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Mirabella Seattle 

The Mirabella Monthly 

www.mirabellaseattle.org 

Volume 2 | Issue 11 | Web edition 

A Message from James Munn 

November | 2010 

In this issue 

2 Mirabella Stories 

4 Association and Committee 

News 

7 Club News 

8 Projects and Proposals 

9 Profiles and Personalities 

— Cleve Wright 

— Charles Moore 

11 Mirabella Movies 

12 About Town 

13 Poetry Corner 

14 The Arts in Review 

16 Meals to Yearn For 

17 Wine and Fashion 

18 Mirabella Service Reports 

20 Photo Album 

22 Coming Events 

24 November Birthdays 

25 Health, Fitness, & Grooming 

26 Purrfect Wellness 

27 Cascade Sculpture Walk 

28 Guide to Mirabella 

Publications 

Late News: Nov. 3rd Mirabella 

Roundtable is cancelled. 



116 Fairview Avenue North 

Seattle, WA, USA 98109 

206.254.1400 

Transformation of The Mirabella 

Monthly 

Resident Services created and began 

publishing the Mirabella Monthly 

about a year and a half ago. From its 

inception, the newsletter has been 

a valuable source of information 

and entertainment for all to enjoy. 

Reflecting back, the newsletter has 

been a continual work in progress, 

constantly improving since its first 

edition. Last summer, the Director 

of Resident Services, Joanie Vivaz, 

was approached by resident Carole 

Anne Fine with an interest in giving 

Mirabella Monthly a more polished 

look and organization. Carole Anne 

quickly recruited Jared Curtis and 

other Mirabella residents were then 

asked to volunteer their talents and 

expertise in order to help manage the 

many tasks that are required to publish 

an informative and professional 

publication. Many residents responded 

to Carole Anne’s request, and last 

month we were all treated to a brilliant 

transformation of this publication! 

I want to give my heartfelt thanks 

to all who were instrumental in 

making the newsletter’s most recent 

transformation occur. These people 

include: 

Carole Anne Fine, Editor in Chief, Jared 

Curtis, Graphic Designer, Editor, 

Copyeditors: Art Butler, Anne Cahn, Ida 

Curtis, Dee Dickinson, Iris Barnett, 

Betty Nicholson, Ruthe Norton, 

Martha Oman, Bill Potter, Charles 

Sleicher, and Sedge Thomson, 

Photographers and Photo Consultants: 

Joe Budne, Pat Chinn, Jared Curtis, 

Marty Kushmerick, Tom Miller, Norm 

Olds, and Margaret Oman. 

I would also like to thank Joanie 

Vivaz, Becky Kasper, and all of the 

Mirabella Directors for their constant 

contributions to the publication. 

It’s the vibrant lives and involvement 

with a wide variety of committees, 

clubs, and activities that the residents 

and employees participate in from 

day to day that drives the need for 

a community newsletter. I am truly 

grateful to be a part of this community. 

I also appreciate that the Mirabella 

Monthly, serves as a valuable 

instrument for documenting this great 

community’s’ history. 

My sincere thanks to you all for your 

leadership and dedication in making a 

remarkable publication for the entire 

Mirabella community to enjoy. 

James Munn 

Executive Director 

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Mirabella Stories 

World War II Pilots Share Memories 

Many Mirabella Residents who were 

in the audience for “World War II Pilots 

Share Memories,” an event held in 

Emerald Hall on September 30, have 

expressed their enthrallment by, and 

deep appreciation for, this remarkable 

program. Tom O’Brien has enjoyed 

a long acquaintance through sailing 

with retired Wing Commander, Col. 

Don Hillman, and more recently he 

has met a fellow Mercer Islander, Dr. 

David Wolter, also a former US Army 

pilot. Tom decided that his two friends 

independently lived through so many 

similar experiences, both as longtime 

residents of the Seattle area and 

as bomber pilots during the second 

world war, that it was important to 

bring them together. 

The two men hit it off beautifully, and 

Tom spent many fascinating hours 

listening to their conversations. He 

learned, too, that Don’s daughter Lee 

and David’s daughter Sally were both 

students of their fathers’ distinguished 

careers, helping them to record their 

experiences and assemble their 

memorabilia. All four assented, for 

this one occasion, to Tom’s proposal 

that they present a program before 

a Mirabella audience in an interview 

format, with daughters interviewing 

fathers. It was this serendipitous 

confluence of events and chance 

meetings that brought this marvelous 

and moving program to Mirabella. 

Encouraged by their interviewers, 

Don and David told of their World 

War II experiences. Each had flown 

many missions over Europe during 

the war; each had to abandon his 

damaged plane while on a bombing 

mission. When his B-17 bomber was 

hit over France, David parachuted 

safely to the ground, where he was 

aided by farmers and then hidden by 

the French underground for a time, 

but left the safe shelter provided him 

when he realized staying any longer 

would jeopardize his hosts’ lives. Don’s 

P-47 caught fire in an encounter with 

enemy fighter planes near Cologne, 

forcing him to bail out. 

Both men were captured, imprisoned, 

and, near the close of the war, forced 

to make a long winter march to 

prisoner-of-war camps in what is 

now Poland. David remained there 

until liberated by the 13th Armored 

Division of Patton’s 3rd Army. Don and 

a fellow officer managed to escape 

from prison before Patton’s forces 

breached the German lines to advance 

into German territory to the east. But 

the escapees were recaptured while 

filling their canteens at a farmer’s well. 

When interrogated by Lt. Haussmann, 

the same German officer who grilled 

him on his first imprisonment, Don 

persuaded him and his sergeant, 

also an interrogator, that with the 

war winding down and Patton’s 

Nicknamed “Jug,” the P-47 was conceived as 

a lightweight interceptor but developed as 

a heavyweight fighter/bomber. The plane 

pictured is similar to the one Don Hillman 

flew. (USAF photo in public domain.) 

tank column fast approaching, they 

could save many lives, German and 

American, by joining the two American 

pilots in an effort to reach the US tank 

column first. In this way, Don and his 

fellow prisoner escaped again, in the 

process preventing the destruction of 

the village harboring the prison camp, 

and protecting the two Germans by 

the ruse of presenting them as their 

own prisoners! 

Both Don and David served their 

communities long and well after the 

war. Don remained in the Air Force, 

flying missions with the Strategic Air 

Command, during the height of the 

Cold War in the 1950s, and on his 

retirement became a test pilot for 

Boeing. Don explained, as a kind of 

epilogue to his WW II experience, that 

he stayed in contact with Lt. Ulrich 

Haussmann, his interrogator, and 

found ways to aid him and his family in 

the aftermath of the war. 

David continued to serve as a medical 

officer in the Army. Shaken by his 

wartime experience, he found it 

difficult to overcome the resentment 

and even hatred for all things 

German, referring all patients of 

German descent to other doctors. This 

uncontrollable reaction troubled him 

until he requested reassignment to 

Germany after the war, served a tour 

there, looked up the Germans who 

helped him, and, in the end, found 

peace through helping them improve 

their lives, educate their children, 

and maintaining relations with them 

over the years. After retiring from 

the Army, he enjoyed a long career 

as an obstetrician-gynecologist and 

delivered several hundred babies in 

his practice on Mercer Island. We were 

privileged to learn of this startling and

Mirabella Stories 3 

A New Citizen’s Voting Rights and Rites 

(Pilots, from p. 2) 

humane interlude coming in the midst 

of terrible destruction and suffering. 

Surely this program will rank as one of 

the highlights of 2010. 

Tom O’Brien’s impresario skills deserve 

recognition, too. He first intended to 

interview his two friends on stage 

himself. But he soon realized how 

much more appropriate it would be 

for their daughters to serve this role, 

and talked them into taking part. He 

then persuaded the Mirabella Program 

Committee of the fitness of the 

program for our residents and helped 

to make all the arrangements. 

As a final touch, having discovered 

that Emerald Hall was without the 

traditional trio of United States, 

Boeing B-17F formation over Schweinfurt, 

Germany, on Aug. 17, 1943; USAF photo in 

public domain. David Wolter piloted similar 

planes. 

Washington State, and Mirabella 

Seattle flags standing tall in the front 

of the room, Tom acquired flags from 

Karen Herndon, staffs fashioned by 

Don Ries, and staff bases that Don Ries 

managed to borrow from the supply of 

umbrella stands in the Courtyard Café. 

Jared Curtis 

A Political Education 

Not too long after we moved into the 

first home we bought, a colleague 

of John’s at the GE Research Lab 

invited us to a small lunch with the 

dynamic, young Democratic mayor 

of Schenectady, Sam Stratton. 

Personable, articulate, and persuasive, 

Stratton encouraged each of us to 

get into local politics. He argued that 

young professionals like us, who 

wouldn’t be doing it “for the money,” 

were just the public-spirited citizens 

who should get “in there” and become 

politically active in the local arena. He 

particularly thought that those of us 

who lived in Niskayuna, the affluent 

suburb of Schenectady, NY, where the 

GE Research lab was located, needed 

to become active because, he pointed 

out, it was a Republican stronghold. 

I replied, “That’s where we live. That 

sounds great. Think I would love doing 

that.” John, said “What do you mean 

You have three kids under five years 

old, would you really have the time to 

devote to it” “Yeah,” I said, “you’re right. 

Never mind.” 

A few weeks later came the 1957 local 

Democratic primary. Because we had 

moved three times since we married 

in 1950, this was the first time I met 

the residency requirements and was 

eligible to vote, and I looked forward 

to it eagerly. When the kids were in 

nursery school and kindergarten, off 

I went to my local polling station. I 

was asked what my registration was 

and then handed a Democratic paper 

ballot. I took it and went into the 

polling booth. There I was faced with a 

long list of positions like councilman, 

justice of the peace, highway 

superintendent, and several more with 

one man’s name on each line. I knew 

none of them, but dutifully marked 

each one. Then at the bottom were 

two boxes marked “committeeman” 

and, in place of a candidate’s name, 

“no designation.” I couldn’t figure out 

what “no designation” meant, so I took 

the paper ballot out of the booth over 

to the table where four women were 

sitting. Not knowing that two of them 

were Democrats and two Republicans, 

I addressed all four: “Could one of 

you please tell me what this ‘no 

designation’ means” 

One of the Republican women stuck 

her nose in the air and haughtily said, 

“They couldn’t even get anybody to 

run.” “Thank you very much,” said I, and 

returned to the booth, where I wrote 

in my own name! Then to play it safe, 

I called up John at work and told him 

that when he went to vote he should 

write in my name for committeeman. 

And, taking no chances whatsoever, I 

went across the street to my neighbor, 

whom I knew to be a Democrat, to 

ask her to do the same. Thus with 

three votes I was a shoo-in and 

became duly elected the Democratic 

committeewoman from my district! 

Anne Cahn 

Election Day, November 2, 2010. Mail your 

ballot in advance or drop off at a voting 

center by 8 pm on Election Day.

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ASSOCIATION AND COMMITTEE NEWS 

Residents’ Council 

Charles Pope, President, 

2011. Box 512, x1653 

popec@rockisland.com 

Marty Kushmerick, 

Vice President 2012. Box 

402, x1607 

kushmeri@u.washington. 

edu 

Margaret Herb, Treasurer, 

2012. Box 616, x1693 

maggieherb@softhome. 

net 

Karen Smith, Secretary, 

2011. Box 625, x1702 

kfsmith1@juno.com 

Bob Capeloto, Member 

at Large, 2011. 

Box 912, x1795 

cape5678@yahoo.com 

Ann Frothingham, 

Member at Large, 2011. 

Box 1018, x1823 

frothinghamann@yahoo. 

com 

Cristi Lien, Member at 

Large, 2012. Box 808 

(temp.), x1757 

cristilien@gmail.com 

Kudos to Council Past, Welcome 

to Council Present 

Editors, MM 

Residents’ Association 

In Gratitude 

Recently the membership of our 

Mirabella Residents’ Council changed 

without bloodshed, confirming that 

we are a true democracy. This change 

was expedited by many Mirabella 

residents—it is time to offer them our 

thanks. 

The process began with the 

appointment of the Nominating 

Committee. Under the able leadership 

of John Rasmussen, the Committee— 

consisting of Midge Chadsey, Rheba 

deTornyay, Joe Joiner, and Rosemary 

Wilson—established the sequence 

of events leading to the election, and 

the criteria for candidate selection. 

The committee then went to the 

individuals they had identified as 

their top candidates and secured their 

willingness to serve. The committee 

was impressed that they were rarely 

turned down by potential nominees. 

