Volume 9, Issue 7 July, 2015

Newsletter Editor: Marina Mathews

What’s Happening? Happy Independence Day!

International Convention in

Nashville, TN

Mooseheart Girls’ Visit!

Welcome Party!

Bowling Tournament!

Dinner at Palatka Lodge

Alligator Farm & Beach

Dinner at Mandarin Lodge

Mandarin Lodge Pool Party

Sunday Picnic with

Lakeshore Lodge

District Sports & Meeting

at Kingsbay Lodge

Michigan Deck Dinner

“Visit USA”

Fried Chicken Dinner

at Lakeshore Lodge

Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest!

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Just John Recently, I lost two friends, both of them suddenly and unexpectedly. Their sudden unexpected deaths remind-ed me of how fragile our lives are and how short our time on earth really is.

That got me thinking about time. The Miriam Webster dictionary defines time as the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues.

So, time is a measured period. That’s true enough. There are seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, etc. Each is a carefully calculated period. And the length of each is the same for everyone. There are 24 hours in everyone’s day and no matter how much we strive, delegate and engineer for efficiency, there will still only be 24 hours to spend. We can spend it wisely, or worthlessly, we can squander it, or invest it, we can enjoy it, abuse it, live it or retreat from it. Regardless what we do with it, time never stops.

Time is also a measurable period. We can count the days until Christmas, the weeks until vacation, the years until retirement and so forth. When you look at your lifetime, that measurable period represented by the dash (–) between the dates of your birth and the last day of your life contains the personal history of who you were, how you lived, who you knew and what you did with your life. It can be filled with memories of love, joy, laugh-ter, pain, sorrow, anger, forgiveness, all emotions entertained, some internalized, some expressed and some exploded.

Time can also be measured by our memories. Each moment is precious. What we do with it is totally up to us but once the moment passes, it is beyond retrieval. We are left with only the memory of what was done in that moment. Sometimes, what is captured are memories of things we would like to forget or have a chance to go back and redo, but we cannot because time does not stand still and does not rewind. We can only learn from what transpired within that time, grow from it and move on.

Time does, however, give us opportunities to make changes within ourselves that empower us to be better per-sons. Time allows us to seek forgiveness for wrong we’ve incurred and to forgive those who have wronged us. It allows us to change how we see others, how we view ourselves, to add value and build our self-esteem which will ultimately have a positive effect on us and those around us.

Of all the things we value in life virtually everything, within reason, is unlimited. You can always make more money, buy more flowers or get more food, wine or followers or friends on Twitter or Facebook. But not time? It is a rare gem more valuable than any of those other things and it cannot be renewed or relived. It is a pre-cious gift that should be coddled and used wisely.

Ernest Hemingway once said, "Time is the least thing we have of." And he was right.

Our time is limited and there are so many ways that it can be wasted. We may become frustrated by the nu-merous seemingly unimportant and dumb things that steal our time. However, since there is no escaping all the stupid time consuming things that must be done, it seems we are left with two choices: Either we can fuss and whine about not having enough time, or we can take the time we have and spend it wisely - really wisely, with our priorities in the right order.

But, since everybody’s priorities are different, there is no magic formula for getting them in the right order. So how do we start? Well, consider this. The average life span of an ant is 50 days. What if you only had 50 days to live, how would you spend your time?

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

Just John

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A Story on Friendship

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his par-

ents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to

bring home with me. "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him." "There's something you should know," the

son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He

has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live." "No, Mom and Dad, I want him

to live with us." "Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap

would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere

with our lives.

I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own." At that point,

the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a

call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police be-

lieved it was suicide.

The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their

son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had on-

ly one arm and one leg. -Author Unknown-

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are like us, those who come

from a certain background, those who are fun to be around, but we don't like to take time for people who slow us

down, inconvenience or make us feel uncomfortable. Sad, but true, many prefer not to befriend people who

aren't as healthy or as smart as we sometimes think we are. Proverbs 17:17 says, "A friend loves at all

times.”

