West Valley - June 2023

Affordable Comfort with Style SUMMER HOME MAKEOVER

Tubular Skylights

Solatube, the modern skylight that brings natural light to every room in your home.

• Great for hallways, kitchens, bathrooms, etc.

• Solar-dimmable systems available

• Save up to $500 with Federal & State Tax Credits*

Skylight Replacement

Replace your old, cracked skylights with beautiful, energy-efficient skylights.

• Refresh your home with Fresh Breeze Skylights

• Dual-paned glass blocks heat, UV rays, & noise

• Save up to $1,000 with a Federal tax Credit*

Attic & Garage Fans

Our solar & electric fans remove hot air from your attic and/or garage; creating a cooler space.

• Prevents excessive heat

• Available for all roof and garage types

• Save up to $350 with a federal Tax Credit*

It’s hard to believe we’re half-way through 2023. While the temperatures are rising, I hope you find the opportunity to escape the heat and head to Northern Arizona to explore all of the natural beauty in our state.

June is a great month to slow down and reflect on all the incredible blessings we each have experienced. Having just celebrated Memorial Day, I cannot shake the overwhelming gratitude I have for the men and women who have given their lives for our freedom. This feeling is punctuated by remembering the courage and fortitude our soldiers exhibited on D-day. Thank you to each of you who have served in our Armed Forces. We appreciate each one of you.

Happy Father’s Day to all of the father’s and grandfather’s reading The Grand Season this month. I hope you have a great June, and enjoy the slower days of summer as much as you can! And as always, please support our advertisers if you have any home projects you’d like help with.

Remember, stay hydrated so you’re not sidelined this summer!

Melissa Whitton Associate Publisher

AAA SENIOR PLACEMENT AZ

A Message from Sue Royer

“I was born and raised in inner city Chicago, the sixth of eighteen children with fifteen brothers. Being the oldest daughter, I was always a caregiver which I believe influenced me to pursue work in the healthcare industry. Today, I have three daughters and five grandchildren.

Years ago, I volunteered for hospice and knew immediately that helping seniors was my calling. I was soon employed by hospice but I felt something was missing. I realized it was the limited time I was able to spend with my clients. Having my own business allows me to provide the intimate hands on service needed in our community. I am committed to our seniors throughout their lives and I thank the community for the opportunity to serve.”

Sue RoyerDirector

About Us

Since 2002, AAA Senior Placement AZ has been offering FREE services helping seniors find safe, affordable and loving assisted living.

When it becomes too difficult for you or your loved ones to safely manage daily living and/or manage medical needs, call Sue Royer for help navigating the many options available.

We are specialists in all levels of assisted living care resources with referrals to Arizona’s best:

• Group Homes

• Assisted Living Communities

• In-Home Primary Care Physicians

• Home Health Care Therapy

• Transportation

• Private Duty In-Home Care

• Respite Care

• Alzheimer’s Care

• Memory Care

• Hospice

• Support Groups

Assisted living resources accepting:

• Private pay

• Arizona Long Term Care-ALTCS

• Medicaid

• VA Benefits

6 Reasons You Should Call AAA Senior Placement AZ

• We are well known and respected in the medical community.

• All clients are given a thorough assessment to determine proper placement needs.

• There is never a fee charged to the senior or their family for our service.

• We are NOT contractually bound to any outside business. This allows us to serve our clients with only their interests in mind.

• Years of knowledge and experience in the field of senior care.

• AAA Senior Placement AZ is family owned, allowing us to give you quality, personalized service.

INSPIRE STRETCH YOURSELF

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what’s around the corner.

Jimmy Chin

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Ian Somerhalder

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

John Wesley Powell

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren

Jesse Olmedo, MD

James Barlow, MD Drew Reese, DO Hava Dodd, PA-C

DINING GUIDE

Buy One

BEVERAGE CLUB SUMMER MINT COOLER

Ingredients

2 parts Maker’s Mark® Bourbon

1/2 part DeKuyper® Mixologist

Collection Muddled Mint Liqueur

1/2 part Simple Syrup

1/2 part fresh Lemon Juice

Lemon-Lime Soda

Garnish with Mint Sprig

Garnish with Lemon Wheel

Instructions

Shake all ingredients, except soda with ice and strain into serving glass with fresh ice. Fill with plain soda or lemonlime soda. Garnish with mint sprig and lemon wheel.

PEACH TEA

MINT SUMMER MASH UP PEACH TEA SUMMER MASH UP

Ingredients

2 parts Maker’s Mark® Bourbon

1 part DeKuyper® Triple

Sec Liqueur

1 part Orange Juice

1 part Pineapple Juice

1/4 parts Grenadine

Garnish Pineapple Wedge

Garnish Maraschino Cherries

Instructions

Shake well with ice and pour into serving glass. Garnish with pineapple wedge and cherry.

Ingredients

1 part Maker’s Mark® Bourbon

1/2 part DeKuyper® Peachtree®

Schnapps Liqueur

Iced Tea, Unsweetened

Garnish with Peach Slice

Instructions

Fill tall glass with ice. Add Maker’s Mark® Bourbon and DeKuyper® Peachtree® Schnapps Liqueur. Top off with unsweetened iced tea. Garnish with peach slice.