We must next thank the six nominees, 

Marty Kushmerick, Betty Nicholson, 

Margaret Herb, Judith Peterick, 

Cristi Lien, and Olga Butler, for their 

willingness to consider serving a two 

year stint as members of the Residents’ 

Council. This service involves not only 

attending Council meetings, but also 

acting as liaisons with our various 

Committees. 

The actual mechanics of the election 

were performed by the members 

of the Election Committee. Jackie 

Prentice handled the original planning 

and was responsible for distributing 

absentee ballots. Unfortunately 

problems arose that made it 

impossible for her to be present on 

the day of the election. Jerome Zech 

replaced her as Chair. He was aided by 

Bob Bain, Terry Cochrane, Jared Curtis, 

and Arrol Thieme. This group retired to 

the Craft Room, counted ballots, and 

certified the results. 

Finally, a huge wave of gratitude 

should roll over the outgoing 

members of the Residents’ Council, 

President David Rensvold, Treasurer 

Russ Sorensen, and Member-at-large 

John Pehrson. They all should be 

proud of an excellent job well done. 

We welcome the incoming Council 

members, Vice-President Marty 

Kushmerick, Treasurer Margaret Herb 

and Member-at-Large Cristi Lien. I look 

forward to interacting with these new 

members as well as with the ongoing 

Council members. 

Chuck Pope, 

President 

What Are These Committees All 

About 

One of our residents heard me refer 

repeatedly to the committee structure 

during a recent Residents’ Association 

meeting and asked me to define 

the purpose, structure function and 

utility of the Residents’ Association 

committees. I shall try to do this, using 

a question and answer format. 

What is a committee A committee 

is a group of residents charged with 

monitoring certain aspects of our lives 

at Mirabella. 

What kinds of committees do we have 

The following is a list of committees 

that are currently active. Their area 

of responsibility is usually defined 

by their titles, but a more thorough 

description can be found in the 

Residents’ Handbook. 

(continued on p. 5)

committee news (cont.) 

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Committee Structure, Employee Appreciation, AV Setup, . . . 

Committee 

Art 

Communications 

Dining 

Environment & 

Facilities 

Finance 

Greeting 

Health & Wellness 

Library 

Marketing 

Program 

Emergency 

Preparations 

Transportation 

Chair 

Charles Sleicher 

Arnie Gaillard 

Jan Grant 

Sedge 

Thompson 

Bill Ellis 

Barbara Mitchell 

Seeley Chandler 

Phyllis Allen 

Carl Dunaway 

Kitty Dow 

Jim Schultz 

Ida Curtis 

What does a committee do A 

committee receives requests 

and comments from residents, 

The Residents’ Council or from 

management. It generates plans 

and requests. It reports to individual 

residents, to the Residents’ Council 

and/or to management. It generates 

budget requests to the Residents’ 

Council if their program requires it. 

It meets on a regular schedule and 

generates minutes that are available in 

the Library. 

Who belongs to a committee Each 

committee consists of 5-9 individuals 

appointed by the president of 

the Residents’ Council with their 

concurrence. The function of the 

appointed members is to give 

continuity to the committee and 

on the very rare occasion that the 

committee cannot reach consensus, 

to vote. Other residents may choose 

to attend every committee meeting, 

to work on sub-committees and to 

offer opinions to the committee. Each 

committee has a liaison member 

from the Residents’ Council, and a 

representative from the appropriate 

management group who may or may 

not attend part or all of each meeting. 

All committee meetings are open 

meetings with the exception of the 

Finance Committee. 

How does a resident contact a 

committee A resident can attend 

a committee meeting or contact a 

committee chair. If it is not certain 

which committee would be the best 

one to receive information, then the 

resident might pass on the request 

or concern to any member of the 

Residents’ Council. 

Summary: The committee system 

provides a useful method for obtaining 

information or registering protest. I 

am very grateful to all the committee 

members who are willing to donate 

their time and expertise to make 

our lives and Mirabella work more 

smoothly. My hope is that more 

members will become involved in 

committee work. It is a wonderful way 

to get to know your neighbors. Go, 

Committees!! 

Chuck Pope 

President, Residents’ Council 

Employee Appreciation 

Project 2010 

Chair, Jerry Roling 

Saying Thank-you 

The Resident’s Association, in light 

of the Mirabella policy of not giving 

employee gratuities during the 

year, wants to give residents in the 

forthcoming Thanksgiving Season an 

opportunity to express appreciation to 

our employees. During the past year 

they have served all of us in numerous 

seen and unseen ways. The Mirabella 

residents’ response to the 2009 

Employee Appreciation Project was a 

generous one. This model of giving is 

widely used in most CCRC’s. 

We hope that all of us can again 

recognize the importance of 

expressing our appreciation for the 

employees through this project. This 

year, for the first time, the employees 

will not receive a cost-of-living raise, 

making our joint effort even more 

significant in 2010. Several residents 

have already made donations to the 

project for this year. 

A letter has appeared in our mailboxes 

requesting a donation. A questionand-answer 

document, together with 

appropriate gift-giving envelopes will 

be sent to you shortly. Please take 

time to begin thinking of this and 

carefully read the forthcoming future 

correspondence. The period of time 

for the collection of your contributions 

runs through November 19, 2010. 

Some of us may be gone for an 

extended time prior to the Holidays, 

and this early information will give you 

time for consideration. The Employee 

Appreciation Party will be held on 

Friday, December 3, at 3:00 pm. 

Communications Committee 

Chair, Hellmut Golde 

Need Help Solving the Mysteries of 

Audio-Visual Setup 

Here is a list of residents who can help 

with the Audio-Visual setup in Emerald 

Hall. Please let Hellmut Golde know if 

anyone’s name is missing from the list, 

and he will send out a revised list. 

Karen Smith, apt. 625, x 1702, 

kfsmith1@juno.com

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COMMITTEE NEWS (cont.) 

Arnie Gaillard, apt. 1027, x 1832, 

arnpatgail@msn.com 

AV Helper List (from p. 5) 

David Rensvold, apt. 622, x 1699 

davidrensvold@msn.com 

Martha Oman, apt. 501, x 1642 

marthaoman@gmail.com 

Chuck Pope, apt. 512, x 1653 

popec@rockisland.com 

George Anderson, apt. 1022, x 1827 

gca@u.washington.edu 

Hellmut Golde, apt. 428, x 1633 

hellmut.mirabella@gmail.com 

Emergency Preparedness 

Chair, Jim Schultz 

Do You Have an Out-of-State 

Contact 

In any unforeseen disaster or area 

emergency how will your family know 

you are safe if the phone lines are 

jammed 

1. Designate an out-of-area contact 

for you and your family to call. Out-ofstate 

telephone connections are more 

likely to be open than local ones. Know 

where the nearest pay telephone is; 

these telephones are used by police 

and emergency personnel and are the 

first to be activated if lines are down. 

When the Nisqually quake hit Seattle, 

our daughter was on an airplane 

scheduled to land just as the Seatac 

control tower was impacted by the 

quake, and her plane was diverted to 

Portland. Her husband was at work in 

Lynnwood. Her children were in school 

near Snohomish. Our family was 

separated, but were they safe 

A call from each of us to a designated 

contact in Colorado reassured us that 

we were all safe and helped make 

plans to be reunited. 

2. If you are separated or must 

evacuate, designate a place for family 

to meet and a place to leave messages. 

In the 27 years we lived in north 

Seattle we had three neighborhood 

evacuations or lockdowns, one for 

a huge natural gas leak and two for 

hostage situations. A local church was 

a natural place to leave messages for 

family and friends. The church became 

a shelter for neighbors and was also a 

command post for the SWAT team. 

3. Carry a list of important telephone 

numbers and a list of medications in 

your billfold or purse so you don’t have 

to reconstruct the information. 

Additional bonus, if you lose the 

billfold an honest finder can contact 

you to return your property. 

Health and Wellness 

Committee 

Chair, Seeley Chandler 

November 10, Flu clinic 11 am–4 pm 

in the 2nd floor exam room. 

A Fluzone High Dose shot designed 

for people 65 and older is currently 

available, as well as seasonal flu 

shots in a normal dose. The Center 

for Disease Control (CDC) and the 

Advisory Committee on Immunization 

Practices (ACIP) both recommend a 

flu vaccination as the first and most 

important step in protecting against 

the flu. However, neither CDC nor 

ACIP is expressing a preference of 

one vaccine over another at this time. 

Clinical research on the higher dose 

vaccine will not be completed until 

2012. Kelley-Ross Pharmacies at the 

moment is offering only the seasonal, 

normal dose flu shot, but is holding 

off on the high dose shot. If you have 

already had a flu shot you do need 

the super flu shot. But if you haven’t 

had your shot, information about the 

high dose flu shot is available on line 

at the Center for Disease Control and 

Immunization home page – http:// 

www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/ 

qa_fluzone.htm. 

Kelley-Ross pharmacies are located at 

910 Lenora St, suite 152, in the Pan- 

Pacific Hotel courtyard (206-405-3565); 

downtown at 616 Olive Way (206-622- 

3565), and at Polyclinic, 1120 Harvard 

Ave (206-324-6990). 

Library Committee 

Chair, Phyllis Allen 

Our own “Movies On Demand” 

At the request of a number of 

residents, the library now has a 

collection of DVDs located on 

shelves to the left of the door into 

the business/computer room. Bonita 

Dennison and Anne Magruder 

attended the Friends of the Library 

Sale and returned with 50 DVDs 

for the library. We have had a very 

appreciative response from residents. 

If you own DVDs that you would like 

to donate, please leave then on the 

return cart, and we will label and add 

them to our collection. 

Program Committee 

Chair, Kitty Dow 

November 9, 4 p.m. Emerald Hall 

Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Executive Director 

of Wings Over Washington and retired 

CEO of the Museum of Flight, will 

speak on ”A Flight to Remember: From 

Aviation’s Birth to the Future of Space 

Exploration to the Education of our 

Youth.”

Committee and Club news 

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Take a Bus, Read a Book, . . . or Knit 

Program Committee (from p. 6) 

November 16, 4 p.m. Emerald Hall 

Dr. Russell Van Gelder, M.D. Ph.D., 

Chair of the University of Washington 

Department of Ophthalmology, 

will speak on “The Eyes Have It: The 

Modern Medicine of Vision.” 

Transportation Committee 

Chair, Ida Curtis 

Metro Night Stop 

Metro Transit provides excellent 

service convenient to Mirabella 

residents. Bus stops for east-west and 

north-south routes are located less 

than a block from our front door. 

There may be times, however, when 

Metro’s Night Stop service may be 

useful. Available between 8 pm and 5 

am, Night Stop allows riders to ask the 

bus driver to let a rider off at any point 

along the bus route, even though it 

may not be a designated Metro bus 

stop. 

Especially for riders on the northbound 

#70, 71, 72, and 73 routes on 

Fairview Ave N, a stop at the Mirabella 

front door may be very welcome, if 

mobility, bad weather, or personal 

security is a concern. 

The Night Stop procedure is simple. 

Just go to the front of the bus at least a 

block ahead of where you want to get 

off and request your stop. Approaching 

Mirabella from the south, a good place 

to make your request is just prior to 

the Fairview-Denny stop. The driver 

will decide whether the stop requested 

can be made safely. (This has not been 

an issue for Mirabella stops.) 

Drivers may pick up passengers only 

at regular Metro stops. The Night 

Stop service is available throughout 

the Metro service area but not in the 

downtown Ride Free Area. The ramps 

and lifts may be used only at approved 

bus stops along the route. 

The Change in Town Car Service 

As of November 1st town car service 

will be expanded to include the King 

Street Station, but only when there are 

no conflicts with games or events held 

at nearby sport arenas. Because traffic 

during events can tie up the town-car, 

the valets and residents will need to be 

aware of when games are scheduled. 

Future Meeting to Discuss the 

Mirabella Bus and Town Car 

All residents will be invited to attend 

a meeting in November to discuss 

the Mirabella bus and how it can be 

scheduled to serve residents better. 

The use of the town-car will also be 

discussed. Watch for the date. 

The Circular Entrance Drive 

The elimination of valet parking 

from the entrance drive has caused 

problems for residents. A suggestion 

was made that residents greet their 

guests at the circular drive, entering 

the car with them to show them the 

garage. In some circumstances, when 

there are prospective residents or 

disabled visitors, a resident can call 

Joanie Vivaz and make arrangements 

in advance for a valet to take the 

car from the driveway. Joanie is also 

working on a map to direct visitors to 

garage parking. The map will be made 

available for residents. 

Book Club 

The Mirabella Book Club will meet 

Monday, November 15, in the Craft 

Room. We are reading River Town: Two 

Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. 