I recently had a fairly new resident ask me if it is normal that some residents are just not friendly. I told her I

would like to say, “no way” but I can’t. Moosehaven is no different than any other place, some residents are

friendly and some are not. I encouraged her to open the door of friendship by greeting those she doesn’t know,

by extending her hand and introducing herself and telling them where she is from and where she lives on cam-

pus. Humans like familiarity, and sometimes reaching out to others finds that familiar place. Ecclesias-

tes 4:9-10 talks about the value of friendship, "Two are better than one because if one falls, the

other lifts him up. Pity the man who is all by himself when he falls."

Dale Carnegie gives this advice for obtaining friends. "Be friendly. Forget yourself. You can make more

friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other

people interested in you."

Everywhere we go, we will run into people who are unfriendly, but that doesn’t release us from the responsi-

bility of being friendly. God's command to "love one another" is not a sentimental suggestion. It's an imperative

- not for God's sake but for ours.

Love produces love; and love requires love as its recompense. If a man doesn’t maintain a friendly presence,

he cannot expect to retain his friends. Friendship is a good plant; but it requires cultivation to make it grow.

Prov. 18:24 – “A man that has friends must show himself friendly.”

Lord, help us to accept others just as they are and to be more understanding of those who are different or less

fortunate than us! But for the Grace of God, that is me and you!

Simply Helen

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UP Close and Personal

with Bill and Trudy Puda

On May 9th in Franklin Park, Illinois Walter John and Roseanne Puda gave birth to a baby boy who we know as Wil-liam Puda. Gertrude “Trudy” Pu-da was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 23rd. Her mother, Blanche Bade is a Moosehaven resident. William grew up with a sister named Joan and Trudy grew up with five siblings: Alfred, Henry, Debi, Herb and Ross. Trudy was the second oldest child. During High School William enjoyed taking part in the chess club and the science club. Trudy was very active in high school and was a member of numerous sports teams; volleyball, track, softball and even gymnastics. After High School William decided to attend vocational school for two years and learned how to master the HVAC system. William soon found out that trade school was too costly. William worked in the maintenance de-partment at an apartment complex for the next 43 years before retir-ing. On July 1, 1967 William and Trudy Puda said their vows and became husband and wife. A few years later they welcomed their son William “Billy Joe” Puda into the world. Billy Joe made a career out of the Army working in artil-lery. While stationed in Germany, Billy Joe met a lady from Greece named Katerina. They have been living in Greece for the past ten years. Eight years after her High School graduation, Trudy went to college where she earned her de-gree in childhood development.

Trudy made a career out of teach-ing and taught preschoolers for twenty years. In 1972, William and Trudy joined their local Moose lodge in Chicago, Illinois. William states that his mother-in-law Blanche hounded him so bad that he finally joined and was so glad he did be-cause he really enjoyed the steak dinners. Trudy was very active in the Janesville Moose lodge. She held the title of Chaplin, Academy of Friendship, Chairman of Mooseheart and Moosehaven and currently holds the title of Sr. Re-gent. William jokes and says he is Judy’s assistant; he is always lend-ing a helping hand and supporting Judy with many events conducted by their local lodge. In 2011 Trudy was able to bring her mother down to Moose-haven. At that time she was able to really see what Moosehaven was all about. Trudy fell in love in-stantly with Moosehaven and planned on becoming a resident as soon as she turned 65. Trudy and William have been Moosehaven residents for a almost a year and a half. William and Trudy stay very active in the com-munity; Trudy enjoys learning to crochet, gardening, ceramics and volunteers Monday afternoons with assisting with the pool exer-cise program. William enjoys playing on his computer, wood-working and jigsaw puzzles. Wil-liam also volunteers his time work-ing in the video room. When asked what advice would you like to leave the next genera-tion Trudy says “Be open to new things, especially when you come to a place like Moosehaven.” Trudy also stresses the importance of socializing with your peers.

