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Tailoring the environment of a resident to make the surroundings feel comfortable is accomplished by working with the family and significant others. We decorate the environment based upon the resident’s past history and preferences. We plan activities based upon routines, past roles and human needs. We partner with families to ensure that the social and cultural routines and practices are incorporated into the surroundings and plans for activities and care.

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It is important that the resident feels secure and safe. Through interactions our staff members help the resident feel not just safe, but needed. We work to interact in ways that help the resident feel successful and have a sense of belonging. Our staff members are trained to be “pro-activity directors.” Everything can be and is an “activity.” Activity leads to a relationship. We believe that these relationships are critical to the resident’s well-being, so everything we do is geared towards building and nurturing these relationships.

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I have a weed in my yard called henbit, which has little purple flowers that are blooming now. They seem to get worse every year. I also have what I call green onions. What can I put on my yard to prevent these weeds every year? I live in Cabot, AR. Those henbit weeds are blooming now and doing great, along with a myriad of other winter weeds! Henbit is a winter annual and as such, it starts growing in the fall, begins blooming in late winter/early spring, then sets seeds and dies with warm weather. The problem is, the more they bloom, the more seeds they set and the more weeds you have next year. Using a pre-emergent herbicide in the fall can help, but you can also spray with an herbicide containing 2, 4-D in January, February, or early March, while the weeds are small and before blooming. Once they start blooming and setting seeds, you are a bit late in the game. Keeping them mowed short now can prevent blooming and seed set, but mowing actually increases the perennial wild onions. Pre-emergent products don’t work on those as they come back from the bulb each year. Try the 2, 4-D product on them now or pull them up roots and all. Some folks actually cook with the wild onions/garlic - but make sure no chemicals have been applied if you try them. Courtesy of University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.

• There really was a John Deere who founded the company that still bears his name. Mr. Deere was a dapper dresser, though, so it’s highly likely that he never wore the iconic baseball cap that has become symbolic of his sizable farm equipment empire. • John Deere was born in 1804 in Rutland, Vermont. John’s father was lost at sea when the boy was four, so his mother took work as a seamstress to support John and his four siblings. The Deere brood didn’t always enjoy three square meals a day, but they never starved. As soon as each child was old enough to seek work, he or she left school and found a way to earn money. John’s formal education was limited, but he found his niche when he started working as a blacksmith’s apprentice as a teenager. • After a few years, Deere married and started a family. He took work as a “smithy” wherever he could find it. For a while, he found a steady gig fashioning the decorative ironwork used on stagecoaches. But John’s true love was crafting tools, which he did in his spare time. As his skills improved, he began to earn extra money selling his handcrafted shovels and pitchforks. Deere developed a reputation for his meticulous work. • Early in their marriage, John and his wife moved several times. Wherever he went, farmers would quickly learn that they could bring their broken plows to him. He’d return them to their owners better than new after wielding his “magic hammer.” After a series of business misfortunes, Deere moved his family “out west” – which, at the time, extended no further than Illinois. The family settled in the town of Grand Detour. Illinois has long been known as “The Land of Opportunity,” of course, and that’s just what it was for John Deere. • It was while living in Illinois that John noticed the problems that farmers faced when attempting to till soil. Because the area had formerly been woodland, the soil was rich with hummus, which clumped and clung to the blades of the plows farmers were accustomed to using. While repairing a broken circular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He employed his smith skills to fashion the steel blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened to be observing the test run immediately put in an order for his own John Deere plow. • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith shop and focused on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many employees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago. • With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic interests. He co-founded both the First National Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replacement of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reducing the spread of disease. • The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Africa. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was replaced with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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THE REAL TOP FILMS