The public library’s waiting list is very 

long; consider borrowing or buying a 

copy. We decided at our last meeting 

that we would NOT meet in December, 

since it is a busy time and many will be 

away. We also decided on the books for 

the next few months: 

January: Border Song by Jim Lynch 

February: Stones Into Schools by Greg 

Mortenson 

March: The Girl With No Shadow by 

Joanne Harris 

April: Founding Mothers by Cokie 

Roberts 

May: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 

June: A Mercy by Toni Morrison 

July: A World Without Us by Alan 

Weisman 

August: The Remains of the Day by 

Kazuo Ishiguro 

September: If You Lived Here, I’d Know 

Your Name by Heather Lende 

Natalie Delord 

Crafts Club 

First Annual Mirabella Holiday 

Crafts Sale 

Yes, we are a community of talented 

people! On November 30th from 

10–3, please join us for our first ever 

Mirabella Crafts Sale. There are three 

ways you can participate: 

• Make and sell your crafts at the 

sale. You can show your talent and 

contribute to enhancing life at 

Mirabella—15% of sales will go to 

the Mirabella Foundation. Contact 

Dolores Wright at phone #1686 for 

more information on entering your 

handmade crafts in the sale. 

• Come, admire, and buy—the 

holidays are coming! Bring your cash


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Projects and Proposals 

Crafts Sale (from p. 7) 

(checks accepted only for purchases 

over $50). Doors open at 10:00 am 

and close at 3:00 pm. Among many 

items, we will have wine bottle 

holders, green pepper relish, note 

cards, scarves and hats. 

• Do Both! Be clever and share your 

crafts and do your holiday shopping. 

So come one, come all. 

Dolores Wright 

Line Dancing Club 

Yone, the Energizer Bunny 

We have nick-named our teacher the 

“energizer bunny” for a good reason. 

At 80-plus years, and looking twenty 

years younger, she is an inspiration to 

us all. Yone Kishida has been teaching 

line dancing since 1990. We are lucky 

to have her teaching us beginning 

line dancing, right here at Mirabella, 

on Thursday afternoons at 1 pm, in 

the Craft Room. It is a great way to 

exercise, get healthy, and have fun 

learning to dance. This is a beginner 

group, and we are always learning new 

dances and reviewing those we have 

done before. All of us were beginners 

to start with, so don’t be concerned 

about the level of skill needed. To 

see what it’s like, have a look-in any 

Thursday, and remember that the first 

lesson is free. 

The fee is $3.00 for each week you 

attend, enabling us to cover Yone’s 

car expenses. Come and join the club, 

even if you have never danced before. 

There are no partners in line dancing. 

Single or couple, all are welcome. We 

hope to see you on Thursdays. 

Dan and Irene Hunter 

Needlework Club 

You, too, can warm cold heads and 

hearts 

Hats and scarves knitted by members of the 

Needlework Club 

Several members of the knitting 

group have been busy this summer 

making hats and scarfs. This month we 

donated 35 hats and scarf sets and 17 

hats to the shelter for battered women. 

This donation will allow the shelter 

staff to give each woman in the house 

a scarf and hat set. 

There are 65 children living at the 

shelter as well, so we still need more 

homemade knitted hats. If you knit or 

crochet and would like to help, contact 

Dolores Wright at ext. 1686. We can 

provide the yarn! 

Dolores Wright 

Transit Transients 

The November Transit Transient outing 

will be a trip to the “Museum of Flight.” 

We will experience riding the Metro 

#8 Bus to Denny Way and Dexter and 

transfer to the Metro #26/124. The 

#26/124 bus will take us south to the 

Museum. The date for the trip is Nov 

4, 2010. Since it is the first Thursday of 

the month, the admission is free. We 

can have lunch in the Museum’s Wings 

Café. We plan on leaving the Mirabella 

lobby about 9:50 am to catch a 9:58 

bus. The planned return will get us 

back about 3:15 pm. Alternate returns 

can be arranged. Remember your 

ORCA card or $.75 (with senior card) in 

exact change for both the journey out 

and the return. Any questions, call Bill 

Wright at ext 1686. 

Bill Wright 

Listening to a Child Read 

Are you looking for an opportunity to 

do some volunteer work Please read 

below to learn of one of our resident’s 

satisfaction derived from volunteering 

at Special Friends. 

Twenty-three years ago Cappy McNutt 

Rooks began pairing up “grandparents” 

with children in the John Stanford 

International School (formerly Latona 

Elementary) who could benefit from 

a little one on one reading for 45 

minutes or so a day or two a week. It’s 

been some of the most fun I’ve had, 

and not just because of the pool party 

at Kelly Foss’s at the end of the school 

year! 

I remember the thrill of hearing my 

child reader last year suddenly “get it.” 

English was his second language. He 

was bright and could sound out all 

the words, but that flash of realization 

that these words meant something we 

could discuss together was a true midyear 

treat. 

If anyone would like to volunteer by 

helping a student with reading for a 

few hours each week, please contact 

Dick Blount at ext 1644. 

Dick Blount

Projects, Profiles, and personalities 

9 

History and Genes 

Last month Carolyn Blount told us 

about learning how to research your 

family history. You can still join her 

as she goes to the Fiske Genealogy 

Library in Madison Park at 10:00 

am–12:00 noon every Wednesday for 

classes. 

Carolyn volunteers there on Thursdays 

from 3:00–7:00 pm, helping with 

the entry of records in the world’s 

largest electronic catalogue, the OCLC 

database. You’re welcome to join in. 

The remaining Wednesday classes are 

held at Fiske Library ($5.00 per class). 

They will focus on research in a law 

library, in standard genealogical works, 

and specifically in two southern states. 

Class Schedule: 

Date Topic Instructor 

Nov 3 Fed. Court Records, Karen Sipe 

Case Indexes at 

a Law Library 

Nov 10 Getting More Out 

of “Footnote” 

Karl Kumm 

Nov 17 

Research: Georgia 

and Florida 

Gary Zimmerman 

If you want a ride any Wednesday or 

Thursday, call Carolyn Blount, ext 1644, 

or email: cblount@vendor.net. 

Aging Services of Washington 

Resident Forum 

Thursday, Nov. 11th, 9:30–11:00 a.m. 

Hosted by Exeter House, 720 Seneca 

Street Seattle, WA 98101 

~ Program ~ 

Serving Our Surrounding Communities: 

How are Residents helping those in 

need 

As Residents what are we doing to 

help Tell your story! Residents/staff 

are invited to bring stories and photos 

of successful community service 

programs that make a difference in the 

lives of others! 

Who is invited Wellness Directors, 

Activity Directors, Resident Service 

Directors and 2 or 3 Resident 

Representatives who will be willing to 

“Share Your Story”! If you are unable to 

attend, send your story to the Aging 

Services office to share with the group. 

Directions from116 Fairview Ave N to 

726 Seneca St (ride or walk) 

Go to Google Maps by entering 

http://maps.google.com/ in your 

browser; choose “get directions”; then 

enter your starting point and your 

destination. 

Agenda: 

• 9:30 a.m. Refreshments 

• 10:00 a.m. Welcome & 

Introductions/Program 

• 11:15 a.m. Tour 

Please RSVP by November 9th Call: 

Lynn Rovig, Dir. Resident Services, 

Exeter House (P) (206) 622-1300 (E) 

lrovig@exeterhouse.org (F) (206) 622- 

1920. Let us know who plans to attend. 

For more information about Mirabella’s 

part in forums, contact ASW Resident 

Forum Chair, Bob Nicholson #500, (P) 

206-254-1641, (E) rdnern2@gmail.com. 

Or email Pat Sylvia, ASW, (E) PSylvia@ 

agingwa.org. 

(From a communication by Pat Sylvia) 

Mirabella Chorus for Employee 

Appreciation Party on Friday, 

December 3, 3:00 pm 

Like to Sing Have Enthusiasm 

Love to Perform Here’s Your Chance 

to Be On the Stage! All you singers 

come again this year—and bring your 

friends. 

Don’t miss this opportunity—last year 

everyone had a great time! (Beautiful 

tone quality not a requirement!) 

Two Rehearsals in Emerald Hall: 

• Tuesday, November 23 4:00 pm 

• Tuesday, November 30 4:00 pm 

And a warm-up: 

• Friday, December 3, 2:15 pm in 

Emerald Hall 

Carolyn Burton, ext 1726 

We Bid Farewell to Popular Driver 

On his final day, Cleaven Wright 

was photographed in the bus as he 

prepared to take Mirabellans on their 

rounds. 

An out-pouring 

of gestures of 

appreciation 

surrounded 

Cleve on 

September 

30th, as he 

ended his 

service to us. 

One resident 

commented, “You have been a bright 

spot, an uplifting presence, a loving 

and concerned valet, town car driver, 

and bus driver, who has blessed and 

enriched all our lives.” 

Many more said simply, “We’ll miss 

you.” 

Bob Nicholson 

Immanuel Community Services 

Breakfast a Success 

More than 100 guests filled the 

Social Hall of Immanuel Lutheran 

Church Thursday, October 14th, and 

raised over $12,000 for ICS programs. 

Mirabella supplied the coffee and tea. 

Thirteen residents attended. They 

and others who could not attend 

contributed $1,000. An anonymous 

Mirabella donor agreed to match 

that amount! The program included 

a keynote speech by David Bloom. A 

video describing the various programs 

included cameo appearances of 

Mirabella residents Dee Groth and 

Betsy Dunaway, volunteers at the Food 

Bank. Further information on ICS can 

be found at www.icsseattle.org. 

Art Hurd

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Profiles and Personalities 

The Mystery Man of Mirabella. 

An Interview with Charles Moore. 

Q: Hi, Charles. Let’s begin with the very 

beginning. Where are you from and 

how did you get to Mirabella 

A: Well, I was born in Rhode Island 

and grew up mostly in Texas. When I 

came to Seattle a few years ago, the 

mountains and forests and the coast 

itself, were the big attraction. 

Q: Do you like Seattle 

A: Oh, I do. I like it very much. 

Q: OK. So on to your job. What did you 

do before you came to Seattle 

A: I’ve been in many supervisory 

transit positions, also in administrative 

positions, which was a perfect combo 

when I came to Mirabella. 

Q: I know you’re the Garage Supervisor 

here. To me, the garage is our 

Grand Central Station. Am I right 

A: Yes. With so many vehicles coming 

and going at the same time, residents, 

visitors, vendors, non-stop, in and out, 

it can get a little crazy at times. 

Q: Could you give me a sort of blowby-blow 

of what goes on 

A: Certainly. Well, my main job is an 

overall supervision of garage staff, 

dealing with town cars, bus schedules, 

transportation problems of all kinds, 

you name it. 

Q: Come to think of it, when you’re up 

here in the front office and the garage 

is down there, how do you keep things 

running smoothly 

A: When I’m up here, I can get 

a broader perspective on daily 

schedules, etc. Down there, I tend to 

get caught up in what’s supposed to 

go on in the next 5 minutes. 

Q: Is it true you schedule breaks and 

lunch hours every day for the staff and 

the concierge staff 

A: Yes. Since both need to be replaced 

when they’re not there, it can take a lot 

of juggling. 

Q: As far as Administration is 

concerned, you are Joanie’s right hand 

A: Yes. Joanie has many miscellaneous 

projects, and there is constant demand 

for department support tasks. I help 

with that. 

Q: Do you have any time to breathe 

during the day 

A: Well, they encourage me to, but it 

hasn’t happened yet. 

Q: How about Channel 61 Are you 

their hi-techie 

A: Yes. I am the sole person here who 

acts as a liaison between VCTV and 

the Communications Committee at 

Mirabella. 

Q: Do you do the graphic design and 

editing for Channel 61 

A: I do the editing, but many residents 

now work on the graphics, and give 

them to me, especially Hellmut Golde. 

And I should mention I am the one 

who loads and uploads most all the 

committees’ information to the Intranet 

Q: Do you have a title, Charles 

A: Yes. I am The Resident Services 

Coordinator. 

Q: Are you also the Concierge for 

Management 

A: No. Some residents think so because 

of my location, and they may not be 

happy when they don’t see me at my 

desk. But I have no Concierge duties 

for Management. There is a sign on 

my desk that directs people to the 

Concierge for appropriate needs 

like copying, faxing, and general 

information. 

Q: Why doesn’t Management move 

you to a less Concierge-type space. 

A: There actually is no other available 

physical space. 