Fubar (TV-MA)

Action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this new series as a recently retired CIA operative who gets sucked into one last, relatively simple mission. Once Luke arrives on site, he realizes his daughter, Emma (Monica Barbaro), also works for the CIA and that the two have been lying to each other for years. Now, as they take on the mission together, their bond as father and daughter truly starts to form. (Netflix)

Platonic (TV-MA)

Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen are teaming up again for a comedy series. The two play a pair of best friends who reconnect after years apart. They’re in entirely different stages of life, so, as their friendship takes off again, they must work to find the right balance between Will’s shenanigans and Sylvia’s family to prove that a man and a woman can maintain a platonic relationship. (AppleTV+)

HERE’S

A TIP

bottoms clean, scrub with sudsy ammonia and rinse well.

Baby oil can loosen soap scum from shower doors. Apply and buff lightly with a soft washcloth. Follow with a shampoo cleaning or just leave as is. It will repel water and smells nice, too.

To keep shirt collars from absorbing oil and grime, sprinkle with talcum powder while ironing.

Dinner and a Movie!

Solve the crossword puzzle and mail it in for your chance to win a $50 Restaurant Gift Card and 4 Movie Tickets. Answers to the clues can be found in this month’s Grand Season Ads.

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May Winners!

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Winners of Movie Tickets

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2. Kimberly Stone, Buckeye

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If you have a question about the puzzle, please call 623-594-1630 ext 3070.

Answers to May Puzzle

Mail puzzle with answers to: Grand Season Puzzle, P.O. Box 5474, Sun City West, AZ 85376

Questions about the Grand Season Puzzle? Visit www.thegrandseason.com for updates or call 623-594-1630 ext 3070.

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES: Solve the crossword puzzle and mail it in to win. The answers to all crossword clues will contain all or part of a company name found in this month’s Grand Season ads. Must be 21 or older to enter the contest. Employees of the Grand Season or its advertisers are ineligible. When entering an advertisers’ name, there are no spaces, no LLC, or Corporations. Example: C & R Plus II would be entered into the spaces as: C&RPLUSII Entries must be postmarked no later than June 23rd. A drawing will be held from all correct entries. One winner will receive a $50.00 Gift Card and 4 movie tickets, with a photo in our magazine. 8 winners will receive a consolation prize of a 2 movie tickets. Winners will be notified by phone, and prizes will be sent by mail. Winners will be announced in the July issue of the Grand Season.

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REKINDLE YOUR ROMANCE!

All the relationship advice books say you’ve got to have scheduled date nights with your partner to keep your romance alive. What they don’t say is, the key to having a dynamic date night is to keep it interesting— and find ways to grow your relationship while exploring new things together. Try these date night ideas to rekindle your romance:

Surprise date

Every marriage needs the surprise date. I suggest each partner choose one date each month to plan fully without letting the other partner know. The surprise date gets to be a really special gift from the planner to the other partner.

Adventure date

Get out and get wild! Try something adventurous with your mate. Do a scavenger hunt, hit the shooting range or go fishing. If you have it in your area try indoor skydiving or a maze room.

New to both date

It’s so much fun to discover something new together. Try a new restaurant, or type of cuisine. Head to a nearby town you haven’t explored yet. Maybe try a sport or activity neither of you have tried.

Competitive date

The competition date is always fun but can be dangerous if you’re highly competitive people. Go bowling, head to the gym or for a hike, play mini golf…anything that will provide a friendly challenge. If it’s an at-home date, whip out the cards or chess set. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Nostalgia date

Have you ever recreated your first date? Go to places you went when you first started seeing each other. If you now live in a different area you can wear something you would’ve worn, and play music you listened to back then.

Other date night ideas:

Take dance lessons.

Create a playlist and take a long drive. Make your favorite dinner together.

Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Invite friends over to play cards. Stay the night at a resort you’ve always wanted to visit. Visit a vineyard and learn about local wines.

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” – Unknown

“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” - Jim Valvano

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.” - Clarence Budington Kelland

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.” - Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” - Sigmund Freud

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” - Steve Martin

“No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.” - Abraham Lincoln

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” - William Shakespeare

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.” - Emile Gaboriau

“Lately all my friends are worried they’re turning into their fathers. I’m worried I’m not.” - Dan Zevin

STRANGE BUT TRUE

Costa Rica has the world’s only sloth orphanage.

According to Cunningham’s Law, the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to pose the wrong answer.

The first item sold on eBay, for $14.83, was a broken laser pointer, to someone who kept a collection of broken laser pointers.

In 2015, the 1,000-year-old corpse of a Buddhist monk was discovered inside an ancient statue of Buddha.

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong once asked President Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because Armstrong was “an old man.” We feel pretty sure Nixon wasn’t aware the bags contained marijuana.

Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks.

Dockers recently increased the size of their coin pockets to accommodate the growing size of smartphones.

During the Apollo 12 mission, a 2 1/2-ton piece of the lunar module was experimentally crashed onto the surface of the moon, with a quite unexpected result: The moon “rang like a bell” for nearly an hour.

HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS

Even before the writer’s strike, NBC was making cuts to “Law & Order.” The upcoming shows will mostly feature major leads, and the supporting players will not be in every episode.

Since she made her Broadway debut 50 years ago, legend Patti LuPone has received three Tony Awards for “Evita,” “Gypsy” and, most recently, “Company.” In October 2022, she officially resigned from the Broadway stage union, admitting, “When the run of ‘Company’ ended this past July, I knew I wouldn’t be on stage for a very long time.” She told a producer who offered her a role that she didn’t want to do the show on Broadway, opting instead for East Fourth Street. When explaining why she doesn’t want to do Broadway anymore, LuPone stated, “Broadway’s now turning into a combination of Disney, Las Vegas and the circus. Plays are closing. The education of an audience is in grave danger.”