Since the new millennium, it seems like some hot new motion picture breaks a box-office record almost every other week. That’s easy to do, of course, now that ticket prices for movies have approached double-digits. When adjusted for the value of the dollar, however, the list of the top-ten all-time U.S. movies covers a wider time frame… and is much more appealing! • #10: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937. This is the oldest entry on the list, and found a place in history as the first featurelength animated film ever produced. Walt Disney took a gamble that audiences would pay to see a 1.5-hour cartoon based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Like most of his gambles, this one paid off handsomely. • #9: The Exorcist, 1973. Certainly the most controversial and frightening film on the list, The Exorcist told the story of a young girl thought to be possessed by an evil spirit. Like a few other list entries, this one also benefitted from a “special edition” re-release in 2000 that added $40 million to its take. • #8: Doctor Zhivago, 1965. Academy Awards seem to elude many films that sell a lot of tickets. Dr. Zhivago was an exception. While the movie failed to win Best Picture or Best Director, it still went home with five of the 10 Oscars for which it was nominated. • #7: Jaws, 1975. When a film really touches the American consciousness, parodies are bound to erupt. Thanks to its identifiable theme song and stirring cinematography that followed the action in unique manners, Jaws begged to become one of the most-parodied films of all time. Tributes appeared in scores of places: on the cover of MAD magazine, in the “land shark” skit on Saturday Night Live, and even during the opening scene of the comedy film Airplane! • #6: Titanic, 1997. This is both the newest film on the list and the only one to have been produced during the last 25 years. (continued on page 10)

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NEED HELP? Arkansas residents can find services such as food & clothing banks, physical & mental health resources. Also info on Medicaid, Medicare, ARKids First, finding a job, transportation assistance, support for elderly & disabled as well as children, youth & family services. Dial 2-1-1 on your phone or visit their website <http://www.arkansas 211.com/>. This is a joint operation of the Public Service Commission & United Way. FRIDAY NIGHT FAMILY BINGO: 7PM an evening of family fun at VFW Post 8245 in Huntington, AR. Snacks & drinks available at concession stand. Bingo profits returned to community in form of student scholarships, aid to local Veterans & families in times of need, donations to local Veterans and community members in need at Christmas, & other miscellaneous community projects. Friday Volley Ball at Christ the King Gym - 1920 S. Greenwood, Fort Smith. Fellowship of Christians plays volleyball every Friday night 6:30-10pm. For i nfo call 479-420- 7993 or 479-651-2452. 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month. Mother’s of Preschoolers meets from 9:30-11:30 am at Grand Ave. Baptist Church, 3900 Grand Ave. Fort Smith, to enjoy fun, food, and fellowship with women of similar goals and challenges of being a great mom. Childcare is provided. For more information call 479926-0880. Saturdays - “The Way” Recovery Group, 5pm. at Calvary Baptist Church, 2301 Midland Blvd., Ft. Smith. A 12 step meeting for those suffering or recovering from drug/alcohol addiction. This meeting approved by Sebastian County Drug Court. (479) 782-9554 or jcismyhp@sbcglobal.net

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• Dependent care (day care) provider information. Call 782-2525 for additional information or for assistance for home bound. March 28, 2009- Confederate Occupation of Fort Smith - Re-enactment-National Historic Site- FREE10am-3:30pm- For information call 479-783-3961 April 1, 2009 - Deadline is noon to sign up for the April 2 Crescent Classic Volleyball Tournament sponsored by Gamma Phi Beta women’s sorority at UA - Fort Smith. Tournament will be held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at Girls Inc., 1415 Old Greenwood Rd. Entry fee is $15 per player, with T-shirts provided. Entry forms for the 6-8 member co-ed teams are available in the Welcome Center of the SmithPendergraft Campus Center at UA Fort Smith. Proceeds go to the Girls Inc. summer program. For more information, contact student Megan Organ at 650-0020 or email at morgan00@uafortsmith.edu, or call staff sponsor Penny Pendleton at788-7121. April 6,7,& 8 , 2009 - SPRING BOOK SALE on the patio in front of Boreham Library at UA- Fort Smith from 7:30a.m. until 5 p.m. Included in the sale are fiction & non-fiction books, audio-visual materials, periodicals & magazines. The three-day event is open to the public. For more information, contact library technician Dianne Werthmuller at 788-7200.April 18, 2009 - Battle of Fayetteville ReEnactment, Headquarters House, 1888 E Dickson Street Fayetteville. Living history actors in costume re-enact the battle. For information call 501-5212020 April 9, 2009 - Nebraska poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser, a two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, will speak in Van Buren & Fort Smith on April 9. Kooser’s first appearance will be at 1 p.m. April 9 at the Van Buren School District’s Fine Arts Center, where he will speak & sign books. He will also speak at 5:30 p.m. at Breedlove Auditorium at UA- Fort Smith,with a book signing to follow. A question-and-answer period will conclude each

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