Q: What else do you do, Charles 

A: I coordinate our conference and 

meeting room space for all committees 

and clubs. I’m responsible for loading 

and deleting most information to and 

from the Intranet. And I’m a back- -up 

when Joanie is out, since I’m familiar 

with some of her duties. 

Q: Thanks you so much for all the info. 

But hang on, Charles. I’ve heard that 

you’re pregnant and about to become 

a daddy. Is that rumor true 

A: Yes, it is true. My wife and I are about 

to have a baby boy, we think around 

December 2nd. 

Q: And does he have a name 

A: Yes. Ronan. It’s an Irish name. 

Q: I love it. By the way, Charles, where 

do you live in Seattle 

A: North. Near Shoreline. 

Q: How about in your spare time. Do 

you have hobbies 

A: I do. I like to read history. I like to do 

home improvement. Home Depot has 

become one of my favorite stores. I Iike 

to travel. I like genealogy. I discovered 

a few ancestors during Civil War times 

who were actually related to some 

famous Civil War generals. 

Q: Do you have a high tech goal 

Would you like to be the new Mark 

Zuckerberg of 2011 or 2012 

A: (Charles laughs) I don’t know. I’m 

actually interested in real estate. 

Q: Are you on Facebook, Charles 

A: Yes. 

Q: May I post you an invitation to be 

my Facebook friend. 

A: Of course. 

Q: Anything else you’d like people to 

know 

A: Just that I’m a sort of jack- of- all 

trades for Resident Services here at 

Mirabella 

Q: So Charles, could you run the joint if 

James was on vacation 

A: (He smiles) No. (Pause) I don’t think I 

could do that. 

Carole Anne 

(based on an idea from Patti Smith)

Entertainment 

Mirabella Movies 

11 

All operas and movies are shown in 

Emerald Hall 

Bring your small flashlight if you 

wish to leave during the movie. 

(Please wait for the lights to be 

turned on before you leave.) 

Opera First Mondays, Emerald Hall, 

4:00 pm and continuing at 7:15 pm 

Wagner’s The Ring 

Third Opera: “Siegfried” 

November 1 @ 4 pm ACT I; dinner 

break; 7:15 pm Resume with ACT II, 

short intermission, and Act III. 

In “Siegfried,” the third opera of 

Wagner’s Ring Cycle, we follow the 

adventure of a naive, fearless Siegfried 

for two and a half acts and then he 

discovers love. The opera will have 

been introduced on Sunday at 4 pm 

with a voice recording by the late 

Perry Lorenzo. The opera itself will be 

presented on Monday at 4 pm. 

Wednesday Nights at 7:30 pm 

New Releases 

The newest movies available in DVD 

releases from 2009–2010. 

November 3 The Secret In Their Eyes 

A retired legal counselor writes a 

novel hoping to find closure for one 

of his past unresolved homicide cases 

and for his unrequited love for his 

superior—both failures haunt him 

decades later. Won 2010 Oscar for 

Best Foreign Language Film. Spanish 

with English subtitles. Argentina 2009; 

129 minutes; Rated R for a rape scene, 

violent images, some graphic nudity, 

and language. 

November 10 The Way We Get By 

Over the past six years, three senior 

citizens have greeted nearly one 

million U.S. troops at a tiny airport 

in Maine. Filled with unexpected 

turns, their uplifting and emotional 

journey demonstrates the meaning of 

community at a time when America 

needs it most. USA 2009; 84 minutes; 

Unrated documentary. 

November 17 A Single Man 

Colin Firth (Oscar nominee) plays 

an English professor who, after the 

sudden death of his partner, plans to 

commit suicide. Julianne Moore is his 

best friend. USA 2009; 99 minutes; 

Rated R for some disturbing images 

and nudity/sexual content. 

November 24 Please Give 

In New York City, a husband and wife 

butt heads with the granddaughters 

of the elderly woman who is living, 

until her death, in the apartment the 

couple bought. USA 2010; 90 minutes; 

Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual 

content, and nudity. 

Saturday Nights at 7:30 pm 

Old Favorites 

In November we are grateful for our 

families, our friends, and the pleasures of 

the table. 

November 6 Eat Drink Man Woman 

Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a 

large house in Taipei with his three 

unmarried daughters. Life in the 

house revolves around the ritual of an 

elaborate dinner each Sunday and the 

love lives of all the family. Nominated 

for Oscar and Golden Globe for Best 

Foreign Language Film. Taiwan 1994; 

124 minutes; Not rated. 

November 13 Big Night 

In love and life, one big night can 

change everything! A failing Italian 

restaurant run by two brothers 

gambles on a feast of a lifetime to try 

to save the business. Nominated for 

Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film 

Festival. USA 1996; 109 minutes; Rated 

R for profanity. 

November 20 Like Water For 

Chocolate 

In this story of three sisters and their 

mother in rural Mexico, desire, love, 

and rebellion are centered on the 

world of cooking--cooking as a sacred 

ritual, not a boring chore and, when 

done right, with love, in a way to create 

magic! Mexico 1992; 105 minutes; 

Rated R for nudity, sexual situations, 

and violence. 

November 27 Tampopo 

In humorous praise to the joys of food, 

the main story is about trucker Goro 

who helps Tampopo set up the perfect 

fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven 

into this story are a number of smaller 

stories about the importance of food, 

all jumbled together into a hilarious 

concoction. Japan 1986; 123 minutes; 

Rated R for sexual situations. 

Take a look at the more than 50 

additional DVDs available in the 

Mirabella Movie Library. (Don’t forget 

to return DVDs after viewing!)

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About Town 

It is impractical to list more than just a 

few of the events that occur in Seattle. 

Therefore, instead of listing events, 

this section of The Mirabella Monthly 

will list venues and only exceptional 

events. Readers are encouraged to go 

on line to find a listing of events at a 

selected venue. For example, if you 

google or bing “Town Hall Seattle,” 

a listing will appear that contains 

a calendar for Town Hall events 

for months to come. Usually tickets can 

be ordered on line, but an alternative is 

to phone the appropriate box office. If 

readers find errors or omissions, please 

let the editors know. 

ART 

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) – 206-344- 

5275 – The current Picasso exhibit is a 

must-see. 

Seattle Asian Art Museum – 206-654- 

3206 

Olympic Sculpture Park – 206-332- 

1377 

MOVIES 

Landmark Theaters - A list of local 

theaters is at www.landmarktheaters. 

com/Market/Seattle/ 

Seattle International Film Festival 

(SIFF) – 206-464-5830 – (Note: this 

goes on all year.) 

MUSIC 

Early Music Guild and Seattle 

Baroque Orchestra – 206-325-7066 

Jazz Alley – 206-441-9729 

Ladies Musical Club (LMC) – 206-622- 

6882 

Square Peg Concerts – 206-838-4333 

– listings at www.squarepegconcerts. 

com/ – click on Seattle 

Seattle Chamber Music Society – 206- 

283-8710 

Seattle Musical Theatre – 206-363-2809 

Seattle Opera – 206-389-7676 

Seattle Symphony Orchestra – 206- 

215-4747 

THEATRE 

ACT Theatre – 206-292-7676 

Book-It – 206-216-0833 

Intiman Theatre – 206-269-1900 

Seattle Repertory Theatre – 206-443- 

2222 

Strawberry Theatre Workshop – 

Venues vary. Tickets through Brown 

Paper Tickets – 800-838-3006 

Taproot Theatre Company – 206-781- 

9707 

VARIETY OF EVENTS 

Benaroya Hall – 206-215-4747 

Brown Paper Tickets – Source of 

tickets; lists some events. See web site. 

Cornish College of the Arts – Different 

phones for art, dance, theatre. See web 

site. 

Discover South Lake Union – Lists SLU 

events – www.discoverslu.com/ 

Fifth Avenue Theatre – 206-625-1900 

Goldstar – Event info and discount 

tickets – www.goldstar.com/ 

Moore Theater – 206-812-3284 

Pacific Science Center – 206-443-2001 

– www.pacsci.org/ 

Paramount Theater – 206-812-3284 

Pacific Northwest Ballet – 206-441- 

2424 

Seattle Arts and Lectures – 206-621- 

2230 

Teatro ZinZanni – 206-802-0015 

– Celebrity chef dinners and lavish 

entertainment 

Ticketmaster – Source of tickets– (800) 

745-3000. Lists some events – www. 

ticketmaster.com/ 

Town Hall – Variety of lectures, 

concerts, and performances; close to 

the Mirabella – 206-652-4255 

University of Washington – Dozens 

of lectures and seminars every day 

that are open to the public. Most 

departments have at least one seminar 

every week. Find them on line. Some of 

the places of most interest to Mirabella 

residents: 

Burke Museum – 206-543-5590 

Henry Art Gallery – 206-543-4882 

Meany Hall – 206-543-4880 – An 

event calendar is at www.meany.org/ 

calendar/index.aspx 

School of Drama – 206-543-5140 

School of Music – An event calendar is 

at http://www.music.washington.edu/ 

events/ 

Kane Hall – An event calendar is at 

www.css.washington.edu/KNE_Events 

Send your suggestions to Charles 

Sleicher, our compiler of About Town, 

box 310, email charles@sleicher.net, 

phone 206-254-1576. 

Upcoming Friday Trips! 

11/5 PCC in Fremont 9:30 am–12:30 

pm 

11/12 Uwajimaya 9:30 am–12:30 pm 

11/19 Great Wall Mall 9:30 am–12:30 

pm 

11/26 Trader Joe’s 9:30 am–12:30 pm 

Stop by the Concierge Desk to sign 

up today & provide suggestions for 

upcoming Friday trips!

Poetry Corner 

13 

One by William Butler Yeats 

This poem was written in 1919 by the 

great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, in 

the aftermath of the first World War. The 

various manuscript versions of the poem 

also have references to the French and 

Irish Revolutions as well as to conflicts in 

Germany and Russia. 

If, reading our national news, we feel we 

are experiencing what the first stanza 

bemoans, it may help to remember that 

there have been times like this before, 

and the second stanza did not come to 

pass. We have survived. 

Art Butler 

THE SECOND COMING 

Turning and turning in the widening 

gyre 

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 

Things fall apart; the centre cannot 

hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the 

world, 

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and 

everywhere 

The ceremony of innocence is 

drowned; 

The best lack all conviction, while the 

worst 

Are full of passionate intensity. 

Surely some revelation is at hand; 

Surely the Second Coming is at hand. 

The Second Coming! Hardly are those 

words out 

When a vast image out of Spiritus 

Mundi 

Troubles my sight: somewhere in the 

sands of the desert 

A shape with lion body and the head 

of a man, 

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, 

Is moving its slow thighs, while all 

about it 

Wind shadows of the indignant desert 

birds. 

The darkness drops again but now I 

know 

That twenty centuries of stony sleep 

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking 

cradle, 

And what rough beast, its hour come 

round at last, 

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be 

born 

§ 

Two by Emily Dickinson 

The following poems by Emily Dickinson 

were meant to accompany the review of 

Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndal Gordon 

that appeared in the October issue of 

MM, but we ran out of space. 

Jared Curtis 

“My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” 

My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – 

In Corners – till a Day 

The Owner passed – identified – 

And carried Me away – 

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods – 

And now We hunt the Doe – 

And every time I speak for Him – 

The Mountains straight reply – 

And do I smile, such cordial light 

Upon the Valley glow – 

It is as a Vesuvian face 

Had let its pleasure through – 

And when at Night – Our good Day 

done – 

I guard My Master’s Head – 

’Tis better than the Eider – Duck’s 

Deep Pillow – to have shared – 

To foe of His – I’m deadly foe – 

None stir the second time – 

On whom I lay a Yellow Eye – 

Or an emphatic Thumb – 

Though I than He – may longer live 

He longer must – than I – 

For I have but the power to kill, 

Without—the power to die— 

“I felt a funeral in my brain” 

I felt a funeral in my brain, 

And mourners, to and fro, 

Kept treading, treading, till it seemed 

That sense was breaking through. 

And when they all were seated, 

A service like a drum 

Kept beating, beating, till I thought 

My mind was going numb. 

And then I heard them lift a box, 

And creak across my soul 

With those same boots of lead, 

Then space began to toll 

As all the heavens were a bell, 

And Being but an ear, 

And I and silence some strange race, 

Wrecked, solitary, here. 

And then a plank in reason, broke, 

And I dropped down and down – 

And hit a world at every plunge, 

And finished knowing – then – 

§ 

One by Kate Ryan 

Kate Ryan, United States Poet Laureate 

from 2008–2010, has been compared to 

both Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. 

Her poems are compact and elliptical 

and yet ruefully contemplative. 

Jared Curtis 

THE EDGES OF TIME 

It is at the edges 

that time thins. 

