campus is free to the public.<br />
ADA parking is available on level C1<br />
of the Central Plaza Garage (enter at<br />
15th Ave NE and NE 41st Street) or<br />
in lots N5 or N1 (enter from 45th and<br />
17th Avenue NE to Memorial Way<br />
NE). Contact UW Parking services<br />
206.543.1543 for more information.<br />
For information or questions about<br />
the event, please contact Mary<br />
Jean Stephens at mjs47@uw.edu or<br />
206.221.6719.
Event-full <strong>November</strong><br />
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Windows Computer Class<br />
Starting Monday, <strong>November</strong> 15, 2010,<br />
I will be offering another Computer<br />
class for Windows users. It will be<br />
focused on beginners, but hopefully<br />
will be of interest to intermediate users<br />
as well. In addition to covering many<br />
computer fundamentals, I will try to<br />
answer any questions you may have.<br />
If you are using an Apple Mac, you are<br />
welcome to come, but I cannot cover<br />
any Mac-related problems.<br />
We will meet on the first and third<br />
Monday of each month (except<br />
December 20) from 9:30 – 10:30 am in<br />
Emerald Hall.<br />
I will be concentrating on computers<br />
that run the latest Microsoft operating<br />
system, Windows 7. If you are running<br />
Windows Vista, you should not have<br />
any trouble, since Windows Vista and<br />
Windows 7 are not too dissimilar. If you<br />
are still running Windows XP, I suggest<br />
that you upgrade to Windows 7 now –<br />
it is a much better operating system.<br />
There is no need to register, no dues to<br />
pay; just come on Monday, <strong>November</strong><br />
15, at 9:30 to Emerald Hall.<br />
Hellmut Golde<br />
Paraprosdokians Arise!!<br />
<strong>November</strong> 7, 5 pm, in Harry’s Bar!<br />
Did you know that a good laugh—or<br />
even a smile—can release healthy<br />
chemicals called endorphins in your<br />
brain That is one of the reasons,<br />
in addition to great fun, that your<br />
Wellness Team has been planning<br />
monthly Humor Nights. Here comes<br />
another! This will be a mixed humor<br />
night on Sunday, <strong>November</strong> 7th from<br />
5 to 6 p.m. in Harry’s Bar. We invite all<br />
paraprosdokians, punsters, Hai Ku-ers,<br />
limerick-ers, songsters, and just plain<br />
jokesters to add to this potpourri!<br />
As a reminder, the following are<br />
examples and guidelines for ways to<br />
tickle “punny” bones:<br />
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech<br />
in which the latter part of a sentence or<br />
phrase is surprising or unexpected in a<br />
way that causes the reader of listener<br />
to reframe or reinterpret the first part,<br />
as in “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful<br />
evening, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho<br />
Marx.<br />
A limerick has five lines: the first,<br />
second, and last rhyme, and the<br />
second and fourth rhyme. Here is one<br />
for Hallowe’en.<br />
There was a young lady named Kroll<br />
Who had habits exceedingly droll.<br />
To a masquerade ball<br />
She wore nothing at all<br />
And backed in as a Parker House roll.<br />
A Haiku has three lines, the first has<br />
five syllables, the second has seven,<br />
and the third has five. An example by<br />
Evelyn Odell,<br />
Seductive Haiku<br />
Keeps words running in my brain.<br />
I can’t sleep. Can you<br />
Punny puns can be one-liners: “A<br />
gossip is someone with a great sense<br />
of rumor.”<br />
As for funny songs, let’s hope our Irish<br />
tenors and English songstresses will<br />
warble again.<br />
And then there are just plain good<br />
jokes, some in rhyme, and some oneliners,<br />
as in “Going bra-less pulls all the<br />
wrinkles out of your face.”<br />
Please bring your own “entrée” to this<br />
chop suey of humor. If you don’t have<br />
some in your collection, just Google<br />
up any of these categories and you will<br />
