INFORMER Friday, July 10, 2015

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1 Steve Lovig July 12 Erma DePauw July 13 Carol Nielsen July 13 Walda Gustafson July 14 Louise McLain July 15 Elsie Johnston July 16 Esther Bethel July 17 INFORMER Friday, July 10, 2015 Deena Wellborn July 20 Harley Henry July 22 Joan Landkamer July 22 Doris Pearce July 23 Miriam Baumann July 25 Joan Anderson July 28 John Marwin July 29 Chapel: Every Tuesday, at 10:00 a.m. in Carman Center Coffee, tea & fellowship preceding Chapel at 9:30 & again at 10:30 following the service. Video tapes/dvd s available from Shane Estes. SERVICE LEADERS: July 14 Bob Williams, Mayflower Resident July 21 Selva Lehman, Mayflower Resident Spiritual Care Coordinator Christine Tinker has a new schedule. Monday, Thursday and Friday 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., weekends as needed. She is available by phone and appointments may be made at times other than her regular schedule. Chaplain Len Eberhart is at Beebe Tuesdays and Wednesdays and available by phone Len s ministry is primarily with the Beebe residents. Health Center Worship Service - Sundays at 10:00 a.m. in the Health Center Dining Room led by Christine Tinker. Between the Bookends: The Strangler Vine, by M.J. Carter, takes place in India during the time it was run by the East India Company. The strangler vine is a plant that chokes the life out of the host tree. The author uses the image to describe the relationship between the East India Company and the colonized country being suffocated in its grip. It is a good read -- intelligent, extensively researched, and packed with period detail. Can t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? is by sardonic Roz Chast, a long-time cartoonist for The New Yorker. It is an illustrated memoir about her parents, a memoir more bitter than sweet. Chast is at times painfully frank concerning her relationships with her parents and the challenges and frustrations she encountered in caring for them during their last years. There are some laughs here, but this is a serious and thought-provoking book. Recent Acquisitions: Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver, mystery - large print - copyright 2015 Miracle at Augusta by James Patterson & Peter dejonge, mystery - large print - copyright 2015 Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf, fiction - copyright 2015 My First 80 Years by Luther Erickson (Mayflower resident) - autobiography - copyright 2015 The Homecoming by Robyn Carr, fiction - large print copyright 2014 Around the Next Corner by Elizabeth Wrenn - fiction - large print - (debut novel)

2 Lost Mail. Recently, a U.S. Parcel Post package was delivered to the mailbox area of one of our apartment buildings, intended for a resident who lived there. It disappeared. If it was stolen, that, of course is a federal crime. If someone nice was intending to deliver it to the resident s apartment but got the wrong apartment, that was a nice gesture with an unfortunate result. Assuming the latter, please consider if you are that nice person, and where you may have delivered this box of material. In case it was the former circumstance and you have any knowledge of what happened, please let me know. How to avoid this in the future? Like any multi-family living buildings, our campus independent living apartments have U.S. mail service via locked mail boxes in the lobbies. If the Post Office has a parcel to deliver that is too big to fit in the mailbox, again, like other facilities, it is usually left on the counter under the mailboxes. If you anticipate this happening, you can request Special Delivery so that the parcel can only be delivered directly to you. Another alternative is to have larger packages delivered to you c/o The Mayflower Community, 616 Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa That gets the box/package delivered to a staff member in our Pearson office (every day except Saturday). Subsequently, our Facilities Staff delivers Pearson packages to the addressee. If that is an independent living resident, our staff will place the package inside your door if you are not home when they come. Broad Street/Pearson Building Entrance. A resident asked me this week, When are we going to get rid of the front entrance eyesore? This was a reference to the partially finished Pearson building west entrance area which was excavated to build the tunnel between Pearson and the Watertower Square. Mann Missive That work came to a standstill when we discovered that we would have to do more reinforcing of the Edwards tunnel to the south and the Montgomery tunnel to the north before they could be tiled, waterproofed, and backfilled. The bids for that work should be complete and accepted by early next week. Then, we have to acquire the materials and schedule the contracting companies to come do the work. Once the north/south tunnels are completed, the front entrance drive work will be started. It will come east off Broad Street, and circle in front of Pearson, to the north of Edwards, and to the south of Montgomery a drive-in and drive-out lane. We estimate this all to be finished within 60 days hopefully, sooner. Broad Street Status. Given the work to the east and the Watertower Square building to the west, when can we expect Broad Street between 1 st and 2 nd to again be like it was? Answer: Never. First, the City will be providing a temporary asphalt overlay as soon as they can get the contractor to town. That will create a hard surface and result in parallel parking on both sides of the street until the City tears it up again to do the permanent fix. That will entail underground utility upgrades and thick concrete finish. At this time, the City is planning for that work as soon as weather permits next April. This street and drive work coupled with the completion of the beautiful Watertower Square building should erase all memories of our current eyesore! Bob Mann Executive Director (bmann@mayflowerhomes.com) Include Mayflower in your will with a call to your attorney.