William would like the next genera-tion to “Pay more attention to what is going on around you.” William and Trudy have fully immersed themselves into retirement living at Moosehaven. If you see William and Trudy around campus you should give them a big warm “Welcome to Moosehaven”, truly another day in paradise. Sarah Hapner Marketing Assistant

Trudy and Bill above at Christmas, Big Smiles For Santa!

At Halloween, Trudy and Bill can always be counted on for a good fright!

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Did you know that most produce travels 1,500 miles or more to reach supermarket shelves? This takes between 4-7 days from the time of harvest to the time it takes to get the produce to the market. Bottom line…reduced quality! Morrison’s Community Living “Eat Local” cam-paign is an annual crusade focused on serving locally sourced produce right here at Moosehaven. It is de-signed to promote awareness as well as to support the viability of the mid-sized American family farm and local communities. Local produce simply taste better; it is fresher, has more nutrients, and is better for the environment. By supporting local farms, not only are we able to offer you the freshest, locally sourced produce available, but it al-so allows money to be put back into the local economy. Our primary produce provider, Sunrise Produce, current-ly supports 10 local farms and defines local as within the states of Florida and Georgia, or those food products that are harvested less than 300 miles from their place of origin. John Cramer Director Dining Services Compass Group

Eat Local

Good for you, good for the community!

Saturday, July 4th 2:00pm - 9:40pm

FREE ADMISSION!

Live Entertainment! Arts & Crafts Vendors!

Food! Huge Fireworks Display!

Visit www.moosehaven.org for more information

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Mooseheart Boys Visit Moosehaven!

Top Left: Mooseheart Boys join in Bingo fun! Middle Left: Bowling Tournament Winners! Norm Ver-tigan, Styles Redmon, Tarry Johnson, Glennah McClain, Trudy Puda and Colleen Morgan.

Bottom Left: Mooseheart Boys enjoy the hospitality of Palatka Lodge...and some fantastic burgers!

Top Right: Colleen Morgan and Trudy Puda share some laughs at the Bowling Tournament. Middle Right: Carolyn Cox discusses major life lessons with one of our Mooseheart visitors.

Bottom Right: Mooseheart Boys join in with our morning card games activity hour in the New York Sports Complex.

We would like to thank the Moose Legion for their generosity in once again sponsoring the visit between our Mooseheart students and our Moosehaven residents. All enjoy and benefit from the visitation and activities!

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Happy Fourth of July! This is a time when the whole country focuses once again on our precious independence and a good reminder to not take our freedoms for granted.

Unfortunately, most people have a tendency to take their independence and personal health for granted until a crisis occurs. We go about our days often in a kind of habitual stupor, relying on what we already think we know to be true. That is, until something changes and shakes us up a bit and we are reminded in various ways of our mortality.

Someone told me once that getting older isn’t for sissies. It is a wake- up call when we can’t do what we’ve always done, when our bodies ache and we can’t move, see, or hear as well as we used to. All of these changes serve as gentle reminders that we were not put here in this earth to live forever.

That being said, I also don’t believe that our time here is not without value. Just because we all are born and we all will someday die doesn’t make this time we spend living as a human being on earth little more than a purga-tory of an existence. Regardless of circumstance, each new day is a chance to make a clean slate and start over with a new attitude, new goals, and gratitude for all we DO have.

I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said “People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” (Author unknown)

Every day is a new start. The choice about how you view your existence is yours to make with a simple deci-sion the moment you open your eyes in the morning. Theodore Roosevelt said “Do what you can with what you have, where you are.” Accept that challenge!

To help you along, the therapy department has started offering wellness classes twice a week. This is part of our core values to provide service excellence to every person we encounter, to every life we touch. Chair Yoga

and Sit and Be Fit are offered free of charge every Monday and Wednesday afternoon. I am also going to be offering in-formational presentations in the near future. The first one will focus on “living with low vision” and will teach about the 4 most common eye conditions and the various compen-satory strategies you can learn right away. This will be a good seminar to attend even if you don’t have low vision yourself but can be of help to a neighbor or friend. I very much believe that knowledge is power!