find tons of puns and a gaggle of gags.<br />
You may even find a backwards poet<br />
who writes inverse. Please mark your<br />
calendars for Punday the 7th at 5 p.m.<br />
in Harry’s Bar!<br />
Dee Dickinson<br />
Panama Hotel Visit, Thurs., Nov 18<br />
Join us on a tour of the Historic<br />
Panama Hotel located in the<br />
International District at 605 S Main<br />
St. (between 5th & 6th). This hotel,<br />
made famous in the book “Hotel at the<br />
Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” is located<br />
in “Japantown,” as it was called. It had<br />
been “home” to workers in the single<br />
room occupancy rooms (SROs).<br />
Panama Hotel (Sabro Ozasa, 1910), Seattle,<br />
ca. 1920. Courtesy Panama Hotel Bed and<br />
Breakfast<br />
The hotel was closed and boardedup<br />
when the Japanese community<br />
was transferred to Internment Camps<br />
during WW II. Decades after the war it<br />
was purchased, restored, and is now<br />
an operating hotel with a tea room.<br />
During the restoration the owner<br />
found many items in the basement<br />
where they had been stored by the<br />
Japanese who were planning for their<br />
return to Seattle. Most of what was<br />
found remains unclaimed.<br />
The visit is Thursday <strong>November</strong> 18.<br />
Our large bus departs from Mirabella<br />
at 10:30 am. The cost of the tour is<br />
$10 per person. Please pay in advance<br />
to Pat Kushmerick, apt 402, or Karen<br />
Smith, apt. 625. Checks should be<br />
made out to Pat Kushmerick. Payment<br />
for the tour cannot be left at the<br />
concierge desk.<br />
A light lunch of tea sandwiches, a<br />
cookie, and, of course, tea (coffee a<br />
likely choice). Lunch is $10 each, paid<br />
directly to the hotel when served. With<br />
lunch the total for the tour is $20 each.
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
24<br />
More Events in <strong>November</strong><br />
Panama Hotel (from p. 23)<br />
Return is by Mirabella bus at 1:30 pm.<br />
Minimum number of visitors for a<br />
tour is 15, maximum 25. Please sign<br />
up promptly at the concierge desk<br />
to assure that we have the minimum<br />
number. If this trip is very popular<br />
you’ll want to assure that you don’t<br />
lose the opportunity. I need to provide<br />
the tea room a lunch count by<br />
<strong>November</strong> 10th.<br />
Those wishing to travel by public bus<br />
must also sign up and pay for the tour<br />
in advance. By bus, the #70 (@ Fairview<br />
and John) will take you to S. Main &<br />
3rd, the #545 (@ Stewart & Yale) to 5th<br />
Ave S & Jackson. Either destination<br />
stop is within 0.2 miles of the hotel, but<br />
you’ll need to climb uphill to the hotel.<br />
The return trip is a downhill stroll.<br />
Entrances from the left: upper tea room, hotel<br />
entrance, lower tea room (level entry).<br />
The Panama Hotel, a restored heritage<br />
building, but the “hotel” part is not<br />
accessible to the handicapped. The<br />
entrance to the hotel lobby is up<br />
two flights of stairs, and there are no<br />
ramps or elevators for those using<br />
wheelchairs or walkers to move<br />
between levels. The tea room, on the<br />
ground floor on the uphill side of S<br />
Main, is up a step and a slight ramp.<br />
This level, where the service counter<br />
is located, is small. The lower room,<br />
where our group will be seated,<br />
though it is six or eight steps down<br />
from the service level, does have an<br />
door that is level with the sidewalk<br />
on S Main, thus eliminating all the<br />
stairs to enter or exit (pictured below).<br />
The rest room is on this level and can<br />
accommodate someone using a walker<br />
but not a wheelchair. The discussion<br />
portions of the tour occur here.<br />
Lower tea room, looking toward Main Street.<br />
The tour includes the Hotel levels<br />
above and below. On the 1st floor<br />
an opening exposes a part of the<br />
basement where items were left. The<br />
