JULY 2024
PARK PLACE OF ST. JOHN
Life at Park Place of St. John A Message from Larry
Park Place of St John Library Let me introduce myself. I am your Park Place of St John Library, located on the first floor. I exist due to the generous contributions of the Residents of Park Place. In the Main Library on the first floor, there are books about Fiction, Mystery, LARGE PRINT, and even a selection of Reader’s Digest Books as well as various Magazines. There are also puzzles to work on if you are so inclined. On the second floor, the extended Library is in the Gathering Room. There are Amish stories, Ad-venture, various Bibles, Religious, Biographies, and a collection of Lewis L’Amour Novels and a collection of Agatha Christie novels. You are never alone or bored when you are reading. Hope to see you soon! Compliments of our PPSJ Resident, MaryAnn Thornburg
Hello it's me! My name is Larry Otte, the interim Executive Director of Park Place of St John. I’m so excited to be here to continue to carry on the mission of Providence Life Services by enhancing the lives of those we serve in the name of Jesus Christ.
Some of you may already know me from growing up in Highland and attending Christian schools and churches, but for others let me provide a little background about myself. Professionally, I have a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from Calvin University and I am a CPA. This September I will have been working in the corporate office of Providence for 20 years, most recently as the VP of Finance. I’m married to my beautiful wife, Johnna, and we have two wonderful adult boys: Jonathan and Joshua. We have lived in St John for over 10 years and are members of Faith Church Dyer. I also currently serve on the Illiana Christian High School board as Finance chair and executive committee. I am so honored to be at Park Place and to serve you. I look forward to getting to know all of the you!
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Life Enrichment Activities for July All activities are subject to change — watch the weekly calendar and TV channel 1901 for changes to this newsletter. You may sign up for any activity listed below — no need to wait for week of event.
16 th Men’s Breakfast with Pastor Mark 9:00 a.m. — Main Dining Room 17 th PPSJ Assisted Living Visit 9:15 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required 17 th Theatre at the Center in Munster: One-Woman Amelia Earhart Play 2:00 p.m. — Bus Departure Tickets cost $40 19 th Walking Tacos 11:30 a.m. — Café 22 nd What Do You Know with Jackie 1:00 p.m. — Community Room 23 rd Harvest Bread Orders Due 23 rd Valparaiso Market 8:30 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required 24 th Incredible Eats: TBA Watch Weekly Calendar Sign-up Required 25 th Entertainment with Steve Lydell 12:30 p.m. in Café 26 th Happy Hour 12:30 p.m. in Cafe 29 th Centennial Park in Munster: Northwest Indiana Symphony Free Outdoor Concert 6:00 p.m. — Bus Departure
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Walgreen’s Senior Discount Day 10:00 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required Arts & Crafts: Patriotic Straw Wreath 12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. — Creation Studio Sign-up Required America’s Birthday: Entertainment by Jakob Delich 12:30 p.m. — Café Refreshments will be served. St John Shopping 11:00 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required Breakfast Club: Toast & Jam 9:00 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required What Do You Know with Jackie 1:00 p.m. — Community Room
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Harvest Bread Orders Due
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Scheeringa Farms & Produce 9:00 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required
10 th PPSJ Assisted Living Visit 9:15 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required 11 th Entertainment with Paul Horgash 12:30 p.m. — Café 12 th Resident July Birthday Party 12:30 p.m. — Café 15 th Lunch at Culver’s 12:00 p.m. — Bus Departure
7:30 p.m. — Concert Sign-up Required 31 st PPSJ Assisted Living Visit 9:15 a.m. — Bus Departure Sign-up Required 31 st Arts & Crafts: TBA Watch Weekly Calendar Sign-up Required
We have coupons for Free Scoop of Chocolate or Vanilla Custard Gifted by
Barb Winters Family Sign-up Required
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Chaplain’s Corner
clueless person did or said something funny, and that person was invited to come on the show and then everybody got to watch the candid video and laugh together. Original host Allen Funt (and later hosts) along with producers made sure that they never shared any videos that were deemed inappropriate or demeaned the unsuspecting people. It was all about playing pranks on people that were funny. The show was immensely popular. The point of the Fallon-Kidman account, like Candid Camera, is that you and I are always being "watched"! Regardless of our circumstances, our family members and relatives,
