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Volume 5 Number 2 October 2009


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The View From The Fourteenth Floor


I just love this time of year. The cool weather and beautiful fall colors. I also love Halloween and all it's associated decorations and parties. It's fun to let your imagination run wild and pretend to be someone else. Considering what is going on in the world now that kind of escape is needed more than ever.

I also have a few questions for you this month. This is your newsletter and I'd like to know what you'd like to see in it.

Comments can be left in the suggestion box or emailed to newsletter@sealhirise.com.


Finally, I'd like to state our editorial policy.

All submissions of stories, poems, recipes, photos, puzzles, etc are welcome. Items may be edited for length and language. They will not be censored for any other reasons. Editorials and other writing should be signed. (If you don't want your name published just make a note of that and it will be left off.)

Please indicate whether or not you want your letter to the editor published.


Namaste.


Melissa Pappas

Editor.

Important Information


Manager: Ana Matos

Telephone: 651-292-6230

Hours: Wednesday & Friday 9AM-4:30 PM

Human Services: Beth Forest

Telephone: 651-632-5091

Hours: Check 1st floor office door for hours

Maintenance: 298-4413

Emergency Maintenance: (after hours & weekends):222-9919

St. Paul PHA: 651-298-5664

Police: 291-1111

Recurring Events:










Next Residents Council meeting: Tuesday October 13th

Financial report

Balance in all accounts: $762.15

By account:

General fund: $719.49

PHA fund: $21.41

RPC fund: 418.21

Flower fund: $2.94


Keep the carts coming home!

carts

Please return them to the corral in the lobby when you are finished with them.

Thank you.


“If you can walk, you can dance

If you can talk, you can sing”

-Saying from Zimbabwe


“I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake.”-”The Fly”


Halloween Fun Page


In honor of the creepiest month of the year here are some movies and music to get you in the spirit.


Horror movies to chill you (mostly non-gory)


Halloween Playlist


How do you fix a broken Jack-O-Lantern?

With a pumpkin patch.


Halloween Quiz

Answers will be printed in the next issue.

Write your answers down along with your name and apt. # and leave them in the suggestion box. The person with the most correct will win a prize.

  1. What horror movie villain wears a hockey mask?

  2. What is the name of the killer in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies?

  3. Where is Count Dracula's castle located?

  4. What is the feast day immediately following Halloween?

  5. Who wrote “The Vampire Chronicles”?

  6. In the song of the same name Sting sings about “The moon over Bourbon Street”. Where is Bourbon Street located?

  7. A number of actors have played Count Dracula on film. Name two of them.

  8. Who wrote “Frankenstein”?

  9. What, according to legend is necessary to kill a werewolf?


Editor's note: Aunt Sealia is off on a fall color tour this month and won't be writing a column. Filling in for her is her niece, Ima Geek.

Hello Everybody,

I'm pleased my aunt asked me to fill in for her. Before she left she entrusted her mailbag and her cat Sparky to me.

Okay! Here goes. (Boy, people sure have a lot to complain about.)


Dear Aunt Sealia,

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I love celebrating it. The first few years I lived here there was a wonderful Halloween party every year. People dressed up and it was a great time. Lately there hasn't been much celebrating to speak of and when there was a party no one bothered to wear a costume. What happened? More importantly, is there going to be a party this year?

Trick Or Treat


Hey TOT,

I was told not to say anything definite about that yet. Just between you and me though, keep your eye on the bulletin board by the elevators. You might be in for a pleasant surprise this year.

As for your first question; What is up with that? I can't imagine going to a Halloween party without a costume. That's the whole point of the thing. Regardless, the type of residents in the building has changed in the last few years and that is likely at least somewhat to blame for the change in the parties.

I get what you are saying about having no party to attend in this spookiest of seasons. Have you offered to work on one? Any resident can suggest an event or offer to help put on on. Lack of volunteers was one of the reasons the parties kind of died out.

If you want a party then see what you can do to make it happen. I'm sure you have lots of ideas.

Ima


Dear Aunt Sealia,

Ever since I moved in here bingo has been played on Fridays. Now I see that it has been changed to “bengo”. What's going on with that?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot


Hey WTF,

You noticed that too? The first time I saw that posted I thought someone needed to get hooked on phonics. Then I found out that the Residents Council was told to do that by the PHA. Apparently the IRS considers bingo gambling and you need a gambling license to run a bingo game.

My reaction to that was “Big freaking deal”. Apparently it is or some people think it is. Someone actually reported their hi-rise for having bingo and now the fear is that it could happen again. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

The game is still the same so just ignore the weird name and have fun.

Ima

Wailed a ghost in a graveyard at Kew,
"Oh, my friends are so fleeting and few,
For it's gravely apparent
That if you're transparent
There is no one who knows if it's you!
-- Myra Cohn Livingston







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