FORTNIGHTLY PUBLICATION — NOVEMBER 17 - 30, 2017

Manor residents have a once-a-year opportunity to cele-

brate and remember our wonderful, loyal staff. Gifts to our staff of 172 (including housekeeping) are not allowed…with the exception of the Employee Appreciation Gift Fund. We orally thank and praise our Manor Staff throughout the year, but the Gift Fund adds a tangible endorsement of our gratitude for the many valuable ser-vices provided for us every day.

LET’S ALL GIVE AS GENEROUSLY AS WE CAN. On the strong recommendation of our audit and financial advisors, the 2017 Employee Appreciation Gift Fund will be brought back into the Manor and will use the Manor’s tax ID. This will require the withhold-ing of taxes and fees, as required, and will thus reduce the net benefit to the employees. This method is used by most not-for-profit organiza-tions. We hope that we can average $1,500 per resident, or $3,000 per couple, in order to provide a meaningful thank you to our staff. Some residents may not be in a position to give this amount and many others, we hope, can and will give more in support of our deserving Manor staff. This year’s gift fund began at the November 15, 2017 Annual Resi-dents’ Meeting and will end on Friday, December 15, 2017. PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO CARMEL VALLEY MANOR, DESIGNATE FOR EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION ON THE LOWER LEFT OF THE CHECK, AND DEPOSIT THE CHECK IN THE BOX AT THE RECEPTION DESK. Donations are confidential, discretionary, and voluntary to a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and are considered deductible. Please verify this with your personal tax consultant.

We Are So For tunate!

The 2017 CVM Employee Appreciation Gift Fund Team Marty Rosen and Jack Enbom

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SAT NOV 18 SPECIAL EVENT – 5-6 – PL Nelson Rogers and the Jazz Eagles, from Boy Scout Troop 243, will perform in the Lounge. Nelson is a grandson of George and Jo White. SUN NOV 19 MOVIE – 1:30 – MH Auntie Mame - The legendary Rosalind Russell ("Gypsy," "His Girl Friday") recreates on screen her Broadway tri-umph as an eccentric grande dame who teaches her 10-year old nephew to appreciate life. TUE NOV 21 MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY – 7:15 Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1, London Philharmon-ic under Daniel Barenboim; Cello Concerto in E Minor, Philadelphia Orch. under Barenboim, Jacqueline du Pre, cello; Enigma Variations, London Philharmonic under Bar-enboim WED NOV 22 MOVIE – 7:15 – MH A Brilliant Young Mind - A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Math-ematics Olympiad. THU NOV 23 HALF-FAST WALKERS PLAN TO EAT TURKEY SUN NOV 26 MOVIE – 1:30 – MH Like Water For Chocolate - The youngest daughter in her family, the beautiful Tita is forbidden to marry her true love, Pedro. Since tradition dictates that Tita must care for her mother, Pedro weds her older sister, Rosaura, though he still loves Tita. The situation creates much tension in the family, and Tita's powerful emotions begin to surface in fantastical ways through her cooking. TUE NOV 28 MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY – 7:15 Ruth Rosen and the "Upstairs String Band" in a fun concert WED NOV 29 MOVIE – 7:15 – MH A Quiet Passion - Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence, and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. THU NOV 30 HALF-FAST WALKERS PLAN TO WALK – 9 Walkers will head for the Mission Trail. Sign up on BB. Steve Brooks will lead.

Hersch and Shirley Loomis Claude“Skip” & Joan Keyzers

Susan Nycum Martha Danziger

NEW/SOON-TO-BE RESIDENTS

11/18 Ted I. 11/23 Eunice S. 11/24 Susan L. 11/25 Trudie M. 11/26 Terry H. 11/26 Pat Z. 11/27 Barbara B.

11/28 Janet M. 11/28 Dick V. 11/28 Marcia W. 11/28 Murray Y. 11/30 Barbara E. 11/30 Pat M. 11/30 Pat T.

EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS SUN DEC 3 DAYTRIPPERS HEAD FOR MAMMA MIA Manor bus leaves for the Golden Bough at 1:30. Tickets are $30.60. Make check payable to CVMRC. Sign up on BB. Questions? Mary Krecki X4770 SUN DEC 3 MOVIE – 1:30 – MH Royal Wedding WED DEC 6 MOVIE – 7:15 – MH Beatriz at Dinner SUN DEC 10 MOVIE – 1:30 – MH Ordinary People WED DEC 13 MOVIE – 7:15 – MH Megan Leavey

Annual Fire Day at the Manor – Fri, Nov 17 (revised) All residents are strongly urged to attend. You will have an opportunity to ask questions of the Chief and Manor staff involved in emergency planning and evacuation procedures. Pets are welcome in the Meeting House. The Presentation and Speech Sched-

ule at the Meeting House is as follows: 10:00 - Fire Engine, Jaws of Life, and Ambulance demo.