guide will take guests down to the<br />
basement to get a full view of what<br />
was left behind. Also part of the tour<br />
is a visit to some of the hotel rooms<br />
up a long set of steps. <strong>Resident</strong>s with<br />
mobility concerns must decide for<br />
themselves about going on the trip,<br />
using the steps, or limiting themselves<br />
to the tea room at street level.<br />
Pat Kushmerick<br />
Ladies Musical Club Concert<br />
Sunday, <strong>November</strong> 21st, 3 pm,<br />
Emerald Hall<br />
Our <strong>November</strong> concert will feature a<br />
string quartet, with music by Borodin<br />
and Glazunov, with Kathy Zufall and<br />
Corinne Odegard, violins, Janice<br />
Gockel, viola, and Frances Walton,<br />
cello.<br />
The Borodin piece will be followed<br />
by “La Serva Padrona,” a staged production<br />
of this charming opera by<br />
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.<br />
Come and enjoy some great music!<br />
Carolyn Burton<br />
Mirabella <strong>Resident</strong>s!<br />
Nov. 2 – Nelly Torres<br />
Nov. 3 – Flo Scarff<br />
Nov. 4 – John Pehrson<br />
Nov. 6 – Janet Hollister<br />
Nov. 7 – Lynne Erickson<br />
Nov. 8 – Joan Sobottka<br />
Nov. 8 – David Rensvold<br />
Nov. 9 – John Goetz<br />
Nov. 12 – Ruth Gwinn<br />
Nov. 13 – Mildred Johnson<br />
Nov. 14 – Arnie Gaillard<br />
Nov. 15 – Louis Gratzer<br />
Nov. 15 – Terry Cochrane<br />
Nov. 16 – Nan Grayston<br />
Nov. 19 – George Holland<br />
Nov. 22 – Margaret Herb<br />
Nov. 23 – Lois North<br />
Nov. 24 – Natalie DeLord<br />
Nov. 24 – Nancy Schultz<br />
Nov. 26 – Lenore Pearlman<br />
Nov. 27 – Jane Dillard<br />
Nov. 28 – Flory Wagenaar<br />
Nov. 29 – Madeline Mennella
Health, Fitness, & Beauty<br />
25<br />
Battle the MiraBelly<br />
The following is part one of a three-part<br />
series on food and wellbeing. Part two<br />
will cover monounsaturated fats in more<br />
detail (MUFA), and part three will focus<br />
on portion size.<br />
Want to drop a few pounds Think<br />
positive! Focus on adding foods, not<br />
cutting foods out entirely. Begin every<br />
meal with a high fiber course: an apple,<br />
raw veggies, soup (veggie, minestrone,<br />
Manhattan clam chowder). End your<br />
meal with a salad (how Continental!),<br />
instead of dessert. Think of having<br />
virtually unlimited amounts of<br />
vegetables, and at least three servings<br />
of fruit a day.<br />
Control portions of protein and starches:<br />
only eat amounts comparable in size<br />
to a deck of cards, or the palm of your<br />
hand. At first, it might not seem like<br />
enough; we’re used to huge amounts.<br />
A third to half of your plate should be<br />
filled with veggies (not corn—it’s a<br />
starch), another quarter to a third with<br />
a starchy carbohydrate (potatoes, rice,<br />
or pasta), and the final portion with a<br />
lean protein. If you can’t resist the bread<br />
basket, replace the starch on your plate<br />
with more veggies. If you choose bread,<br />
try to stick with rye or pumpernickel.<br />
The large air pockets in white or whole<br />
wheat breads make both more like<br />
simple sugars as we digest them.<br />
What about calories Think about your<br />
goal weight. Your resting metabolism<br />
usually absorbs ten calories per pound<br />
for women and twelve per pound for<br />
men. Add three hundred calories to that<br />
if you get an hour of moderate exercise<br />
per day. Let’s say I’m a female who<br />
wants to attain or maintain a weight<br />
of 130 pounds and exercises an hour<br />
a day, I could eat 1600 calories a day,<br />
ideally evenly divided between four<br />
meals of four hundred calories each,<br />
or three meals plus two 200 calorie<br />
snacks. A male who wants to weigh 160<br />
pounds and exercises an hour a day can<br />
eat 2200 calories per day.<br />
Next month, “A MUFA meal.”<br />
Alice Edmonds<br />
Swim to get slim<br />
Slimming is not necessarily the happy<br />
result of swimming for exercise. But<br />