3 Mayflower Watertower Square Sidewalk Reporter with Jim Ahrens The Sidewalk Observer s task is moving to completion. The end of the building process for Watertower Square is in sight and someday, quite soon, I will have nothing to write about. Mostly, all that is left to write about are details, which, to me, are quite interesting. For example, the outside surface of the 3 rd floor is nearly completed. See Photo# 85. The siding looks good and should 85 not need much future maintenance. All that is left to do is to complete the flashing to protect the edge of the roofing material. That roof is reached by the ladder shown in the photo and up there one sees the eight airconditioning compressors in place and nearly ready to work. See Photo# Photo #83 shows the ramp to the garage level on the south side of the building. All the brick and block work is completed and the earth graded for seeding. The south end of the building looks bare, but not for long, as the crew of masons is busy working on the trim this week in between 82 rain storms. Photo# 82 was taken inside and gives the reader a view of a couple of heating units in a roughed-in apartment. This and Photo# 81 gives one some of the details of the plumbing fixtures, this time, a shower unit. Photo# 80 shows details such as the number and strength of the trusses 81 holding up the 3 rd floor, the amount of insulation in the walls for sound deadening, and some of the completed wiring. Finally, Photo# 79 shows a hallway with temporary lighting, air-handling ducts, supply piping, conduits, and nearly finished drywall In future columns, there will be more detailed photos of the building features which one can only see during the construction process. Back in two weeks.

4 MAYFLOWER DRUM CIRCLE Sunday, July 12 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Carman Center Everyone Welcome! A Drum circle is a musical jam session where the goal is to use the process of informal music-making as a vehicle for having fun, being creative, and forming community bonds. SENIOR EDUCATION PROGRAM Monday, July 13 Hearing Loss, with James R. Paulson, MD, Grinnell Family Care. The program meets at 10:00 a.m. in the Caulkins Community Room at Drake Community Library. This program is free and open to the public. On July 15 & 16 Don t Forget - Luau Reservations are due today! Slips can be picked up in Buckley Dining Room or phoned in to ext. 216 MRA TOWN MEETING Monday, July 20th at 2:00 p.m. ~ Carman Center All Mayflower Community residents are encouraged to attend TWO SEATS AVAILABLE ON THE VAN! NEIL SMITH WILDLIFE REFUGE Friday, August 7 Leave Beebe Circle 10:15 a.m. = No Admission Charge Buy Lunch at Goldie s Ice Cream Shop (Prairie City) Sign Up Sheet Will Be in Pearson Lobby Please contact Independent Living Activities Coordinator, Anne Sunday, if you wish to have one of the two seats: annesunday624@gmail.com or Phone: /Cell: Everyone who is signed up: Please see Anne Sunday to pay your $5.00 van transportation fee. No admission charge.

5 DOCUMENTARY AND DISCUSSION Monday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Kiesel Theater Optional Supper in Bistro at 5:30 p.m. GRIEFWALKER A flim about the redemptive power of deep love for life, when life glimpses its end Stephen Jenkinson - author, teacher, storyteller and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School - teaches about dying wise in a death -phobic society. He will invite you to rethink everything you thought you knew about dying. Griefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film, directed by Tim Wilson. It is a lyrical, poetic portrait of Stephen Jenkinson s work with dying people. Filmed over a twelve year period, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses, in counseling sessions with dying people and their families, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film s director, while paddling a birch bark canoe, about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die. A few of the themes appearing in the film: Where does our culture s death phobia come from? Is there such a thing as good dying? How is it that grief could be a skill instead of an affliction? Who are the dead to us? How can seeing your life s end be the beginning of your deep love of being alive? Astonishing at once visually lush and scripturally poetic The Globe and Mail Lovely, challenging, moving and controversial. The Montreal Gazette WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION! BOOK CLUB Friday - 1:00 p.m. in the Game Room - July 17 - No Meeting August 21 - A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren September 18 - The Road to Character by David Brooks