Don’t wait for a health crisis to wake you up and force you to take action. Focus on being well and preserving your health and happiness NOW. Focus on gratitude and in being present moment to moment. You don’t have to wait for the next big thing. All of any of us are really guaranteed is the present moment anyway, the here and now.

And yes, your glass really is refillable. Jennifer Bothast, Therapy Director

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Make sure you visit the

Moosehaven and Brandon Place

websites where you can see

information about all of our

Upcoming Events and Campus

News. Copies of the monthly

newsletter are also kept on the

website under the Moosehaven

News page!

Are you on Facebook? If so, be sure and LIKE Moosehaven! You can find all the latest news on our Heart Of The Community Events

Facebook

Admissions News Buster Pimental sponsored by Tallahassee, FL Lodge 1075 was admitted on June 10th and Diane McMillian sponsored by Allheart Chapter 3000

was admitted on June 16th. Diane’s father James R. Newman was Grand North Moose of the Legion of the Moose in 1982-83.

Moosehaven is a family affair.

The Moosehaven Admissions Committee met on June 24, 2015 and ap-proved two single applications. Jo Ann Fissel from Kenton, OH Chapter

863 and Nellie Manning from Mooresville, NC Chapter 1513. Nellie will be attending the International Convention in Nashville prior to moving to

Moosehaven later in July or early August.

F. Ross Fleet Director of Admissions

MOOSEHAVEN.ORG BRANDONPLACE.ORG

Moosehaven staff member, Ross Silva, embraces Crazy Hair Day at Moosehaven. Our Human Resources Department spon-sors the Fun Friday program which pro-motes one Friday a month with themes like Miss-Matched Day, Sports Day, Hat Day, Pajama Day, Crazy Hair Day and many others.

This programs allows staff and residents to have fun and show their sense of humor, team spirit and creativeness ! Coming up for July: Red, White and Blue Day!

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how our part contributes to the grand outcome. Vincent Van Gogh said “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” At some point in our lives we have all been a part of something great, be it mili-tary service, building infrastructure, running a business, sports teams, creating a family, community ser-vice, service to the fraternity or any one of a long list of things.

With all this talk of goals and the excessive number of quotes re-lated to inspiring people toward achievement this article sounds more like a business management group than a retirement community. After all, once you have retired you are finished with all that stuff about goals and inspiration. Not really. As we all know, retirement can be very stressful for some people. Those people have spent their time fo-cused on work or other things that are no longer a part of their lives. They had a very narrow focus. The great danger for them is no longer that they will aim low but that they will become aimless. Here is one more quote from Ernest Hemming-way, “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

Retirement is very difficult for those who do not see that they are still on the journey. Our goals change in retirement, but they don’t have to lose their potency. We can still be inspired to create something, to be productive, to find something that stirs our minds if not our blood. We can be inspired to create beauti-ful objects of wood or ceramics. We may want to increase our bowl-ing average by 20 pins, or catch the biggest fish from the pier this year. We may want to volunteer to visit those who are not feeling well or are in the hospital. We may be

inspired to impress guest with our campus or to clean the benches for the benefit of all who use them. We may be inspired to grow exot-ic flowers or make someone else smile while sharing a meal.

When we perform productive activities and take an active part in the community we still see how our small parts are brought togeth-er in the grand outcome. It is hard to say what people may be in-spired to do. It is clear that those who find a new inspiration in re-tirement are more likely to contin-ue to enjoy the journey.

Bill Tippins

Life Care Administrator

BILL'S BOARD “Make no little plans-they have no magic to stir men’s blood,” is a quote attributed to Daniel Burnham one of the master planners for de-velopment of Chicago, Milan, and downtown Washington D.C. The idea of making big plans or setting high goals is referred to again and again by those who have achieved great things. Someone had a dream to build the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam and people got excited about the idea of doing something that seemed impossible.