there’s hope for us swimmers. The article<br />
below is from the <strong>November</strong> 2010 issue<br />
of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter.<br />
Reprinted courtesy of that publication<br />
under the “fair use” rule.<br />
Swimming can burn a lot of calories,<br />
depending on the stroke and the<br />
intensity. So why does swimming<br />
usually result in less weight loss than<br />
comparable amounts of other aerobic<br />
activities, like running, cycling, and<br />
even brisk walking<br />
Scientists speculate that cold water<br />
dissipates much more heat from<br />
the body than air does, and that<br />
this energy loss, occurring day after<br />
day, may stimulate appetite to keep<br />
the body warm. A study from the<br />
University of Florida a few years ago,<br />
for instance, found that men who<br />
exercised in cold water ate almost 300<br />
more calories in the hour after their<br />
workout than men who exercised in<br />
All lanes are open <br />
warm water. Regular exposure to cold<br />
water may also encourage the body to<br />
maintain or increase fat stores under<br />
the skin, which serves as insulation.<br />
If you want to lose weight, swim in<br />
warm water—or faster and longer in<br />
cold water. And watch your calorie<br />
intake afterwards.<br />
At Mirabella, we’re ahead of the game<br />
with our heated pools and heart-healthy<br />
meals. Why not get in the swim<br />
Editor<br />
As the Chair Turns<br />
We would like to introduce ourselves<br />
to those of you who have not yet<br />
visited “Salon Mirabella.” Our names<br />
are Anjela Hall and Kelly Hunter. We<br />
are your own personal hair and nail<br />
fashionistas, open Monday through<br />
Saturdays for your convenience. If you<br />
love to be pampered, we offer these<br />
goodies to tempt you: state-of-the-art<br />
haircuts, especially adapted to you,<br />
foils, perms, color to flatter and frame<br />
every face. Plus manicures, pedicures,<br />
and waxing while you listen to gentle<br />
music as the chair turns! And, may we<br />
add, we are right in your own back<br />
yard on the 2 nd . Floor.<br />
Now let’s talk about what’s new in hair<br />
care. The most exciting news is in color<br />
products. Several companies have<br />
introduced oils instead of peroxide<br />
to place color pigments into the hair<br />
shaft. When using oils, instead of<br />
the old-fashioned strong peroxide,<br />
the cuticle layer is not compromised<br />
since the oil seeps into the hair shaft<br />
and does no damage. When this new<br />
product is perfected, it will change hair<br />
coloring forever.<br />
Meanwhile, we hope to see you<br />
soon in “Salon Mirabella.” Call for an<br />
appointment on ext. 1469. Or call the<br />
Concierge and she will connect you.<br />
Anjela Hall & Kelly Hunter
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The Mirabella Monthly<br />
Purrfect Wellness<br />
Catarrh<br />
Cat-choo! Cat-choo!<br />
Gesundheidt!<br />
The cat has catched the sneezes.<br />
If nose turn pink, wrap cat in mink,<br />
So cat can’t catch the freezes.<br />
If cat-choos should get chronic<br />
Give the cat the cat-a-tonic.<br />
Is good for the soul.<br />
But when the nip become the trip,<br />
The catnip take the toll.<br />
A little social catnip<br />
Is good for the brain,<br />
But when the trip become the flip<br />
Some cats they go insane.<br />
When cat is out catnipping<br />
from dawn to dusk to dawn,<br />
there is this 12-step program<br />
that might help called PUSSANON.<br />
Cathedral<br />
The Cat-o-lic pawdre,<br />
He give cat the blessing.<br />
He say that with nature<br />
We shalt not be messing.<br />
To fix the cat mommy,<br />
Pawdre say it a pity,<br />
Because how could the world<br />
Ever have too much kitty<br />
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Puss-ups for the Fat Cat<br />
Put fat cat on mat<br />
To do puss-ups – one hundred.<br />
Fat cat, now he flat cat,<br />