6 FELLOWSHIP AND DESSERT NIGHT ICE CREAM CAKE SOCIAL Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Buckley Dining Room Reservations required through Food Service ext. 216 by Friday, July 17 - Cost $3.00 Warren Reinecke & Anne Sunday will hold A Story Circle directly after the Social STORY STORY CIRCLE - NATURE S WONDERS 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21 Buckley Dining Room During the summer months we enjoy the out of doors, greenery abounds, the campus is in bloom. A glorious time to be sure. Do you have a favorite Ten Minute Tale about experiencing nature? Perhaps a memorable place you ve visited? Something you ve seen happen? A particularly delectable item you ve grown? A peaceful place you ve frequented? THINK GREEN! Come and share your experience with your Mayflower friends!

7 BREAKFAST BUNCH Saturday, 8:00 a.m. July 11 - Meet in Pearson DINE OUT ON SUNDAY NIGHTS - CARPOOL LEAVES AT 5:30 P.M. July 12 - Pizza Ranch July 19 - Chuong Garden July 26 - Pagliai s Join us for good food and good fellowship! While construction is going on in front of Pearson, please use the Pearson south door and gather in the lobby by 5:20. EVERY MONDAY - 2:00 p.m. TABLE TENNIS in Sports Room. LL HC - men s EVERY MONDAY - 4:00 p.m. TABLE TENNIS in Sports Room. LL HC - women s EVERY WEDNESDAY, 6:30 p.m. -GAME NITE in the Anchor- Free ice cream EVERY THURSDAY, 10:00 a.m.-table TENNIS in Sports Room. LL HC - mixed EVERY FRIDAY, 9:30 a.m. -KOFFEE & KONVERSATION-Buckley Dining Room Theraband Exercise 5 times a week! Monday, Beebe Activity Room at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Montgomery Lounge at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Beebe Activity Room at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, Montgomery Lounge at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Beebe Activity Room at 11:00 a.m. Chiropractor, Jennifer Rayburn D.C., of Healing Hands Chiropractic, will be in the Health Center Exam Room every other Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. To make an appointment, call Myrt at ext. 210 or you may call Jennifer at The Mayflower Poetry Club: The Poetry Club meets on the 2nd Monday of the month. The next meeting will be July 13 at 2:15 in the Bistro. Dean Kayser (Audiologist): Independent residents can make an appointment by calling Coming on July 21 instead of July 14. Dr. Newman (Podiatrist): Call Myrt at the health center desk (ext. 210) to schedule an appointment with Dr. Newman. Dr. McKnight (Podiatrist): To make an appointment call Connie ext 219. Wal-Mart and Grocery Van Trips: The Mayflower van will be making a trip to Wal-Mart, Fareway, McNally s & Hy-Vee each Tuesday at 1:30.

8 Neighborhood groups for meals July 13 Buckley 1st, Montgomery, Harwich Terrace East July 20 Buckley 2nd, Pearson, Harwich Terrace Southeast July 27 Buckley 3rd, Edwards, Harwich Terrace South The Bistro will close at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday July 15 & Thursday July 16 John Marwin s 95th Birthday Open House Wednesday, July 29th 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Buckley Dining Room All are welcome! Mayflower Treasure Chest for the month of July is Vintage Board Games from the collection of Rey Evans. Before computers, smart phones, electronic games, and even arcade games, we grew up playing these games with our families and friends. Here are some of my favorites from my childhood of the 50 s. Being very nostalgic these days, I had to recapture this part of my youth by finding and buying all of these games on ebay and at antique and flea markets, because my mother (with my permission, I m sure!) gave them away when we were in our teens and too cool to play them anymore. Please check the companion book at the display to find your favorite game, and if you have any of them now, let s talk! Grinnell Farmer s Market In Central Park Iowa grown produce - baked goods - crafts & more! Thursdays 3:00-6:00 p.m. Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to Noon Music in the Park Live music in Grinnell s Central Park Gazebo Thursday, July 16 at 5:30 p.m. Kristen Graves Sponsored by Grinnell Lions Club