We want to be a part of some-thing really big and important. When inspired we become emo-tionally involved beyond giving our best physical effort. But it seems we need to be inspired by someone or something in order to make these efforts. Michelangelo said “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” We need to either have or be presented with a vision of what could be. For most of us this means the vision has to be presented and sometimes the grander the vision the more it pulls us in. As Anthony Robins says “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals…that is…goals that have not inspired them.”

People are capable of truly re-markable things when inspired. We each take great pride in playing our part. Particularly when we can see

Staff Birthdays

Marie Viel Nenita Sajenes

Marina Mathews Dennis Miller

Janice Cieplinski Jocelyn Lim

Carolyn Tyler Tanyekia Williams-Google

Diana Harrell Christina Mcallister

Bridgett Barker Ronald Bass, Sr.

Bey-Li Bialek Rachelle Derisma Andrea Barraza

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Moosehaven is a 73-acre campus on the banks of the St. Johns River, in Orange Park, Florida. Our campus has many amenities and offers something for everyone! Whether a resident enters through the Traditional Program or through Brandon Place, our amenities are available for all. Shown below are just a few of the excellent amenities offered at Moosehaven.

Amenities...We’ve Got Plenty!

2 Hair Salons

Indoor Heated Jr. Olympic Pool 4-Lane Bowling Alley Billiards

Indoor Shuffleboard

Electronic Darts

Campus Chapel

400’ Pier Ceramics Fitness Center & Gym

Libraries: Books and Videos

Riverfront Living

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Painted Turtle Cafe Hours of Operation: 4:30PM - 7:00PM

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

ATTENTION!

Residents and Staff

Visit the Painted Turtle Café

Enjoy delicious food, very reasonable costs

and great fellowship!

Amenities...Continued

We also offer a Tailor Shop, Computer Shop with scheduled classes, Driving Range and a beautiful Brandon Place Clubhouse. Moosehaven offers all of these amenities in addition to beautifully designed living spaces and top-rated healthcare. If you have not visited our campus I encourage you to visit and take a tour. We of-fer the active retirement lifestyle you want and where every day is Another Day In Paradise. For more information or to plan a visit, please contact our Marketing Department at (904) 278-1281 or vis-it www.moosehaven.org or www.brandonplace.org. Marina Mathews Director of Marketing

Scheduled Transportaton Painted Turtle Café Morrison Café

Wood Shop

Brandon Place Villas Gorgeous Sunrise on the River

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Resident Birthdays In July! Beverly Davis Daniel King Delbert Delagrange Margaret Glens Ann King Carolyn Cox Norman Vertigan Toga Janson Dolly Van Horn Amanda Heckle Syble Medlock Emma Smith Arthur Thompson Sharon Sanders Robert Mach Emma Pearson Jean Gregory Lemon Luther Wilson William Lemon Edward Pelkey Edward Stickles Dan Bramblett Charles Caswell Emma Gennaro Doris Nissen

In keeping with our new Membership Campaign, we will recognize residents and staff who go over and

above and who, in their own way, are helping keep our foundation strong by listing them here with their

own hard hat award.

Nancy Gaffney, Crothall, and her kindness was appreciated by a resident’s family member during a

difficult time.

Anthony Jackson, Crothall, is appreciated for his willingness to help out without being asked. He is

always approachable and friendly.

Donna Ward, Crothall, is always willing to pitch in and assist when and where needed.

Shona Gibbs and Lillian Jordan, Life Care Center, are both recognized by a resident family member

for their assistance during a difficult time.

Sarah Hapner, Marketing Department, is recognized for her commitment to getting the job done, no

matter how tight the timeline.

Polly Rhoden, Campus Activities, is recognized for her dedication to our residents all the time!

Resident Anniversaries In July! William (Bill) and Gertrude (Trudy) Puda

Moosehaven is a not for profit retirement community exclusively serving senior members of the Loyal Order of Moose and Women of the Moose since 1922. Moosehaven, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Loyal Order of Moose.

1701 Park Avenue Orange Park, FL 32073

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