Time which had been 

dense and viscous 

as amber suspending 

intentions like bees 

unseizes them. A 

humming begins, 

apparently coming 

from stacks of 

put-off things or just in back. A 

glittering fan of things 

competing to happen, 

brilliant and urgent 

as fish when seas 

retreat.

14 


The Arts in Review 

Music Live 

The Cornish Trio and all that jazz 

A newly formed jazz trio performed 

in Emerald Hall on Sunday, October 

8th, to strong applause and universal 

delight. The group opened with the 

jazz favorite, “Honeysuckle Rose,” and 

closed with a vibrant “They Say It’s 

Wonderful.” Vocalist Christine Bell, a 

recent graduate of Cornish College, 

did a charming set of show tunes 

in which hard lessons were learned, 

plaints made, and love celebrated. 

The clear favorite with the audience 

fell into the last category, “Taylor 

the Latte Boy.” Pianist and composer 

Dawn Clement, who has been playing 

and teaching piano for the past 

decade at the College, gave a strong 

performance at the keys, driving the 

music forward with flawless skill and 

panache. And bassist Chuck Deardorf, 

a long-standing member of the jazz 

scene in the northwest, played—in 

the jazz favorites, especially in his solo 

riffs—with flare and an infectious love 

for the music and for his instrument. 

Though newly formed, the group 

was very much in sync, playing with 

contagious pleasure in the music 

and in each other’s musical support. 

When the music ended, many listeners 

remarked how much they enjoyed the 

concert, nearly always adding, “I wish it 

were longer!” 

Dawn Clement’s website can be 

reached at www.dawnclement.com 

for future performances. You can find 

Christine performing around town 

with the Esoterics (http://theesoterics. 

org/Concerts/), and keep an eye out 

for her solo show, opening in February. 

Chuck Deardorf (www.myspace. 

com/deardorfpetersongroup) plays 

monthly at Tula’s Jazz Club and will be 

performing at Jazz Alley on November 

2nd. 

Jared Curtis 

Music of Remembrance Program at 

Seattle Art Museum Oct. 16th 

“Connecting the Music and Art in SAM 

adds an extra dimension to the senses,” 

remarked one concert-goer. 

Some 30 Mirabella residents came by 

bus, car, or on foot to SAM to attend 

the concert presented by Music of 

Remembrance (MOR), and all were 

thoroughly impressed by the quality 

and timeliness of the program. In her 

introductory remarks, Mina Miller, 

founder and artistic director of MOR, 

linked Picasso’s art of defiance to the 

holocaust-era music selected. 

The opening number was Duo 

composed by Erwin Schulhoff, 

who lost his life in the Wuelzburg 

Concentration Camp in 1942. The piece 

was brilliantly performed by Mikail 

Shmidt, violin, and Walter Gray, cello, 

both in its intensity and moments of 

serenity. 

Ernest Bloch, immigrating from 

Switzerland to the Oregon coast, left us 

with a calming Nigun (melody without 

words) from Three Pictures of Chassidic 

Life that was sensitively played by 

seventeen-year-old violinist Marie 

Rossano, accompanied by Mina Miller 

on the piano. 

The final piece, Sparks of Glory by 

well-known contemporary composer 

Paul Schoenfield, reflects the horror of 

the holocaust in its musical contrasts. 

Featured artists were loyal long-time 

participants in MOR performances, 

Mikhail Shmidt, violin, Laura 

Deluca, clarinet, Walter Gray, cello, 

Mark Salman, piano, and Eric Parce 

providing the masterful narration. 

Our next full MOR concert at Benaroya 

Hall is scheduled for Monday, 

November 8th at 7:30 PM. John 

Sharify will interview Donald Byrd, the 

“most unconventional provocateur 

and dance maker/thinker of our 

times” at 6:45 PM. Tickets are $36.00 

and can be ordered on line at www. 

musicofremembrance.org or PO Box 

27500 Seattle,WA 98165-2500. 

Henry Butler 

Galleries 

A One Day Youth Art Show: Places 

Sunday, November 7th from 3–6 pm at 

Oasis Art Gallery 

All are invited to attend the 3rd Annual 

Youth Art Show at Oasis Gallery in 

Wallingford. The gallery owners, 

Alex and Jeanne Strazzanti, say, “For 

more than seven years, artist Colleen 

Lambert has helped these young 

women develop their artistic skills, 

vision, and goals. Each student proudly 

displays her series of latest works 

based on her interpretation of Places as 

well as one piece for the collective Self 

Portrait series.” This is an extraordinary 

event that showcases the talent 

and skill of these young artists. Hors 

d’oeuvres and refreshments will be 

served. 

Oasis Art Gallery, 3644 Wallingford Ave 

N, Seattle, Washington 98103, (P) 206- 

547-5177. 

Preview of the show at: www. 

oasisinseattle.com/exhibitionsevents. 

html. 

Jared Curtis

Music, Art, & Books 

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Books in Brief 

Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane 

Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High 

Sierra, by Peter Stekel (Wilderness 

Press, 2010). $15.95; Paper 236 pages; 

ISBN 978-0-89997-475-0 

Wilderness Press has recently 

published a non-fiction book written 

by my son-in-law, Peter Stekel. The 

book is called Final Flight. It’s the story 

of a WW II-era airplane crash in the 

Sierra Nevada mountains of California. 

The airplane was a Beech 18 AT-7 

Navigator, and there were four crew 

members on board - the pilot, 2nd Lt. 

William Gamber, and three navigation 

students, John M. Mortenson, Ernest 

Glenn Munn, and Leo Mustonen. They 

left Mather Field, east of Sacramento, 

on November 18, 1942, and were never 

seen alive again. 

In 1947, some college students on a 

summer trip to the mountains found 

the crash site. One of the students 

guided a small military party to the site 

to identify the airplane and recover 

the crew. On that trip, and two more in 

1948, no bodies were ever recovered 

though enough of the airplane was 

found to identify it as the one that 

disappeared on November 18, 1942 

with Gamber, Mortenson, Munn, and 

Mustonen aboard. 

After the military’s failure in 1947 and 

1948 to find the airmen’s remains, the 

incident was forgotten until October 

2005, when two climbers in Kings 

Canyon National Park stumbled across 

the mummified remains of a man in 

a WWII US Army Air Force uniform, 

entombed in the ice of Mendel Glacier. 

The “Frozen Airman” discovery created 

huge amounts of media interest, 

including a magazine story that Peter 

wrote. 

During his research, which included 

personal interviews, digging into 

official military records, and trips to 

the crash site, Peter discovered that 

a lot of what ended up in newspaper 

and television reports was inaccurate 

or didn’t make any sense. For instance, 

the crash site was on Mendel Glacier, 

but reporters kept calling it Darwin 

Glacier because that is what Army 

reports from 1947 called it. Also, a 

group burial site for the crew lists all 

four of their names. If that is so, then 

who was the Frozen Airman A fifth, 

unknown, crew member 

The Mendel Glacier, center left 

(book cover photo) 

In writing his book, Peter found a story 

that he says has equal parts of history 

and mystery. It is also his personal 

search to uncover the truth of what 

happened to these four young men 

and explain why they disappeared. In 

looking for these answers, Peter made 

a trip to Mendel Glacier in 2007, where 

he found the remains of a second 

frozen airman. I found his poignant 

description of attending this young 

man’s funeral to be especially moving. 

I also liked how Peter mixed in 

explanations of airplane construction, 

weather, climate, and glaciers to 

describe why the airplane could have 

crashed and why it took so long for 

the two airmen to be found. Also, 

why the remaining two airmen will 

probably never be found. Peter’s 

descriptions of how pilots were trained 

for deployment during WW II was also 

very interesting. I was surprised to read 

that 25% of US military deaths during 

the war—about 100,000 people— 

happened within the United States 

and were due to training accidents 

and other causes. I was also surprised 

to learn that over 7000 airplanes 

crashed in the United States in training 

accidents, while we lost slightly more 

than 5000 that were shot down by the 

Japanese in the South Pacific. 

Final Flight is a bittersweet tale brought 

to the light of day by an author who 

refused to allow this story and these 

brave men to be forgotten. Peter not 

only tells about the deaths of the four 

crew members but also explains the 

history of how our country and military 

handle death and how their methods 

and traditions developed from the 

Civil War. I think Peter brings these four 

men to life in a respectful way and, in 

doing so, honors their sacrifice. 

Alice Goldberg 

Afterward: If you want an 

autographed copy of Final Flight you 

can buy it at Elliot Bay Book Company, 

Third Place Books, or at any of the 

usual on-line sources, and then bring it 

to me in apartment 306. I’ll have Peter 

autograph it next time he comes to 

visit me. 

Peter will read from Final Flight and do 

a slide show at the following places: 

• 7 PM, November 18, 2010 @ Third 

Place Books, 17171, Bothell Way NE, 

Lake Forest Park, WA 98155. 206-366- 

3333. 

• 7 PM, November 11, 2010@ 

University Books, 1319 4th Avenue 

Seattle, WA 98101. 206.685.9920. 

• 7 PM, November 10, 2010 @ Village 

Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham, WA 

98225. 360.733.1599. 

Alice

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a loaf of bread, a jug of Wine, and Thou 

Restaurants Near 

Home 

Pot Pourri 

As mentioned previously, we love 

the food at Mirabella. The new A la 

Carte menu is wonderful. But we 

like Mirabella food more when we 

don’t eat here 100% of the time. And 

some of us say they are acquiring a 

“Mirabelly” and may need to eat light 

some of the time. So, we will mention 

a few restaurants we have tried locally. 

And we welcome input from others on 

their “discoveries.” (Please address to 

oldart@aol.com or Box 715) 

Bahn Thai – 409 Roy St, Seattle, WA, 

(206) 283-0444 

We find it difficult to tell one Thai 

restaurant from another, so we 

convened a jury of experts, namely 

our son’s family who eat Thai often. 

The jury fore-person, our daughter-inlaw, 

reported a favorable verdict. They 

praised the Phad Thai, the Phad See Ew 

and a soup. The only downer was the 

Swimming Rama, my favorite (peanut 

sauce with chicken over spinach). 

If you plan “dinner and theater,” two 

unquestionable advantages of Bahn 

Thai are their large parking lot and 

their location in the theater district. 

Directions: West on Denny, north on 

5th Ave. across Mercer, left on Roy St. 

Left into the parking lot. 

Laadla – 234 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, 

WA (206) 223-1980 

Maybe you’re afraid of the “hot” 

spices: fear not, they won’t make it 

hot unless you ask for it. Laadla is our 

next-corner neighbor on Fairview Ave 

N at Thomas Street. Laadla appears 

to be a “mom-and-pop” place, with 

décor that is mildly Indian and a menu 

with so many different items that you 

wonder how it’s possible. The night 

we ate dinner there, only five tables 

were taken. We ordered typical curry 

dishes, and they were very good. I 

had Lamb Tikka Masala, and it was 

the best Indian lamb dish I ever had. 

“Tikka” means pieces, hence kabobs, 

marinated and cooked at high heat 

in a tandoor, a clay oven. If you order 

Chicken Tikka, you get some good 

kabobs; if you add the word Masala, 

you get a sauce made by cooking the 

tikka pieces in a tomato based sauce 

made with the masala spices. Just like 

the Thai places, there is only one size 

portion, and it’s huge. We both had 

doggie boxes good for at least a lunch. 

Art Butler 

Portage Bay Cafe 

A wonderful brunch and lunch place 

is a short walk away: The Portage Bay 

Café is located at the S.W. corner of 

Terry Avenue N and Harrison St. From 

the Mirabella lobby entrance, the cafe 

is 2 blocks north and 2 blocks west. For 

take-away and reservations call (206) 

462-6400. It is open daily from 7 am to 

2 pm, serving both breakfast/brunch 

and lunch. 

We found it a busy place on a Sunday 

around 1 pm, and we were told it 

would be a 15 minute wait, an accurate 

estimate. With our party of 5, the 

average age rose appreciably. 

For breakfast they serve assorted 

beverages, beer & wine, and offer 

different cereals, pancakes, French 

toast, omelettes, scrambles, hashes, 

eggs Benedicts, breakfast combos, and 

a choice of sides (Black Forest ham, 

pepper bacon, chicken-basil sausage, 

and herb-roasted red potatoes). Our 

selections were delicious and plentiful. 

They have a unique “Toppings Bar” 

that includes fresh fruits, nuts, butter, 

organic maple syrup, and whipped 

cream for pancakes, French toast, and 

granola or other cereals. Quick service 

and reasonably priced and very close 

by. The lunch choices of salads and 

sandwiches sounded good, too. 