Candid Camera I recently read an account of when actress Nicole Kidman visited with comedian Jimmy Fallon at his apartment when she was single. When Jimmy was asked later about this
visit, he recalled Nicole came over and he set out some cheese and talked for a while and then she left. End of story, right? Wrong. Nicole later gave her own account. She said that at the time she was romantically interested in him and made a date to come to his apartment. She stated that she brought a friend with her. She wanted to get to know him better. She said she was stunned when she arrived. Fallon was shabbily dressed, did set out crackers and cheese, but was more interested in playing video games than speaking with her. Fallon was clueless Kidman was essentially "interviewing" him. The result was that he was unimpressive, and she left no longer interested in him romantically and moved on. When Kidman disclosed this, Fallon was shocked. There's a great life lesson here. Many of us (spoiler alert: this will reveal our age!) remember the old television show "Candid Camera." The point of each episode was that a particular scene was a "set-up" to see how people would react. Many scenes were set up to promote some kind of humorous reaction from people who had no idea whatsoever that they were being filmed. Yes, in those days you didn't need permission to film someone, and social media didn't exist to share any videos. Inevitably, a
our friends, our co-workers, our neighbors, our
enemies, strangers when we're out in public-we are all
being watched! And much ( most?) of the time, like Fallon and the pranked guests of Candid Camera, we are clueless. But regardless of whether we are "religious" or "irreligious" and even regardless of our view of Jesus, Jesus stated, "The time is coming when everything that is covered up will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all. Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear" (Luke 12:2-3)!
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Sharing Life & Making Memories
Arts & Crafts : Patriotic Windsock
Entertainment with David Bacon
Entertainment with Frank Rossi
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Chef Tom Retired to Ireland!
Resident Fellowship with Appetizers
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Electric Cord Speech Abraham Lincoln, 1858 We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves—we feel more attached the one to the other and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty- loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
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Catered Living at Park Place St. John Life Enrichment Activities Cooking Club: Brownie Dip Thursday, July 11th 1:30 p.m. in The Study 4th of July Fun Facts • When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million new people lived in the U.S. Now 248 years later, an estimated 334.9 million people live in the U.S.. • August 2, 1776 is when most of signers formally signed the Declaration.
• Massachusetts was the first state to declare Independence Day a holiday in 1781. The Fourth of July wasn’t declared a federal holiday until 1938. • The only member of the Continental Congress to formally sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 was John Hancock. • The average signer of the Declaration of Independence was 45 years old. Of the 56 signers, the youngest, Thomas Lynch Jr. and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, were only 26. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania was the oldest signer at 70 years old. • Dating back to 1785, Bristol, Rhode Island is home to the world’s oldest Independence Day celebration. • In 1804, the White House hosted its first Fourth of July celebration. • John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe were all United States Presidents who died on the Fourth of July. • Around 150 million hot dogs are consumed on Fourth of July. • Americans spend $1 billion on fireworks annually. Alabama imports roughly $19,400,000 according to CNBC. • More than 14,000 firework displays are put on across the country on July Fourth with Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Display being the largest in the United States.
Arts & Crafts: Bird House Thursday, July 18th 1:30 p.m. in The Study
Cooking Club: Smoothies Thursday, July 25th 1:30 p.m. in The Study
New Games Join us in the Study for some new games!
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Sharing Life & Making Memories Arts & Crafts : Flower Painting
Arts & Crafts : Flower Wreath
Cooking Club : Milky Way Brownie Bite
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