(Q&A with local firemen) 10:15 – Welcome and presentation of a Manor apprecia-

tion check to Chief Urquides (Jack Davis – Council VP)

10:30 - Chief Urquides – “Experiences at the Santa Rosa Fires and Senior Communities”

11:15 - Question and Answer period (Residents, Fire Chief, and Manor staff)

11:30 - Residents dismissed to lunch or continue view-ing fire equipment outside

Otto Neely Independent Residents Fire Warden

THE NAMES

The names alone make mystery— Cainnech, Clonard, Aghaboe, Dalriada, Ossory- out of places, people and another time, nothing at all quite ordinary like mine. Wilson, Robert, George and Smith give very little to anyone to conger with. So when it comes to oracles, prophecies, spells and dances, who would dare to sail, much less go seeking the “Whirlpool of the Sea of Brecan,” or settle on the isle of Scarba or move to Fordun if George was your father and you the son?

However, if you were the son of Niali of Nain and your grandfather, Cormac ua-Liathain, you’d go anywhere and get there fine for being in and of such a glorious line.

George M. Wilson, Poet Laureate

Manor Halloween

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Manor Halloween

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES See also Master Schedule of Ongoing Activities

(C 10,11 Residents‘ Handbook)

LOCATION LEGEND

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Books Selected for December 2017 Mystery THE IRREGULAR*** H. B. Lyle DREAMING SPIES* Laurie King TESTIMONY* Scott Turrow Autobiography/Biography\Combined Biography SCALIA SPEAKS** Antonin Scalia C.J. Scalia & E. Whelan, Eds. LEONARDO DA VINCI Walter Isaacson FRIENDS DIVIDED: John Adams & Thomas Jefferson Gordon Wood World History THE HISTORY Of THE RENAISSANCE WORLD* Susan W. Bauer Politics UNBELIEVABLE: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History* Katy Tur

Language/Linguistics EVERY WORD IS A BIRD WE TEACH TO SING: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language Daniel Tammet Science MY EUROPEAN FAMILY* Karin Bojs *Donation **MacCullough Fund ***Wagner Fund *****************************************************

DVDs Chosen for December 2017

VERA (Set 7) THIS IS US (Season One) THE AWAKENING LAND CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

LIBRARY NOTES

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

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PUBLICATION STAFF ACCENTS is published by and for the residents of Carmel Valley Manor, a Life-Care Community at

8545 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel, CA 93923.

Editor: Jim Riesenfeld jimriesenfeld@yahoo.com

Publisher: Celina Manzanarez Proofreader: Arden Hoppe Photographers: Will Furman Lynn Kern Contributors: Jack Enbom Otto Neely Marty Rosen Jane Upp George Wilson

Information regarding the Manor can be obtained from WWW.CVMANOR.COM

or from the Director of Admissions, Angie Machado,

Books, books, books….what ever would we do without books? So little knowledge would we have, so little view into the world and customs that abound. To miss out on the love of reading books would be such a sad thing for me. I can remember the books of my early child-hood……The Burgess Bird Book for Children was the favorite of my brother and me. Then, later on, I can re-member sitting on the porch of my friend who lived across the street and reading the afternoon away. Of course, all the Nancy Drew stories. The awakening to romance came with the reading of Captain From Castile when I was not yet in high school. Then came Lord Jim, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, The Hound of the Basker-villes, The Waste Land, To Kill A Mockingbird. How could one not miss these?

Remembering others that I passed through that have stayed in my memory for so long: Men to Match My Moun-tains, The Jewel in the Crown. Many, wonderful stories and histories: Stilwell and The American Experience in China, 1911–45, Undaunted Courage, Theo-dore White’s In Search of History, The Desert Queen, West With The Night, Out of Africa, and lately, The Alice Net-

work and Red Notice. Then there are those that I think should be required reading in high school or college: The Warmth of Other Suns and If You Can Keep It. Of course, most of Ivan Doig’s books are fun to read. Start with Dancing At The Rascal Fair (and don’t overlook The Sea Runners) and his mentor, Wallace Stegner’s, Angle of Repose.

So many, many wonderful books, and these are just a very few that have stayed in my mind for all these years. If you haven’t read them,

you might try one.

Jane C. Upp

Books!

Make sure your children’s academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spir-itual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, understimulate, improper-ly medicate, helicopter, or neglect them in a screen-free, processed foods-free, GMO-free, negative energy-free, plastic-

free, body positive, socially conscious, egalitarian but

also authoritative, nurturing but fostering of independ-ence, gentle but not overly permissive, pesticide-free, two-story, multilingual home, preferably in a cul-de-sac with a backyard and 1.5 siblings spaced at least two years apart for proper development; also, don’t forget the coco-nut oil. How To Be A Mom in Every Generation Before Ours Feed them sometimes.

How To Be A Mom in 2017