In case you has wondered.<br />
Downward Dog<br />
Paws grip the ground<br />
Legs straight & high.<br />
Then raise up the tush<br />
with tail in the sky.<br />
Plow<br />
Back paws over front paws –<br />
This the plow.<br />
Now back claws touch front claws.<br />
Try not to meow.<br />
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Cat-Scan<br />
They slide cat in,<br />
They slide cat out,<br />
They want to see<br />
What cat about.<br />
They want to see<br />
can cat behave<br />
like dog and be<br />
the grateful slave<br />
Menopaws<br />
When menopaws comes<br />
And she can’t have more kitty,<br />
What puss do not need,<br />
she do not need your pity.<br />
Wipe kitt eyes.<br />
Dry kitt lashes.<br />
Try the catnip<br />
for hot flashes.<br />
Wash cat face. Trim cat claws.<br />
Life begins at<br />
Menopaws.<br />
Catnip<br />
A little social catnip<br />
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Shri Pussananda’s Yoga Pawsitions<br />
Namaskat<br />
Sit on the back paws.<br />
Take in the air;<br />
Front paws take on<br />
Paw-sition of prayer.<br />
They slide cat in.<br />
They slide cat out<br />
And then they see<br />
without a doubt<br />
that inside cat, no gratitude.<br />
The cat, he just got cattitude.<br />
Carole Anne<br />
(This page sponsored by Medicat)
A Cascade Sculpture walk<br />
27<br />
Our Artful Neighborhood–Follow Me<br />
A stroll through our Cascade neighborhood<br />
is an adventure in sculpture<br />
viewing. We begin at home, in the<br />
circle drive, with our Umbrella Tree.<br />
under construction. Separating them<br />
is a courtyard with two remarkable<br />
sculptures that were recently installed.<br />
Bubble Man is pictured below, and<br />
Bubble Pet is visible only from Boren.<br />
of the Hutchinson Cancer Research<br />
Center. Behind it to the south we hear,<br />
then see, a lovely water feature.<br />
Across Denny Street, down Lenora to<br />
Terry and the Pan Pacific Court, in the<br />
fore court to Whole Foods, we find<br />
the Family of Giants, porcelain-like<br />
statues that seem to pause as they<br />
consider their next move.<br />
A block east at the corner of Boren<br />
and Republican Streets is another<br />
courtyard, a small one, but complete<br />
with three Lincoln Log sculptures.<br />
Climbing up to Eastlake Avenue we<br />
catch the dramatic structure of the<br />
Lake View Avenue Fly-over above.<br />
North along Westlake Ave and east on<br />
Harrison Street takes us past the Steel<br />
Ping Pong Table, in furious use on fine<br />
days.<br />
We cross Valley Street South to Lake<br />
Union Park (crosswalks on Terry and<br />
Westlake) to a richness of sculpture<br />
forms, like this Bottom-Up Sailboat.<br />
We stop for a rest in the fore-court of<br />
REI, where Cascading Waters & Cool<br />
Evergreens still the tumult of city life.<br />
And north again on Terry leads us<br />
through the new Amazon.com campus<br />
of buildings. Between Republican<br />
and Mercer we find two buildings still<br />
Return trip We cross Fairview Ave at<br />
Ward Street, where the Street Car line<br />
ends, and walk up Ward to take in the<br />
Soaring Silo in the circle at the heart<br />
Jared Curtis
The Mirabella Monthly<br />
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Editor-in-Chief<br />
Carole Anne Fine<br />
Graphic Designer, Editor<br />
Jared Curtis<br />
Copy Editors:<br />
Art Butler, Iris Barnett, Anne Cahn,<br />
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Mahoney, Charles Sleicher.<br />
And thanks to the many who fold,<br />
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How to Volunteer for The Mirabella<br />
Monthly<br />
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Mirabella Monthly, send the following<br />
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Fine:<br />
Your name<br />
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Calendar, Mirabella This Week<br />
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