Bob & Peggy Habegger 

Phoenecia, West Seattle 

A favorite restaurants is Phoenecia 

(2716 Alki Avenue SW, 206-935-6550) 

across from the beach, opposite the 

Statue of Liberty. We have been going 

to it for about 25 years, first in Lower 

Queen Anne in the old Hanson’s Bakery 

site, and for the last 15 years on Alki. 

For eastern Mediterranean cuisine the 

menu is lighter than some, featuring 

tapas, pizzas and a few wonderful daily 

special entrees. 

On our last visit we had small plates of 

garlic green beans, truffled fingerling 

potatoes and portabella mushrooms 

with balsamic sauce. We shared a 

wonderful lamb shank and still took 

some home. One of our children 

had one of the best pizzas in town. 

We always share a bottle of their 

reasonably priced and creatively 

selected wines and we top the meal 

off with Mama’s baklava with vanilla 

bean ice cream. If you can think of a 

more romantic place than over-looking 

a sunset across Puget Sound in a 

small (about 30 seat) restaurant with a 

Lebanese motif, we’d like to hear about 

it. Enjoy. 

Beverly Welti and John Pehrson 

Happy Thanksgiving to all of us at 

Mirabella 

If the Pilgrims were alive 

today, what would be the 

most interesting thing about 

them 

Their age.

Food, Wine, and Fashion 

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Need Bread, Milk, OJ, or . . . 

As more Mirabellans are giving up their 

cars, I thought to look around Michaels 

Market, at Denny and Fairview, to see 

what else they sell. They have namebrands 

for milk, bread, OJ, cereals, 

soup, coffee, tuna, cold cuts, frozen 

dinners, ice cream, etc. Of course they 

have liquid beverages of all kinds, 

beer, wine, and soft drinks. In short, 

if necessary, we could live without 

supermarkets for breakfast, lunch, and 

a few drinks. The prices are higher than 

at super-markets, but not exorbitant; 

a quart of milk and a loaf of bread cost 

$4.00. 

Don’t fear crossing Denny at the 

corner. The white “Walk” light turns 

to blinking red by the middle of the 

street, but it blinks for twice as long 

as it was white, and nothing seems to 

move for half a minute after that. There 

are curb ramps on both sides of Denny. 

Art Butler 

The Book Bindery 

I have just discovered an unusual 

combination—a new upscale 

restaurant (opened last week) and 

a superb wine-making facility, all 10 

minutes from the Mirabella at 198 

Nickerson Street, just west of the south 

end of the Fremont Bridge. 

The Restaurant is called The Book 

Bindery. Chef Shaun has a fine 

reputation and recently transferred 

from NY’s Per Se. Eight starters range 

from a salad ($10) to a terrine of foie 

gras ($18). The seven main courses 

range from hand-made cavatelli ($16) 

to Mishima Ranch beef ($34). See http:// 

www.bookbinderyrestaurant.com/. 

206-283-2665. 

The adjacent wine making facility is 

called BYOB for Blend Your Own Barrel, 

Bottle, or Brand. The owners make 

wine there and have a tasting room 

now serving the 2008 vintage. They 

have excellent equipment and a wine 

storage area, all of which are available 

for anyone to use for a price that I did 

not explore. You can bring your own 

grapes or get them from BYOB. Why 

not join others to make a barrel of wine 

to share. A barrel is about 55 gallons or 

about 24 cases. For this year, start very 

soon as the 2010 Washington grape 

harvest is nearly over. 

A tour and wine tasting About 20 

wines to taste and a tasting to include 

some finger food are possible, too. 

Charles Sleicher 

Wear Flare 

Ladies: No, dear ones, at our age; 39 (+ 

39!), I do not advise string bikinis, seethrough 

tops, or 4 inch stilettos. 

But so many couture adventures 

appropriate for us are out there now, 

just waiting . You may want to try . . . 

• a shocker nail color. 24 Karat. Gray 

Vamp. Key Lime 

• flaunty trousers in vintage cord with 

a cowgirl belt 

• an Indian sari with a bunch of bright 

jinglies on your arm 

• a Japanese kimono 

• a sheepskin vest with a marvelous. 

“llama” trim 

• a messenger bag with loops galore 

of golden chains 

• a chemise, reborn from the ‘20’s, and 

so elegant on the “bod.” 

Have courage, dear ones, when you 

shop. Macy and Nordstrom are fine, 

but don’t stop there. Check out the 

snazzy boutiques on 5th and 6th 

between Pike and Pine. Check out 

Pacific Place. And yes, check out 

Victoria’s Secret (terrific sweatsuits). 

And don’t not go in because the person 

ahead of you is 15 years old with 

waist-length dubonnet hair. Today’s 

boutiques are for all. At all prices. You 

may even find a few perfect T’s for your 

exercise class. Don’t fall in love with 

that sateen string biki—oops. Been 

there, done that, haven’t we 

Gentlemen: Is it time to give shoes the 

boot 

Not even 

counting the 

L.L. Beans, the 

Crocs, The 

Timberlands, 

this is the 

season for 

boots, ankle to 

calf, cowboy to 

lumberjack, 

every look we 

can think of in 

every material known to man and 

some yet to be discovered. 

For once, a reverse count—more 

guys’ boots than ladies’ boots, do you 

believe it. Soft boots that pull on like 

mocs. Slipper boots by good old Ugg 

in genuine sheepskin. Rain boots. 

Snow boots, so handsome they need 

no snow. Boots for your jeans. Boots 

for your chinos. Boots to rough it in. 

Boots to take your wife to romantic 

dinners in. Even sneaker boots. Boots 

are IT. Now, listen up, fellas, we know 

how you love to shop – every minute is 

like an hour, are we right So we’re not 

suggesting you shop around. Just put 

your mind to a single pair of boots (as a 

starter!) and go to your favorite handydandy 

shoe & boot store And should 

you not have one, go to Nordstrom. Or 

Macy’s. Boots up the gazoo. And the 

salesmen are good guys. 

See you in December, dear ones. 

Your Mirabella Fashionista

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Up-to-date News about Mirabella Services 

Dining Services 

Terry Jones, Director 

Holiday Recipe Swap 

In November the Courtyard Café will 

be hosting a holiday recipe swap. 

Bring your favorite holiday recipe, with 

a sample if possible, to the Courtyard 

Café for Dining Services to collect and 

publish a “Mirabella Holiday Cookie, 

Snacks, and Finger Foods” recipe book. 

The recipe book will be sold at the 

Café during the Holiday Season, and 

all proceeds will be donated to the 

neighborhood food bank. More details 

on this event will be provided closer to 

the date. 

Holiday Parties 

Have a holiday party coming up 

Reservations for private dining rooms 

during the holiday season are filling up 

fast. Contact Rebecca (206) 254-1415 

to book your holiday party today. 

Facilities Services 

Karen Herndon, Director 

Reminder about seasonal change in 

deck/balcony cleaning 

Housekeeping staff sweep and 

mop balconies and decks and clean 

railings and outdoor furnishings 

during the seasons when the spaces 

are in use, generally late spring into 

early autumn. When the rains and 

cold arrive later in autumn, and 

throughout the winter months, deck 

and balcony cleaning is not part of the 

standard service. In April and May, the 

building decks and balconies will be 

scrubbed of the autumn and winter 

soot accumulation and maintained 

during regular housekeeping visits 

throughout the Spring and Summer 

seasons. 

Please contact Facility Services at 

extension 1413 if you have questions. 

Always Use Kitchen Exhaust Fans 

When Cooking 

While making morning toast, broiling, 

or cooking in the oven and stovetop, 

many residents have experienced 

having their apartment smoke 

detector alarm go off. Within minutes 

they then receive a visit from Mirabella 

Security to check for fire or smoke. 

This inconvenience can be avoided 

by turning on the kitchen exhaust 

fan whenever using the stove or a 

toaster. This simple precaution will 

almost always suffice to remove smoke 

quickly enough to prevent the smoke 

detector from tripping an alarm. If the 

exhaust fan is not sufficient please 

open windows or the deck door. The 

alarm will sound for 60 seconds and if 

no smoke is detected after 60 seconds 

the smoke detector alarm will quiet. 

New Mirabella Wellness Check 

Program 

All residents are encouraged to 

participate in our new Wellness Check 

Program initiated and approved by 

Mirabella Administration and the 

Residents’ Association Council. 

Mirabella will conduct scheduled 

wellness checks each morning by 

monitoring residents’ daily check-in 

activity. Residents will be issued a 

separate dedicted Wellness Check 

Pendant and, using this pendant, 

will initiate a daily check that sends a 

signal to Mirabella security. 

The Wellness Check takes less than 

10 seconds of your time between 

6:00 AM and 10:00 AM each morning 

to complete. If you fail to check in, 

Security will respond. 

To sign up for the Mirabella Wellness 

Check Program contact Facility 

Services at extension 1413. 

Health Services 

Courtney Warner, Activities Director 

Opportunity to Lead Educational 

Programs for Health Services 

Health Services residents have 

specifically asked for more educational 

programs. Many have thoroughly 

enjoyed the programs in Emerald Hall 

and would like additional programs 

offered on the 2nd floor. This is where 

you can help. Mirabella residents are 

invited to host, lead, or inspire small 

and intimate educational programs for 

Health Services. Ideas could include 

slide shows of your travels, your own 

artwork or collection of art, research 

topics or papers, topics you are 

passionate about, thought-provoking 

discussions, etc. This can be a one-time 

event or hopefully you would be willing 

to host weekly, monthly, annually, or 

however many times you are willing. 

This invitation also extends to your 

friends, family, or students. Length 

of the program would not need to 

exceed one hour and can be shorter 

if needed. The group setting would 

be small and intimate with a group of 

10-15 residents. Programs would be 

held in the 2nd floor Health Center 

Activity Room. Dates and times will be 

determined by you with flexibility in 

scheduling. The Activities Department 

will assist with set-up, provide 

requested technology (projector, 

laptop, etc), produce and distribute 

announcements and flyers, and 

any other assistance you may need. 

Topic ideas are endless! Professional 

experience is not required.

MIRABELLA SERVICE REPORTS 

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Health Center, Salon News, Court’s Corner 

Leaders (from p. 18) 

Just bring your ability and interest in 

sharing your passions with others. 

Bilingual Volunteers Needed 

Health Services is recruiting bilingual 

volunteers to assist us with our 

residents whose primary language 

is not English. Your role would be a 

social companion, the same roles 

our volunteers take. You can join 

scheduled events and activities, 

go for a walk, or accompany for 

Mirabella events, with your role to be 

determined during your Volunteer 

Orientation. We are actively recruiting 

Spanish speaking residents. 

Mobile Library’s Next Visit 

Wednesday, November 17, from 3:30- 

4:00 pm, 2nd floor Health Center. 

The Library brings an assortment 

of books, Large Print books, books 

on CD, and DVDs. Special items can 

be requested at the Library to be 

delivered for you at Mirabella Health 

Center, if you specify Mirabella Mobile 

Library as your pickup point. 

No Library card No problem. The 

Mobile Library is able to look up your 

current Library account. If you do 

not have a library card, applications 

are available on our visit day for you. 

Return your selections at the next 

month’s visit or simply drop off your 

items to Courtney Warner’s return box 

on the 2nd floor Activities Office. 

If you wish to take part in any of these 

activities, as a speaker or leader, as 

an interpreter, or simply need more 

information, please contact Courtney 

Warner, Activities Director, cwarner@ 

retirement.org, ext 1450. 

Marketing 

Chris Masson, Director 

While our economic times have slowed 

down our sales at all communities, I am 

encouraged by recent developments 

here at Mirabella. First of all, we 

continue to have good numbers of 

prospects visiting our community, with 

residents playing a part in that effort 

by inviting friends, ex-neighbors, and 

even siblings. We in Marketing are 

noticing more prospective residents 

showing a higher level of seriousness 

about making a deposit and starting 

their transition to live at Mirabella. 

Thank you all for your open and 

friendly nature as we meet you in the 

hallways or café while giving tours. It 

really does help. 

The Marketing Advisory Committee 

has been working hard with my 

department on events, hosting and 

sharing great ideas. Much of the 

committee’s strategic input comes 

from their lifetime of experience. This 

valuable input has been incorporated 

into Mirabella’s comprehensive 

marketing plan for this new fiscal 

year. I appreciate the committee’s 

commitment to the success of 

Mirabella. Our community truly is a 

collaborative effort. This is just one 

of the many things that create the 

“Mirabella Experience.” 

Invite a friend to a Marketing Event! 

