EVENT{FULL}Monthly updates from your {FULL} Life community

TOUCHMARK AT ALL SAINTS Issue 10, 2013 | page 1

Walking with purpose

Each year, a team from Touchmark participates in the Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This year, the All Saints team, which included residents, family, and team members, raised $3,500. During the event, the group also decorated the stage and grounds with flowers of remembrance.

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Fall in love with the full life Learn about the Full Life at Touchmark: home and yard maintenance provided, great neighbors, and attentive and caring staff. Call to arrange your personal tour—and find out for yourself why people fall in love with Touchmark!

Featured: Apartment 340 Offering: 630 square feet, one bedroom, one bathroom, and vaulted ceiling

Residents traveled down the yellow brick road during a recent Wizard of Oz-themed birthday night. Even Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether (far right) stopped by and wished everyone a happy birthday.

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There’s no place like home

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Contact a Full Life team member for additional details, including registration, transportation information, and participation requirements.

Friday, Oct. 4, 2:30 pmPerformance by New Horizon Band. Sunset Pavilion.

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 10:30 amEntertainment by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. Chapel.

Thursday, Oct. 10, 9 - 11 amFlu Clinic. Please bring your Medicare and insurance card. Third-floor Family Room.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 11 am - 3 pmFall Festival. Peruse and purchase items from local vendors and watch pottery and spinning demonstrations. All are welcome.

Sunday, Oct. 20, 2 pmPerformance by the First Methodist Children’s Choir. Chapel.

Sunday, Oct. 27, 2:30 - 4 pmTrick-or-Treating. Residents’ and team members’ children and grandchildren are invited to wear a costume and trick or treat the Touchmark halls.

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1:45 pmPraise Group with Sioux Falls Christian School. Chapel.

Watch the calendar: Great Plains Therapy Open House in celebration of National Physical Therapy Month.

See the full calendar of events online: TouchmarkSiouxFalls.com/pdf/community-

event-calendar.pdf

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

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Left: Residents Velma Johnshoy and Beverly Hallstrom performed at a recent piano recital. Velma’s daughter, Janet, played the flute. Right: Residents and family members enjoyed a hot afternoon and water fun on the patio.

Soaking up the fun and sun

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For their annual day of service, the SDSU Offensive Line football players visited with residents and served root-beer floats.

Resident Paul Robbie (in green shirt), who started the Miami Dolphins football team with his brother Joe Robbie in 1966, shared stories and photos. Local media covered the football players’ visit.

Check out the story: http://www.kdlt.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29208&Itemid=72.

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Resident Gilbert Buehner served as a mechanic during WWII and worked on B-29s. For a special gift, his family signed him up for a ride on a B-29 that was in town recently.

Sunshine and food! Residents, including Doris Haber, spent an afternoon at the Sioux Falls Empire Fair.

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Look for Active Aging Week photos on Facebook and in next months newsletter.

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Residents traveled to nearby Brookings. They enjoyed a picnic lunch at McCory Gardens (top left), where Doris Haber (top right) pointed out a sculpture that turned out to be a memorial to her sister and brother-in-law. The group also stopped by the South Dakota Art Museum, where many Harvey Dunn’s pieces are on display. Clair Nusser is pictured lower left.

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MargeCoalman, EdDVice Presidentof Wellness &Programs

The “right” to happiness “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

– Thomas Jefferson

Is it a right or a privilege—the right to happiness, that is? Whatever your interpretation of the wording of the Declaration of Independence, it has become a multimillion-dollar business to help us all

find our “right to happiness.”

We may have come equipped to pursue our own version of happiness, but North Americans seem to be endowed with the pursuit-of-happiness impulse. Many have the urge to find that greener pasture or nirvana … just over the hillside (or online, for that matter).

What does that mean? It means that the outdated definition of doing more, owning more, conquering the next challenge has become an ambition to “best” our neighbors, whether by straight-out purchase or credit. The snatch-and-grab phenomenon has become a job description for many and an “oh well” for our neighbors.

Interestingly, this is not true of those who live long and well. Studies repeatedly tell us that

philanthropy and a spirit of giving are essential to well-being. While it may not be the barn-raising or neighborhood party in this day and age, the impulse to help others is deeply imbedded. All of the current studies on “happiness” bear out the fact that compassion, concern, and action (in the way of helping hands or physical donations) make a difference in the quality of life we all seek.

So, pass up the infomercials and appeals you get in your mailbox to “feel good about yourself” with this tape or class. Release even an ongoing commitment to “feel good.” Instead, contact the Full Life wellness team at Touchmark at All Saints to get involved in programs and services that do make a difference.

BRAIN BUILDERS

Inside of the name CHEERIOS are several other words made up of 2 or more letters. Two have been found for you already. Find as many others as you can.

Answers:: Cheer, Chi, Choir, Chore, Chose, Core, Echo, He, Heir, Here, Hero, Hers, Hi, Hire, Hoer, Horse, Hose, Ice, Ire, Is, Ocher, Oh, Or, Ore, Rice, Rich, Rise, Roe, Rose, Score, Scree, Sec, Seer, She, Sheer, Shier, Shoe, Shore, Sic, Sire, So, Sore.

CHEERIOS1. Ere 2. Core