November 2011 Entries
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La Costa Glen Residents Wrap 3,400 Holiday Gifts for Troops
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Washington may be planning a drawdown of troops from the Middle East, but thousands of men and women will still be spending the holidays this year away from family and friends. Answering the call for special holiday care packages were the residents of La Costa Glen in Carlsbad, Calif., many of them veterans of foreign wars themselves.
More than 200 residents of the retirement community held a gift-wrapping session recently to wrap Christmas and Hanukkah gifts for troops in Afghanistan. Gifts will not be shipped to Iraq...
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By Betty Cortus
When five-year old Lois Todd received a pair of ice skates for Christmas, she scarcely could have realized how they would affect the direction her life would eventually take. Growing up in Wilmette, Illinois, where ice rinks were rare back then, she taught herself to skate at the local ballpark, which was flooded and frozen each winter for the benefit of the township's skaters. Dancing on the ice became the passion of her childhood years.
As High School, then marriage and family took precedence in her life, Lois's dream of perfecting her skill on the ice was put on...
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By Betty Cortus
In 1942 Chuck Love, still in his teens, answered his country's call and joined the US Air Force. After surviving the rigors of basic training and aptitude testing, his wish to follow his brother's wartime career path was granted when he was chosen to train as a bombardier. Classes which followed included: learning about weather, physics, and above all, the intricacies of operating the famous Norden Bombsight.
As the need for bombardiers in the European Theatre was urgent, Chuck soon found himself stationed in Italy and ready to go on active duty, flying B-24 bombing missions deep into Germany...
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Contributed by John Carlson
Ralph Roos, a new resident, dropped by the LCG Shop to make some shelves and chat. He is 96, was born in Erie, Illinois, apprenticed as a carpenter at 19, and built homes in the Chicago area. Before WWII, a lot of sawing, planing, boring, chiseling, etc., was done using hand tools, especially in hanging doors, at which he became an expert.
At 28 he enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to the crew of LST10 (The tenth of the more than 1,000 Landing Ship Tanks produced in WWII). The LST10 had just been converted into a...
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As Told to John Yuhas
My name is Oliver and I have lived in La Costa Glen for a year and a half. My first move was from the Animal Shelter to my masters' home in San Clemente. Boy, it was the most beautiful thing that happened to me in my short life. I was a scrawny six-month old at the time and was known as a "street dog."
When my masters told me we were moving to LCG in Carlsbad, I had some concerns. Who knew I would be living "a dog's life in a place that is really the "cat's...
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By Michele Chaffee
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What a treat we have in store for you in November! In the Lakeside display cases we will walk down "Memory Lane," courtesy of Kirstin Oates, Human Resources Generalist. Kirstin is quite the shutterbug and has a vast collection of photos of residents and employees over the past ten years!
Kirstin created a theme for each shelf—some mark big events, such as the Fairway Grand opening, and some are simply beauty shots of the flowers and landscapes around us.
She was particularly creative in designing the way in which these dozens of photos are displayed. Using pencils, string, paper clips...