• Event: Younger Next Year, Seminar 

and Luncheon 

• Date: Wednesday, November 17th 

or Thursday, November 18th 

• Time: 11:00 AM 

• Place: Mirabella’s NW Lakeview 

Dining Room 

• RSVP: Please call (206) 254-1441 to 

reserve your seat 

Turn back your biological clock and 

come learn the techniques to be 

younger next year! Based on The New 

York Times best-selling book by Chris 

Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D. 

Resident Services 

Joanie Vivaz, Director 

New Salon Hours 

Beginning October 19, the Mirabella 

salon will be adding hours on 

Monday and Tuesday mornings 8:00 

am–11:30 am. The additional service 

days will depend on demand and 

are by appointment only. Kelly will 

be available for appointments on 

Monday mornings, and Anjela will 

be available for appointments on 

Tuesday mornings. 

Court’s Corner 

We have altered our early departure 

staging positions in the garage. For 

those leaving before 7 am, your 

vehicles will be in the unload zones 

across from the valet office or in 

a space across from the Facilities 

Services office. This measure allows 

early departures to leave without 

being blocked in by the vehicles 

returning each night after 10 pm in 

the staging area. 

We’ve had some residents and 

guests call for their vehicles but 

not retrieve them until 30 minutes 

to 1 hour afterwards. During this 

time, their vehicles are left in the 

staging area blocking operations and 

making exits difficult. Please help us 

and your neighbors by making an 

effort to collect your vehicle around 

the 15-minute mark. We and your 

neighbors will appreciate it!

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Mirabella Photo Gallery 

Above right: The Cornish Trio, Christine 

Bell, Dawn Clement, and Chuck 

Deardorf 

Above center: Bassist, Chuck Deardorf 

Above left: Don Hillman and John 

Peterson 

Center left: David Wolter and Dick 

Leabo 

Center right: Pianist, Dawn Clement 

Photos by 

Pat Chinn and 

Norm Olds 

Below: Lois North, Pat Chinn, and Tom Ryan at Japanese Gardens 

Below: Fred & Margaret Herb, & family, carving 

pumpkins, with help from Charlotte Labeau.

more photo gallery 

21 

Esther Stevenson enjoys a glass of wine at the opening of the Art Show of works by Don and Moll Frothingham. Ann Frothingham 

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. 

So many people pitched in to make it such fun and go so smoothly. They are as follows: Olga Butler, Nancy Cleveland, Diana Holland, 

Jean Frankland, Joe Joiner, Walter Kerr, Evelyn Klebanoff, Barbara Mitchell, Betty and Bob Nicholson, Lorraine Samuelson, Charles 

Sleicher, Iris and Vernon Slippy, and Esther Stevenson: and to the Frothingham family, who aided Walter with the picture hanging and 

helped in the clean-up.” 

Center left: Floating Market, 

SLU Park Pier 

Center right: Ruthe Norton 

a-quilting 

Lower left: Jim McDermott 

and Patty Smith 

Lower right: Flora 

Rabinovitch and 

Margaret Herb making 

dolls for the Holiday 

Craft Fair 

Photos by Pat Chinn, 

Martha Oman, and 

Jared Curtis

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November is an Event-Full Month 

Coming Events 

Earshot Jazz Festival 

Nov. 1–7, 2010 

Various Locations 

throughout Seattle 

This annual Jazz 

Festival began in 

October and continues through 

November 7. If you want to join in, 

you’ll find notable jazz players from 

all around the world. Spread-out 

over several venues, the Earshot 

Jazz Festival includes concerts, jam 

sessions, master classes, lectures, and 

workshops. 

For details go to http://www.earshot. 

org/Festival/festival.html 

Community Thanksgiving Eve 

Service, 7 pm, November 24. 

In the picture below, Kathleen Dow, 

fellow Mirabella resident, seated at the 

new three manual Rodgers Triullium 

Masterpiece organ at First United 

Methodist Church, 2nd and Denny, sets 

plans for a Community Thanksgiving 

Eve Service with the Rev. Dr. Sandy 

Brown, Senior Minister. 

Another Mirabella resident, Rev. Bob 

Nicholson, will be the guest speaker 

at the service, which will include a 

two-minute video reenactment of 

the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth 

Colony, a gathering and blessing of 

non-perishable foods you are invited 

to bring for neighborhood food banks, 

music, and a thanksgiving litany for 

hands that serve, create, care, lead 

music, and write. All are welcomed! 

In the picture above, Kathleen is 

seated at the new three-manual 

Rodgers Triullium Masterpiece organ 

at First United Methodist Church, with 

Bob Nicholson, who will speak at the 

service. 

Kathleen will also play the organ 

for a 12:10 pm noon-time concert, 

Wednesday, Nov 17, at Trinity 

Episcopal Church, 609 8th Ave (near 

Harborview and Skyline). 

Medal of Honor Memorial Site, 

The University of Washington. Michael 

Magrath, a UW visiting scholar in sculpture 

and public art, led the team that designed 

the monument. It includes Heidi Wastweet, 

a Seattle sculptor, and Dodi Fredericks, a 

landscape architect. 

Memorial Day Ceremony at UW 

You are invited to join the University 

of Washington community to 

commemorate Veterans Day 2010 

on the Seattle campus. The following 

events will honor men and women 

throughout our region for their 

dedication and service in our Armed 

Services. 

Thursday, November 11, 2010 

• 10:30 a.m.: Ceremony at the Medal of 

Honor Memorial site, off of Memorial 

Way (artist’s drawing pictured above) 

• 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Reception, 

Kane Hall 

• 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.: ROTC Open House, 

Clark Hall 

• RSVP online by November 4. 

Parking on campus is free to the public. 

ADA parking is available on level C1 

of the Central Plaza Garage (enter at 

15th Ave NE and NE 41st Street) or 

in lots N5 or N1 (enter from 45th and 

17th Avenue NE to Memorial Way 

NE). Contact UW Parking services 

206.543.1543 for more information. 

For information or questions about 

the event, please contact Mary 

Jean Stephens at mjs47@uw.edu or 

206.221.6719.

Event-full November 

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Windows Computer Class 

Starting Monday, November 15, 2010, 

I will be offering another Computer 

class for Windows users. It will be 

focused on beginners, but hopefully 

will be of interest to intermediate users 

as well. In addition to covering many 

computer fundamentals, I will try to 

answer any questions you may have. 

If you are using an Apple Mac, you are 

welcome to come, but I cannot cover 

any Mac-related problems. 

We will meet on the first and third 

Monday of each month (except 

December 20) from 9:30 – 10:30 am in 

Emerald Hall. 

I will be concentrating on computers 

that run the latest Microsoft operating 

system, Windows 7. If you are running 

Windows Vista, you should not have 

any trouble, since Windows Vista and 

Windows 7 are not too dissimilar. If you 

are still running Windows XP, I suggest 

that you upgrade to Windows 7 now – 

it is a much better operating system. 

There is no need to register, no dues to 

pay; just come on Monday, November 

15, at 9:30 to Emerald Hall. 

Hellmut Golde 

Paraprosdokians Arise!! 

November 7, 5 pm, in Harry’s Bar! 

Did you know that a good laugh—or 

even a smile—can release healthy 

chemicals called endorphins in your 

brain That is one of the reasons, 

in addition to great fun, that your 

Wellness Team has been planning 

monthly Humor Nights. Here comes 

another! This will be a mixed humor 

night on Sunday, November 7th from 

5 to 6 p.m. in Harry’s Bar. We invite all 

paraprosdokians, punsters, Hai Ku-ers, 

limerick-ers, songsters, and just plain 

jokesters to add to this potpourri! 

As a reminder, the following are 

examples and guidelines for ways to 

tickle “punny” bones: 

A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech 

in which the latter part of a sentence or 

phrase is surprising or unexpected in a 

way that causes the reader of listener 

to reframe or reinterpret the first part, 

as in “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful 

evening, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho 

Marx. 

A limerick has five lines: the first, 

second, and last rhyme, and the 

second and fourth rhyme. Here is one 

for Hallowe’en. 

There was a young lady named Kroll 

Who had habits exceedingly droll. 

To a masquerade ball 

She wore nothing at all 

And backed in as a Parker House roll. 

A Haiku has three lines, the first has 

five syllables, the second has seven, 

and the third has five. An example by 

Evelyn Odell, 

Seductive Haiku 

Keeps words running in my brain. 

I can’t sleep. Can you 

Punny puns can be one-liners: “A 

gossip is someone with a great sense 

of rumor.” 

As for funny songs, let’s hope our Irish 

tenors and English songstresses will 

warble again. 

And then there are just plain good 

jokes, some in rhyme, and some oneliners, 

as in “Going bra-less pulls all the 

wrinkles out of your face.” 

Please bring your own “entrée” to this 

chop suey of humor. If you don’t have 

some in your collection, just Google 

up any of these categories and you will 

find tons of puns and a gaggle of gags. 

You may even find a backwards poet 

who writes inverse. Please mark your 

calendars for Punday the 7th at 5 p.m. 

in Harry’s Bar! 

Dee Dickinson 

Panama Hotel Visit, Thurs., Nov 18 

Join us on a tour of the Historic 

Panama Hotel located in the 

International District at 605 S Main 

St. (between 5th & 6th). This hotel, 

made famous in the book “Hotel at the 

Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” is located 

in “Japantown,” as it was called. It had 

been “home” to workers in the single 

room occupancy rooms (SROs). 

Panama Hotel (Sabro Ozasa, 1910), Seattle, 

ca. 1920. Courtesy Panama Hotel Bed and 

Breakfast 

The hotel was closed and boardedup 

when the Japanese community 

was transferred to Internment Camps 

during WW II. Decades after the war it 

was purchased, restored, and is now 

an operating hotel with a tea room. 

During the restoration the owner 

found many items in the basement 

where they had been stored by the 

Japanese who were planning for their 

return to Seattle. Most of what was 

found remains unclaimed. 

The visit is Thursday November 18. 

Our large bus departs from Mirabella 

at 10:30 am. The cost of the tour is 

$10 per person. Please pay in advance 

to Pat Kushmerick, apt 402, or Karen 

Smith, apt. 625. Checks should be 

made out to Pat Kushmerick. Payment 

for the tour cannot be left at the 

concierge desk. 

A light lunch of tea sandwiches, a 

cookie, and, of course, tea (coffee a 

likely choice). Lunch is $10 each, paid 

directly to the hotel when served. With 

lunch the total for the tour is $20 each.


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More Events in November 

Panama Hotel (from p. 23) 

Return is by Mirabella bus at 1:30 pm. 

Minimum number of visitors for a 

tour is 15, maximum 25. Please sign 

up promptly at the concierge desk 

to assure that we have the minimum 

number. If this trip is very popular 

you’ll want to assure that you don’t 

lose the opportunity. I need to provide 

the tea room a lunch count by 

November 10th. 

Those wishing to travel by public bus 

must also sign up and pay for the tour 

in advance. By bus, the #70 (@ Fairview 

and John) will take you to S. Main & 

3rd, the #545 (@ Stewart & Yale) to 5th 

Ave S & Jackson. Either destination 

stop is within 0.2 miles of the hotel, but 

you’ll need to climb uphill to the hotel. 

The return trip is a downhill stroll. 

Entrances from the left: upper tea room, hotel 

entrance, lower tea room (level entry). 

The Panama Hotel, a restored heritage 

building, but the “hotel” part is not 

accessible to the handicapped. The 

entrance to the hotel lobby is up 

two flights of stairs, and there are no 

ramps or elevators for those using 

wheelchairs or walkers to move 

between levels. The tea room, on the 

ground floor on the uphill side of S 

Main, is up a step and a slight ramp. 

This level, where the service counter 

is located, is small. The lower room, 

where our group will be seated, 

though it is six or eight steps down 

from the service level, does have an 

door that is level with the sidewalk 

on S Main, thus eliminating all the 

stairs to enter or exit (pictured below). 

The rest room is on this level and can 

accommodate someone using a walker 

but not a wheelchair. The discussion 

portions of the tour occur here. 

Lower tea room, looking toward Main Street. 

The tour includes the Hotel levels 

above and below. On the 1st floor 

an opening exposes a part of the 

basement where items were left. The 

guide will take guests down to the 

basement to get a full view of what 

was left behind. Also part of the tour 

is a visit to some of the hotel rooms 

up a long set of steps. Residents with 

mobility concerns must decide for 

themselves about going on the trip, 

using the steps, or limiting themselves 

to the tea room at street level. 

