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NEWS FROM PARKLAND LODGE

September 2019

Activity Coordinator

Amanda Hoogerdijk

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

Our September Babies: 3-Antoinette

3-Linnea Neilson

3-Ruth Fossheim

9-Karin Jensen

10-Barbara Grycak

19-Myrtle Johnson

October Events

2-Walmart 3-Crafts with Grade 4/5

from Westhaven School

8-Crafts with Grade 3/4 from

Westhaven School

17-Dollarma 19-Indoor Garage Sale

21-Chinese Lunch Buf-

fet 23-Resident Family

Meeting

24-Shoppers

25-Calendar 29-Resident Birthday

Party

31-Halloween!!!

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Blurb from Amanda

We have our lodge all decorated up for the fall season. Thanks giving is right around the corner and I can't help but take a step back and look at all I have to be thankful for, for one I believe I have the best job in the world surrounded by amazing people day in and day out! I applause you for this.

The indoor Garage sale is October 19,2019. All proceeds go towards Breast Cancer Awareness Research. We had a wonderful turnout of the Grandparents Walk on September 21,2019. Also a huge thank you to those who went out and got do-nations to support the Walk. As a group we man-aged to raise $8535. Way to go everyone!

Halloween is always such a busy day for us we open our doors to the community kids and invite our grandchildren to come trick or treat here! We have a dance and costume judging contest. It is such a fun filled day. So remember to please come out and participate in all of our events that day.

Just a friendly reminder when you leave the build-ing please sign out or have family no-tify when you will not be here, this is just for safety reasons

Take Care,

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JULY Good Clean Humor!

QUOTE OF THE

MONTH

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The Scales

September 23 - October 22

The zodiac sign Libra is thrives when their needs of balance, justice, and stability are met. They are charming creatures that somehow always surround themselves with a sense of beauty and harmony. Ad-mittedly, some of them can go to extremes searching for that harmony - which can make their situations un-reasonable or unhealthy. Their ruling planet is Venus meaning that Libras are nurturing, caring, and they can make great defenders of the downtrodden. Some-times, they can be shy if they find difficulties in coming out of their shell and letting their guard down. De-spite their more introverted side they still love a good debate.

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The Scorpion

October 23 - November 21

Unfortunately, those born under the Scorpio zodiac sign are often misunderstood. They are quite bold, with intense personalities and feelings that hide underneath their cool exterior. They are capable people that can complete great and massive projects with control and confidence. Their intensity when approaching a situa-tion means that they can surmount almost all obsta-cles if they can truly put their mind to the task. Many Scorpios have an unshakable focus when they need to call on it. However, they are often secretive, seeming withdrawn and uninterested, when they are actually keenly observing.

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KUDOGRAM WINNER!!

Congrats Judy! You always go above and beyond and it doesn't go

unnoticed!

What is a Kudogram? Do you see staff members going

above and beyond and want to show away of thanking them. En-ter them in our draw to say thank you! They can win a gift card. Anyone can enter the staff member in the draw (Staff, Resident,

and Family ).

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Happy Birthday to our September

Birthdays!

This month we did Reminiscence and Cake!

Left to right: Olga Roman, Sandra Robson. (Missing Julia)

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Colourful Characters.

Jack the Frog.

The demon drink was often cited as being the cause of do-mestic abuse, the break up of families, poverty and much more. A push to make Alberta a “dry’ province started in 1907. When one of the ‘famous five’ suffragettes, Nellie McClung, was in Edson campaigning for prohibition she stated, “Alberta would get more and better settlers under prohibition.” The Mayor sarcastically ob-served ‘it had been a dry day today; it looks like a dry day tomor-row!’

July 1916, Prohibition was made law - legal drinking establish-ments were closed and the only legal alcohol use was for medical, veterinary, industrial and sacramental. A booming homegrown in-dustry grew with the illegal manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. Illegal drinking flourished. It was said some of this il-legal booze was made so bad ‘it could blind you.’ One of the most colorful characters of this time was Québécois moonshiner John L’Heureux aka ‘Jack the Frog.’

L’Heureux and his wife Mamie ran a restaurant in Coalspur. Alt-hough L’Heureux’s moonshine business began shortly after his ar-rival in Alberta (it was up and running during the days of his res-taurant), it didn’t become a primary source of income until prohi-bition. Mamie’s eyesight began to fail and there was speculation that it was due to drinking Jack’s homemade brew. A result of Ma-mie’s blindness was that the restaurant was forced to close. They relocated to a home in the Weald area, and the bootlegging busi-ness began in earnest.

Jack produced and sold quality moonshine. His personal stash was

distilled twice and was over 100 proof! His stock for sale was less

pure but still good enough to fuel lamps and run speeders!

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It is thought that his stills were located in the Weald area, but it is known that they were close enough to the rail track to play an important role in the distribution and sale of his moonshine. In the early days of the Coal Branch the only way for the law to reach Weald was by train. Some of the railway men acted as agents for Jack - buying the product in Weald and selling it on down the line. They also acted as security, using the train whistle as a warning signal that the law was on the train, and it give Jack time to hide the still and other evidence.

Stories abound about Jack; one day he was waiting at Embarras Station for a train when the police arrested him for possession of a still. They believed that there was a still belonging to him onboard the incoming train. Word travelled fast up the track and the still was unloaded from the train before it arrived at Embarras, leaving the police embarrassed and Jack a free man.

Jack’s luck wasn’t always so good. In 1928, the RCMP finally caught Jack with one devious move. A police officer recognized Jack’s white horse in town he cut it free hoping it might lead them to one of the moonshine stills. Without a rider, the horse simply walked his familiar path and led the officer directly to the bootleg-ger’s still. L’Heureux was imprisoned at Fort Saskatchewan Goal where he spent several hard months. It was said that upon his re-turn the first thing he did was shoot his horse for betraying him! The stretch in prison didn’t put Jack off his illegal trade he contin-ued his moonshine business for several more years.

It is rumoured that Jack hid his moonshine in the muskeg around Weald to keep it safe from the authorities and that there are still buried jugs of his moonshine waiting to be found.

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We would like to send a huge thank you out to Mr. Dan Lubarsky Jr. And family on the donation of our new beautiful Crib board. We are beyond

grateful and can't wait to be able to try it out.

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Dan Lubarsky with the Crib board made and donated

by his Grandson Dan Lubarsky Jr. We would like to

thank him for his great work!

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Grandparents Walk