Pat Kushmerick 

Ladies Musical Club Concert 

Sunday, November 21st, 3 pm, 

Emerald Hall 

Our November concert will feature a 

string quartet, with music by Borodin 

and Glazunov, with Kathy Zufall and 

Corinne Odegard, violins, Janice 

Gockel, viola, and Frances Walton, 

cello. 

The Borodin piece will be followed 

by “La Serva Padrona,” a staged production 

of this charming opera by 

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. 

Come and enjoy some great music! 

Carolyn Burton 

Mirabella Residents! 

Nov. 2 – Nelly Torres 

Nov. 3 – Flo Scarff 

Nov. 4 – John Pehrson 

Nov. 6 – Janet Hollister 

Nov. 7 – Lynne Erickson 

Nov. 8 – Joan Sobottka 

Nov. 8 – David Rensvold 

Nov. 9 – John Goetz 

Nov. 12 – Ruth Gwinn 

Nov. 13 – Mildred Johnson 

Nov. 14 – Arnie Gaillard 

Nov. 15 – Louis Gratzer 

Nov. 15 – Terry Cochrane 

Nov. 16 – Nan Grayston 

Nov. 19 – George Holland 

Nov. 22 – Margaret Herb 

Nov. 23 – Lois North 

Nov. 24 – Natalie DeLord 

Nov. 24 – Nancy Schultz 

Nov. 26 – Lenore Pearlman 

Nov. 27 – Jane Dillard 

Nov. 28 – Flory Wagenaar 

Nov. 29 – Madeline Mennella

Health, Fitness, & Beauty 

25 

Battle the MiraBelly 

The following is part one of a three-part 

series on food and wellbeing. Part two 

will cover monounsaturated fats in more 

detail (MUFA), and part three will focus 

on portion size. 

Want to drop a few pounds Think 

positive! Focus on adding foods, not 

cutting foods out entirely. Begin every 

meal with a high fiber course: an apple, 

raw veggies, soup (veggie, minestrone, 

Manhattan clam chowder). End your 

meal with a salad (how Continental!), 

instead of dessert. Think of having 

virtually unlimited amounts of 

vegetables, and at least three servings 

of fruit a day. 

Control portions of protein and starches: 

only eat amounts comparable in size 

to a deck of cards, or the palm of your 

hand. At first, it might not seem like 

enough; we’re used to huge amounts. 

A third to half of your plate should be 

filled with veggies (not corn—it’s a 

starch), another quarter to a third with 

a starchy carbohydrate (potatoes, rice, 

or pasta), and the final portion with a 

lean protein. If you can’t resist the bread 

basket, replace the starch on your plate 

with more veggies. If you choose bread, 

try to stick with rye or pumpernickel. 

The large air pockets in white or whole 

wheat breads make both more like 

simple sugars as we digest them. 

What about calories Think about your 

goal weight. Your resting metabolism 

usually absorbs ten calories per pound 

for women and twelve per pound for 

men. Add three hundred calories to that 

if you get an hour of moderate exercise 

per day. Let’s say I’m a female who 

wants to attain or maintain a weight 

of 130 pounds and exercises an hour 

a day, I could eat 1600 calories a day, 

ideally evenly divided between four 

meals of four hundred calories each, 

or three meals plus two 200 calorie 

snacks. A male who wants to weigh 160 

pounds and exercises an hour a day can 

eat 2200 calories per day. 

Next month, “A MUFA meal.” 

Alice Edmonds 

Swim to get slim 

Slimming is not necessarily the happy 

result of swimming for exercise. But 

there’s hope for us swimmers. The article 

below is from the November 2010 issue 

of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. 

Reprinted courtesy of that publication 

under the “fair use” rule. 

Swimming can burn a lot of calories, 

depending on the stroke and the 

intensity. So why does swimming 

usually result in less weight loss than 

comparable amounts of other aerobic 

activities, like running, cycling, and 

even brisk walking 

Scientists speculate that cold water 

dissipates much more heat from 

the body than air does, and that 

this energy loss, occurring day after 

day, may stimulate appetite to keep 

the body warm. A study from the 

University of Florida a few years ago, 

for instance, found that men who 

exercised in cold water ate almost 300 

more calories in the hour after their 

workout than men who exercised in 

All lanes are open 

warm water. Regular exposure to cold 

water may also encourage the body to 

maintain or increase fat stores under 

the skin, which serves as insulation. 

If you want to lose weight, swim in 

warm water—or faster and longer in 

cold water. And watch your calorie 

intake afterwards. 

At Mirabella, we’re ahead of the game 

with our heated pools and heart-healthy 

meals. Why not get in the swim 

Editor 

As the Chair Turns 

We would like to introduce ourselves 

to those of you who have not yet 

visited “Salon Mirabella.” Our names 

are Anjela Hall and Kelly Hunter. We 

are your own personal hair and nail 

fashionistas, open Monday through 

Saturdays for your convenience. If you 

love to be pampered, we offer these 

goodies to tempt you: state-of-the-art 

haircuts, especially adapted to you, 

foils, perms, color to flatter and frame 

every face. Plus manicures, pedicures, 

and waxing while you listen to gentle 

music as the chair turns! And, may we 

add, we are right in your own back 

yard on the 2 nd . Floor. 

Now let’s talk about what’s new in hair 

care. The most exciting news is in color 

products. Several companies have 

introduced oils instead of peroxide 

to place color pigments into the hair 

shaft. When using oils, instead of 

the old-fashioned strong peroxide, 

the cuticle layer is not compromised 

since the oil seeps into the hair shaft 

and does no damage. When this new 

product is perfected, it will change hair 

coloring forever. 

Meanwhile, we hope to see you 

soon in “Salon Mirabella.” Call for an 

appointment on ext. 1469. Or call the 

Concierge and she will connect you. 

Anjela Hall & Kelly Hunter

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Purrfect Wellness 

Catarrh 

Cat-choo! Cat-choo! 

Gesundheidt! 

The cat has catched the sneezes. 

If nose turn pink, wrap cat in mink, 

So cat can’t catch the freezes. 

If cat-choos should get chronic 

Give the cat the cat-a-tonic. 

Is good for the soul. 

But when the nip become the trip, 

The catnip take the toll. 

A little social catnip 

Is good for the brain, 

But when the trip become the flip 

Some cats they go insane. 

When cat is out catnipping 

from dawn to dusk to dawn, 

there is this 12-step program 

that might help called PUSSANON. 

Cathedral 

The Cat-o-lic pawdre, 

He give cat the blessing. 

He say that with nature 

We shalt not be messing. 

To fix the cat mommy, 

Pawdre say it a pity, 

Because how could the world 

Ever have too much kitty 

§ 

Puss-ups for the Fat Cat 

Put fat cat on mat 

To do puss-ups – one hundred. 

Fat cat, now he flat cat, 

In case you has wondered. 

Downward Dog 

Paws grip the ground 

Legs straight & high. 

Then raise up the tush 

with tail in the sky. 

Plow 

Back paws over front paws – 

This the plow. 

Now back claws touch front claws. 

Try not to meow. 

§ 

Cat-Scan 

They slide cat in, 

They slide cat out, 

They want to see 

What cat about. 

They want to see 

can cat behave 

like dog and be 

the grateful slave 

Menopaws 

When menopaws comes 

And she can’t have more kitty, 

What puss do not need, 

she do not need your pity. 

Wipe kitt eyes. 

Dry kitt lashes. 

Try the catnip 

for hot flashes. 

Wash cat face. Trim cat claws. 

Life begins at 

Menopaws. 

Catnip 

A little social catnip 

§ 

Shri Pussananda’s Yoga Pawsitions 

Namaskat 

Sit on the back paws. 

Take in the air; 

Front paws take on 

Paw-sition of prayer. 

They slide cat in. 

They slide cat out 

And then they see 

without a doubt 

that inside cat, no gratitude. 

The cat, he just got cattitude. 

Carole Anne 

(This page sponsored by Medicat)

A Cascade Sculpture walk 

27 

Our Artful Neighborhood–Follow Me 

A stroll through our Cascade neighborhood 

is an adventure in sculpture 

viewing. We begin at home, in the 

circle drive, with our Umbrella Tree. 

under construction. Separating them 

is a courtyard with two remarkable 

sculptures that were recently installed. 

Bubble Man is pictured below, and 

Bubble Pet is visible only from Boren. 

of the Hutchinson Cancer Research 

Center. Behind it to the south we hear, 

then see, a lovely water feature. 

Across Denny Street, down Lenora to 

Terry and the Pan Pacific Court, in the 

fore court to Whole Foods, we find 

the Family of Giants, porcelain-like 

statues that seem to pause as they 

consider their next move. 

A block east at the corner of Boren 

and Republican Streets is another 

courtyard, a small one, but complete 

with three Lincoln Log sculptures. 

Climbing up to Eastlake Avenue we 

catch the dramatic structure of the 

Lake View Avenue Fly-over above. 

North along Westlake Ave and east on 

Harrison Street takes us past the Steel 

Ping Pong Table, in furious use on fine 

days. 

We cross Valley Street South to Lake 

Union Park (crosswalks on Terry and 

Westlake) to a richness of sculpture 

forms, like this Bottom-Up Sailboat. 

We stop for a rest in the fore-court of 

REI, where Cascading Waters & Cool 

Evergreens still the tumult of city life. 

And north again on Terry leads us 

through the new Amazon.com campus 

of buildings. Between Republican 

and Mercer we find two buildings still 

Return trip We cross Fairview Ave at 

Ward Street, where the Street Car line 

ends, and walk up Ward to take in the 

Soaring Silo in the circle at the heart 

Jared Curtis


Guide to Mirabella Publications 

How to Submit Your Article, Story, 

or News Report to The Mirabella 

Monthly 

After you finish writing, please proof 

your submission carefully for typos, 

spelling errors, and possible copy cuts 

or changes. 

Please note: Deadline for all 

submissions is the 20th of each month. 

Any piece submitted after the 20th will 

be held over until the following month. 

Maximum length of your submission 

must be one page or less in order to 

work with the MM format. If over one 

page, an editor will contact you about 

the necessary changes. Exceptions, 

where appropriate, are possible 

Please send your submission to Becky 

Kasper at the Concierge Desk. Email: 

bkasper@retirement.org. Or deliver it 

to the Concierge Desk. 

Thanks. 

We hope to see you soon in MM. 

How to Submit Your Photos and 

Illustrations to The Mirabella 

Monthly 

Print photo, in color or black & white, 

in sharp focus, the larger the better, 

but no smaller than 4 x 6. Photo will be 

scanned and returned to you. 

Digital photo in JPEG format should 

be sharply focused and ideally 300 

dpi (dots per sq. inch) or 2 mgs in size. 

Again, the larger the better. Or, more 

simply, set your camera to its highest 

possible setting for size and quality. To 

preserve the quality of a digital photo, 

submit your camera’s media card itself 

rather than send it by email. Either 

Becky or Jared can copy directly from a 

camera media card or a flash drive. 

The Mirabella Monthly Staff 

Editor-in-Chief 

Carole Anne Fine 

Graphic Designer, Editor 

Jared Curtis 

Copy Editors: 

Art Butler, Iris Barnett, Anne Cahn, 

Ida Curtis, Dee Dickinson, Martha 

Oman, Betty Nicholson, Ruthe 

Norton, Bill Potter, Charles Sleicher, 

Sedge Thomson 

Photographers: 

Joe Budne Pat Chinn, Jared Curtis, 

Marty Kushmerick, Tom Miller, Norm 

Olds, Margaret Oman 

Fact Checkers: 

Martha Oman, John Pehrson, Katie, 

Mahoney, Charles Sleicher. 

And thanks to the many who fold, 

staple, and deliver MM to our boxes! 

How to Volunteer for The Mirabella 

Monthly 

To join the editorial staff of The 

Mirabella Monthly, send the following 

details to Jared Curtis or Carole Anne 

Fine: 

Your name 

Your email address 

Your unit number 

Your previous experience, if any, in 

photography, copy editing, fact 

checking, or proofreading. 

You will then be invited to the next 

scheduled meeting with copy editors 

(usually held once a month). 

Jared: jared.curtis325@gmail.com (or) 

Box 347 

Carole Anne: caroleannef@ 

hotmail.com (or) Box 829 

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How to Submit Events for the 

Calendar, Mirabella This Week 

Though The Monthly staff is not 

involved in This Week, we repeat 

here the necessary information for 

including events in that publication. 

All information must be submitted 

in writing no later than 5:00 pm on 

the Monday of the week before the 

event. Please give all submissions 

to Kelly Anderson at the Concierge 

Desk. Phone: (206) 254-1633. Email: 

kanderson@retirement.org. 



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